Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Today was the day! Andrew Trillin was born today! John and I arrived at the hospital at 10:00 for a 12:00 scheduled c-section. By 11:30 they still hadn’t taken us back so we asked a nurse what was happening. She told us that there had been 3 emergency c-sections so we had been pushed back. At 12:00 they took me back to the pre-op area and started prepping me for surgery. My blood pressure and pulse were quite high from all the excitement so they gave me a little something to bring those down. The epidural went in quite easily and before I knew it we were off to the OR. Once in the OR, things started happening really quickly. They got me all prepped and before I knew it, the surgery was underway. Unfortunately, just like my previous c-section I felt the surgery once they got through the skin layer. The anesthesiologist stopped everyone while he gave me more medicine in the epidural. Unfortunately that didn’t work either so I ended up having nitrous oxide. That seemed to do the trick. Sadly, the anesthesiologist told me that I have a nerve that will probably never take to any type of spinal anesthesia so the bad news is I will probably always feel my c-sections (epidural or spinal) unless they knock me completely out. Things got back underway and Andrew was born at 1:11pm weighing 7lbs 5.4oz and 20″ long. He was absolutely perfect and Daddy got to cut the umbilical cord!

Andrew was taken to the nursery to get checked over while they finished putting me back together. Before long I was out of recovery and settled into my room. An hour or so after I got to my room they brought Andrew to me – what an incredible feeling! Since I have never had a full term baby, I kept thinking they were going to come take him from me and put him back in the nursery – but they never did! LOL The first night was a little rough as he had his days and nights mixed up but otherwise John and I are on top of the world!