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Haylee Elizabeth Sex: girl Born: 05 October, 2007 Age: 1 years & 62 days Birthday in: 303 days Starsign: Libra Development: See the 14 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Back to Birthweight - October 12, 2007 Finally Home -October 31, 2007

Birth details

Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: None.
Weight @ birth: 3 pounds, 10 ounces
Length @ birth: 18 inches

Haylee-Elizabeth`s birthstory

Yes, I Am A Mommy...
It has been a terrifying, exhilerating, adrenaline-filled, emotional couple of days. As most of you know I was diagnosed with pregnancy induced hypertension (high blood pressure) and as such was being monitored pretty closely after my first hosptial stay (which I loathed). So last Thursday it was off to the doctor`s office for my routine check-up... this after a long, tiring day of hospital waiting rooms, fetal assessments, and traveling back and forth between appointments. They took me in for the regular pee-in-the-cup, blood pressure check thing. My blood pressure was 186/112! The funny thing was, aside from being emotional, I felt absolutely fine.

My doctor refused to let me go home and admitted me to the hospital immediately (without much explanation of what was going on which terrified me). So, into the hospital I go where I was hooked up to an I.V., fetal monitor, and blood pressure machine for constant monitoring. My blood pressure just kept going from bad to worse all night long.

Friday morning Matthew went to work (after not sleeping all night as he was watching over me) and by one o`clock Friday afternoon I called him at work and said `Um, you`re going to be a daddy in a few hours.` It didn`t take him long to get to the hospital.

The doctor had decided to take the baby out (albeit 6 weeks prematurely) as she was getting more and more worried that I would slip into a coma and the fetal assessment showed that baby was no longer growing in the womb. A nurse explained the entire c-section proceedure for me and prepped me for surgery. I had a cathedar put in (REALLY did NOT enjoy that experience), was denied all food, and lay there waiting to be moved to surgery. I was emotionally exhausted.

Just before five p.m. they wheeled me down to surgery and just before entering the operating room I was overcome by a sense of calm. The room was very bright and there was a whirlwind of activity with people doing all their prep. work. I was put in a hunched-over sitting position while they froze my back (only hurt slightly and much less than the I.V that they put into my arm earlier) and inserted the epidural... man was it fantastic! I couldn`t feel anything below my breasts and I definately couldn`t move my legs, even if they were on fire. The epidural did not hurt at all going in (and I wasn`t even in labour).

Then they laid me down with my arms spread on either side of me and put a sheet up in front of my face. They brought my hubby in (though they had already made their incision at this point). He sat by my head and we just looked at eachother. I could tell he was terrified. Then we heard this tiny little cry and both started crying ourselves. Matt looked over (I know, I`m shocked... this from the man who absolutely refused to watch a birth) and they had only just cleared her head out. They pulled the rest of her out and the nurse said `Can you see what it is daddy?` Matt looked down at me and said `looks like you owe me 50 bucks. He knew it was a girl.

I didn`t get to see her right away because she was high-risk and needed to be assessed right away. As soon as they finished that they laid her next to me for a minute so that I could see her... so tiny! She looked right at me and stuck her tongue out at me. Then they wheeled her back upstairs for further assessment and Matt went with them while I was being stitched up. I didn`t feel any of the c-section, I did feel a lot of tugging, etc. It was actually FAR LESS scary than I anticipated.

They then wheeled me into recovery where I stayed alone for about an hour and a half to ensure that I got my feeling back etc. Then they wheeled me into the nursery to see my baby before taking me to my room. She was beautiful! I couldn`t get over how tiny she was. She was all arms and legs and her feet were huge!

I said my goodbyes and was wheeled into my room where I was put on a magnesium I.V. and had to have a nurse stay with me at all times... I think there were two days of that constant monitoring. The next day I was so drugged that I was immobile. The next day I was sitting more but man was I in pain. Following that my cathetor and I.V.`s were removed giving me the motivation to force myself to move so that I could go see my little one.

They only just released me today. My blood pressure is still very high but they say it could take at least a month for it to clear my system and go back to normal.

Our little one is just perfect though. She has absolutely NO health problems (a true miracle). She is just very small so she is staying in an incubator to keep warm. We get to change her diapers when we`re there though and hold her once in a while. She can`t feed by herself yet so she is tube fed (meaning they run a tube into her tummy each feeding and feed her that way) until she is strong enough to suck for longer periods of time. She is being fed my breast milk though so I am on a pumping regime! Hopefully in a month she can come home. The hardest part right now is leaving her, but I am finding strength day by day.

Haylee Elizabeth
October 5, 2007 (5:23 pm)
3 pounds, 10 ounces
18 inches long

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