Sadianne Ray Buck was born Monday, August 31st, at 7:30 am. She weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. and was 20 inches long. The pictures went in backwards again so the story may get a little out of order, sorry.
This is when we got her ready to go home after what seemed to be an extra long stay at the hospital. It was only 4 days but could have ended up being much longer.
Sadie with the IV in her scalp. Sad huh! It was in her arm but that one got infiltrated and they couldn't get another one in anywhere else so they stuck it in her head.
She ended up being breech and her foot popped out when the doc was expecting a head. Because of that, she took a breath before her head was out and inhaled a bunch of amniotic fluid. Not good! It took a while for her to actually cry (and it wasn't a very good cry either which scared me) and they took her to the nursery before i got a good look at her. That sucked! They had to suction all the fluid out of her lungs and then give her some oxygen and moist air under the oxygen tent. A while later the doctor noticed some signs of infection so they did a blood test for that and it turned out that her white blood count was high so they stuck an IV in her and started antibiotics. She was about 7 hours old before I got to see her and 12 1/2 hours old before I got to hold her. Those were some of the longest hours of my life. I kept sending Nathan in to check on her and give me updates. She stayed on the IV until we were ready to come home Thursday morning. The doctor said that if Nathan wasn't a nurse and he didn't trust us completely that she would have had to stay a few more days. But he let her come home on an oral antibiotic instead.
This is the last time anyone will have to see me looking like this! Thank goodness! I must say that after that c-section, if the decision hadn't already been made, I would have been done with the whole baby making business!! I felt EVERYTHING!! It didn't hurt, but I could feel them cutting, ripping, pulling, sewing, everything! And the spinal made me sick! It sucked, big time!! I haven't had a section feel like that before. In fact, I have never felt any of it before. Oh well, I am glad that it is all over with and we have our beautiful baby home with us!
This is at 19 days old.
This is 2 weeks old. She went to her 2 week visit and she weighed 6 lbs. 14.5 oz. which is almost back up to her birthweight. Her jaundice is much better (after being in a bili-bed for 2 days) and she was 19 1/2 inches long. My other kids are completely in love with her and ask all the time if they can hold her. Logan will only hold her for a minute before he says he is done but the other kids would hold her all day if I let them. Emilee won't stop kissing her! I am afraid she will get Sadie sick with all the kisses.
