I’m finally starting to upload some photos of L and the birth.
I thought I would be way more in contact with everyone throughout the last few days, but instead found myself just wanting to have private time with E and some of our family members.
The birth was rough and we’re all still a little shell-shocked. After he was delivered, and the placenta started to be delivered, E wound up with her uterus on the outside of her body. Apparently the way to soften the uterus and get it back in the body is to administer nitroglycerin, a relaxing agent. The anesthesia techs accidentally gave her 150 micrograms of nitroglycerin instead of 50 micrograms, so E immediately started crashing and was rushed to the OR. Every nurse and doctor in L&D was there, she lost tons of blood but wound up being okay in a very short amount of time.
I was left in the delivery room with Liam, who had fluid in his lungs and needed a little TLC to start coughing it up. They cleaned him up, and once E was stable and stitched up, we went in an OR recovery room to have the moment together we missed out on after the birth.
Everyone is in fantastic health now. L is quiet and feeding nicely, cooing and gurgling and acting very content. E was able to stand up and walk around late this morning, which was tremendous progress. All her IVs are out and she was able to start eating.
After that long day yesterday, everything today is very, very quiet and relaxed. They kept us in L&D overnight to monitor E, and now we’re up in a normal room in postpartum.
It feels completely normal and natural to have a son, all my fears went away when he came out. E is a natural at being a mom, as well, she’s doing great with him, and he’s breastfeeding fantastically.
We are very grateful and happy, childbirth is really an amazing and wonderful experience. Our son is beautiful and miraculous to us.