ON AUGUST 21, 2008 AT 9:01 A.M., REMINGTON DIANE RUSSUM WAS BORN! SHE WAS 7 LBS 3OZ AND 20 1/2 INCHES LONG. SHE CAME BY WAY OF CESAREAN SECTION. IT WAS A LONG NIGHT. WENT IN WEDNESDAY EVENING TO BE INDUCED AND THOUGHT THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE A PRETTY EASY LABOR. AFTER RECEIVING MY FIRST DOSE OF CERVADIL THE NURSE ASKED ME IF I COULD FEEL THE CONTRACTIONS. I GUESS THEY WERE PRETTY BIG, BUT I COULDN'T FEEL A THING. I WAS EXCITED FOR THE EASY LABOR. ABOUT AN HOUR LATER ALL HECK BROKE LOOSE. I STARTED HAVING REALLY STRONG CONTRACTIONS TO THE POINT THAT I WANTED SOME SORT OF PAIN MEDICATION, OF COURSE THAT WAS A NO GO. I WASN'T EVEN DILATING! I STARTED TO TAKE A SHOWER EVERY HOUR OR SO, BUT THE PAIN JUST STARTED GETTING WORSE. THE NURSE TOLD ME THAT THEY MAY SEND ME HOME AS A FAILED INDUCTION, BUT I WAS NOT HAVING THAT! EARLY THE NEXT MORNING I STARTED TO HAVE A REALLY BAD SIDE ACHE THAT I THOUGHT WAS FROM LAYING THE WRONG WAY. LATER I REALIZED THAT THIS PAIN WAS MORE THAN A SIDE ACHE! IT WOULDN'T GO AWAY, THE CONTRACTIONS WERE A PIECE OF CAKE COMPARED TO THIS PAIN. THE NURSE CONTACTED MY DOCTOR AND SHE DECIDED THAT SHE WAS GOING TO GO AHEAD WITH THE INDUCTION AND START ME ON PIT AND THEN COME IN AND BREAK MY WATER. I WAS FREAKING OUT! AT THIS POINT I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG..... I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE..REALLY... MY DOCTOR CAME IN AND TRIED TO BREAK MY WATER AND THAT WAS NOT A SUCCESS... SO THE NURSE TRIED TO GIVE ME SOME IV PAIN MEDS BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING TO GO AHEAD WITH A C-SECTION BUT WANTED TO GET MY PAIN UNDER CONTROL. SHE FIRST GAVE ME MORPHINE WHICH DID NOTHING AND THEN I THINK SHE TRIED DEMEROL, BUT NEITHER EVEN TOUCHED THE PAIN. SO I WAS OFF TO THE OPERATING ROOM AND MY MOM WAS STANDING BY WAITING TO GO INTO THE ROOM TO SEE MY DAUGHTER BEING BORN. I WAS ALL NUMBED UP AND FEELING NO PAIN. THE SURGERY WAS PRETTY SMOOTH AND I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE MY DAUGHTER POP UP FROM BEHIND THE SHEET THAT THEY HAD IN FRONT OF MY FACE. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL! AFTER SHE WAS BORN THE DOCTORS DISCOVERED THAT MY PLACENTA HAD FORMED AN ABNORMAL ATTACHMENT TO MY UTERUS AT THE EXACT SPOT WHERE MY SIDE ACHE WAS. THEY CALL IT ACCRETA. THEY SAID THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER NATURALLY BECAUSE MY BODY WOULD HAVE TRIED TO DELIVER MY UTERUS ALONG WITH MY PLACENTA AND I WOULD HAVE BLED TO DEATH....YIKES! I AM GRATEFUL FOR INTUITION AND ACTUALLY FOR THE POWER OF PAIN. WITHOUT ALL THAT PAIN I MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING WAS SERIOUSLY WRONG AND THE DOCTORS MIGHT HAVE SENT ME HOME... I AM ALSO GRATEFUL THAT I DIDN'T END UP HAVING A HYSTERECTOMY BECAUSE A LOT OF THE TIME WOMEN WHO EXPERIENCE ACCRETA END UP HAVING ONE AND I GUESS I AM LUCKY....
I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE DAUGHTER AND ALL THE HARD WORK I PUT INTO HAVING HER PAID OFF!!
THIS IS HER GOING HOME OUTFIT..ISN'T SHE JUST ADORABLE?
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