Introducing Miss Madison Johanna Moore - 7.14.11 - 12:48pm.

What.A.Day.

I'm exhausted. :)  But I really want to get some thoughts down on *today*...before tomorrow is here and who knows what that will bring in this new world of mine!

First of all, I"m glad it's over. :)  What a whirlwind!  People tell you what to expect...what will go down...and you think you *know* what you will feel and how it will all go down.  But it wasn't anything like I thought it would be.  Not at all! :)

We were running a bit behind...Dr. Perkins was running late...but once he arrived - it was like everything was in fast forward.  I got into the operating room and it was like the 50 people in there (yes, I'm exaggerating) were running around doing their "duty" for the surgery.  I felt like maybe there was some kind of time limit and we had to be out of the operating room in 15 minutes or something!   The spinal anesthetic was not a good time - and probably the worst part (or so I thought at that time!).  The anesthesiologist was super nice - and even though he couldn't get the needle in ("oops - it's hitting your vertebrae") it was over quickly enough (again, everyone was on fast forward!).   Next thing I knew...a sheet was up in front of me and Derrick was in the room.  I had no idea they had even started the surgery - that's how numb you are. ;)   Again, the anesthesiologist was so nice - and stayed behind the "sheet" with me and Derrick and kept checking on me....and let Derrick know when the money shot was coming ("here comes her head!!") :) 

When she came "out", everyone said "WOW - she's beautiful!" :)  I got to see her in the warming unit right across from where my head was peeking out....I'll be honest...what a weird, weird feeling. No, I didn't cry - it was more of a "wow. that baby just came out of my body". :)  It's hard to explain.  She was crying - which I was happy to hear....that's a good noise to hear! :)  They were cleaning her up, measuring her (9lb.11oz.!) and Derrick was taking lots of pics (no, we didn't quite get to 1000!).  I started to feel a little nauseous at that point...but my new friend the anesthesiologist was happy to hook me up with some anti-nausea meds in my IV.

I finally got put back together...and everyone was out of there almost as quickly as they came in! Including Dr. Perkins. :)  In a split second he was right in front of my face saying "great job and congrats!" and he was gone!  (Something funny I just remembered...they were chatting about his vacation while I was being put back together....on one hand, it was a little disturbing - but on the other hand, I figured all was well if they had time to chat about his vaca last week!).  We went back to our pre-op room and got to spend some time with Maddie.  So adorable...beautiful auburn hair, big eyes (color still TBD), "solid" is the word that the NICU staff used to describe her when they were measuring her. :)  Solid is good! 

This is when things got a little more interesting...I could NOT keep my eyes open. At all. I was so, so tired!  Maddie was perfect though - she was sleepy too evidently and just laid all bundled up in her burrito swaddle and slept contently!  I, on the other hand, was not feeling so hot. At all. I was sweating like CRAZY and just wanted to close my eyes. The nurse kept asking what my pain level was...and it was ok...I said 2, 3 (on a scale from 1-10)...she'd give me more morphine...

Grandma, Papa and Great-Grandma got to come in then and take photos. :) So cute. :)

Then they took Maddie up for her first bath - and daddy went with the nurse.  When my nurse came back...she "mentioned" that Maddie's blood sugar level's were low and they were going to do some tests to see if it came back up.  The #'s I heard were 33 and 38.  She was very casual about it - so I figured it was semi-normal and didn't worry.  Too much (after all, I was sweating like crazy and wanted to close my eyes before I passed out!).  Well, it became more of a worry - and she's still down in NICU as I type. :(  The nurse just called and said that she has been stable at 70 (anything over 50 is good) and has been sleeping (with an IV - eww).  The goal is to get the ok to go down at 1:30am and see if I can feed her...and honestly, I just want to see my baby girl. :( 

I had a harder time with pain this afternoon - but it seems to finally have stablized as well.  My pain level got up to a 9 (in my opinion) and we tried several different things to make it better.  I think we're finally there. 

So!  Couple more hours...and we'll see what the story is.  I really want to see her - and sounds like she will be with us at least tomorrow morning.  Prayers appreciated! :)  I think I slept thru most of this post - so hopefully I haven't said anything too crazy. :)   Thank you so much to all of our friends and family for all that they have posted today on Facebook - so amazing. :)