Lucas Osro Jensen

AUGUST 31st 2010 ~ Lucas Osro came into our family!!

I went to the hospital at 10am to get started into labor. My doc was just getting back from Maui and we had to wait until he called before I could be given the pit. He called just before 11 while getting his luggage and said to go ahead and start me. Everything was going good for about an hour before my nurse (Laurel is an angel!!!) came in to check on everything and the baby's heart rate started dropping. It was low for about 4 minutes while we tried changing positions and stopping the pit and everything to get that heart beating good again then she called in two other nurses and things quickly got serious. The doc who was covering for mine wasn't answering his pages, Guy (my doc) was just barely getting to his house and my baby was not doing good. The next hour was probably the worst of my life. Everything went bad really fast. I knew things were serious when Laurel started getting teary. They put an electrode thing in the babies scalp to monitor the heart better and broke my water. Then they rushed me to the O.R. where they took my verbal consent to start prepping for a C-section. They pumped me full of so many drugs and fluids so fast to try and get the baby to respond that I was shaking all over and freezing. They also put in a catheter, and they had to do all of this without me getting any pain reliever because there just wasn't enough time. By the time the doctors came in the drugs had done their job and the heart rate was back up. We opted to wait a little and see if I could labor. We stayed in the OR , where Lance was finally scrubbed up and allowed to join me, for about a half hour before they decided to let me go back to my room. We only lasted in the room for a few minutes before the entire ordeal started again. By the time the C-section was started the spinal block they had given me started wearing off but they had to hurry and get the baby out and didn't dare give me another one. So it started and everything was fine for the first part but then I started feeling everything A LOT more than I should. It was so excruciating they finally gave me something to knock me out. The rest of the day/night was pretty much a blur for me. I found out I had a baby boy and that he was just fine besides being small, which was miraculous considering his cord was not only in a knot but it was wrapped around his neck 5 times. The doctors and nurses were all calling him the miracle baby. He was famous to everyone for our entire stay. They call him the "nuckle 5" or something like that. It is clear to everyone that he was ment to be here even against all odds. My Lucky Luke!! He is so special!! He was 5lbs 6ozs 18" long. We went home when he was 5lbs even and at his 1week appt he weighed in at 5.13!!! WaHoo!! He's making up for being starved in the womb I'm sure! Everything looks good now. He's doing so good and his brother and sister just love him to death!! Sami holds him all the time and Andrew wouldn't stop kissing his head all this morning!

Anyway ... this is how my sweet Lucas came into this world. Hopefully its a lot smoother sailing from here on out :D