Baby Scotty: Delivery
We arrived at American Fork Hospital at 6:15… for a 7:30 surgery time. Started on i.v. and was asked a million questions. Beautiful gown… and bouffant. Lots and lots of nerves (which means I talk and talk and talk and ask spastic questions). Conversed with Dr. Bean & Nurse Anesthetist Brent. And off we went to the surgery room.
Lots of nausea… thanks Brent for filling my i.v. with something that helped that go away right as they started cutting (zofran… plus something to raise blood pressure). Lots of scar tissue to get through. Six c-sections will produce much scar tissue!
Jimmy sees a tiny baby hand and out he came at 8:12 a.m. Mom didn’t hear many cries. Nurses worked on him to get him crying. He was breathing… just not crying. 6 lbs 11 oz. Quickie picture (see how purple he is!) and off they whisked him to the nursery to get baby pink and healthy.
Lots of stitching left for mom as dad accompanied babe to nursery. Did you know they take your uterus out and set it on your belly while they stitch it up. Craziness! Dr. Bean was telling funny stories and making everyone laugh. Took a while to stitch up and get rid of some scar tissue… but incision came out quite clean, rip-proof (meaning – it endured all my coughing for days after), and leak-proof. Nice work Docs!
Interesting points to this picture… Nurses working on babe who was 6 minutes old according to clock. Surgical nurses cleaning up bloody rags. Docs stitching me up. See the bag of blood. Ick. My hand hanging outside the blue sheet. No – I’m not dead. Brent by my head making sure I’m doing okay. He watched over me so well. Bless you! So grateful to be finished with c-sections!! Now it’s time to love that cute newborn!
Hi Heather, congratulations on baby #6, such a sweet little guy. I saw that you mentioned that Brent was your CRNA and wondered if you know if his name is Brent Prime, a soft spoken, dark haired guy? If so, my husband Jeremy went to school with him, his family is good friends of ours.
Hope you are feeling better from your c-section and adjusting to life with 6. My number 6 just turned 1 years old. It goes so fast. Did you guys figure out the car situation yet? 2 years ago we bought a Sequoia, but there is no room in there for people and stuff. Last year we traded it in on a passenger van, it is the length of a 15 seater, but doesn’t have the last seat, so only seats 11 and has tons of cargo room. I love it! It is not attractive and I feel like I’m a delivery driver, but it so comfortable and roomy, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. One reason it works so well for us is we travel a lot and it was so necessary to have lots of room.
Good luck with everything.