Sorry for the late posting on this, been a rough few days in the hospital and trying to find time to get online. For those of you that have not seen pictures or seen an update through Andy or Facebook, I wanted to post a few blog entries for you all.
Riley Anne Lodato was born May 1st 2009 at 9:19am weighing 6 pounds 12 oz and 20 ¾” long.
I went into surgery around 8:20am and as you can see took about an hour for her to be born and a bit longer for me to be sewn back up. There was just one complication during the whole procedure so I was so happy! The spinal they gave me did not take which of course had me freaking out. Andy was not allowed in the room yet so I was not able to hold his hand during this time and was just surrounded by doctors and nurses scared to death.
They kept testing things on me “can you feel this” and of course I could and I was so upset. Of course they are not going to let me go through it all without being totally numb but I was just scared of why I could feel everything. Then they tried to put the catheter in and I cringed from the pain – they all just stopped and said: “you can feel that too?” Um yeah!
So they moved me around and another spinal was administered into my already pretty painful back where the other one went. Within about 10 minutes I was totally numb and very light headed but by this time Andy was let in and they started everything.
The whole procedure was very surreal. I knew what they were doing but I was just so scared and not being able to see anything you never know what they are doing.
It was also weird that in moments they were going to pull my baby out just like that.
Everything went really well and Riley was born! Her first apgar test did not go so well, her score was a 3. But the second Apgar was an 8 and that is the one that really counts.
(Apgar test is a test that test the baby's color, heart rate, reflex, muscle tone and respiratory effort right after birth) After all of that scare Andy got to take pictures and hold her and I was fixed all up and rolled back into the room.
We stayed in the hospital until Monday though there were no complications there, just no sleep. ;) I am posting some of the first pictures of our little Peanut and will create a new blog entry with more pictures we have taken in the last few days with Riley in her new home.
Thank you all for your wonderful emails, calls and Facebook postings!
Riley Anne Lodato was born May 1st 2009 at 9:19am weighing 6 pounds 12 oz and 20 ¾” long.
I went into surgery around 8:20am and as you can see took about an hour for her to be born and a bit longer for me to be sewn back up. There was just one complication during the whole procedure so I was so happy! The spinal they gave me did not take which of course had me freaking out. Andy was not allowed in the room yet so I was not able to hold his hand during this time and was just surrounded by doctors and nurses scared to death.
They kept testing things on me “can you feel this” and of course I could and I was so upset. Of course they are not going to let me go through it all without being totally numb but I was just scared of why I could feel everything. Then they tried to put the catheter in and I cringed from the pain – they all just stopped and said: “you can feel that too?” Um yeah!
So they moved me around and another spinal was administered into my already pretty painful back where the other one went. Within about 10 minutes I was totally numb and very light headed but by this time Andy was let in and they started everything.
The whole procedure was very surreal. I knew what they were doing but I was just so scared and not being able to see anything you never know what they are doing.
It was also weird that in moments they were going to pull my baby out just like that.
Everything went really well and Riley was born! Her first apgar test did not go so well, her score was a 3. But the second Apgar was an 8 and that is the one that really counts.
(Apgar test is a test that test the baby's color, heart rate, reflex, muscle tone and respiratory effort right after birth) After all of that scare Andy got to take pictures and hold her and I was fixed all up and rolled back into the room.
We stayed in the hospital until Monday though there were no complications there, just no sleep. ;) I am posting some of the first pictures of our little Peanut and will create a new blog entry with more pictures we have taken in the last few days with Riley in her new home.
Thank you all for your wonderful emails, calls and Facebook postings!
Moments after birth:
Back in the room resting:
Riley flashing her "westside" signs ;)
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