Kimberle
WL Vet
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2003
my little ballarina was born.
Brittany was born at 7:14 pm on a Thursday night by emergency C-section. I was very, very sick with HELLP. She was 1 pound 15.5 ounces, 13.5 inches. She was rushed off to NICU immediately. I was not able to see her for 26 hours as I was hooked to a mag. sulfide drip to bring my blood pressure down.
She started her life in a tray with wires hooked to almost every part of her body. A c-pap helped her breathing for the 1st 12 hours. She was then placed on a vent for around 3-4 days, and back to a c-pap. She was to frail to be placed in an incubator, so she was in a tray with a warming light.
We spent the next 8.5 weeks on a up & down roller coaster of Group Strep B twice, blood transfusion, weight gain, learning how to eat and breath. We watched other newborns come and go. We saw the staff's mad preperations for babies who did not even make it into NICU......We couldn't have asked for a better team of doctors and nurses. (The doctors were worse gossips than the nurses. )
May 1st, a beautiful spring day, Brittany came home at 3 pounds 14 ounces.
A very happy birthday to my little one who is not so little any more!
Brittany was born at 7:14 pm on a Thursday night by emergency C-section. I was very, very sick with HELLP. She was 1 pound 15.5 ounces, 13.5 inches. She was rushed off to NICU immediately. I was not able to see her for 26 hours as I was hooked to a mag. sulfide drip to bring my blood pressure down.
She started her life in a tray with wires hooked to almost every part of her body. A c-pap helped her breathing for the 1st 12 hours. She was then placed on a vent for around 3-4 days, and back to a c-pap. She was to frail to be placed in an incubator, so she was in a tray with a warming light.
We spent the next 8.5 weeks on a up & down roller coaster of Group Strep B twice, blood transfusion, weight gain, learning how to eat and breath. We watched other newborns come and go. We saw the staff's mad preperations for babies who did not even make it into NICU......We couldn't have asked for a better team of doctors and nurses. (The doctors were worse gossips than the nurses. )
May 1st, a beautiful spring day, Brittany came home at 3 pounds 14 ounces.
A very happy birthday to my little one who is not so little any more!
What a beauty!! Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Kimberle! 
