4/17/2009

Friday April 17, 2009, the doctors gave me a sonogram because his heart rate was dropping. The sonogram showed me that all my amniotic fluid was gone and that his foot was in my cervix. I was nervous, I didn't know what to expect from there. They rushed me back L&D where they prepared Anthony and I for the procedure.

I was in the OR (operating room) within 20 minutes. I was crying and I was afraid. AJ was not supposed to come until July and I didn't know what the outcome would be. Anthony talked me through the whole procedure which made me feel great. He had this glow to him which made me feel another type of love for him. It was beautiful. Baby Anthony was out within minutes. He was born at 10:57 am. There was no cry, which I kind of expected. The doctors asked Daddy Anthony to come take a look at his son. Then they brought him to me for a quick look. By that time I felt so out of it because of the anesthesia. The doctors stitched me up and I was in the recovery room. That lasted about 3 hours which was awful. I had an allergic reaction to the anesthesia, which caused me to itch really bad. I was given benadryl which did not help. After the three hours passed in the recovery room I was taken to the NICU to see baby Anthony. He was so small, 1lb 8oz and just under 12inch. I was irritated with the itching, so they then took me to my suite where I was greeted by my family.

Later that night Anthony and I went to see Aj. The doctors spoke to me about him receiving a blood transfusion. We would have liked for Daddy Anthony to donate the blood, but it would take 7-10 days to process it and he needed asap due to how much blood they were taking from him. Since Baby Anthony is too young to produce his own blood the transfusion was definitely needed. I signed the papers and it was given to him. There were some alarms that night because he was forgetting to breath and his blood pressure was dropping. This freaked Anthony and I out because the doctors act like they didn't know what they were doing. Everything was okay once they got it together. From then on I came back down to visit him several times, including some family.