Monday, August 18, 2008

A Whole Hand


My Sidney is 5 years old today. You guessed it! That means that the NS School Board better watch out, cause here comes a tornado! He He...I suppose he isn't all that bad, but he IS quite a handful. He has more energy than 10 children and he is sharp as a whip.

As upsetting as it is for me (as a mama) to accept, there will be no more nap time cuddles and super silly pre-school games. He is growing up so fast. I can't believe he's starting school in a little over 2 weeks. I mentioned at work the time that he was born. Someone said "wow, you even remember the exact time?" You bet your ass I do!

Sidney's birth was a planned c-section. The first attempt (with Seth, of course) ended up being a 2 day affair, followed inevitably with a c-section. That's right folks, 2 days solid labour pains. I didn't even want to consider doing it again, so because of my bone structure and inability to pass a child through the birth canal, we planned out a date for me to have my second baby. I didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl but definitely settled on the name.

I was prepped for surgery only the freezing didn't take on the first try. They gave me another shot in the spine and I could still feel hands applying iodine on my lower belly. I remember feeling really panicked and calling out "I CAN FEEL THAT!" They assured me that everything was all right and to tell the doctor where you can feel. Ummm...everywhere HELLO! So third time's a charm right? They decided to give me an epidural instead so that they could dose me with more medicine if necessary. It finally worked. Once that was done it was only about 15 minutes before my little Bubba arrived to see the world for the first time. He was born at 9:14am on ( I am pretty sure) a Tuesday.

You can't possibly imagine how long it took for me to get feeling back in my lower body after all that freezing. Good thing I was there to stay for a few days. It was a much more pleasant experience to for-go the labour. Yep! Much nicer for the princess.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well this is the second time I'm trying to post a comment. Blogger just makes things "disappear".

Anyway, Happy Happy Birthday Sidney!!

PinkPiddyPaws said...

and just another story that makes me HAPPY I'm never gonna have kids! ;) ha..ha.ha..

thank YOU for supporting the human race for me. :)

Practically Perfect In Every Way said...

happy birthday big boy 5 year old.

you know I love a good birth story right now. good for you for the c-section the second time, I can't believe you were in labor for 2 days with your first! you are amazing!!

the princess said...

suze~thank you thank you! we will have cake on Monday night (aug25) to celebrate here.

pinkpiddypaws~you are so welcome. if I knew it was going to be so difficult I might have changed my mind...nope! always wanted babies. it's true though, you are lucky to not have to deal with it.

Practically perfect~I know, I can't believe it either, I was convinced I could do it without any meds at all, and honestly, it was going very well. I had laughing gas but that's all. went into labour sunday night around 6, had Seth tuesday night at 7:44pm. CRAZY!!!! I can't tell you the relief I felt when I got the epidural at about 4 on tues. afternoon to prepare for the section. I was like...I should have asked for this hours ago!!!

Mommato2 said...

Hey there....tell Sidney welcome to the whole hand club from Julia!

Sid said...

Just have to say that I love the names of your kids ...