We were a little bit happy and a little bit terrified when they told us that she was free to come home with us. Seemed like just yesterday that after 9 hours of hard labor the midwife along with the OB team broke the news to me that we would need to do an emergency c section. There was no need for a conversation, I felt that if she was in danger, we needed to get her out as soon as possible. After her birth it was discovered that she had a low body temperature and some tremors in her hands and eyes. They transferred her from our arms to the NICU within 11 hours. The next morning we went down to the NICU to get the whole story from her doc. They wanted to do some tests to try and figure out what was wrong, eeg, mri, spinal tap...etc. The doc said that she not only had tremoring and low body temp but a platelet count that could signify an infection, low blood sugar, low tone in her muscles, and jaundice. After the tests were done we were informed that she had bumped her head while in labor and gotten some mild bleeding on the frontal lobe of her brain. All of the things we were seeing could be a result of this. I pumped at home while recovering from my c section every three hours through the night the had tom wheel me in the wheelchair to her floor in the hospital and breastfed morning and afternoon at the NICU. We did this for around 10 days. It was hard but for a good cause so I think we were able to find the energy somewhere. After 11 days she had eliminated all of the symptoms one by one and was strong enough to come home with us. This was one of the most stressful things we have every been through, one of many.
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