Berry Blessed

So to finish out my story on our amazing addition to our family...

I've been telling people that Ronan is going to be our difficult child. He had to be turned cause he decided that being head down wasn't cool, and then I had to have my water broken to finally get him here. Actually giving birth was great. No drugs, low lights, soft music, very little talking. Thank you HypnoBirthing and my amazing cousin Hannah for introducing me to it! After Ronan was born, he of course peed all over me, so after some good cuddle time I got up and changed before visitors came. I was feeling pretty great, but at about 3:30 I started to feel really crampy and asked everyone to step into the small waiting room inside of our room so that I could get up to go to the bathroom. The second I leaned forward to get up I felt a huge gush and looked down to find that I was bleeding, a lot. Dan went to get the nurse to help me to the bathroom, but as I moved I only bled more. I then I had to lay down as the nurse pushed on my tummy to remove clots. Gross, I know. With help, I finally made it to the bathroom and got into the tub to clean up, I was super excited because I was going to finally shower, but this became delayed when I had yet another clot, this time about the size of a tennis ball. I was still feeling okay, but the nurse made me return to bed without a shower. Not 2 minutes after she left the room I started feeling really cold, and then my head got really warm. Dan got the nurse and next thing I know my bed is being leaned back and an IV is being inserted into my hand. Of course we had just removed my other one not an hour before. The nurses checked my vitals and my blood pressure had dropped to about 74/40. I don't really know much about blood pressures, but I know this is way bad.

After getting fluids into my body through the IV I started to feel better, but was still having quite a bit of bleeding. Throughout the evening the nurse came back in about every 30 minutes to torture me by pushing extremely hard on my stomach to check for clots and throughout the night she came in every 2 hours. Luckily, with some medicine my doctor prescribed I was clot free throughout the night and shortly into the morning rotation my nurse decided to go easy on me. I was finally allowed to shower and since I "behaved" all evening as my amazing nurse Lauren would say, I was informed that we got to go home! Yay! Another day there may have put me over the edge.

So anyhow, we're home and life is good. I'm still super sore from my day of torture, but other than that, we're all doing well. Dan is home with us all week, and next week when he goes back to work, Collin will go to daycare for part of the day.

As promised, here are some pictures of our precious boy.

7 lbs 8.8 oz

Our first family photo

Dr. Lowden - she's amazing

Our nurse, Lauren - we love her!

Collin loves his baby brother

Getting ready to go home - this is the blanket I made

It doesn't get any sweeter than this

He took an hour and a half nap in his cradle today! What a good boy!