Birth Story

Tabitha

Well I’m 4 weeks late on this but here it is..

On June 1st I woke up to get ready for my mans younger twins brothers 8th grade promotion. We showered and got all dressed up for the long day ahead of us, I wasn’t hungry but knew I needed to at least force myself to eat something , I ate my bowl of cereal and then out the door we went. Middle of the promotion I felt like I was leaking amniotic fluid so we left and I went home and slept for most of the day, while bf is at work. I woke up around 5:30 to a little gush of fluid. So I went to the bathroom cleaned off wasn’t having any contractions, and they’re was no sign of any bleeding so I wasn’t too concerned. I still at this point felt like not eating anything but this is typically around the time we start getting ready for dinner. So instead of cooking I go through and get some fast food.. ( I know not a healthy meal) anyways my man is still at work and I wasn’t feeling any movement after my dinner waited the two hours and got maybe 2-4 very light movements and I also had GD so my ob said sometimes with the GD you won’t always feel strong movements. So 9 pm comes around I go to pick up my man from work and tell him what’s going on so we decide to get something else to eat and a big ice cold water still very light movements so midnight comes and I call L&D; because I’m getting a little worried what do they say go drink a big cup of juice so I do and tic all back in two hours with any results if I’m not feeling any movement.. well 2:30 am comes around we’re off to L&D; and get there around 3 am they hook me up to monitors come back 5 minutes later and tell me when you’re not leaving here without a baby.. I was so happy and scared all at the same time. Well here comes the scary kart midwife comes in and says you’re having really strong contractions(btw didn’t feel any of them) and every time you do the baby is flatlining! 😭 So they start getting me hooked up to all the I’vs checking my cervix you know the whole shebang.. bfs mom gets there and at 4:30 am the doc comes in and does an ultrasound for a good 30-40 minutes and tells me we need to do an emergency c-section now! At this point I’m trying to get a hold of my mom no answer! So the anesthesiologist comes in explains the epidural and I go into full panic mode they’re trying to calm me down nothing is helping.. we get things going and I’m in the or getting prepped for my child to arrive.. well my blood pressure spiked to 200/160 so they have to act now thank god the epidural kicked in fast because I didn’t feel anything.. well 6:30 on the dot, June 2nd my baby girl arrived.. well come to find out the reason I didn’t feel anything all day she had pooped inside me and as they were pulling her she swallowed some so they had to suction her stomach out, get her hooked up to I’vs, put her on o2 it was all a hot mess.. Well we were in the hospital for 5 days and she was in the IMN for 4. The first night, she actually stopped breathing for 3 seconds so that was the most scariest thing for me.. and here I am still out of it from all the meds they give you! On the third night they took her off her o2 for a half an hour to see how she would do and she did great so they monitored her through the night and on the 4th day just to be sure. That night she was finally able to come to the room with us and we went home the next day! I’d say my daughter is one tough cookie! Anyways here are some pics from the first day and then now!

Sorry for it being so long! 💕

Hazel Lee Walker born June 2nd at 6:30 am weighing 7lbs 3oz and 20” long! 💜💜💜