Another Sweet Girl

We have another sweet girl in our home! Her name is Alexia she came Saturday June 13, 2009 at 5:59pm, weighing 7 lbs 12 oz and 20 inches long. I was in labor for about 10 hours so much better than the 20 hours of labor with Elena! The experience I had with Alexia was so different. I began to cry because I didn't get that same experience with Elena, they had taken her away almost immediately after I had her because I had bled so much from my tear.

After they cleaned up Alexia a bit while on my belly and the doc was stitching me up ( I had an episiotomy) they took her away and he began to massage my stomach to help shrink the uterus. That is when he noticed that I was bleeding a lot and passing clots. My uterus was not contracting on its own very well. Once again I was bleeding profusely and this worried me very much. I didn't want to go through the same complications I had once before. I ended up getting a couple of shots to help stop the bleeding and one of them was so strong that it made me very sick to my stomach! After a while the shots helped and I was fine. They did however check my hematocrit levels to be on the safe side.

I was worried about how Elena would react to her new sister and I was worried about how she would be not having me around for a couple of nights (she has never spent a night without me). She did very well! When she came to see us at the hospital she was very excited to see her baby sister, it was very sweet! Since we have been home Elena tries to be helpful by handing me diapers when I am changing Alexia. When she cries she runs to see what is going on and asks "what happened?" with a worried look on her face.

Elena goes to day care a couple of days a week so that she can interact with other kids and so when I go back to work she won't think that being home with me every day is a permanent thing unfortunately I have to go back to work.

I will have to post pictures a bit later so check back soon!