snowmiser
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
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Our little "Ski Bunny" - Carly Rae arrived on Friday, 8/22/08 at 6:25 p.m. weighing 6.0 lbs. and measuring 20.75 inches long. My due date wasn't until Labor Day, however early Friday morning I noticed that she wasn't doing her usual kickboxing routine and started to get concerned.
I went to the hospital where they did an Ultra-sound that showed she hadn't grown since the ultra-sound that I had had 2 weeks prior, and she had dropped from the 20% in weight down to the 5%. We decided it was time for her to have an early exit so that I could feed her better and fatten her up, so they started inducing me with pitocin, which is a drug that starts contractions. That however, was stopped abruptly when the monitors indicated that Carly's heartbeat dropped every time that I had a contraction and every time that she moved. The next step was an emergency c-section. I had natural births with my other 3 children, so this was a bit scary to me along with the fact that I had never had an epidural or spinal before so that was a whole new and hopefully soon forgetable experience. I have a whole new admiration for people with spinal cord injuries.
After about an hour of being tugged at and pulled on, which I couldn't feel, but the whole operating table was moving, Carly let out a loud yell to let me know she was o.k.
The doctor's dead silence throughout the proceedure was very nerve wrecking, however, after hearing how close to loosing the baby we were, I can appreciate the fact that the docs were working way too hard to get her out, than to talk to me or my husband. Carly's umbilical cord was over 2 times the normal length and it was wrapped around her little neck almost 4 times. She also had 2 complete knots in her cord, which explained why she wasn't gaining any weight and had stopped thriving. The reason the whole table was shaking during the proceedure was they had to untangle her before they could deliver her. The doctors had never seen a cord that long and when there is a knot in the cord, there is normally not a very good outcome, and I had 2 knots.
I Hope that this wasn't too much info to share with you all, but I wanted to tell you of Carly's Grand Entrance to this world. Somebody has big plans for this little girl after trying to get her here so hard. She was conceived 8 years after we had decided to stop at 3 kids with my husband having surgery, and then with my age at 44, the odds were a little against me. That along with the fact that most babies don't have the luck that she did on surviving the problems that she got into before delivery, she truly is a little miracle. Maybe she'll be the the greatest olympic downhill skier ever since she spent most of her time on the inside leading me down the hill all winter long!
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Our little "Ski Bunny" - Carly Rae arrived on Friday, 8/22/08 at 6:25 p.m. weighing 6.0 lbs. and measuring 20.75 inches long. My due date wasn't until Labor Day, however early Friday morning I noticed that she wasn't doing her usual kickboxing routine and started to get concerned.
I went to the hospital where they did an Ultra-sound that showed she hadn't grown since the ultra-sound that I had had 2 weeks prior, and she had dropped from the 20% in weight down to the 5%. We decided it was time for her to have an early exit so that I could feed her better and fatten her up, so they started inducing me with pitocin, which is a drug that starts contractions. That however, was stopped abruptly when the monitors indicated that Carly's heartbeat dropped every time that I had a contraction and every time that she moved. The next step was an emergency c-section. I had natural births with my other 3 children, so this was a bit scary to me along with the fact that I had never had an epidural or spinal before so that was a whole new and hopefully soon forgetable experience. I have a whole new admiration for people with spinal cord injuries.
After about an hour of being tugged at and pulled on, which I couldn't feel, but the whole operating table was moving, Carly let out a loud yell to let me know she was o.k.
The doctor's dead silence throughout the proceedure was very nerve wrecking, however, after hearing how close to loosing the baby we were, I can appreciate the fact that the docs were working way too hard to get her out, than to talk to me or my husband. Carly's umbilical cord was over 2 times the normal length and it was wrapped around her little neck almost 4 times. She also had 2 complete knots in her cord, which explained why she wasn't gaining any weight and had stopped thriving. The reason the whole table was shaking during the proceedure was they had to untangle her before they could deliver her. The doctors had never seen a cord that long and when there is a knot in the cord, there is normally not a very good outcome, and I had 2 knots.
I Hope that this wasn't too much info to share with you all, but I wanted to tell you of Carly's Grand Entrance to this world. Somebody has big plans for this little girl after trying to get her here so hard. She was conceived 8 years after we had decided to stop at 3 kids with my husband having surgery, and then with my age at 44, the odds were a little against me. That along with the fact that most babies don't have the luck that she did on surviving the problems that she got into before delivery, she truly is a little miracle. Maybe she'll be the the greatest olympic downhill skier ever since she spent most of her time on the inside leading me down the hill all winter long!
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