Yesterday I went to Fehergyarmat to bring Lili and little
Sasha home.
The big event should have happen last Friday but by the time
we’ve got there Lili had fewer and the doctors decided not to
let her (and the baby home) until causes are investigated and Lili is
fully recovered.
By the time we’ve got back home her fever was gone
so that
was a little bit relieving, the next morning the blood test results
where ready and it turned out that the same bacteria which Sasha had
Lili has it too. Probably because she has an immune system unlike the
little baby (which seems to relay on the mother’s milk for
that) reacted a bit late to it. So the doctors considered another five
days in hospital with antibiotics and after that another blood test and
if everything is all right she will be released home.
In a way this was good, first of all because it seems that the
bacteria
was from the hospital and not from Lili, therefore reducing the risk of
complications created by an in-uterus infection, second of all because
they seemed to know what they are talking about (that bacteria was not
new to them) a quick diagnostic and treatment available, I would not
want to imagine what would have happen if we would have made it home,
and Lili developed the fever here with all the incompetent doctors from
this city. And last, the next morning, the baby was moved from the
intensive care unit to her room and stayed there till we came back
home, this was welcomed as it gave her a little bit of time to get used
to the baby and to it’s habits and handling issues.
Yesterday another blood test was done, everything came up good
so they
where released home. The trip back was fine, while outside was very
cold the road was good and in around 45 minutes we where in the worm
and safety of our home. I’m am after the first 24 hours with
him and he is an angel I just can not find another word to best
describe it, he eats, sleeps, dreams and once in a while cries and he
does all that pretty much like a clockwork, very few and little
exceptions. While he woke us up tree times last night he was even
better behaved than during the day time, hope that will not change.
We often found ourselves with Lili watching him sleep for
hours still
not believing that we have a child that is so beautiful that we are so
lucky that we went in Hungary two and came home three and that will
stay like that for many, many years.
During the last 13 days, maybe for the first time in my life I was and
felt disconnected from everything except those two magic human beings
from my life. No news feeds, no programming no Java, C#, Progress and
patterns or computers crossed my mind for any fraction of a second.
It’s time to slowly focus back on my work at least part time
:) and a new life routine to slowly take its shape.
January 26th, 2006
Yesterday (14 Ian 2006) at 16:15 (Romanian time, 15:15
Hungarian time)
Pereni Sasha David was born with 3,700 Kg and 58 cm.
It all started at 5:00 AM as we headed to the hospital to do
the
standards checkups just like we did one and two days before, as the
estimated date (13 Ian 2006) got close and passed by we where asked to
come daily. Lili felt well as a matter of fact she felt that definitely
nothing unusual is happening so probably we’ll be back home
son.
Once there we did the NST
test, the doctor considered that the
movements where not enough so asked for a CST
test, we
weren’t scared we’ve been there once as Sasha is
really moody and not very active in the morning.
So Lili was taken into the delivery room and given a very
small dose of
oxytocin to stimulate a couple of contractions while the contractions
and child hart rate where monitored, we where waiting outside.
After two hours, aldo the heart rate was ok and there were
some
movements the doctors where not completely satisfied with how the child
responds to the contractions and considering that we where a bit over
the estimated date decided not to risk and induce the labor.
At that point Lili was given a full dose of oxytocin (to
stimulate
contractions and dilatation) and prepared by the nurses to deliver
while I have been asked to change into sterile clothes and join Lili.
We staid alone in the delivery room smiling at each other not
believing
that it finally happens and waiting for the contractions to appear.
They did not so the doctor decided to use Prostaglandins gel and also
do an ultrasound investigation. Surprise, in the last two weeks the
baby turned over so now he was head up instead of head down as he
should have been an as he was at the previous ultrasound investigation,
this was possible mainly because Lili had a little bit more amniotic
fluid so the baby had the possibility to move more easily.
Aldo breech babies can be delivered normally it is more risky
so the
doctor decided to use cesarean delivery. For some reason she had to be
a little bit dilatated so we where left alone again for another two
hours so the gel could do his magic. And it did, Lili was soon having
contractions. Around 15:30 the anesthetist came and explained the
procedure and the nurses started preparing Lili for the intervention.
At 16:00 I was asked to wait outside but still in the delivery zone in
the sterile clothes so I could see the baby as soon as possible while
Lili was taken into the operating room. At around 16:17 I was called by
a nurse, the baby was out and crying in front of me.
At that point I could change back in my regular clothes and
could wait
outside of the delivery zone to Lili. At 17:00 the doctor came
congratulated me and said that everything is perfect the intervention
went smooth and both the baby and Lili was fine and she would come out
soon. At 17:00 she was carried to the intensive care unit, still under
epidural anesthetic she smiled and was happy. A couple of minutes later
I was called to visit her.
After staying a little bit with Lili the nurse called me to
show the
baby, I tried recording it on my camera you can see it here but
definitely not the camera was on my mind as you will see it from the
recording, then went back to Lili. She will have to stay in the
intensive care unit for 24 hours and if everything is fine today she
will be transferred to a regular room and the baby will stay with her.
Because there was a caesarian delivery she will have to stay
in
hospital for 7 days instead of 5 so if everything is OK next Saturday
we are all home.
I will go visit her daily while taking pictures and movies, if
you are
interested you can check my Flickr
photos and YouTube
for videos and
updates.
January 15th, 2006
