skylar anne was born on december 10 and we are so glad she joined our family. with aria, i was impatient and excited to for her to keep growing so i could see that first smile, hear the first laugh, etc. but this time i just want time to slow down, now that i know just how quickly it goes by.
2 days after i delivered skylar, my left shoulder started hurting. i assumed i had pulled something while sleeping or something. by the next evening i was in so much pain i was in tears, and we headed to the er. luckily aria was staying with cord's parents to give us some bonding time with skylar, so we just had to take her with us. at the er they told me i most likely just pulled something, but they wanted to do a ct scan to rule out a pulmonary embolism, which would be worst case scenario. i was shocked when the doctor came back into the room and told me i had several blood clots in both my lungs. i guess i had a little of the "nothing horrible can happen to me" attitude going on. ha. normally they start you on blood thinners asap for a pulmonary embolism, but my case was complicated because i also have hht, meaning that in certain parts of my body, like my nose, i bleed easier. so we had ourselves a dilemma. the doctors finally decided that blood thinners were the lesser of two evils. i had to decide if i really wanted to breastfeed skylar, because if i did, warfarin was the only safe drug to take, but it was also the most complicated. i couldn't eat anything with vitamin k (causes clotting) and i had to give myself shots in the stomach for the first two weeks. ick. but i decided to go ahead and do it, because nursing was important to me. they had me stay in the hospital overnight to make sure i handled the first blood thinners ok, so my parents came and got skylar.
that night was incredibly rough for me. i was overwhelmed because i had postpartum crazy hormones, crazy engorgement, postpartum bleeding, and now this. all i wanted to do was go home and be with my babies. it was so hard being away from my 3 day old baby. i've gained a whole new respect for nicu mommies.
anyway, i am feeling better now. the pain is mostly gone from my lungs and shoulder now, and i should only have to be on blood thinners for another month or so. the worst part of all of this, if you ask me, is that if i decide to have another baby, i have to give myself shots in the stomach twice a day through the whole pregnancy and postpartum period :/
other than that, life is pretty much normal-crazy. i am still trying to figure out a good routine to get everything done i need to and care for 2 kids! here are some pictures of sky in the hospital.
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