An unexpected trip to the ER

It is only Thursday and I posted on Monday but so much has happened since then...

Yesterday, I went in to my OBGYN for my 6 week postpartum check up. I should let you know that since having Kira, hemoraghing and needing to have the D & C 6 weeks ago, I had continued to bleed. However, when I called my midwife with my concerns over how much I was bleeding, I felt as though they kind of blew me off and made it seem as though this sort of thing happens to women.

Anyway, all this has been happening these past 6 weeks, despite my best efforts to "take it easy" so yesterday morning at the OB's office, I told the midwife before she examined me my history and that I was still bleeding. She became concerned and told me that it sounded like I may have some retained placenta or membranes in my uterus. So she inserted the speculum and started looking. Her concerns were affirmed when she looked but when she inserted the speculum, everything broke loose and I started bleeding out all over the floor. That's when everything started happening fast because they had to call an ambulance to rush me to the hospital ER. Tom met me there with my mom who watched over the baby.

On the way into the ER, I started

shaking uncontrollably because of the lose of all that blood. They told me my blood pressure dropped dangerously low and I passed out. I received 3 units of blood and another D & C. All this started happening at 11AM and I woke up from surgery at 5PM so poor little Kira had to take a bottle of formula and when I woke up, I was really full of milk it was painful. I had all kinds of wires coming out, they had stuck needles up and down my arm apparently in the ER in an attempt to find a vein (I had lost so much blood, it became difficult to get a vein). I had a catheter (which really hurt), and an IV that they stuck right in the crook of my left arm which made it impossible to bend or I would set off the alarms. This made it difficult to nurse Kira with only one arm so Tom's mom ended up staying in the hospital with me overnight.

Thankfully, the bleeding is much less now, almost gone and I feel so much better. I was discharged today at 2PM and am now trying to recoop at home which is always so much nicer than a hospital bed. But you know the phrase "when it rains, it pours?" Funny thing about that is, with all this happening to me, Tom was really sick with a virus. Those of you that know Tom know that he hardly ever gets sick and this was a nasty one. So when I started hemoraghing, he got the call while he was at the doctor's office to get checked out for his sickness.

Another funny thing is, the day before all this happened, I drove Kira out to visit my sisters and their kids and we had such a fun day together. Praise the Lord I didn't bleed out when I was there and it happened when I was in the doctors office.
Naomi is the one holding her. All the "big kids" were allowed to hold Kira with the help of Grammie but Naomi wasn't satisfied with just holding her once and the rest of the time I was there, kept asking me, "Can I hold Kira now Aunt Dawn?" It was cute.