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Two weeks later, here's my story

Back story..... 2 previous c-sections and in 2012 I had a garage door fall on my head causing brain damage which in turn caused me to have seizures. So threw out my whole pregnancy I've been monitored by my OB and a Neonatologist. So threw the whole 37 weeks I had 7 trips to the hospital/ER and I kept telling my OB I didn't feel safe being pushed to 39 weeks for delivery, and that something in my body didn't feel right. So went into the neonatologist for our weekly nst and I was just exhausted my eyes were black from lack of sleep and I just had no energy and the dr was quite concerned so she told us to go across the street to L&D and be checked out. I kept telling her to please help me I just didn't feel good, so we walked down stairs and my fiancé put me in car and by the time he walked around the car and got in I started seizing. He freaked out and called the dr's office we just left and they had no answers for him other then get to the hospital. He said from start to finish which the dr office is literally across the street from the hospital I had 5 seizures. So they get me into L&D and hooked up to all the monitors and luckily enough my OB was there doing her rounds she came in and said ok that's enough were delivering TODAY!!

So this was all at about 9:00am and they come in and say delivery will be between 11:30 and Noon, then 30minutes later they came in and said we got pushed back to 4:30 or 5:00 because of lack of recovery room. Soooooooo we try to get all of our family in the loop and our two older kids situated and try to nap before baby boy gets delivered. So 5:00pm on the dot the nurse comes in and put my catheter in and asks if I want walk to the O.R or if I want to be wheeled because I won't be able to walk for a while, so I walked and fiancé was told to wait in our recovery room while they did my epidural.

I literally felt nothing after she stuck the needle in my back and laid down. My fiancé was brought in and sat next to me, he had a very concerned looked on his face and as I calmed down and listened to what my dr was saying I heard "oh wow why does it look like that? Did her water break?" And my OB replied "NO!! That is her Uterus!!" So I start getting scared thinking the worst then I hear the best sound in the world my baby cry at 5:22pm my son was born at a healthy 6lbs 2oz 18 inches long. So the nurses take baby boy out to clean up and get his weight and daddy follows. And the doctor told the assistant surgeon this is like sewing two wet paper towels together. She lowered the curtain and looked at me and said "girl you have someone watching over YOU and that baby". She told me my uterus was so thin the only thing keeping it together was my water sack and if my water would have broke the babies umbilical cord would have dropped down and we would have lost the baby because the cord was around his neck. So she said this NEEDS to be my last pregnancy, because if there was to be another pregnancy we might not be so lucky next time. So when all was said and done my gut feeling was right and something wasn't right with me the whole pregnancy and the dr was wrong and if she would have listened to me this could have been a little different but needless to say we got a healthy baby boy who had NO NICU time, and got to come home with us. I feel so blessed and thankful for whoever was watching over him and I.