March 16th, 2010...Tuesday morning I woke up feeling a little "off". I was freezing and the room temperature was set on 80 degrees. I kept asking Joel to turn it up, but he was sweating so I knew something was wrong. Joel buzzed our nurse, Kit, and told her I wasn't feeling that well. She checked my vitals and Jett's heartbeat, and although my temp was only 99.1 (which they don't consider a fever yet) Jett's heartbeat was in the 160's instead of 145 which he had been averaging the past two days.
I decided to take a shower and even though the water was hot, I had chills. I put some warm clothes on, dried my hair and tried to calm down and crawl under the covers. After my shower, the ultrasound specialist named Joann came in to do her routine 3-day ultrasound to check Jett's progress and fluid amount. When she saw the heartbeat of our son, she saw the red flag and notified Dr. Kempner that something was wrong (she didn't let us know that there was something wrong so we wouldn't freak out). The doctor came in to check on me once she heard I wasn't feeling well and as soon as she saw me shivering in my fleece hoodie, she decided we needed to move back down to the labor and delivery floor and to get ready for Jett.
By the time they transported my bed two floors down which took about twenty minutes, my temperature had risen from 99.1 to 102.4! The nurses began to prep me for delivery and another doctor came in to meet us. He very calmly said that he suspects there is an infection and we need to go ahead and do a c-section to get him out. In the midst of all this, I asked Joel to call Jenn, our cousin. Joel said, "Why?" I snapped back and said, "Don't ask me why just do it! We don't even have a camer to get pictures of the birth!!!!" Joel quickly called her.
Joel's parents, Jon and Rita, were on their way from Wilmington, NC to meet their new grandson!
I decided to take a shower and even though the water was hot, I had chills. I put some warm clothes on, dried my hair and tried to calm down and crawl under the covers. After my shower, the ultrasound specialist named Joann came in to do her routine 3-day ultrasound to check Jett's progress and fluid amount. When she saw the heartbeat of our son, she saw the red flag and notified Dr. Kempner that something was wrong (she didn't let us know that there was something wrong so we wouldn't freak out). The doctor came in to check on me once she heard I wasn't feeling well and as soon as she saw me shivering in my fleece hoodie, she decided we needed to move back down to the labor and delivery floor and to get ready for Jett.
By the time they transported my bed two floors down which took about twenty minutes, my temperature had risen from 99.1 to 102.4! The nurses began to prep me for delivery and another doctor came in to meet us. He very calmly said that he suspects there is an infection and we need to go ahead and do a c-section to get him out. In the midst of all this, I asked Joel to call Jenn, our cousin. Joel said, "Why?" I snapped back and said, "Don't ask me why just do it! We don't even have a camer to get pictures of the birth!!!!" Joel quickly called her.
Joel's parents, Jon and Rita, were on their way from Wilmington, NC to meet their new grandson!
Look how perfect his little hands are... I will keep you in my thoughts Allisa, thanks for this blog to keep us in the loop.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Brittney