Posted by
Steve on Monday, March 26, 2007 2:59:00 PM
The birth of a child never ceases to amaze me. Yesterday morning, my wife and daughter went to the hospital so my daughter could have her first child. My daughter needed to be induced to have the child. She had been to the hospital 5 previous times and gone home without the baby.
By about 2 p.m., the doctor was going to send her home again without the baby. After protests from my daughter and my wife, plus support from the nurse, the doctor decided to try a ptocin drip. The ptocin drop was causing contractions and she had progressed a little. But, by 4:30 a.m. this morning, the baby was under stress. The doctor decided that it was time to take the baby with a C-section. A half hour later, the baby was delivered. My wife got to go into the delivery room with my daughter. Her husband was not feeling well and so he stayed out and got to do the new baby stuff in the nursery.
My wife got home around 6:15 a.m., took a shower, had breakfast and went to school. Sometimes the dedication my wife possesses is beyond my ability to comprehend. She has had almost no sleep since she got up around 6 yesterday morning. How she can still function is a mystery. I would be dead on my feet and would fall asleep as soon as I sat down for more than 5 minutes.
I went to see my grandson when I got home from my doctor visit. He is cute, though he is showing signs of the prolonged labor. That will go away with time. Many babies have deformed heads when they are first born. He is exactly the same size as my last grandson. That made my other daughter a little jealous. She felt her son should have held a unique position of being six pounds and three ounces. We had to tell her that it was out of anyone's hands as the exact size the baby would be. I think it may have been the fact that she had to get up a little early.
They expect to keep my daughter at least one night and maybe two after the C-section. She will need the time to recover. She should not come home until she can take care of herself a little bit. There are a lot of people living in the house right now and you have to be able to take care of yourself to survive.
Thanks for this opportunity to talk about things of importance that get glossed over with the cares of the world. Sometimes we have to stop and smell the roses.