I should probably
get used to those entry times, huh?
So what, the hell,
happened?!?! What a crazy story.
So Thursday I woke
up really early and couldn't get back to sleep. Spent
the day preparing the house for the baby because this
was it! The final weekend. I think both Talya and I
were pretty resigned to the fact that the baby wasn't
turning, and we'd have to have a C-Section on Monday.
After a long day of arrangin' stuff we laid down to
watch Stewart/Colbert and I nodded off at the tail end
of it.
20 minutes later
Talya wakes me up and says she's, uhm, leaking. I am
in an utter daze. I had no sleep the night before
so that first 20 minutes of shut-eye at midnight? Is
soooooooo strong. I think I actually said: "Why
are you telling me this?". I could tell she was
worried so I stood up and tried to make my eyes
function to no avail. "I think my water broke".
"That's
bad. We have to go now."
They had warned us
that rarely does your water "break" like in the
movies. Usually you have signs of labor well before
hand and that happens in the hospital. If it actually
does happen at home -
GET TO THE HOSPITAL. And the fact that
Vienna is breech? Even worse. This is specifically the
situation that Monday's C-Section was hoping to avoid.
However Talya wasn't sure her water actually broke,
because she just felt kinda wet, it wasn't a gush.
I said to call the doctor, she said it was too
late and she went and sat on the toilet.
"Really?
Are you gonna be that woman that has a baby on the
toilet? We have to go."
She gets up to
call the doctor and it continues to leak. I start
googling "leaking" and see that this happens
sometimes, and may continue for awhile... but the fact
that it isn't stopping is worrisome - the doctor
agrees and away we go. In fact, that's where we should
introduce the first video...
Wow. Helluva
cliff-hanger huh? So a couple of things...
The date. Really?
How amazing is that? And the best part of everything
is that we were able to experience this story.
Part of the excitement of natural childbirth is the
unknown. Will there be a mad-dash to the hospital in
the middle of the night? When will the baby decide to
come? A C-section takes away that fun and certainly
feels unnatural. Of course what we're about to find
out when they take the little lover-bundle out is just
why that C-section easily saved one of their lives. So
thankful this is 2012 and not 1912.
And isn't it funny
that once we accepted the 10/1 date we just never in a
million years assumed she'd come naturally? We're like
- well 10/1 is nearly a week before her due date... so
that's already early enough. We have allllllllllll
weekend to clean-up and prepare. Ha.
And how the
initial amniotic fluid test-thingee was wrong is
beyond us. It was a young nurse that administered it
and then an older nurse came in and said: "uhm,
no, that's amniotic fluid - this is happening now."
Thankfully Talya wasn't dialated at all so we could
plan the C-section for a couple hours later as opposed
to an emergency situation.
So onto the next
entry (yes, I'm making this a three-parter even if
it's on the same day - lol) because the birth deserves
it's own entry. And I am actually stunned at how it
came out. It's exactly what it felt like to be there
and it is completely unedited. The first 20 minutes of
Vienna's life documented for safe-keeping. And that
go-pro camera is stunning. Best purchase
ever.
