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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
ROO B DOO
Well, Andrew and I had another date down at the Burn Clinic on Monday. We talked with the surgeon and the physical therapists along with all the nurses we've been seeing and they all agreed that his hand looks really really good!!! :D YAY!!
They say we can now start the long and tedius process of regrowing all that skin. ... ugh! The surgeon was really clear that he didn't want me thinking I was all done. We don't need to go back down unless I have questions or concerns or if he burns (sun) or opens up those wounds again. But now we worry about the scarring. I have to keep his hand clean and lotioned up all day and massage and stretch it as his skin grows. He can't even think about going outside w/out spf 50 on that hand they said so I'm doing that and trying my hardest not to let it get too dirty. (impossible) I also need to really watch him because the skin that is there is really thin and new (like a brand new baby) and can tear and break open really easy so we cant let him fall and scrape it or anything because we'll have to start the whole process of cleaning and wrapping it everyday again just to make sure we don't get infection. I know I know this all sounds really easy ... especially if you know my calm, quiet kid that will just sit for hours reading a book or watching a show. ;D infact its so easy that the first day having it unwrapped he fell face first onto our porch catching himself with that hand and then later had his fingers in the sliding glass door my carefull daughter was shutting. O ya this is definately less stressful not having to wrap his hand everyday. (NOT)
Anywho ... I'll get some unwrapped pics up soon so everyone can see how far we've come in less than a month!! Wish us luck ... and if anyone knows of a plastic bubble I can put my baby in please let me know =D
They say we can now start the long and tedius process of regrowing all that skin. ... ugh! The surgeon was really clear that he didn't want me thinking I was all done. We don't need to go back down unless I have questions or concerns or if he burns (sun) or opens up those wounds again. But now we worry about the scarring. I have to keep his hand clean and lotioned up all day and massage and stretch it as his skin grows. He can't even think about going outside w/out spf 50 on that hand they said so I'm doing that and trying my hardest not to let it get too dirty. (impossible) I also need to really watch him because the skin that is there is really thin and new (like a brand new baby) and can tear and break open really easy so we cant let him fall and scrape it or anything because we'll have to start the whole process of cleaning and wrapping it everyday again just to make sure we don't get infection. I know I know this all sounds really easy ... especially if you know my calm, quiet kid that will just sit for hours reading a book or watching a show. ;D infact its so easy that the first day having it unwrapped he fell face first onto our porch catching himself with that hand and then later had his fingers in the sliding glass door my carefull daughter was shutting. O ya this is definately less stressful not having to wrap his hand everyday. (NOT)
Anywho ... I'll get some unwrapped pics up soon so everyone can see how far we've come in less than a month!! Wish us luck ... and if anyone knows of a plastic bubble I can put my baby in please let me know =D
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