This post has two parts:
Part I: Hugo's visitors both at the hospital and in the following weeks at home
Part II: The love of Dr. C.
Part I:
Saturday we started getting visitors! A huge thanks to everyone who came to meet our sweet baby on his first full day of life.
In no particular order:
Aunt Sarah!
Papa and DiDi
MiMi
Pastor Eldridge
Hubs' boss, Alan, and his wife, Terry
Stephanie and her 4 week-old Greyson, Meg holding
Hugo, and Amanda and 6 month-old Gus
Amanda posing with Hugo
Zach
Hugo, less than one day old
Greyson, 4 weeks old
Gus, 6 months old
Stephanie and Hugo
Nurse Brooke! Our hero.
Joe and Hugo
Other visitors:
Erica!
Uncle Brian!
Aunt Sydney!
Aunt Mita!
Part II:
I recently had a friend ask me if I was happy with our OB, after the whole labor and delivery process. Below is an edited quote from the text I sent back to her:
"I absolutely loved Dr. C. He might be my new man crush. We had a lot of issues and problems and Hugo showed signs of distress several different times, and then his heart rate dropped scary-low during delivery. During each event Dr. C would come in (or would have the nurse explain everything) and give us the run down of the situation and options, and fully let us decide what to do ("please just one more hour before making any big decisions"). He never pushed us to a c-section and never pressured the nurses to hurry things along. He doesn't usually deliver on Fridays but scheduled us for a Friday because he wanted to be there, knowing it would be a marathon labor and a potentially difficult delivery.
When it came time to push, he had to do an episiotomy, explained why in no uncertain detail, and only did it after I asked my questions and agreed.
(Oh and he let me sip on water between pushing contractions, which was amazing.)
The level of commitment he showed our family makes me want to cry in thankfulness. It was a hard pregnancy and a hard labor, but he never wavered or pushed us to do anything we didn't want to do.
I am 100% sure that if we had any other doctor, or whichever doctor was on-call that day, Hugo would have been delivered via c-section."
There are a lot of things that could have gone better or
been different with our pregnancy, labor, and delivery,
but I would never, ever change our choice of doctor.
Dr. C was the perfect fit for our family.
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This ends part III
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Honorable mentions:
Dr. C: for being an amazing doctor.
YAAAAAYYY FOR DR. C!! Love him. Maybe one day he can deliver a baby of mine... or I can be in the room when he delivers a baby. Haha. So far I've been in the room for 3 different doctors, all filling in for him.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that you had a great OB to make a difficult birth better. I am interested in the tailbone sitch -- how did he know you'd broken yours? That part made me laugh out loud (sorry) because of the whole "odd time for casual conversation" comment. Haha.
Also, so glad we got to see Hugo less than 24 hours after his birth! You were a trooper letting us crowd in your room and admire your baby, even though you were obviously exhausted!