Emma's First Bath

What a Weekend!

EMMA PEARL DAVIS

June 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM

6lbs

19 1/2 inches long

Well, where to start? Thursday afternoon June 5, 2008 I went to my weekly doctor's appointment to see if I had made any progress as far as dilating etc. but we ended up finding out a whole lot of other information and everything has been non-stop ever since. The doctor informed me that my urine was high in protein and that my blood pressure was rather high, he told me that I was in the begining stages of pre-eclampsia and that basically my body was done with the pregnancy. He told David and I to take about an hour to get things tied up at home, pack and get to the hospital. The plan at that time was to start inducing labor and that I may have a little one by Friday night or Saturday morning. I was kind of in a state of shock, a little excited, definitely scared and overwhelmed. We showed up at the hospital a few hours later and began monitoring the baby and checking my blood pressure on a regular basis. It was around 9:30 when the Dr came in and saw me, my blood pressure was checked and it was 199/124, Dr. advised me that he didn't want to wait and induce that we needed to do a c-section immediately to prevent me from having a seizure, stroke or any further complications. So about 30 minutes later I was in the operating room getting an epidural and the next thing I remember is Emma Pearl Davis was here and in her Daddy's arms. I barely got to see her face before she was taken back to the nursery and I was in recovery. My blood pressure remained high even after pregnancy so they put me on bedrest and I felt like they kept me away from my little girl forever. It was very emotional to not be able to spend the beginning hours of her life with her. David was awesome throughout the whole thing, he was torn between the two of us throughout most of the weekend, I know it must have been hard on him, but I felt like he was there with me at all the right times and I am thankful for that. It wasn't until Saturday that I really started to be able to spend some time with the little girl, she herself had spent a lot of time in the NICU under an oxygen hood, on an IV and with a feeding tube. Nothing really prepares you to see your little one all hooked up, but she did so good and was able to be in our room by Sunday! David referred to that as my blood pressure medicine :) I could go on and on about how crazy this past weekend has been with the flooding and my new little family but bottomline is we all got to come home together Monday evening and we have so much to be thankful for, so I am just going to get to posting some pictures of our new little girl!