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Cailey Anne Marie Sex: girl Born: 20 February, 2008 Age: 0 years & 157 days Birthday in: 208 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 5 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor:
Weight @ birth: 8 lbs 1 oz
Length @ birth: 21 inches

Cailey-Anne-Marie`s birthstory

We went back in to Labor and Delivery and they confirmed my bag of waters was leaking...again...and they admitted me. It was about 1700 Tuesday, 19 Feb. A nurse came in and did an EXTREMELY rough membrane sweep and contractions started. They then gave me my first I.V. at 1845. They gave me antibiotics (broken bag), Pitocin, and Saline. The contractions really started coming. My IV was itching a lot what a pain in the butt.
2220 they raised the Pitocin drip.
2312 I was still at THREE CM!
0020 I got a second dose of antibiotics.
0022 Will convinced me to get an epidural lol
0055 I got my epidural. Fan-freaking-tastic.
The notebook that Will and my mom were writing all of this in says that at 0105 I could barely even feel the contractions!
0115 I got the dreaded catheter.
0350 FOUR CM! What the heck? Contractions 30 sec to a minute apart but I couldn't feel any of them.
0730 5 cm
0930 5 cm
1157 New epidural. Nurse thinks some meconium came out when she broke my bag of waters...(why didn't they do that earlier???)
1305 5 cm - C-section is imminent.
Cailey was delivered at 1330 on the 20th by C-section. She weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and was 21 inches long. When I was done in the OR they sent me to recovery but I got to hold Cailey for a few seconds in the hallway on the way. They sent me up to the mother baby unit after the recovery room and I got to hold Cailey for the second time. We tried breastfeeding and then my liquid dinner came in. Something wasn't right and not only was I feeling extreme pain, everyone said I was super pale. After every doctor in the hospital pushed and mashed my abdomen and I was wrenching in pain they rushed me in to the OR for emergency surgery. It was 1830 on the 20th. I remember someone telling me stay awake Cari (found out it was Will) and feeling like I was going to be sick several times on the way to the OR. They had this mask on my face that felt like it was suffocating me and I kept saying I can't breathe. I felt them removing the staples just before I passed out. They went right back in through the C section incision and found they had nicked an artery. My abdomen and uterus were filled with blood. After they repaired the artery they tried to get all the blood out. They told me later that I had lost over 1/3 of my blood and I had 2 blood transfusions immediately. I don't know what happened Thursday the 21st, but they released me back to the Mother Baby unit Friday afternoon after getting 2 more blood transfusions (4 units total). The doctor asked me Saturday afternoon if I wanted to stay until Monday or leave today and I said GOODBYE. They released us from the hospital Saturday afternoon (TOO EARLY). Everyone's been astonished at how fast I've recovered. Not recovered enough though I gotta go put my feet back up and will add more details AND PICTURES later.

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