HAPPY 1 MONTH BRIANNA!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Today, 1 month and 4 minutes ago ( it is 7:52pm) I gave birth to Brianna Elizabeth Soto! It is beyond difficult to believe its already been a month!!! This month has flown by!! Its amazing how much you learn in such little time and how much your life changes!! Brianna is already growing out of hew newborn clothes and it breaks my heart!! In honor of her 28 days of birth, I decided to write the top 28 things I have learned being a new mommy. HOPE IT HELPS!!!

1) You will never ever ever sleep the same again!! I spend 2 hours sometimes trying to sleep Brianna. Once I am finally able to lay her down, i spend about another 45 minutes listening to her breathing, seeing if she vomits, googling different things like why babys get baby acne, etc.

2) Don't open all the bottles of Desitin. Some babies, like mine, are actually allergic.

3) No matter how organized you try to have your diaper bag, it will always be a mess. I have everything in separate little baggies, one bag for pampers, one for bottles, one for extra clothes, etc, and when I get home the bag is always a mess.

4) You can never have too many bibs. Brianna goes through two a day.

5) Buy a lot of receiving blankies, gloves, and socks. If not, you'll be washing 6 out of 7 days a week.

6) It is difficult to go out with a newborn to run errands, but believe me that while youre going through the aisles at publix all you are doing is thinking about your child and how much you miss her.

7) Waking up every 3 hours kicks your butt. But your happiest moments in life will be when you have that baby in your arms and she is asleep on you with a full tummy.

8) You will go through over 200 diapers in 1 month without even having to try. But believe me, change baby constantly because diaper rash will break your heart.

9) You are dying to leave the hospital and bring baby home. But walking into your house and realizing there is no red call nurse button is SCARY!!!!

10) Take comfy outfits for baby to hospital. I bought her the most gorgeous linen take me home outfit and it broke my heart to put it on her. She ended up coming home in a pink cotton gown since it was comfortable for her.

11) Take everything the hospital gives you and dont feel bad about it. You'll feel bad when the hospital statement comes in and you see that every piece of toilet paper you used the hospital charged the insurance for.

12) Bathing a baby is more mentally freaky than what it really is. BUT ASK THE HOSPITAL TO TEACH YOU!! Especially since they teach you how to bathe her face and hair without getting water into the ear.

13) You will spend the first week at home thinking that you are going to break this child. You cant imagine that you would be entrusted with something so fragile.

14) Read and sing to baby since day 1. You think they dont notice, but Brianna with 1 month already calms down from crying if I start singing to her.

15) Dont feel bad saying no. If a visitor is sick, ask them to stay home. If people want to carry her, they need to wash hands and wear a receiving blanket, even if they have 15 kids and consider themselves the baby whisperer.

16) Dont over-google. A simple baby acne can become a liver disease if you keep reading.

17) No matter what, babies need to sleep on their backs!! Doesnt matter if baby is more comfortable on their tummies, abuela says her 7 kids all slept on their tummies and are fine, etc. Its not safe. At least not in the beginning.

18) There are 2 million opinions. Listen to your pediatricians before your cousins's mother's dog walker's brother. YOU'LL GO CRAZY!!

19) Read instructions. Don't think you can build anything just because your husband is a manly man. There is no need to risk babys health over machoness.

20) Find out what formula and pampers hospital use. It sounds crazy, but you cant change them to a different one just because its the one you have at home. WARNING: Hospitals do not have soy organic chai lactose free imported from Paris formula, so ask how to go about changing baby to that kind of formula if you feel so strongly about it.

21) You will never use your changing pad. You may use it during week 1 when everyone comes over to see how cute it is that you change the babys diaper. Eventually, it'll become a stage for pictures and your changing pad will be your pack and play, couch, husbands legs, and your bed.

22) Babies like noise. It calms them. Dont have the whole house whispering as to " no asustar la nina". 

23) Tummy time is important, but it doesnt have to be on a super cute pink tummy time mat. Tummy time can be on top of you as you lay down on the couch or bed. Actually, its better because baby will lift neck to be able to look at your face.

24) C-Section pain seems like the end of the world, but it goes away. I remember telling my OB that I ask for my pain beds 30 minutes before their due and she told me pain would go away in like 4-5 days. I thought to myself " YOU CRAZY" but its true.

25) C-section is STILL major surgery. Dont go crazy around the house trying to keep house clean, etc. It will hurt!! I remember my first publix trip because I thought I could do it and those walks through those aisles killed me.

26) Prepare meals for delivery and stick them in freezer. I didnt do that because honestly I dont like to cook and I spent 2 weeks saying " pasa por pollo tropical on your way home".

27) Appreciate peoples advice. It may seem overwhelming when someone tells you how they did it differently than you, but appreciate that however they did it, they too did it well

28) BELIEVE THAT GOD GAVE YOU THAT BABY BECAUSE YOU COULD HANDLE IT! YOU ARE THAT CHILDS MOTHER! YOU!! NOT TIA, ABUELA, ABUELO... YOU!!!!!! Be confident in yourself!!!!

29) ( 1 for good luck): No matter what you have, c-section or natural, GET UP AND MOVE. Dont let the "estoy recien parida" excuse get you lazy!!! You'll feel better if you move!!! Remember you need to help your body get back to normal!

MY CHILD SLEPT IN A BOUNCER ALL NIGHT... DONT JUDGE!!!!

      MY CHILD HATES HER CRIB!

     When people would tell me that their 5-10 year old child still sleeps with them because when they were a baby the baby hated his/her crib and the parents would put baby in their bed so that the parents could sleep, I was the first to judge. I never understood how a baby who is born not knowing anything could hate something. In my head, a baby was like a sponge and you taught baby which bottle, pacifier, baby lotion, and sleeping place to like. No hubo lengua que hablo que Dios no castigo. BRIANNA HATES HER CRIB!! You can rock her to sleep until you think she cant possibly wake up because you have been rocking her and singing for an hour and she has been asleep the whole time. The second you put her in the crib, she becomes hysterical! Then when you pick her up, she falls asleep again.

     Two nights ago, I became desperate. I had spent between 11:00am and 2:30am bouncing Brianna around the room, singing every song I knew in both english and spanish, and giving her gripe water thinking it was a gas and changing her pamper constantly in the case what was bothering her was feeling dirty. I became so desperate that I woke up my sleeping husband who wakes up for work at 4:00 am and told him I was going to the car to get the stroller and planned on pushing her all through the house until she fell asleep and was going to let her sleep in it. 

     As I was walking down the stairs, I saw her Fisher Price Calming Vibrations bouncer. Brianna loves that thing and always falls asleep in it. It goes with me to whatever room I go, from my room, to the living room, to the dining room, to the kitchen table if I have to. It helps her with her colics and hiccups and the little attachments amaze her. I took it upstairs and laid her in it. Within 5 seconds she was asleep!!! I was in awe!!!!! I literally started crying with joy!! I couldnt believe all she needed was to be put in that seat to fall asleep!! 

      However, its not made for sleeping and although I shouldve fallen asleep the second she fell asleep, I spent all night googling wether or not its safe for a baby to sleep in a bouncer, etc. I read how many moms who had become desperate had done the same thing but obviously its not safe for them, especially if theyre strong enough to roll out of it. 

      Brianna slept the whole night ( a total of about 5 hours with feedings in between) in the bouncer. Her neck was totally like squashed to one side and it broke my heart. So the next morning, I went straight to Babys R Us to see if I could find some kind of vibrating swing where she could sleep in without it harming her.  

      I found the Ingenuity Rocking Sleeper! It has music, vibrates, rocks, has a star and moon projector, and is made for sleeping. I was skeptical because obviously she was not going to be as inclined as she is on the Fisher Price bouncer but I decided to buy it and give it a shot. 

      PRAISE JESUS FOR THE INGENUITY ROCKING SLEEPER!!! I slept 4.5 hours straight last night, which is the equivalent of 48 hours for a non-mom. I put her in it and she complained for about 15 seconds and right when she sounded that she was getting ready to cry, she all of the sudden became silent. My husband and I jumped from the bed thinking that something had happened to her and when we look she was totally asleep. She slept until the 5:00am feeding.

     As I always say, different things work for different people. What I think happens to Brianna in the crib versus the bouncer or the sleeper is that in the crib she doesnt feel cuddled/safe. She feels safe in my arms and in anything that kind of snuggles her. She is impossible to swaddle as she sticks her arms out no matter if the Hulk swaddles her and tends to cover her face with the blanket, so sleeping without anything I think scares her. You see her arms swinging everywhere and it usually makes her wake up.

Ingenuity Rocking Sleeper

Fisher Price Calming Vibrations Bouncer

 Until next time!!!

 

 

NoseFrida- The booger sucker

      NOSE BOOGER SUCKER

      When I would go to buy buy baby with my mom to shop for different peoples baby showers, I would always see the NoseFrida and would comment on how grosse it is. It is literally a hose where you stick one end into babys nose and the other in your mouth and you suck out the boogers. OBVIOUSLY the boogers dont reach your mouth, it has a filter that acts like a plug to not let the boogers reach your mouth. My mom used to tell me "when you have a baby and that baby has a stuffy nose, you'll literally suck the boogers out of your babys nose to make him/her happy... you never find anything you do for your baby grosse".
      Brianna is still getting rid of the amniotic fluid and other hormones in her system from being in my belly for 9 months. This has caused her nose to be stuffy and if you've ever seen the size of a babys nostril, you cant imagine her keeping a booger in there. Its so small that the smallest booger can plug her nose. About the time I gave birth, I read an article on the traditional nose aspirator, the "blue bombita" and how many bacteria it contained. Here's a picture of one of those nose bulbs cut in half:

 

THATS MOLD!!!!!!!!!! THATS GOING IN A BABYS NOSE

     So today at Buy Buy Baby I bought the NoseFrida.. and I must say... its amazing!!!!! Obviously a moms suck is much stronger than the suck of a blue little bulb and with one suck in each nostril, boogers were out ( sounds disgusting I know)!!

     I would post pictures of what I took out, but I dont think Brianna would appreciate me putting booger pictures on this blog when she reads it when she gets older.

     I used saline drops in each little nostril and then waited about 20 minutes so that the boogers were softer. Then I used the NoseFrida.

    

Here is what it looks like:

THE BELOW PICTURE IS OBVIOUSLY A LIE. NO BABY IS HAPPY TO HAVE A TUBE PUT IN THEIR NOSE, BUT THEY ARE HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO BREATH BETTER.

 

"Me" Time

     Two days after my c-section, when my OB came to visit me, I mentioned to her that I went against the nurses recommendation and showered because I needed to feel like myself; I needed to be in my own undies, pajama, having used my own soap and my toothbrush from home instead of the one the hospital gave me.She told me something that I never thought would have so much weight on me post-partum.

     She explained to me that when her husband would get home, she would give him her son and ask him to take care of the baby because she needed to go shower and feel like a human again and not a milk machine.

     On the first few days of the baby's life, showering, teeth brushing, etc became items on the back burner. My only concern was to make sure she is fed, changed, without diaper rash, clean, and in the 2-3 hours she sleeps in between, I was cleaning the house, organizing clothes, re-filling bottles and wipee warmers, etc. I was on pain meds every 4 hours without failure and was basically not eating.   In fact, in the last 2 weeks I have lost 27 pounds and no thanks to a diet, but more of a fast. My mother-in-law and mom would tell me " sigue asi que te vas a morir" (exaggeration.. because I have enough fat stored for winter lol). My husband and I were not eating and if anyone would tell us to eat, we would make a pollo tropical run.

     About a week ago though, I woke up one morning feeling totally grosse. Brianna had had a rough night and I must have slept two hours between 1:00am and 9:00am. Hubby does an amazing job of waking up with me everytime Brianna cries and he will heat up milk or get her diaper ready, etc. But all moms know that the one who wakes up 30 minutes before baby is getting ready to wake up to get the bottle warmed, the diaper and butt paste ready, and even taste test the milk to make sure it wont burn baby ( grosse i know) so that the baby does not have to wake up and start crying to be fed is mommy.

     I asked hubby to please watch baby so that I could shower! IT WAS THE BEST SHOWER OF MY LIFE!! I was able to wash my hair and face and must have scrubbed 4 times. I was then able to finally put on regular clothes and not go from pajama to pajama. The shower lasted 30 minutes as opposed to the 5 minute shower I take with the monitor inside the bathroom and peeking through the curtain every 30 seconds to see if Brianna is moving.

     This has become a daily routine. Hubby watches Brianna and I have an hour to shower, shave, pluck my eyebrows, iron my hair, or do whatever I want. I can put on regular clothes and even, MAKE-UP, believe it or not. I can paint my nails or remove nail polish, try on clothes to see what fits or doesnt fit, and then take a 30 minute nap.


     As moms I think we get so lost and entangled with our babies that we lose ourselves. As part of recovery, I think feeling good is as important as rest. After having a baby, you have a totally different body than you did before baby and its important to be able to look in the mirror and feel decent/pretty. Before I was a mom, I was a wife, and its not fair to me, baby, or husband to be a total rag and not take care of myself in trying to take care of everyone and everything else.

I HEART Butt Paste

BUTT PASTE!!   

 On Brianna's 1 week birthday, between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, Brianna must have done #2 ten times ( dont mean to be grosse).. As a first time mommy, I was about 1 poop away from going to the hospital!! It was heart breaking!!! We kept changing her and changing her and everytime i would button her onesie, she would begin again! Thankfully, Briannas army ( my mom, dad, husband, kids, aunt, and grandmas) were all here at my house and they all started telling me stories of how I had done the same thing when I was a baby and that it was nothing to worry about unless it continued into the night! I googled and read how when babies are "building their stomachs", they may have a transition period where they #2 a lot.
      By the time the 11:00pm feeding came around, Brianna had stopped going to the bathroom and was back to normal. Her butt cheeks, however, were not. She got the worst diaper rash!!! One that I prayed constantly that God would give it to me and not to her because it looked so painful!! She was red, and although everytime we cleaned her we cleaned her with water ( I try to wipee only if im on the road), she would yell everytime we would wash her down there. It was horrible and had me in tears! Everyone began to give me their opinion.. " It could be allergy to the diapers", "It could be an allergy to the detergent", "It could be an allergy to the wipees", "It could be an allergy to the formula" etc. I decided to start with the diaper rash cream since she would cry everytime  I put some on her.
    At the hospital, I had been given Desitin, and until that point it had seemed to be working well. But with the diaper rash it seemed to be doing the opposite. My aunt and my dad, two of the most peaceful and non-stressed souls in the world, went to CVS and bought every diaper rash cream in the world!!! When they came home, they had brought A&D, triple paste, and Butt Paste.
     About 10 years ago I worked at my moms work as a summer camp couselor. I remember one of the parents telling me that her daughter only responded to Butt Cream and to not use anything else on her. I gave the Butt Paste a try.
    Immediately I started to see results. Poor girl, I would put so much on her that sometimes I wondered if she was going to be able to pee through so much Butt Paste. Within 1 day, her rash was basically gone. She didnt cry once when I would put it on her and I have been applying it like its free since that day!
     Different things work for different people. Some people suare by Desitin!! Different babies have different needs!!

Stroller Lovin'

       BABY ROUES LE TOUR

         From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I started thinking about what stroller I would want ( dont all moms?!)... My husband told me that he wanted to gift the baby her stroller and to pick the one  I wanted and he would buy it for her.. HOWEVER, his money is our money ;).. So I knew I couldnt break bank!!!

     I started looking for strollers and from the beginning I knew I wanted one with a bassinet. For some, this isnt practical, but for me, it made all the sense in the world. I wanted a stroller that if I were going to take her to someones house or to a mall or a restaurant, etc, that I wouldnt feel guilty that I was harming her back having her in a car seat for so long. My mom lives in Miracle Mile and I wanted a stroller that if we went to visit, we could walk the mile and Brianna would be comfortable. I have friends that have babies and when they come to my house they bring anything from a bouncer to a swing and all because the baby needs somewhere to sleep that isnt the car seat.

     The most common bassinet stroller, of course, is the Bugaboo!! Price-wise, however, its a bad bad choice!! So I kept researching and I came across the Baby Roues Le Tour!! After weeks and weeks of reading reviews, I finally decided on the stroller!! And I must say, I AM IN LOVE!!! Its light, comfortable, can close with the bassinet on, and half the price of the bugaboo!! Here is a comparison of the two stollers:

	Bugaboo Cameleon	Baby Roues Le Tour
Price	$1,089.00	$500-$599
Weight	20 lb	20 lb
Colors	Ice Blue, Orange, Petrol Blue, Red, Soft Pink, Off White, Black	Black, Blue, Pink, Purple, Rasberry, Tan, Denim, Leather-Black, Leather-Blue, Leather-Camel, Leather-Pink, Leather-Tan, Leather-Navy, Leather-Raspberry, Leather-Mauve, Leather-Gray, Leather-Silver, Leather-Cocoa
Fabric swapping between bassinet and toddler seat	Yes	No
Free standing bassinet	No	Yes
Toddler Seat-seat	13 inches wide	12 inches wide
Toddler Seat-Seat back	20 inches	19 inches
Toddler seat-Seat to back	23 inches	24 inches
Toddler Seat lb limit	37.5 pounds	40 pounds
Harness	5 point	5 point
Recline positions	3 different	4 different
Reversible Seat	Yes	Yes
Parent Pouch	No	Yes
Snack Tray	No	No
Peek-a-boo window in canopy	No	Yes
Wheels-Front	6in	6.5in
Wheels-Back	12in	10in
1 touch Break Bar	Yes-hand break	Yes- foot break
Close with seat/bassinet	No- must remove seat/bassinet to close	Yes
Rain Cover Included	No	Yes

Here are video reviews of both strollers by Baby Gizmo:

Bug A Boo Cameleon
Baby Roues Le Tour

Hope it helps!!!! Until next time!!

DELIVERY

BRIANNA ELIZABETH SOTO

Born: March 28, 2014 at 7:48pm

     Hello from the world of mommyhood!!!! It has been quite the exciting journey! Today Brianna is officially 11 days old and is quite the perfect baby ( im sure all moms think that)! I dont know how often I will do this or how if I will ever blog again, but its worth a shot. 

      My due date was March 28th. All throughout the pregnancy I was monitoring my blood pressure and although it was not "high" it was still somewhat of a concern since my blood pressure is usually pretty low. On my due date, I woke up with a blood pressure of 147/88 and decided to lay back down to see if it would lower. When I took it again after waking up from a nap, it was at 143/88. My brain felt like it was going to explode and I called the doctors office. They told me to come in to have my pressure checked there since the machine  I was using at home was an automatic machine and those are not always reliable. When I arrived at the office, my pressure was at 160/73. They made me lay down on my side for 30 min and when they took it again it had not changed.

     The doctor came in and looked at me and said " clinically, there is nothing alarming about you, but you dont look good.. I think we need to get you induced"... IT WAS MUSIC TO MY EARS!!!! I was tired of being pregnant and wanted to meet my daughter!!! I told him I was going to go home and take a shower and wait for my husband to get out of work.. He told me I needed to go straight to the hospital and I did just that.

     When I arrived in the parking lot of Baptist Hospital, I semi-froze and waited 20 mins before getting out of the car.  I could not believe that the next time I would sit in my car,  I would be sitting with a baby on my way home..  A baby that would be with me forever and that I would forever be her mommy.. After sitting in shock and praying for a healthy baby,  I decided to get out of the car... Fortunately,  I had packed EVERYTHING and had it in the trunk so I got down with all the luggage. 

      When I arrived at L&D, the line to go through security was huge ( it was 5:30 and everyone was getting out of work and going to visit newborns). In line, an older couple told me "pobresita.. esta aqui para parir sola sin familia"... I was first shocked at how filterless they were, but then I realized that I did look pretty ridiculous with all that luggage alone standing in the line. I explained to them my situation and the lady even offered to go in with me until my husband got there ( THERE ARE STILL GOOD PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD)

     After checking in, they send me to L&D room 7.. When I got there, there were 4 nurses in the room already.. One said, " Hi I am Tiffany, we were waiting for you"... It was like a scene out of some kind of scary movie.. in a good way though ( if that makes any sense).. They had me go into the bathroom and change and when I got out had me lay on the bed and immediately began connecting me ( apparently the doctor had called in and told them about my case and placed orders for me). I felt like I was having an out of body experience. I had one nurse putting in an IV, the other a foly cath ( yes, a pee tube because I was going to be put on magnesium for the blood pressure and it can make you so dizzy that you shouldnt walk), the anesthesiologist asking me about my family history, and the other nurse preparing the babys cradle..

      My husband FINALLY arrived ( in uniform because I made him suare that he was going to come straight over and not go home to change- I had packed clothes for him) and I felt like I could breathe again... They explained to me that they were going to give me one strong dose of magnesium which they call bolus that would last 15 mins then continually drip magnesium in 4 hour intervals.. That 15 min bolus almost KILLED ME! I began vomiting and sweating and literally felt like I was going to go into convulsions... When it was over, this nurse Tiffany who is an ANGEL literally had to take a towel and bathe me down because of the sweat and vomit ( dont mean to be grosse... just being real ;) )... I fell asleep and woke up about 2 hours later to the doctor in the room. They started be on a medication to ripen my cervix and I began having contractions. THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE PAIN A CONTRACTION CAUSES).. You feel like someone is ripping you out from underneath ( graphic I know).. I would literally squeeze my husbands hand and ask him to tell me when he saw on the monitor that it was starting to go down.. I tried to hold out to the contractions and not take pain meds but the following morning around 9 am I was only 1/2 cm dialated and thought I was going to die so I asked for drugs ;)

     They told me they were going to give me a medicine called stadol which was not as strong as an epidural but would help with the pain through IV. Once again, another horrible reaction.  I was vomiting and trembling so much that they gave me something to put me to sleep so that I would feel better when I woke. The contractions eventually got worse and although an epidural seems like the scariest thing in the world because you cant imagine anyone pinching your spinal chord, at that point, you dont care if they pinch your eyeball as long as the pain goes away.. and within 10 minutes of the epidural I was pain-free and happy as a clam.. They finally started pitocin and was dilating 1 cm to 1 1/2 cm every 2 hours. At around 3:00pm, I had reached 7 cm and when they came back in 2 hours later, I had not progressed at all. The doctor told me he was going to come in and check in an hour. 

    15 minutes after the doctor left the room, three nurses and the doctor came in and started telling me to roll to one side and then the other because the baby was "behaving bad". I OBVIOUSLY began to panic because that to me means danger. The doctor wrote down the times and strengths of my contractions and when he had written down about 20 of them began doing this crazy math equation on a napkin. When he was done, he said "Melissa, we have to do a c-section.. babys not behaving well".... I asked him with tears in my eyes " ok when?"... NOW

     They gave my husband clothes to change and immediately wheeled me into the OR. While being wheeled, they gave me one more bag of penicillin but with an open hose ( meaning no timed drip) which caused me to go into crazy tremors.. I FELT LIKE I WAS FREEZING and kept asking for blankets.. they kept telling me I was going to be ok that it was just a reaction of the med... They wheeled me into the OR and turned on the radio (  POWER 96 to be exact) and one nurse shouts "time out"... Everyone backed away from me and the nurse came up to my side of the curtain and said... "What is your name" Me "Melissa Soto" Nurse-"And why are we here" Me-" Because I am having a c-section"... All the nurses and doctors shouted "agreed" and began cutting me open :/..... 

     I tried to hear what they were saying but the radio and the lowness of their voice made it impossible... about 5 minutes in, the doctor tells me.. "look to the left.. HERE COMES YOUR DAUGHTER!"... AND THERE BEGAN THE WATERWORKS!!!

     They took her to the table, cleaned her, brought her to me.. and within 5 minutes took her away to the nursery!! 

     The rest of that was a blur.. The only thing I remember about recovery was that my angel nurse Tiffany came in to tell me congratulations and that she had seen Brianna and that she was beautiful!!! The next time I woke up I was in my own room in a semi-Cardio ICU kind of floor. This was because of the magnesium that they had me in that room. I was still with the cath and about 20 cables monitoring my heart so I wasnt able to do her first diaper change, etc. Thankfully, I HAVE THE MOST AMAZING HUSBAND WHO WITHOUT FEAR CHANGED DIAPERS, FED HER, CARRIED HE TO ME EVERY TIME SHE NEEDED TO BE HELD, ETC. The next morning,  I had a small attack and literally unclipped all of the heart monitoring cables from me because I NEEDED TO CARRY MY DAUGHTER and feel her on my chest WITHOUT having to be careful of the cables pinching her, etc. The machines began beeping and the nurses ran in to tell me I couldnt do that. I explained to them that I needed 20 minutes cableless to be able to hold my daughter without being scared of pinching her and they let me. I did this everytime she needed to be changed or fed. The nursery nurses had told me that Brianna couldnt sleep in the room with me because I was in a fragile state but I begged and told them my husband was staying and they let me as long as I promised to wake up for her feedings regardless of the magnesium, WHICH I OBVIOUSLY DID

     Later that day my OB Dr. Davis ( who is amazing) came in and although I begged to be disconnected from the cath and the heart monitor she told me I needed to be on it for 24 hours since Brianna's birth. SO AT 7:48PM i paged the nurses and told them 24 hours had passed and that they needed to disconnect me.

     They did!!!! and I immediately asked to have them help me walk the hallways of the hospital. The nurses suggested against it, saying I was going to be too dizzy, but I begged and they helped me. The nurse kept asking if the hallway seemed blurry to me and although I told her no, it took like 6 laps to be able to see normal. I then asked to be showered, which again they suggested against. But if anyone reading this has had a c-section, you know how much you need that shower to wear your own pajamas and undies and feel like yourself again ;).

     I walked every night I was at the hospital and left there feeling semi-descent. It was still difficult to sit and stand but once I got walking I would feel better!!! We brought her home 3 days later and have been in heaven ever since.

     I highly suggest Baptist Hospital!! They are Gods angels on Earth! The staff made the whole experience so special, from the nurses to the volunteers that came to visit Bri and give her a bracelet to the doctors. Also, if you are looking for an OB, Dr. Davis, Dr. Esserman, and the whole staff are AMAZING!!!!! There was never a time I called that they werent more than ready to help answer my questions, being a first time preggo, believe me you have A LOT of questions!!!! 

OB's office

7867 SW 88th St, Miami, FL 33156

(305) 661-7766

 

UNTIL NEXT TIME!!!!