I'm back...with Baby Wynter (NCC)

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone!! It is so good to be back! (I

just got my comp back from repair)

I wanted to let everyone know that I had a

baby girl Wynter Althea Trinity Mathis was

born 2 weeks early at 10:34pm on November 13. She

weighed 7lbs9oz at birth and was 19 " long. She

looks just like her daddy, and is perfectly

healthy (thank god!).

For those of you who are pregnant, or are

planning to get pregnant after surgery, be

prepared to fight, or have your spouse be

prepared. I was in labor for 2 1/2 weeks, and

spent most of that time going back and forth from

hospitals and fighting with doctors. If that

wasn't bad enough, the actual delivery was a

nightmare!

I got very sick with the worst chiari headache

I've had since the day after my surgery (you

zipperheads will remember those first 24 hours!).

I was in so much pain I couldn't even move without

screaming. ended up taking me to University

Hospital at 7 that morning. They didn't help

much, they tried morphine and demoral shots - but

they didn't even touch my headache or my neck

pain. Apparently I had dialated to 10cm on the

outside, but not at all on the inside. My

contractions were registering off the page - but I

couldn't feel them at all because of my headache.

I spent the entire day there before they

transported me by ambulance to Presby (where I was

registered to have the baby).

Once there, the doctors screwed around for

several more hours - it was horrible...I would

rather have gone through surgery again than what I

went through that day. The pain was the worst I

have ever felt - and they couldn't do anything for

it.

Now, get this - these brilliant doctors

decided since I had such a bad headache

accompanied by the pain in my neck that I had to

have spinal menengitis. Can you believe that?!

They wanted to give me a spinal tap (which as we

all know is something we just can't have anyways)

while I was in labor! Of course said no (I

couldn't even comprehend what people were saying,

much less talk to them) Thank God. He knew that

it wasn't menengitis - it was laughable that they

even thought that - he knew that it was my

chiari. He tried to explain this to them, but

they had decided that I must have menegitis to be

in so much pain.

Well, he finally convinced them to induce

labor by breaking my water (he wasn't very nice

about by this time, he had been trying to get them

to do that all day) by arguing the point that it

would be easier to treat me if they got the baby

out. Now because they assumed I had menengits

they refused to give me an epidural unless I had

the spinal tap, they had me hooked up to a demoral

drip with the button I could push...this is

important because IT DIDN'T WORK! (now, it didn't

work on the pain at all because the idiots had it

hooked up wrong - of course no one believed me

when I said it wasn't working...until after Wynter

was born and the nurse in the post partum room

went to check it).

So even though everyone knew it was a bad idea

for me to go through labor, especially the last

part (I had been told by everyone not to push, it

could cause to many problems due to intercranial

pressure), I got to go through labor completely au

natural. They broke my water just after 10pm, and

Wynter was born at 10:34. Thank God she came so

quickly, I don't think I would have survived much

longer. She came out so quickly, in fact, that

her head didn't even have time to mold to the

birth canal - it was perfectly round!

Unfortunatly, she came out face down and hit her

nose on my bone causing her to have severe

bruising from the nose down and around her mouth,

with two black eyes! Other than that, she was

perfectly healthy (her apgar score was 9!)

Needless to say once she was born, I began to

feel better. By the time they got me to my new

room (under quarantine, I might add *laugh* ,

Wynter, and myself were quarantined together in

our room the entire time I was there - it was

actually nice that Wynter couldn't go to the

nursery we had her all to ourselves *grin*) I was

just about normal. My headache had returned to a

more normal mode, and even though my neck still

hurt it was bearable.

I was home by Wednesday morning, and it was

just after Wynter was born I started having a new

kind of headache accomanied with severe neck pain

- it was terrible! I went back to my new pain

doctor shortly after, and he put me on Oxycontin

for the pain, and Zanaflex for my neck. You all

should try this! It really works!! I take

Oxycontin 3 times a day, and Zanaflex twice a day

(its a new muscle relaxer - and it doesn't have

the major side effects of the other kinds of

muscle relaxers - it doesn't even make me sleepy!

It works solely on the spinal cord and the nervous

system, so it just relaxes you). The Oxycontin is

pretty powerful stuff, but it works. I haven't

had a severe headache, or even a strong headache

since I started taking it. The headaches I do get

are easily taken care of with Excedrin Migrane (no

more than two doses of that even!).

It is really cool, my normal pain level has

diminished considerably! Even though I really

tore up my neck during the delivery, and they had

to put me back on steriods for a while to get rid

of the swelling I ended up with after having her.

They are going to run some more tests to see how

badly I messed my neck up (thanks to those idiot

doctors).

Anyways, Wynter and I are doing fine. She had

a few minor problems (due to being a bit early)

but she has outgrown them now. is so

wonderful - I knew how wonderful he was as a

husband, but he is also the best father (he even

changes those messy diapers - and gets up in the

night to feed her so I can get some sleep!) He

has been so supportive and helpful as I recovered

from her birth, and he has really stood up for me

with the doctors. Kellas (my 7yr old son) has

also been great, he really loves his new sister

and helps out with her whenever he gets the

chance. I have been blessed with such a wonderful

family!

We are now settled into our new house (which

is right next door to my parents - which has also

been a blessing!). The night I went to the

hospital was our first night in the house - we

didn't even get to spend one full night here

before I went into the hospital! We are still

joking that Wynter was just waiting on her room to

get finished!

As soon as I can, I will get a picture of

Wynter scanned in so everyone can see her. She

really is beautiful (of course, I'm a bit

biased!).

Well, I have rambled on long enough. *hugs*

to everyone, and I'll chat with you soon!

Slainte, Cyn