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Just a quick post to say we are home from the hospital--all three of us. Sebastian (our new baby!) is doing great, just a little jaundiced. Having a baby in a special care nursery is tough. I will say that. It was extra-tough dealing with it on literally no sleep for over three days while going through major surgery recovery. Full story on all that (graciously provided by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catzen and ptor) over on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
baby_fly--I will be posting the birth story and post-partum story there as well soon-ish.
Thank you all for your kind words, prayers and well-wishes. I couldn't see them while I was in the hospital, butptor and catzen have kept me updated. We are so grateful to have so many caring, wonderful friends.
I cannot describe how happy we are to have such a beautiful, wonderful and healthy baby. He is sitting with his daddy now in the living room so I am getting a tiny break from being the mommy-pillow and milk machine.ptor has been absolutely wonderful--words cannot describe. And catzen has been such a good baby uncle and cat uncle and Sebastian's Nana has been such a help (my mom), giving ptor some much needed breaks. I wish I could write more eloquently now, but I am functioning on literally less than ten hours of sleep total since Tuesday and I am on pain meds, for which I will be eternally grateful.
Needless to say, nothing went as planned, even marginally so. Our doula was invaluable andptor was incredible through it all. I essentially got two labors for the price of one--14 hours of pitocin-induced contractions, which while incredibly painful in the last many hours sadly did not do much of anything to get Sebsatian out of me. I was quite the hot topic at the hospital--the nurses couldn't believe I labored that long like that (pitocin-induced) without any pain meds. Then 26 hours after my water broke I got a c-section. Fortunatley, I did not have to go under general to have the c-section--they were able to do it with a spinal, but it is still a pretty gnarly surgery. Then, 24 hours after birth, our baby was showing signs of possible infection and had to be transfered to the Special Care Nursery for three days and had to have so many blood draws I couldn't keep track, a spinal tap and an IV which eventually had to be put in a vein in his head.
It has been a rough four days.
I know this is an incredibly diffuse post. More coherent ones to come, I promise. Right now I will going about the strange business of figuring out all this mom-business.
ptor posted a few pictures the other day here. The thing on his head is just the IV--it was far less dramatic than it looks. I have many IV-less pictures, but those won't be up for a at least a few more hours.
OK. Almost time to feed baby S again.
catzen and ptor) over on baby_fly--I will be posting the birth story and post-partum story there as well soon-ish.Thank you all for your kind words, prayers and well-wishes. I couldn't see them while I was in the hospital, but
ptor and catzen have kept me updated. We are so grateful to have so many caring, wonderful friends. I cannot describe how happy we are to have such a beautiful, wonderful and healthy baby. He is sitting with his daddy now in the living room so I am getting a tiny break from being the mommy-pillow and milk machine.
ptor has been absolutely wonderful--words cannot describe. And catzen has been such a good baby uncle and cat uncle and Sebastian's Nana has been such a help (my mom), giving ptor some much needed breaks. I wish I could write more eloquently now, but I am functioning on literally less than ten hours of sleep total since Tuesday and I am on pain meds, for which I will be eternally grateful. Needless to say, nothing went as planned, even marginally so. Our doula was invaluable and
ptor was incredible through it all. I essentially got two labors for the price of one--14 hours of pitocin-induced contractions, which while incredibly painful in the last many hours sadly did not do much of anything to get Sebsatian out of me. I was quite the hot topic at the hospital--the nurses couldn't believe I labored that long like that (pitocin-induced) without any pain meds. Then 26 hours after my water broke I got a c-section. Fortunatley, I did not have to go under general to have the c-section--they were able to do it with a spinal, but it is still a pretty gnarly surgery. Then, 24 hours after birth, our baby was showing signs of possible infection and had to be transfered to the Special Care Nursery for three days and had to have so many blood draws I couldn't keep track, a spinal tap and an IV which eventually had to be put in a vein in his head. It has been a rough four days.
I know this is an incredibly diffuse post. More coherent ones to come, I promise. Right now I will going about the strange business of figuring out all this mom-business.
ptor posted a few pictures the other day here. The thing on his head is just the IV--it was far less dramatic than it looks. I have many IV-less pictures, but those won't be up for a at least a few more hours.OK. Almost time to feed baby S again.
