I woke up at 1:45am on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. I was having some serious back labor pains but still thought they were Braxton Hicks. They did not subside, so we called the Dr and our lifesaver….SALLY to watch the girls….and headed to the hospital. I, finally, got an epidural at 5:45am and gave birth, via c-section, at 6:38am. Andrew (Scott’s middle name) William (my dad’s first name) Springer came contently into the world just looking around at 9lbs and 9oz and 21 inches long. We will call him Drew.
Everything went smoothly until my blood pressure decided to go crazy. They gave me medicine and thankfully all this happened after we had returned to the room and settled down. The medicine brought it down for a while but nothing seemed to work enough until they increased it on Thursday morning…..so they discharged us all.
We were home for 24 hours and my blood pressure was 180′s over 110′s….yep, that’s pretty high. So, we headed back to the hosptial and after ruling out a blood clot in my lung, they decided that I had some sort of post partum high blood pressure and admitted me to the labor and delivery floor. The OB doctors did not know what to do with me…..most comforting…..so they called in an internal medicine doctor. He prescribed 3 different medicines which took my blood pressure down in to “home management” range. We were able to be discharged on Saturday night. It is now 140′s/90′s….I have an appointment tomorrow with our family physician.
I have been extremely tired and have not been able to do simple things around the house without getting tired…..part of the hypertension. Today was probably the best day by far. I was able to pick up a few things around the house. My parent’s have been here since Tuesday of last week and for the millionth time I’m not sure what we would have done without them. Especially the night we went to the hospital. THANKS mom and dad!!
Today McKinley had her monthly clinic appointment. She received IV Vincristine and we started steroids this week. Dr. O’Brien is very pleased with her counts. Her ANC was 1330 this week, which is right where they want it. Below 1500. Hopefully she will be able to stay at 100% of her chemo and her counts will cooperate. She was very excited to go to the hospital today, which is a good thing, right? She was loving the attention today.
We also had an appointment for Drew today to check his weight, again. He lost more than 10% of his body weight and they wanted to check on him again. He was back up to 9.2 today and we are free from his visits until his one month check up.
My parent’s leave tomorrow–boo hoo–and Scott will be off Wednesday-Friday. By next week I should be off of driving restrictions and we are prayerful that my BP finds its way back to “normal” sometime soon. We are SO SO Thankful for our healthy new addition and that the problems I incurred were after his delivery. Makayla and McKinley love their brother. McKinley wants to hold him all the time and kiss and hug him. We LOVE our family and can only REJOICE in God’s favor on our life.
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Congratulations!! He’s a most handsome babe! And don’t those big sisters look proud! We’ll be praying down your BP.
Congratulations Springer family! I am so excited about your new addition. Thanks for sharing pics and news.
I’ll be praying concerning your blood pressure and hope it is normal soon.
You all are so special and such a blessing. And how you honor God in all you do and post.
God Bless you all,
We’ve missed Makayla at Awana. Hopefully we can see you all next week.
Peg Taylor