Welcome Little Baby!

Still Monkey Daddy here and we have a new little baby girl! It isn't how we planned to get her here or when we planned it, but she has arrived. She was born at just after 5:00 pm. She was 5 pounds 8 ounces and was 17 inches long.

Things were progressing slowly but still progressing. We made it to 3 cm and the baby started having decels with each contraction. At 4 cm, the decels became more noticeable. At 5 cm, her heartrate was dropping to scary rates. The doctor checked and sure enough the cord was prolapsed - the cord was coming out before the baby. This means that the baby's head was pinching off the baby's blood supply with each contraction. It was time for an emergency c-section.

In less than 10 minutes she was out and crying strongly. She pinked right up and was looking good. The focus shifted to Mama whose blood pressure dropped and would not come back up. And that's where we are now. Monkey Mama is in a lot of pain but her blood pressure has slowly come back up. Little monkey did get to spend a few hours with us and even latched on and breastfed like a little champ. At only 34 weeks and 5.5 pounds, she is having some problems keeping her temperature up so she is spending a lot of time in the warmer, but she is otherwise fine.

We will be in the hospital for at least 3 days and they will pay a lot of attention to Monkey Mama's blood pressure since it kept going up after the last birth. She is still on the mag sulfate and they will check her hourly for the next 24 hours. She is having a lot of nausea right now too ... I can't imagine the pain of throwing up after having a c-section but it looks horrible.

So that's where we are. Everyone is safe and stable right now and things are looking good if everyone keeps improving over the next 24 hours. I will keep the updates coming as I can.