Back Track

Since I didnt have this when I had my daughter, I thought I could look back and post my birth story. By the picture, you could see; I had a c-section. I feel like I've been robbed of my 'perfect vaginal delivery.' But I guess that was just a fantasy in my mind, because my doctor had different plans. I made it all the way to 39 weeks, 6 days. So one day before my due date, I went to my doctor apt at 11:30am. My blood pressure was high so the doctor was going to send me to get blood work at the hospital, and he said "maybe we will have to perform a csection while we're there" so I go home, because the hospital is full, and the call me in at 2:30pm. I get my blood work done and they say everything is fine, my blood pressure is no longer elevated. They did an ultra sound and said my baby was measuring very large and my cervix was titled backwards. He said it was be a VERY hard delivery and he'd opt for a csection. Being a first time mom, I trusted my doctor and went with his plans. I was wheeled into the surgery room at 6:25pm, Emma Grace was born at 6:46pm. It was a surreal expierence. I could feel everything, yet nothing hurt. Unlike anything i'd ever expierenced. I guess Emma wasnt breathing very well when they pulled her out via vacuum because her head was so big, so I didnt even get to see my baby girl until 11:50pm- almost midnight! I stayed up all night the first time because I didnt want to be apart from her. I felt like they were going to take her again and never bring her back. They say recovery time in the hospital after c section is 3 to 4 days, well i was released after 1 day. & that was fine. It took a good solid 2 weeks to get back to feeling like my normal self again, though. I had a case of the Post Partum Blues. I cried over everything and anything. I didnt want to be around ANYONE, except my baby and my boyfriend. Whenever anyone else tried talking to me, I wanted nothing to do with them. But that passed after about 2 1/2 weeks. And now I've just been adjusting to life with a baby. A young 19 year old mother, 21 year old father, and a precious 3 month old little baby girl.