7-11-13
Free Slurpee day Yay
As I got up this morning I received a text from Moo. She was
seeing if I wanted to walk/run to Sev for donuts and free Slurpee’s. Since we had not done our annual walk/run
this year, I was like “Heck yes, bring on the fun”. So we got the strollers out
and met at the legacy trail and began to run to the seven 11 which is off of
redwood and fifth south. Everything was great until we were mid way and Moo’s
tire to her stroller popped…..ah nuts. Well, I was determined to get my donut
so we had all the kids get out of the strollers and start walking. Moo called
her sister to come pick us up. We were about a mile or two away from sev so I
just told them that I would meet them there. So I started running and running.
I thought it was a lot closer than it was…..it wasn’t. By now I was sprinting
(with the stroller, carrying Ely and Jace).
By the time I got to sev, moo and her sister and kiddos where just
walking through the door. Yes Victory, I was going to puke from all the
sprinting I had just done but then there they were……my donuts and free
Slurpee’s, Mission Accomplished. However, I am going to be sooo sore tomorrow.
As we were snarffing our breakfast I just happened to look
at my phone and I had received a text from Kim.
It said that she was having pretty painful Braxton hicks and dad was
having her lay down.
I jumped up, told moo, put the kids in the stroller and
started sprinting back to my house which was about four miles or so away.
Luckily moo went and got my car and picked us up about a mile away from home.
I quickly jumped in the shower, got ready, put the kids in
the car and off we went to be with Kim. I dropped the kids off at Debbie’s. I
went to the office and picked Kim up and headed for the UofU hospital. Everyone
was thinking I was just overreacting but I don’t care, (Yes Im going to pull
out my death card now). I have died a painful horrible death, lost four babies,
buried three of them, lost four adoption’s, suffer from serious PTSD, have
panic attacks and depression all in the last two years. I don’t care if people think I’m crazy or
overreacting “we are going to the ER, NOW”.
Thank you have a nice day…..lol
When we got there we immediately went up to the OB ER. They hooked her up to the baby monitors so
they could see her contractions. She was having contractions about every 10
minutes apart. Then they checked Kim and she was dilated to a 1 and a half……ahhh
not good. We are only 26 weeks and its way too early for our baby girl to come
out.
Of course our amazing doctor, was on a pioneer trek so we
just had who ever was on call that day. Then they started an IV and gave her a
steroid shot to help develop the lungs. Then the nurse checked her again. She
now was dilated to a TWO. We both panicked and asked if we could “undilate”,
and they said no.
We quickly packed up
the room and the nurses moved us across the hall to Labor and Delivery. Not a
fun place to be when you are only 26 weeks along and everyone else on the floor
is having full term, nice healthy, screaming babies. The nurses put us in the
room right next to the operating room so that if Kim’s water broke they would
be able to quickly move her.
During all of this ciaos, I was texting my family, friends,
and everyone to please start praying. They called the temples and put our names
on the prayer roll. I kept everyone updated on fb and begged them to please
start praying for Kimmi and our baby girl.
Once in the Labor and Delivery room things got pretty
intense. The medical staff started giving Kim all sorts of medications to help
her stop the labor and to help develop the baby if she were to come right now.
One of the meds they used was Magnesium sulfate. When babies
are born this early the blood vessels in the brain are so sensitive that if the
baby were to be born right now they would burst. This medicine (magnesium
sulfate) would help strengthen the blood vessels. They told Kim that for the
first 30 minutes they were going to give her a very strong dose. The side
effects would make her feel nauseous, headache, unable to control her body
etc….
Five minutes after it started Kim was not doing so well, to
put it nicely. She was going through horrible side effects and thought she was
dying, probably wanted to die, asked if they could stop the medication and
almost said just get this baby out of me. That is how miserable she was.
This whole time I just wanted to go home jump in bed and
scream and cry, but I couldn’t. I had to stay strong for Kim. I had to be there
for her. I couldn’t loose it.
As Kim was thinking that she was going to die I knew we
needed a blessing, pronto dente. Jay was just leaving court and on his way to
the hospital. I called moo to see if Tim could come and give Kim a blessing. I
also called the Bishop to see if he could come and give Kim a blessing. About 10minutes later our Bishop (Jenson),
Brother Langlous, and Tim, all in their white shirts and a tie, were able to
give Kim and myself a blessing. I am so grateful and forever will be grateful
for the power of the priesthood and the power of prayer. After the blessings
Kim was able to calm down a bit and so was I.
Finally Jay got there and I felt so relieved to see and have
him there.
The on call Doctor came in and explained what was happening
and answered any questions that we had. I was just in shock. Thinking to myself
that this was just a bad dream, a nightmare, and I would wake up soon.
Unfortunately, this was not the case L.
When the Dr. was done I had to ask the horrible question, and that was, what is
the possibility that our baby will make it? She said that she would have one of
the NICU nurses come in and talk to us because they would know better than she
would.
When the NICU nurse came in, everyone held their breath and
prepared for what she was about to say. She said that babies born this early
have about a 50% survival rate with a high percent that it will be deaf, blind,
cerebral palsy etc… I wanted to cry and scream but again knew I couldn’t loose
it in front of Kim. After that she said mentioned all the machines and operation’s
that they would have to do on our precious little girl to help keep her alive.
I couldn’t hear it anymore and my body just froze. After she left I was still
in shock and felt like I couldn’t move.
Finally around 9:00 my dad came with all the kids. They came
and visited Kim for about 5 minutes and then left. I went with them while jay
stayed with Kim. I hurried and ran home backed my bags and came back to the
hospital to stay with Kim. Jay then took the kids to the New homestead and got
the boys some clothes and also Kim’s progesterone suppositories. Then he came
back up to the hospital dropped the stuff off and took Ciaran, Cabhan, Elyse
and Jace to our townhourse.
Around 11pm another dr. on call, came in and said that Kim
was doing great and wanted us to switch rooms (out of labor and delivery). This
was great news that Kim was well enough to switch rooms. However, by switching
rooms it meant that she would be off the monitors and they would not be
watching her as closely. I didn’t like that and begged them to see if we could
stay just for the night. The dr. really wanted us to move but said we could
stay until 5am. I was so grateful to here that.
At 5 in the morning I packed up the room again and we moved
to another area of the hospital. Non of us had received any sleep and we were
so tired. So Fridays goal was to sleep and that is what we did.
Finally after five days of being in the hospital Kim was
able to go home on house arrest….lol I
say house arrest because she cant go outside, can’t drive a car, can only walk
up the stairs three times a day, etc…….
July 17, 2013
Today we went for our weekly check up with the Doctor. Kim’s cervix had shortened again and she was
having some pain and dilated the same. The Doctor said to lay low. I must say
we have the best doctor. We don’t feel like a number or cattle, meaning they
just get you in and out. He actually spends time with you and takes our
concerns seriously.
July 18, 2013
Kim had sent me a picture of her discharge. It was really thick,
long and a weird color (sorry for any guys that are reading this). I thought it
might be the mucus plug so I text the picture to the doctor and he said to come
to the hospital a.s.a.p.
So back we went to the hospital again. I think they should
just have a reserved spot for us since we are up there everyday.
We went back to the OB ER and they hooked up the baby
monitors again. Then the doctor came in and checked Kim. With all of that
discharge he thought that maybe she had dilated some more. Thankfully she was
still the same. Yay, we were so relieved that everything thing was still the
same and that we didn’t have to spend another night in the hospital. J Our next doctor apt is
July 13, 2013 to check Kim’s cervix again. I pray that we can at least make it
to thirty weeks. I wish we could make it to 37 weeks but I’ll take whatever we
can get.
Thank you everyone for all your thoughts and prayers on our
behalf. We are blessed to have so many amazing friends and family. We love you
all
Love the Richards
