Kellen's Birth

     When creating this blog, Andrea and I were definitely planning on blogging more often than we have.  We have a lot to blog about considering all of the life transitions we have gone through in the past couple months.  A huge adjustment is going to be adjusting to 2 kids rather than one.  I decided to take advantage of the all the time I have on my hands here in the hospital.

     Kellen came as a surprise to most people, and our Facebook post mentioned an "emergency C-Section."  Let me briefly tell of yesterday's events.

    Andrea called me while I was at the church working on the sermon and told me that she was having sharp pains along her incision from her previous C-Section.  We thought it best she contact the dr even though we had just seen him the previous day.  He got us in to see him yesterday afternoon.  The big worry was the possibility of the uterus weakening along the incision and possible rupture. So they put Andrea on the monitor for a while to measure her contractions.  She had dilated 2 centimeters the last 24 hours.  At this point we decided that VBAC (Vaginal Birth After C-section) was not a risk we were willing to take.  If Andrea was having sharp pains with minor contractions, not being in active labor yet, there was going to be a great amount of pain in real labor, as well as the risk of rupture.  It was recommended that we head over to the hospital to be monitored longer before deciding a course of action.

    They monitored Andrea for about two hours and encouraged us to give up on VBAC (we already had) and have a C-Section.  They wanted to do it soon so as to decrease the risks of rupture as her contractions could progress (she wasn't really in active labor yet, but was definitely contracting, the contractions themselves weren't painful, but the incision pain that came with them was).  Since the doctor and the staff were all there already, and additional staff would have to be called in to do it in the morning, the doctor asked about doing it "right now."  We said "sure!"

    So while it was considered an "emergency C-Section" it wasn't such an emergency as to rush to the OR.  Once they were performing the surgery, we did hear them say "wow, the uterine wall is pretty thin.  We definitely made the right decision."  So no major issues, but had we not had the C-Section there definitely could have been! Mom and baby are doing great!

   Later we will blog about feelings and that kind of stuff... :)