Well, it seems it is time to come back here and tell a bit about my pregnancy adventure, as Baby # 7 has been here for just over a month. I am sharing with you his birth story and a few pictures, and how God worked through this latest journey.
I never really planned to take a hiatus, but I was sick… sick for nearly 20 weeks, and then I got sick again at 30 weeks. There were days I just couldn’t eat. Some days I would make myself eat and be sick. So, I had to focus on just getting through the pregnancy and doing the best I could around the house. So, I am here to introduce y’all to Simon, our seventh blessing.
This pregnancy was one of those, nothing ordinary or typical for me type pregnancies. We were convinced he was a girl, until our sonogram in January.
This ain’t no Maggie Faith
The Birth Story…
To really see how God worked through this pregnancy, you have to know his birth story. Our summer and wheat harvest began with a new baby boy, coming 10 days before his scheduled c section. I went into labor early Monday morning on June 2. After laboring at home trying to convince myself it wasn’t labor, my hubby came home, took one look at me, fed kiddos lunch and took oldest to a neighbor’s, then loaded the rest of us in the van for what should have been a 2 hour drive… ended up being 1 hour 15 minutes maybe.
A friend met us at the hospital to take our other 5 kiddos to her house for what ended up being 4 days.
After hooking me up to the monitors, they realized quite quickly my contractions were 2 to 3 min apart and lasting 45 to 75 sometimes 90 seconds. They gave me Benadryl to attempt to stop them as baby was transverse. They continued. About an hour later I started have terrible pain on my lower right side with each contraction, but it didn’t stop when they ended, it got worse with each. They did a quick sono, and called a C-section. Within 30 or 45 mins. (Lost track of time) I was on the table.
C-Section
During the C-section they discovered a weakening and beginning of muscle separation in the same area of my extreme pain. With contractions, his feet would get in there and cause further separation. They called it the beginnings of a hernia.
After they got him out, they did some minor repair to help it pull together and heal.
Simon weighed 9 lbs 6 oz., 20 inches long. He was 37 weeks 4 days. He spent his first night in the Special Neonatal Care Nursery due to him not being able to maintain his body temperature. By Tuesday morning he was able to room with us.
We came home Thursday evening, June 5.
He dealt with some Jaundice, and on June 7th I ended up in the ER with Mastitis.
Here is how God worked through all this…
It rained the Sunday before he was born… Being that we farm, huge blessing because we are in a drought and my hubby couldn’t get in the field, therefore he didn’t stress about needing to be home when we were in the hospital two hours away.
Tuesday morning, after he was born a group of our neighbors and church family gathered together to bale up our hay that was ready, allowing my hubby to be able to stay with me.
It has rained off and on since, allowing hubby to be more easily around to help with appointments and such.
We have managed to work through the worst latch issues I have dealt with and I have nursed more months than not in my married life. He had to have is lip clipped for a lip tie, and may need further intervention in time.
The week he was born, worked better than the planned week, for our child care help, for our farming and for our health.
Giving God all the Glory!!!!
Rockin’ his Red, White and Blue Patriotic Diaper on Independence Day at one month and two days old!!
mother, christian, wife, woman, child of God. It is about my life as a farmer’s wife, as a cook, a baker, a nurse, a teacher, a woodworker, a housekeeper, a farmer (yep, I drive tractors, pick up hay bales, and other farm duties), a gardener. So, what you read here, is me, as a transparent sometimes hot headed, passionate, and opinionated person.
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