Falstaff
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emergency c-sections are anything but planned and controlled, as my wife's was. Much surprise but you're right, not a lot of waiting.
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My wifes c-section wasn't quite high-level emergency, but it wasn't really planned either. Went to the hospital on a Friday for pre-eclampsia, put on blood pressure medication, the first couple days admitted doctors are laying out plans for her to stay in the hospital all the way until term, which is like 10 weeks(or as far as she can go until her BP gets too high). Wife is dreading 10 weeks in the hospital, so Monday morning rolls around and we decide that I should go ahead and go to work, this looks like a long-haul hospital stay. I go home, shower, change, start my commute to work and my wife calls on her cell phone balling her head off "GET BACK HERE IM DELIVERING IN 30 MINUTES". Had to rush to the hospital, her BP had spiked and it was too dangerous for her and the baby so they did the C-section ASAP. I step foot in the hospital, am rushed to the operating room where she's already on the table and about to go, and kid is out like 5 minutes later. Was crazy shit.
meStevo
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Daughter isn't home yet, fuck you jaundice. Hopefully tomorrow.
Edit: so after almost leaving this morning 'but wait one more test' leading to a day under blue lights, my daughter is headed to the NICU because her bilirubin levels are elevated more than this morning despite a day of treatment.
Wife isn't leaving hospital until our daughter is leaving with her.
Edit: so after almost leaving this morning 'but wait one more test' leading to a day under blue lights, my daughter is headed to the NICU because her bilirubin levels are elevated more than this morning despite a day of treatment.
Wife isn't leaving hospital until our daughter is leaving with her.
Falstaff
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At least they were smart enough to keep her there. My daughter's levels went up 2 days in a row before we were discharged and they were like... meh just go home, she's fine.
3 days later we were back at the hospital so she could be under the lights. Hard thing for first parents to be told you gotta go back to the hospital when your kid is less than a week old.
OneofOne
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Same. I had zero interest in having those images burned into my mind for the rest of my life.
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Our sun had low billiruben levels as well, and was on the UV blanket, but the levels were decreasing and they prescibed a blanket for at home for the first week or so at home. Everything cleared right up. I'm sorry you guys can't go home yet. That stinks.
Falstaff
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Oh they had the blanket up for my wife's c-section too and made me sit next to her behind it... but when the baby was born and they had her in the warmer while they checked her vitals, I was standing over there taking pictures and looking at her and talking to the doctors and I turned around to go back to my wife and BAM, it was pretty hard to miss.
meStevo
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Daughter was discharged today after being taken off blue lights this morning and the bilirubin levels still decreased without them per a test later in the afternoon.
Also, here's how much she looks like my wife... Facebook wanted me to tag her.
Also, here's how much she looks like my wife... Facebook wanted me to tag her.
so mastitis sucks. so over breastfeeding.
kid eats oysters (raw) and sushi, loves being held upside down, claps his hands and crawls to me.
life is amazing.
he also has a fav book (I love you through and through)
kid eats oysters (raw) and sushi, loves being held upside down, claps his hands and crawls to me.
life is amazing.
he also has a fav book (I love you through and through)
ha. perhaps!
so in re jaundice - my son was born on a friday, we were discharged sunday afternoon.
We had our first pediatrician appointment tuesday. She said he looked a little jaundice - we went back to the hospital for a bilirubin draw. Not good.
Wed went back for another draw.
Thurs went back - if that draw didn't come back declining we were going under lights. It declined slightly so we avoided the lights.
Of course this was literally during the hottest week by like 10 degrees all summer last summer.
I would have rather he went under the lights like tues to turn the corner faster. Bilirubin makes them sleeping which makes breastfeeding frustrating. And breastfeeding is already fucking hard enough.
I think we are done breast feeding about 10 months. I talked to the pediatrician - it will mean that we will have to administer an iron supplement but fundamentally I am very over breast feeding and we want to start tring to conceive again soon and I still dont' have my period.
so in re jaundice - my son was born on a friday, we were discharged sunday afternoon.
We had our first pediatrician appointment tuesday. She said he looked a little jaundice - we went back to the hospital for a bilirubin draw. Not good.
Wed went back for another draw.
Thurs went back - if that draw didn't come back declining we were going under lights. It declined slightly so we avoided the lights.
Of course this was literally during the hottest week by like 10 degrees all summer last summer.
I would have rather he went under the lights like tues to turn the corner faster. Bilirubin makes them sleeping which makes breastfeeding frustrating. And breastfeeding is already fucking hard enough.
I think we are done breast feeding about 10 months. I talked to the pediatrician - it will mean that we will have to administer an iron supplement but fundamentally I am very over breast feeding and we want to start tring to conceive again soon and I still dont' have my period.
Joeboo
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We've been doing an vitamin + iron supplement since day 1, even with 80% of the kids milk being breastmilk every day. Of course a lot of that could be just because he was a preemie, but our pediatrician told us she'd reconsider the supplement at his 1 year checkup(which is about 6 weeks from now)
Ours are still on iron supplements going on 18 months. They will take that one because it doesn't taste like alien blood like the polyvisol they used to take. They take trivisol now instead which has much more of a candy flavor.
Our older twin has glasses now for her far sightedness. And of course has already scratched the hell out of the scratch resistant lenses.
Our older twin has glasses now for her far sightedness. And of course has already scratched the hell out of the scratch resistant lenses.