Birth Plans? The Birth of Cameron Michael

i was pregnant due on the 28th of june according to my doctors office calculations, and i was doing okay, dont get me wrong i had all the symptoms of being far along in the pregnancy, hardly any appetite, no energy, all of that, but i wasnt doing bad. and ironically enough my boyfriend ended up taking the time off work to go to the labor and delivery classes with me that were given by my doctors office. but you will see why that was so ironic after reading this. then the monday before i was due (the 23rd) me, my boyfriend, kayla, and frankie all went shopping at the mall, and several other places, even went out for dinner at a restaurant in the mall too. at one of these stores we bought a mat for the front door because it is tile in our living room where you walk in and we didnt have anything there to dry your feet with and it had been raining. so we get home from doing all of this, my boyfriend walks in ahead of me, with the mat that we just bought, and i walk in behind him, and the floor is nice and wet, and i slip and fall, landing on my butt with my left leg twisted under me. so when i am finally able to speak because the pain in my leg is so bad, i tell my boyfriend that we need to go to the hospital. not because i think i am in labor or am feeling anything from that area, but because i want the baby checked to make sure that he is okay and that the fall didnt injure him. (because lets not forget i am like 39 weeks and 2 days pregnant right now). so we go to the hospital, dropping kayla and frankie off first at my boyfriends parents house, and they monitor the baby for four hours, and determine that everything is fine with him in that respect from those monitors. they also determine that i am not in labor even though i am having some "uterine activity". they also check me and tell me that i am not dilated, i am only at like 1 cm which is nothing. they also did an ultrasound on the baby to check him in that way too. they tell me everything is fine they want to release me, and have me go to the emergency department to have my leg checked out, and that i can have an xray if needed. so i talk to one of the midwives in the practice before i am released, and she tells me that when they did the ultrasound of the baby, that they found a cyst or cysts on his kidney or kidneys, and that was something that was going to have to be followed up on immediately with a perinatologist with a higher level ultrasound. so now me and my boyfriend are very worried, and we still had to go the emergency room to have my leg checked. which is in horrible pain. so we do that, they xray it and tell me that nothing is broken and i have a sprained knee, and they give me a knee immobilizer to have it in, which is basically from your very upper thigh to your ankle and you cant bend your knee at all, they also gave me a walker to use. and no pain medication. you ever see an extremely pregnant woman using a walker. yeah, the amount of looks that you get from that are amazing. so i hobble around like this for a couple of days, in horrible pain, and miserable as hell. my boyfriend took some time off work, knowing that i couldnt be left by myself. okay so for the next few days i hobble around on my walker, in a lot of pain with my knee. then on wednesday i go to my obgyn appt (the 25th) and see my midwife. she consults with the doctor, who says that i am 2.5 cm dilated but that i am not ready to be induced or anything like that yet. she said that in her opinion i would probably go into labor on friday. (the 27th). so we left there, (the whole day and night kayla and frankie are not home) and my boyfriend gets his truck from his dad, and we go off roading (sort of), not that it was really an off road track or anything, but my boyfriend from several really bumpy locations. so he did that, trying to get me to go into labor of course. we also went out to eat for a nice dinner at cheesecake factory. the next morning, i wasnt feeling that well, i had a fever, and was starting to have pains. (which i thought could be contractions). so in the afternoon i decided that we better go to the hospital, so we took kayla and frankie (who had been dropped off for us in the morning) to my boyfriends parents house, and we went to the hospital. when i got there the nurse in the labor and delivery didnt seem to think that i was in labor, she kept saying that she thought that it was that i had a bladder infection and that was causing the fever and the pains that i was feeling was just from the uterus being irritated. so she called one of the doctors in my group of doctors (which also happened to be the doctor that had delivered kayla) and he said that he wanted me to be admitted, which then meant that one way or another i was having the baby then. so the nurse told me all this puts me in a private room, and tells me that the doctor will be coming to see me in a few minutes. so the doctor comes into the room (same doctor that delivered kayla) and tells me that it seems that i am having contractions, but that the contractions are doing nothing (i am still the same 2.5 cm dilated) and that if i was going to have the baby natural that i would probably have a very long and painful labor. and also that because i had the fever and that they didnt know why it could pass to the baby, or something could happen to the baby. he said that if my labor was progressing well that he would have let me have the baby naturally, but being that it wasnt, that it was best for the baby for me to have the baby now, by csection. so i said okay, its best for the baby then that is what i have to do. so in almost the blink of an eye, they got me ready for it, got everything ready for it. and i found myself on the operating table, getting a needle in my back to numb me from the waist down. and i was laying there, awake, and having a panic attack that is how scared i was. so then my boyfriend came in the room, and was sitting next to my head behind a screen. and then i heard them say the babys out, its a boy, and almost the same time i heard him crying. my boyfriend actually got to see him come out, i didnt get to see him at all, they took him to NICU and said that he would have to stay there for a few days because he was getting antibiotics because they didnt know what was wrong with me and werent sure if i had given it to the baby. so this was a shock to me, because not only did i get a csection but my baby wasnt going to be in the room with me. so i was in the recovery room for about an hour and a half or two hours, and finally they brought me upstairs to the mother and baby ward, and i got to see the baby in the NICU on my way to the mother and baby ward. and i got to hold him and everything. Cameron Michael, born 6/26/08 @ 7:01pm, 8 lbs 15 ozs 21 inches length. i couldnt believe how big he was. but then i had to leave him and go to the mother and baby ward. which was upsetting. but it was for the best for cameron, so that was that. the recovery in the hospital for me was really hard. i was in a lot of pain, amazing amounts at times it seems, so that i would try to stand up and start to cry. and then lets also not forget that i had the sprained knee that hurt also. i tried to see the baby as much as i could, but between having to wait for someone to take me in a wheelchair or trying to get there on my own, it was a challenge. i think i did pretty good though, usually every 3 hours to feed him, except for the first night, i was out of it. the first night i also had the bandage over the incision, an iv in with the pole that ran constantly, and also a catheter in. yuck. 24 hours after the surgery everything came out except the iv stint because i still had to have antibiotics. they did an ultrasound on the baby and said that one of the tubes from his kidney was enlarged (bigger then the other one) and they did another test and said that it wasnt going back into his bladder which was good. so on saturday night they said that they had finished giving him his antibiotics and also that they had finished doing the tests that they wanted to do on him, and that they wanted us to follow up with a pediatric urologist, and have them do another ultrasound on him and see it again. so they said that he could be released the next morning (on sunday). and my doctor had said that he would be releasing me the next morning too, sunday. my fever had went down and had stayed down for 24 hours, so they said that i could be released. the doctor then ended up doing my csection was the same doctor that had delivered kayla, and he was actually assisted by another doctor in the same practice. so i actually had the two doctors that i was familiar with do the surgery on me. so anyway, when they told me that the baby was done with his medicine and testing and that they were going to be releasing him in the morning, i asked if they could let him room with me in the mother and baby ward, instead of being in NICU without me. so they said okay, and at around i think it was 5 or 6pm that night, the baby came to room with me for the night, and then we both got released the next day in the afternoon. so that just goes to show you, there is no such thing as a birth plan, i had an idea in my head of how things were going to go, and how i wanted things to go, and nothing like what i had thought of or planned happened. the only thing that did was what mattered the most, and that was that i had a healthy baby. and me and him in the end were fine. we havent been to the pediatric urologist yet, i have a name and number of a doctor who does that, and i have to set up an appointment with them for the baby, i am hoping to have that done tomorrow.