Namera Brin is Born!

39 weeks (Namera was born 2 days later)

A little backstory. Namera was breach the entire pregnancy so at around 35 weeks my doctor said we really needed to start watching if she was going to flip. So I started doing exercises to try to get her to move and at 37 weeks she still hadn't turned so we went to the hospital to do a version, the manual, external process to try a flip a baby. After an excruciating hour Namera still would not turn so we scheduled a C-section for October 2. After lots of tears and mixed emotions I finally got comfortable, as comfortable as I could be, with having a C-section. One amazing thing about a planned C-section is just that, it is planned, so we knew exactly how October 2 was going to go.

On the morning of Thursday, October 2 we had a family outing to Starbucks

and then, like every other Thursday morning, I took Lucas to swim class.

We then had lunch, well everyone but me because I had to fast that day and a little jam session.

I put Lucas down for his nap and off to the hospital we went to meet our daughter. As soon as we walked out our front door the nerves kicked in and the tears rolled. The only other time I've ever been hospitalized was when I gave birth to Lucas. I've never even gotten stitches for an injury before. 

We love our hospital. It really has an amazing labor and delivery unit so when we got there and our nurse was checking us in, though I was incredibly nervous, I knew I was in great hands. My Caesarian was scheduled for 5:30 pm so we had to be to the hospital by 3:30 pm to get prepared. On a side note while I was getting ready and waiting I got a text that my son had his first kiss! I love that he looks timid.

The 2 hours went pretty fast and a little before 5:30 we walked over to the operating room.

Kevin wasn't allowed in until I was fully prepped so I had to walk in the room without him. I was really freaking out about the surgery and when I got to the room I felt like I was being abducted by aliens. There were bright lights everywhere and "beings" working in silence sterilizing and preparing. It was really creepy. The anastesthiologist was awesome. He let me choose the music I wanted playing during the procedure (I chose country) and talked me through everything. Once I was completely numb and ready Kevin came in.

From there everything moved pretty fast and Namera was born at 5:55 pm. My doctor immediately informed me Namera was fine but that the cord was wrapped around her neck and that is most likely why she never flipped, she couldn't. I also thank God that the version didn't work because we would have been rushed to do an emergency Caesarian right then. It took a couple minutes before I could see her but the first thing my nurse said was that she had a full head of hair:) Kevin said she looked just like Lucas. After they cleaned her and measured her (7 lbs 2 oz, 19 in long) Kevin was able to lay her on me.

She was beautiful! I got to be with her for about 10 min before they had to take her to the NICU for the post delivery exercises they do with babies born via c-section. Kevin went with her and we were all reunited about 1.5 hours later.

In that time I was SO exhausted and then got nauseated and threw up the nothing I was allowed to eat that day. I'm not one who throws up easily so all the meds I was on must have really been quite the cocktail. Once we were all together it stayed that way the rest of the stay. Normally Caesarian patients stay 4 nights but since we had Lucas at home I requested to be discharged a day early so we were able to head home on Sunday, the 5th and made it home before Lucas woke up from his nap. Lucas did visit both of the full days we were in the hospital and Kevin took him home each night to have dinner with him and put him to bed. My mom and sister stayed with me while Kevin was gone.

It was a great system we had.