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Title: baby has arrived
Post by: Lacey1981 on April 12, 2009, 05:47:56 PM
Sun. April 5th I went off the the hospital because my blood pressure was very high. Once we were there they started asking me if i was feeling any contractions. I said maybe every once in a while like maybe 2 an hour. Turns out i was contracting every 3-4 mins! I was dilated to a 1. They gave me meds twice to try to stop contractions and meds to help bring my blood pressure down. By 9 am on the 6th I was only dilated to a 3 and my dr. was concerned about my slow progress. ( I had a c-section w/ my 1st and she was concerned about the old scar and my bp was still up) She gave me the option of laboring for 1 more hour to see if I made signifacnt progress or just having another c-setcion. By this time I was tired as I hadn't slept all night so we opted for the c-section. Which turned out to be a good choice because was she was in she noticed a placental abrutpion. So our son was born at 10:33 am April 6th six weeks early 6lbs. 8oz. 20 ins long. His bp was low due to all the meds I had been on but once they were out of his system he started doing much better. He will be coming home from the NICU tomorrow.
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Post by: JannaLee on April 12, 2009, 06:49:40 PM
Yay!  Lacey!

What a scary start for the little fellow, and you both dodged a big bad bullet!

Congratulations and blessings to you and the babe.

He sounds wonderful!

Janna

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Post by: irish on April 12, 2009, 07:42:08 PM
Lacey, Congratulations on that new baby. Our bodies are so fine tuned----your body knew that baby had to get out of there because there was something wrong. So glad everything went ok and all is well. Rest now cause that high BP can wear a person out. Irish ;D
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Post by: Scottietottie on April 12, 2009, 07:57:25 PM
Congratulations Lacey! That's wonderful! For 6 weeks early - that's a big boy! My oldest was 3 and a half weeks early and he was only 6lbs1oz. He's 6' now!

I'm so glad he's fine and hope you're healing well too!  Thanks for sharing.

Take care - Scottie  :)
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Post by: lynnmarie219 on April 12, 2009, 08:05:57 PM
Congratulations Lacey!

Welcome to the world sweet little boy ! (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-object-089.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org)


I'm so glad to hear that all went well and hope you are both recovering from the big event nicely!
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Post by: SassieCat on April 12, 2009, 08:07:32 PM
Congratulations!

A baby boy is a bundle of joy!

You didn't tell us, what is his name?

SassieCat
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Post by: BonusMom on April 12, 2009, 08:21:45 PM
Congratulations!
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Post by: eyeamdry on April 12, 2009, 08:30:27 PM
Congratulations on that fine new baby boy.  Lucy
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Post by: Linda196 on April 12, 2009, 08:45:33 PM
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t309/smileyface131/babyboy.jpg)

Welcome to the new little wonder! I hope you're feeling well, BP is getting back to normal, and you and your new son have a healthy happy start!
Title: Re: baby has arrived
Post by: harrigan on April 13, 2009, 01:11:50 AM
Lovely news, thankyou for sharing it with us all!  Love to you all - springtime is the perfect time for bringing home a new baby!  xx Ailsa
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Post by: wednesday mc haggis on April 13, 2009, 02:08:02 AM
aww lacey congratualtions!!!!!, big boy for 6 weeks early, my son was 5 lbs 3 oz, and 4 weeks early, now he is almost 14 , he must be doing fab if your taking him home!  so glad its all over for you both and things came good in the end, brightest blessings to you and your family xxx
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Post by: Patze on April 13, 2009, 02:47:31 AM
Congratulations Lacey!   That is so wonderful!!!  What did y'all name the little guy?


Patze
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Post by: Chickpea on April 13, 2009, 03:37:19 AM
Congratulations Lacey! 

That's wonderful news - thanks for sharing it with your Sjoggie family.  Hope you're resting lots and giving your body time to heal.

Post when you can and send us photos of your new little boy.

Thinking of you - Chickpea
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Post by: jonnell on April 13, 2009, 03:44:53 AM
Congradulations Lacy I wish you the best with you new little boy.  Thoughts and prayers are with you.    Jonnell and Jenna
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Post by: loulou on April 13, 2009, 06:23:52 AM
congratulations lacey! !

Well done and wishing you all the very best for the future...God bless

Loulou
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Post by: dbab on April 13, 2009, 10:00:45 AM
Congrats Lacy !!!  ;D
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Post by: Katybarstool on April 13, 2009, 01:31:44 PM
Lacy

That's wonderful news. What does his big sister think of him? How are you feeling? Give him a cuddle from me please  :D.

Kathyx