Kili Ryanne

Sorry that it's taken me so long to post this.

Kili Ryanne is here!!

I went to my regular 36 week appointment on Thursday, June 26. My blood pressure was a little too high, and I’d had a headache for two days straight; so the doctor decided to go ahead and send me over to the hospital. I get settled in, and they tell me that they’re going to do a 24 hour urine test and an amniocentesis in the morning.

AM comes, and I head downstairs for my amnio. The doctor decided that the amnioticfluid was too low and that there was no way that they could safely perform the amnio.

After being sent back upstairs, another doctor comes in and says that they are diagnosing me with severe pre-eclampsia and that they were going to go ahead and induce me at 36 weeks…measuring two centimeters and 80% effaced.

We were taken downstairs to the labor room.

My first IV blew…another one was inserted…after many needle sticks…and I was started on pitocin and magnesium.

My husbandstepped out of the room for five minutes, and a doctor came in while he was gone. She tells me that she’s going to check me. As she’s checking me…three centimeters…she pulls out a long hook and reaches in to break my water…without any warning.

Not ten seconds after breaking my water, the contractions became extremely bad…and the doctor went ahead and called in the anesthesiologist for a stat epidural.

While getting the epi, I was actually laughing and making jokes…trying to not pay attention to the contractions and the needle getting stuck in my back. They had to tell me to stop moving!

Three hours into my induction…I inform the nurse that my IV blew…again. So, obviously my pitocin and magnesium were stopped.

After about 40 total sticks, it’s decided that they can’t get an IV and that I have to get sent back for a central line…an IV into the jugular vein in the neck.

As they get ready to wheel me out for my IV procedure, I inform the nurses that I feel like I have to poop. The nurse says that she’ll check me real quick before sending me for the IV. Turns out that I was complete and ready to push…even though I had onlybeen in active labor for five hours…and had only been on the pitocin for three of those hours before it had to be stopped.

During pushing, the nurse was amazed that I was contracting every minute without the pitocin.

After an hour of pushing, lots of encouragement from my husband and Kili's Godmother, and an episiotomy, Kili Ryanne was born at 2:24am on June 28th. She was 6 pounds 14 ounces and 18.5 inches long.

Even though she was technically a preemie, Kili was breathing fine. The only problem was that she was a little bit lethargic.

My husbandfollowed as the doctors took Kili up to the NICU.

An hour after being taken up,my husbandwent back to get a picture of Kili. But she wasn’t there! It turns out that Kili had already been released from NICU and sent to the regular nursery.

Sadly, I still had to get the central IV after Kili arrived because I had to be on magnesium for 24 hours. That was not a pleasant procedure, and getting it out was pretty bad too.

We are now home. We were released on June 30th.

Kili is doing great! She’s a little bit jaundiced, but nothing too bad.

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congrats momma, she is soo cute      

i had to have maginsum. They dosed me up and at first i felt like i was on fire for like 5 mins. Becuase they had to do a big dose in 20 mins or something like that. I literally had to have my mom and brother fan me. I was on from friday to a sunday. I asked to be taken off of it because it was making me really out of it and i could harldy pull myself up to go pee in a bedpan or even eat. It was bad. Fianlly i got off of it and i felt so much better. But im glad your baby is doing good and so are you. Dont worry her jandice will go away, My baby had it and she got off the billie lights in 3 days.

Quoting kelleycometrue:“ i had to have maginsum. They dosed me up and at first i felt like i was on fire for like 5 mins. Becuase ... [snip!] ... is doing good and so are you. Dont worry her jandice will go away, My baby had it and she got off the billie lights in 3 days.”

Her billie levels have already come down. They went up to 14.4 but went down to 13.2 two days later. She's looks much less yellow now, and we don't have to do any light therapy for her!
Right after they started me on the magnesium, I got really hot. It felt like my lady parts were literally on fire. Actually, I kept telling my husband, "My vagina lips are hot."

She is beautiful