Kennadi Faith

Well we are home and life is very busy. Kennadi Faith was born on March 31st at 2:00am weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces and measuring 19 and 1/2 inches long. After 24 hours of labor (12 of which I had no pain meds) I made it to 9 and 1/2 centimeters and didn't progress past there. The doctors decided that it would bein mine and the baby's best interest to have a cesarean. I was not happy with the decision but I wanted to make sure Kennadi was safe so we went for it. She came out screaming and immedately grabbed her fingers and started sucking on them. She already puts anything that goes near her into her mouth including her IV tube and blankets. The morning after her birth she was having trouble holding her temperature and she was throwing up fluids so they took her to the special care nursery. She was in there for almost 2 days and I had to go from the 7th to the 2nd floor everytime I wanted to see her or feed her. It was hard to see her in there with the IV and monitors on her. They finally figured out that she had swallowed fluid during the c-section and they emptied her stomach and she was fine. They had put her on antibiotics at that point to make sure she didn't have an infection so she couldn't come back with us till she was weaned off of that and the fluids. I was not able to feed her for a whole day which has now made it very difficult to breastfeed. We are working on it and hopefully will be seeing a lactation consultant tomorrow to get some help. We went to the doctor the day after she was released and she had lost weight so we went back the next day and she had gained some back so that was good. Overall the birth experience was very stressful and definitely not how we had planned it. We are glad that Kennadi is safe and home with us. She is a good baby and sleeps most of the time, other than the feedings she is a perfect baby. Of course we are exhausted and I am slowly healing but have been really sore so it is hard to get around and do things. We have some help but I can't wait to get back to normal and be able to do things by myself again and have our house back to normal (of course normal now being with a baby added to the mix).