Well first let me start with the stats.
Her name is Christianna Jaselle Henriquez and she was born on 10/6 at 12:52 a.m. she weighed 7 lbs. 9 ozs. and is 19.5 inches long.
She has thus far been a very timid baby as I suspected she would be. She barely cried at all when she came out even though it was my most eventful labor!!! And she wanted to nipple immediatly and has been every 2 hours like clockwork since she was born with no problem.
So I will breifley tell you all what I remember of the labor. I went into L&D as I had planned around 9pm. I got there and my contractions were 3-4 minutes apart however the nurse decided I still had a long ways to go. I told her I was sure I didn't and that I would be ready to deliver by midnight. But she pretty much told me there was no way they were going to keep me and that my contractions needed to be closer together and I warned her, "Lady this is my 4th child. I know I am in labor right now and aside from that I live a good 30-40 minutes from base depending on traffic." But she was not hearing it and sent me off telling me to come back when I was in more pain. So I tried to reason with her again letting her know that I was never in severe pain until I was within an hour or so of giving birth and it would be a terrible mistake to send me home. She still told me to be on my way.
So of course we got home around 10:30 or 11:00 and my contractions had not started to get any closer but the intensity was getting a bit harder. Nothing I couldn't talk through. So I told DH lets just get some rest and pray to Jesus I don't wake up with a baby in the bed. It was a joke,.......kind of. So I woke up around midnight in excrutiating pain and DH said to me I had been moaning in my sleep for a good 30 minutes and that it was time to go in. Although I was in sever pain by then my contractions were still 3 minutes apart so I told him I wasn't getting up because they were just going to send me back home. DH said NO Crystal, get up now and we are going in. He jumped up to put on his clothes and got out of the bed thinking he was over reacting a little bit and as soon as my feet hit the ground they went from 3 minutes apart to about 30 seconds apart and I started screaming and crying. DH tried his hardest to put clothes on me and carried me to the truck and ran back in to grab DD from the crib. We got about 3 blocks from the house and I began to squeez my legs together because I knew my water was about to pop. I screamed for him to drive faster because if my water broke I was having the baby in the truck and no sooner did I say it my water broke and I could feel the baby immediatly engage and I was overwhelmed with need to push.
Well we were in a jam because neither of us had any idea where the hospital was and there was just no way we were going to make it the hospital on base. He pulled over as quickly as he could and turned on our navigation system and programed it to a hospital that was 2 miles away. He was raceing like a bat out of hell and I was screaming at the top of my lungs trying with everything I had not to push and my heart totally sank when we came closer to the hospital and I realized it was abandoned. At that point I broke down screaming and crying and in panic and I said this is, we are going to have her here in the truck. I think I was yelling every obscenity you have ever heard of and DH began to cry and realized there was nothing we could do. That was when I saw the flashing lights behind us.
It was literally a miracle! A police woman came to my side of the truck where DH and I were stopped in the middle of an intersection and she said I heard you yelling ma'am I have already called in an ambulance, just hold on because emergency vehicles are in route. I could not believe it but she climbed into my truck and held my hand and coached me through things trying her hardest to keep me breathing and not pushing. After that things get kind of blurry because I was breathing so hard I was hyperventilating. All I really remember of the next few moments was an ambulance arriving, ripping my clothes off of me and loading me into the ambulance and speeding me to another hospital (that was open). The entire way there I am told took about 3 minutes but to me it seemed like 20. As soon as they wheeled me out of the ambulance and into the elevator I couldn't stop it anymore, it was too late, she was coming out. The doctor met us and I began pushing again right away but I have never given birth naturally so the pain was something I did not expect at all. The first two contractions I tried to push through did absolutely nothing because I was screaming through them and the doctor was telling me I was not pushing at all. Then my husband finally makes it there and he is holding DD whom I had forgotten had seen and heard everything going on and they were both white as ghosts with tears in their eyes and I knew I had to pull it together and get the baby out so I concentrated when they told me to and gave the longest hardest push and with that her head came out. I was still in so much pain and doctor said dont stop you need to get the body out, so I pushed again and I could feel my precious little baby come out and the pain was gone. They placed her tiny little body on my chest and she just looked at me like "Why were you making all of that noise?" She was so perfect and tiny and warm. After that things kind of become a bit of a blurr again. I just remember then taking her to clean her off and I was shaking uncontrolabley. I don't know if it was from the labor or from my nerves. But they began to wheel me to a room and little Christianna was already in there and they gave her back to me. My other little angel followed right behind me and then they delivered my afterbirth and all those other things they do and I could see DD1 jumping up and down begging to hold her sister.
It was finally over I was just soaked in sweat and ready to sleep and very shocked but happy.
So that is how my little princess was born.
Although it was my worst nightmare and something I was so afraid was going to happen, I know it is has given me a special bond with her.
Well I am still very exhausted and in a lot of pain but I wanted to share with you guys.
I will post pics of her very soon.
Her name is Christianna Jaselle Henriquez and she was born on 10/6 at 12:52 a.m. she weighed 7 lbs. 9 ozs. and is 19.5 inches long.
She has thus far been a very timid baby as I suspected she would be. She barely cried at all when she came out even though it was my most eventful labor!!! And she wanted to nipple immediatly and has been every 2 hours like clockwork since she was born with no problem.
So I will breifley tell you all what I remember of the labor. I went into L&D as I had planned around 9pm. I got there and my contractions were 3-4 minutes apart however the nurse decided I still had a long ways to go. I told her I was sure I didn't and that I would be ready to deliver by midnight. But she pretty much told me there was no way they were going to keep me and that my contractions needed to be closer together and I warned her, "Lady this is my 4th child. I know I am in labor right now and aside from that I live a good 30-40 minutes from base depending on traffic." But she was not hearing it and sent me off telling me to come back when I was in more pain. So I tried to reason with her again letting her know that I was never in severe pain until I was within an hour or so of giving birth and it would be a terrible mistake to send me home. She still told me to be on my way.
So of course we got home around 10:30 or 11:00 and my contractions had not started to get any closer but the intensity was getting a bit harder. Nothing I couldn't talk through. So I told DH lets just get some rest and pray to Jesus I don't wake up with a baby in the bed. It was a joke,.......kind of. So I woke up around midnight in excrutiating pain and DH said to me I had been moaning in my sleep for a good 30 minutes and that it was time to go in. Although I was in sever pain by then my contractions were still 3 minutes apart so I told him I wasn't getting up because they were just going to send me back home. DH said NO Crystal, get up now and we are going in. He jumped up to put on his clothes and got out of the bed thinking he was over reacting a little bit and as soon as my feet hit the ground they went from 3 minutes apart to about 30 seconds apart and I started screaming and crying. DH tried his hardest to put clothes on me and carried me to the truck and ran back in to grab DD from the crib. We got about 3 blocks from the house and I began to squeez my legs together because I knew my water was about to pop. I screamed for him to drive faster because if my water broke I was having the baby in the truck and no sooner did I say it my water broke and I could feel the baby immediatly engage and I was overwhelmed with need to push.
Well we were in a jam because neither of us had any idea where the hospital was and there was just no way we were going to make it the hospital on base. He pulled over as quickly as he could and turned on our navigation system and programed it to a hospital that was 2 miles away. He was raceing like a bat out of hell and I was screaming at the top of my lungs trying with everything I had not to push and my heart totally sank when we came closer to the hospital and I realized it was abandoned. At that point I broke down screaming and crying and in panic and I said this is, we are going to have her here in the truck. I think I was yelling every obscenity you have ever heard of and DH began to cry and realized there was nothing we could do. That was when I saw the flashing lights behind us.
It was literally a miracle! A police woman came to my side of the truck where DH and I were stopped in the middle of an intersection and she said I heard you yelling ma'am I have already called in an ambulance, just hold on because emergency vehicles are in route. I could not believe it but she climbed into my truck and held my hand and coached me through things trying her hardest to keep me breathing and not pushing. After that things get kind of blurry because I was breathing so hard I was hyperventilating. All I really remember of the next few moments was an ambulance arriving, ripping my clothes off of me and loading me into the ambulance and speeding me to another hospital (that was open). The entire way there I am told took about 3 minutes but to me it seemed like 20. As soon as they wheeled me out of the ambulance and into the elevator I couldn't stop it anymore, it was too late, she was coming out. The doctor met us and I began pushing again right away but I have never given birth naturally so the pain was something I did not expect at all. The first two contractions I tried to push through did absolutely nothing because I was screaming through them and the doctor was telling me I was not pushing at all. Then my husband finally makes it there and he is holding DD whom I had forgotten had seen and heard everything going on and they were both white as ghosts with tears in their eyes and I knew I had to pull it together and get the baby out so I concentrated when they told me to and gave the longest hardest push and with that her head came out. I was still in so much pain and doctor said dont stop you need to get the body out, so I pushed again and I could feel my precious little baby come out and the pain was gone. They placed her tiny little body on my chest and she just looked at me like "Why were you making all of that noise?" She was so perfect and tiny and warm. After that things kind of become a bit of a blurr again. I just remember then taking her to clean her off and I was shaking uncontrolabley. I don't know if it was from the labor or from my nerves. But they began to wheel me to a room and little Christianna was already in there and they gave her back to me. My other little angel followed right behind me and then they delivered my afterbirth and all those other things they do and I could see DD1 jumping up and down begging to hold her sister.
It was finally over I was just soaked in sweat and ready to sleep and very shocked but happy.
So that is how my little princess was born.
Although it was my worst nightmare and something I was so afraid was going to happen, I know it is has given me a special bond with her.Well I am still very exhausted and in a lot of pain but I wanted to share with you guys.
I will post pics of her very soon.
