It was 9:00pm. I was one day past my December,25th due date. I was in my front room sitting on my tiny blue love seat with my six year old daughter Kaitlynn. We were waiting for our pizza that daddy had just ordered. Suddenly i felt warm water gushing out. Oh no! my water broke! go get your dad i shouted. My little angel ran as fast as she could out to the garage where her daddy was. Daddy hurry! mommy needs you right now! He ran into the front room where I was. My pains started immediately. My husband(shawn) panicked. He ran around our house like a chicken with its head cut off. I calmed him down. I have a mild heart condition which makes me high risk, Thank god for small miracles! I was supposed to give birth at a hospital an hour away, due to my high risk condition. My contractions were already 2 minutes apart and there was a continuing leakage of fluid coming out, So we drove to the local hospital. my mom met us there and took our daughter to her house. The hospital put me in an ambulance and transferred me to the hospital i was supposed to deliver at. My husband had to put gas in his car first so i arrived at the hospital alone. I was very scared. i didn't want to have this baby alone! He arrived 15 minutes later. At this point my contractions are very painful and still about 2 minutes apart, but i was only dilated @ 2. At about 5am i couldn't take it any more, so the nurse gave me morphine. I wanted an epidural but my progression was to slow. At about 3pm i finally got one. At about 5pm i had an urge to push.
The doctor came in and asked the nurse frantically, how long has this been going on? get her in the o.r now! my mom and little girl were in the waiting room. they ran me into the o.r. i was in a great deal of pain. my epidural was turned off so i could push. they immediately cut me open and i felt it. i was screaming please don't let me die! Tell kaitlynn i love her. i need something it hurts! i can feel it. then the baby was pulled out and that is the last thing i remember .I thought she was dead , i didn't hear her cry.
A few hours later i woke up in intensive care. I was numb, the first thing i said was," am i alive? the nurse came over to me and said," yes your fine." I said, " then were is my family?" she said" they are with your new baby." "is she okay?" "yes your baby is fine." " When can i see her?" "soon, she replied." My husband, mom and little girl came in shortly after. My husband looked very upset. i asked my mom if she cried. i was so happy to see my little girl, I thought i would never see her again, i was very worried about her. I was then moved to a recovery room. My doctor came in. She told me that the baby was in distress so the did an emergency c-section and when she made the incisions my placenta was floating on top(placena abruptio) she removed it and my uterus ruptured, the baby wouldn't breath at first but they resesitated her and she was stablized. She repaired my uterus and put me on triple dose antibiotics to protect me from infection, since i was not cleaned before the surgery in the normal fashion. then a pediatrician came in and told us the news on our baby.
