We have a new vocabulary now in the Atkinson household. It has words like NICU, NG tubes, residuals, de-satting, rounds, amp&gent in it. these are all the things we get to worry about in any given day with Kendall. We go to the NICU to visit her. There are currently three other very sick babies …
The bruises are starting to fade from my arms. I have never been bruised during labor before. I have also never done the following: Had an IV Been in Labor for more than 10 total hours Used every single towel on the entire Delivery Unit because of the mass amount of amniotic fluid leakage Had …
Has a woman been so excited to hear that she is dilated to 1. But today that woman was me! More so than the dilation number is the fact that Baby Girl is actually head down, very down, backwards (like my kids always are), and everything is ummmm “working”. Thinning, softening, moving forward and down. …
my hyped up on generic sugary cereal children are having their own little stage show this morning. Most of their repertoire includes songs from Hannah Montana (Nobody’s Perfect, EVerybody Has Those Days, and Rock Star included!), but also includes a few random 80’s songs such as ” Werewolves of London” and “Ghostbusters” (the theme song). …
That is how i spent my afternoon. Being referred to as “the pyelo”. For the underinformed (that would be me) – “the pyelo” means, that extremely large pregnant woman with the two kids who looks like death on a log warmed over and crapped on with a possible kidney infection, or pyelonephritis as is the …
