Sorry it has been a few "eventful" days since my last post. This post may be a bit too much information for some of you so feel free to skip over this one if you want. I just want to record and document everything about this experience so I can share it with Miss Olivia one day. I also want to remind her that when she becomes a sassy teenager that she has already used all of her naughty passes in the first few months of her life and to behave like a complete angel lol well see how well that works out for me.
After giving birth on Monday I was actually feeling pretty good considering. Unfortunately by Tuesday afternoon things took a turn for the worse. My pain was becoming increasingly worse I being a first time naive Mother just thought this was a normal part of the post par tum process. The pain was mostly concentrated on my right side and had got to a point that it was unbearable I felt like I was going threw labor all over again. The nurse called the doctor up who examined me and noticed that the right side of my stomach was beginning to descend out and was very tender to touch. She noted that it could be something with my appendix. My poor husband became increasingly worried as he has experienced an emergency appendectomy. One more event was sure to push him over the edge. He has been so strong and amazing threw this whole process but I truly believe this could have been too much for him. The doctor gave me another pain pill and said to give it another hour, and they would monitor my vitals very closely.
Not more then 30min had passed. I felt an urge to use the bathroom. As soon as I sat down something came out of me bigger then my fist. I immediately went into a hysterical panic crying, screaming and pulling the emergency cord in the bathroom. My nurse came running and immediately removed this foreign object from the toilet. Then began hugging and consoling me. On that note I must say the care I received at IMC was absolutely amazing. Long story short this object was a large piece of my placenta. The body will release the placenta after giving birth. This is usually a pretty fast process but because Olivia decided to join us so early my placenta was still very much in tact and took a bit longer then most. My doctors became impatient and instead of waiting decided it would be a good idea to pull it out. In doing this it caused the placenta to tear and un be knowns to them part of it still remained inside of me. After birth my body was viewing this as a foreign object and was doing everything to try and get rid of it.
My pain went away almost immediately after releasing this. I must say it was a huge relief to know that this was what was causing the pain and it was nothing more serious. I was pretty irritated with my doctor and she did come to see me the next morning with very sincere apologies. I am happy to announce I am recovering very well and feeling much better now. They discharged me from the hospital yesterday. Ricard and I are staying in a hotel about 15 min from the hospital until our home is complete.
As much as I was ready to get out of the hospital it was extremely difficult to leave my baby girl. I like many other Mothers had envisioned leaving the hospital in a wheel chair carrying my baby in her new car seat and loading her in the car to take her home with us. We will enjoy this moment we are just going to have to wait a few months until baby girl is ready.
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