Monday October 1st
I had had a headache all weekend and the doctor had told me to watch out for headaches because my blood pressure was elevated. My sisters were visiting me and I thought about going in to work just to check my blood pressure but I thought, "How dumb would that be, to just go to the hospital to check my blood pressure and leave". I had to work Monday anyways so I just decided I would check it on Monday when I was at work.
Monday came and luckily they had me sitting with a patient that day. I remembered I needed to check my blood pressure at about 9:20. I was texting Bryce because I was bored sitting there and I had told him I was going to check my blood pressure. I text him at 9:29 telling him my blood pressure was high. He had class at 9:30 and wasn't able to check his phone until his class was out. One of the other nurses was helping me check my blood pressure and the first reading we got was 170/124. I told her that couldn't be right, I felt fine. We checked it again on the same arm and it was still extremely high, so we tried it on the other arm. This time we got 164/106. I called my OB office and they told me to go to the ER and then to Labor and Delivery. I was FREAKING out. I kept thinking that I could have a baby that day! I had nothing ready! I wasn't even able to have Bryce come be with me.
I was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia. They started me on a magnesium drip to prevent seizures. That magnesium really made me feel weird. It made me so weak and tired. I had to get a catheter because I wasn't able to get out of bed. I wasn't able to sleep that first night though because my head was throbbing and my blood pressure was being checked every 15 minutes. It was horrible. The magnesium also makes you feel like you haven't had a drink of water in 15 years. I was sooo thirsty. Luckily Bryce was there to keep picking up the water to give me a drink because I was too weak too. They started ripening my cervix when I first got there. They checked me at 1 in the morning and I was a 2. They checked me again in the morning about 6 and I was a 4. I was having some mild contractions. I decided to get an epidural before my contractions got too bad. By 2 I was a 10 and it was time to push. I had ZERO energy and I wasn't able to feel if I was pushing. I didn't have to push too long, thankfully. They had to use the vacuum to get Callie out because I wasn't pushing hard enough.
Callie was born on October 2nd at 2:33 PM and weighed 6 lbs 10 oz and was 20.25 inches long. She had to be taken to the special care nursery because her magnesium level was so high because I was on the mag drip causing her to have respiratory depression. I got to hold her for about an hour and then they took her to the nursery. I had to be on the mag drip for 24 hours after she was born so I wasn't able to see Callie again until Wednesday night. I wasn't able to walk because the magnesium had made me so weak so I had to be wheeled down to see her. She had to stay in the nursery for a week because they drew a blood culture and it came back positive and she needed IV antibiotics for 7 days. She finally came home when she was 8 days old. It's been so nice having her home and not having to run back and forth to the hospital every 3 hours to feed her!
I had to get a blood transfusion
Callie got Jaundice so she had to go under the blue lights for a day
FINALLY GOING HOME!
