This is pretty much a "Part 2" to the post titled "Birth of Stella Bea". It's just the first few moments of being with her, and meeting her.
After I felt her slide out of me, and saw her tiny body in my doctors arms, I immediatly started sobbing. She was here. We'd done it! She was alive and I was going to get to hold her! I reached out my hands and waited for her to be handed to me, which felt like an eternity, but everyone present assures me that it was barely a minute. Janna took a million pictures, for which I can never thank her enough. But one meant so much to me, well two, really. There's one where she is just getting her nose suctioned and I am already holding her hand, and the other is levi cutting her cord, and I'm holding her head with my hands. These mean so much to me, because for one, its the first time I ever touched her, and for two, Janna said she'd never seen anything like that before.
Anywho, she didn't cry much when she was born and they were concerned that she'd come out to fast to clear her own lungs, so they let me hold her for a brief while and then took her back to encourage her to cry and clear her airways better. It didn't matter though, I was sobbing the whole time telling everyone how much I loved her, and how beautiful she was. Levi stroked my hair and cried with me as we watched her squirming in her little bassinet getting cleaned. We kissed and talked about how amazing she was. I let her hold my finger while she was in the bassinet, and I just couldn't take my eyes off of her. There she was.
After they'd pricked and poked her enough to 'clear' herself out, they gave her back to me to hold. I began trying to bresatfeed her, and she latched onto my breast right away, but I can't say for how long because I was having trouble staying awake. Overall, I'd been having contractions and unable to sleep for 48 hrs about, so I was pretty drained. Levi stroked her little hairs and took pictures of her. Finally, my family came in and everyone held her.
We got moved to a recovery room and finally got some alone time with the baby. Then, eventually, slept.
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