On Thursday, 12th April at 4:45am my body clock woke me up 15 minutes before my alarm clock was set to do so. I had a relatively good night sleep thanks to a full Aterax tablet (bless those Aterax tabs!) so woke up ready to meet our new little man. We headed off to the hospital in the dark at 5:45am and checked in at the allocated time of 6am. We were extremely lucky to secure a private room at the hospital - in fact the same private room that we had when Lily was born. Beautiful views of the city, mountain and distant ocean.
Everything seemed to happen so quickly. I was immediately told to change into the gorgeous hospital gowns and was told by the nurse that from there on out, my dignity had left the building! I completely understood what she meant after having had Lily. Whethere you're having a natural or c-section delivery, there is no dignity whatsoever! I was strapped to all the medical apparatus and was told that I was in fact already having contractions. Funny, I couldn't feel a thing! So perhaps Zac was ready to make his appearance on his own...
The doctors all did their rounds explaining things to hubby and I and the next thing I knew we were being wheeled down to theater. Everything really did happen quickly from there. The spinal was a mere sting, my legs got the usual pins and needles and then I was lying on the table being cut open! I have to say I was relatively calm throughout it all with hubby admitting that he thought I was incredibly brave as he was "shitting himself" (his words!). I did react differently to the spinal block this time as I got incredible shakes, it was awful! It took all my might to try stop the shakes, but unfortunately the doctor couldn't give me anything to aleviate it until the baby was born. I saw smoke coming from my stomach area alongwith a strong stench which hubby likened to the smell of a braai (i.e. meat cooking) and I knew that the operation had begun. They obviously don't like to tell you that they're going to start for nerves and anxiety reasons.
After what seemed like seconds, I felt some tugging and all of a sudden I heard a loud cry. This is when I really did relax - I just wanted to hear that cry and know that our little angel was fine. Due to his breech position we were warned that the birth may be rather barbaric, but he came out very easily, albeit bum first! He has a head of dark hair but not quite as much hair as his sister had at birth. He is too beautiful! He was immediately passed to the paediatrician and scored 9/10 and then 10/10 for his Apgar and then this wrapped up little coccoon was handed to mommy to hold. I just stared in awe at this perfect creation and honestly couldn't wait to look at his tiny fingers, toes and take in every little feature. The doctor then escorted both my men (baby and daddy) to the nursery in the maternity ward while I lay on the table being sewn up. I was away from them for about an hour and was eventually given the all clear to go back up to my room.
Before the delivery I insisted on completely different drugs to those I was given when I had Lily, the morphine sent me to the moon! I had no idea who I was, what was going on and could barely keep my eyes open. I have never felt so out of control and spaced out in my life and I hated every minute of it. This time thankfully, medicine has advanced and I was given an internal aneasthetic which they injected into my sides directly into the muscle tissue. I felt completely "with it" and could enjoy every single minute with my new baby and proud husband. We attempted breastfeeding and after that we just enjoyed being the 3 of us before visitors started to arrive a few hours later.
Even though we had 7 months of knowing that we were having a boy, we still didn't have a definite name for our son. Was he going to look like a Jack or a Zac? We were convinced we would know when we met him... Well, we were wrong! He didn't look particularly like any name. So... he was nameless for his first 48 hours until we eventually settled on Zac.
Little baby boy Zac was born on April, 12th 2012 at 8:06am weighing a teeny tiny 3.016kg and 47cm in length (35g lighter and 1cm shorter than his sister although Lily did have a whole week extra incubation period inside mommy's tummy). You forget how very tiny they are when they are born. You also forget the long little fingernails, the peeling skin, the fine body hair... And the very perfection of this little person you and your husband created with love. It also amazes me how you fall so very much in love with this little person who you've known for such a short period of time and you know that you would give your everything for him. I am convinced that my heart has literally grown to facilitate the absolute unconditional love for our little Zac. He has completed our little family of four perfectly xxx
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. xxxxxx
ReplyDeleteCaesarean operations are quite complicated when compared to normal delivery. Thanks to medical equipment, operations like these are a lot easier.
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