We were having an emergency c-section whether I liked it or not. And I was terrified. I have never had major surgery like this before let alone being awake for it just boggled my mind.
They rushed me out of the labor and delivery room into the O.R. area for c-sections. I had 5 specialists who were Dr.'s 1 for the c-section, 1 for the anathesia, 1 for N.I.C.U. babies, 1 OBGyn and 1 surgery Dr. Each one of them had an attending Dr. as well and then we had a team of 5 nurses for the baby aftrwards to do the different things that need to be done for a c-section baby. I loved my anathesiologist Dr., Dr. Ingram. He was awesome. He was there for all 17 hours of my labo and delivery. He was the one who took care of my I.V. meds both times, administered the epidural and no he was going to be taking care of my meds duiring and after the c-section while managing my pain at the same time. He walked me through everything he was going to do before he did it, what everyone else was doing since I couldn't see (there was a sterile curtain put up between my face and my belly) and how the procedure was going to go along with blow by blow narration so I could follow along in the process. He was awesome. ( I even took the time to write out a comment card for him and drop it in the box ) After they were done prepping me, they prepped Dan and brought him in to the O.R..
The surgery took what seemed like only moments and then we were done. Dan was over in the corner with the nurses cleaning her up. But she wasn't crying. Why wasn't she crying? Dan got to cut the umbilical cord and wipe her down. He got to be apart of them weighing her, measuring her, dressing her and giving her the heel prick test and her vitamin K shot. Still no crying. I was still on the table getting sown back up when they brought her over to me and let me see her, touch her, smell her. Wow, you can totally tell she's Dan's kid. She looks just like him! They took her back and started doing some other stuff with her and she finally started crying. So at 1:20am on January 24th, 2012, Sophia Roselyn LeBlanc was born. 7 pounds, 9 ounces, 19 inches long, with a 13 inch circumference head. Yup that's right, my baby is going to be a genius with all that beautiful brain she's got. (That is exactly why I could not deliver her. My pelvic opening was 9 inches- my pelvis never seperated, she was way too big. Regardless she was built to be a c-section baby.)
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