My husband and I met when I was 15. Go figure, 14 years later we'd be married with a baby girl. Though we had known eachother for so long, we lost touch for about 4 years. Then one day throught the magic of facebook and his then roomate in the NAVY, he found me. 5 months later I found out I was pregnant, about 2 weeks after that, we were married. Not the fairy tale wedding every girl dreams of, but I was happy! We were starting a family, the one thing I've always wanted, someone would call me mommy soon.
At first the pregnancy was NOT fun, vomitting and constant nausea, but then the reality of this little person inside of me hit. I felt this odd rolling in my stomach at work one day and quite honestly was grossed out. That was the first time I felt her move, that was the point I think I really turned into a mom. At 18 weeks I found out the sex. My husband was still in Virginia so he found out via telephone thanks to my friend Carol who joined me for some doctors appointments. The Ultrasound tech went through and checked the baby from head to toe. When she was ready to tell us the sex, Carol asked if I wanted to be on the phone with my Husband, I said no because I didnt want to hear him get dissappointed if it was a girl (It was sarcasm). No sooner did I say that, the Ultrasound tech said the baby looked wonderful all its parts were there and it was a healthy baby girl. We cried, my husband asked if the baby was healthy and went on to call family with the news.
Everything went pretty good from there.......with the exception of migranes and heartburn :( I only gained about 29 lbs, Which I thought was great. That is until 1 week before my due date. One of the Doctors measured me and said I seemed small. He then did an ultrasound to see the baby was measuring about 5 weeks smaller than normal. From there he sent me to YALE for a more defined Ultrasound, and they found that I was measuring small, but I was reassured that everything was fine.
I was induced on February 8th 2010. The contractions weren't bad until they broke my water!!!!! Holy C*&P!!!!!! I was in active labor for about 2 hours and dialated about 3 cm. when the doctor said I could FINALLY have an epidural. Ahhhhhhhh Relief...........Until about and hour later the nurse came in to check on the baby's monitor and said her heartrate was dropping with each contraction. She left to call the doctor and within minutes she was in my room telling me we were going in for an emergency c-section. This was NOT part of my plan! I was so scared and all I wanted was to hear my daughter cry. She was born about 20 minutes later at 5:18pm, and hasnt stopped crying yet.
So then...........your basic hospital stay with a c-section. Vistors, presents, my hubby and our brand new baby girl Layla Annabelle. Doesnt get much better than that. A few days into our stay at the hospital they said Layla had a heart murmur. Ok no big deal, until they asked me to sign a release form sending her echocardiagram to YALE Childrens Hospital. Thats when it all began.
