Labor Story
Jensen's birth was quite different. She was scheduled to have a
c-section on the 4th of June, but she decided she wanted to come just a little sooner. On May 15th, I woke up with one cramp and then straight to a contraction and then straight to pushing. I was pushing in my dining room!!
I had a feeling that week that baby Jensen was going to come early, but I was determined that it wouldn't be until the following week. Well because I had Arya's birthday party that Saturday and only 2 more days of school until summer vaca., so baby wouldn't come before all that was done. Well I was wrong, she came early and she came like lightening!
c-section on the 4th of June, but she decided she wanted to come just a little sooner. On May 15th, I woke up with one cramp and then straight to a contraction and then straight to pushing. I was pushing in my dining room!!
I had a feeling that week that baby Jensen was going to come early, but I was determined that it wouldn't be until the following week. Well because I had Arya's birthday party that Saturday and only 2 more days of school until summer vaca., so baby wouldn't come before all that was done. Well I was wrong, she came early and she came like lightening!
It took us 5 min tops to get our stuff around, basically Matt got Arya, and I grabbed our phones and camera bag. We had just talked the night before about getting the hospital bag packed! Matt got us to the hospital in a record 5 minutes compared to the normal 10!
By the time I got to the hospital, I had been pushing for a while. We called the hospital on the way. Because, again I was supposed to have a c-section and I wanted to make sure the surgeon was ready. When we got to the hospital, they had a wheelchair waiting. I barely could sit in it because I was pushing so much.
We weren't at the hospital very long and Dr. Rens got there. He checked me twice and said, get ready for delivery. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, I wasn't supposed to deliver! At that moment, I was so scared, I clung to Matt's arm and said over and over, "I can't do this." However, it took 3 pushes after Dr. Rens cleared me to push and Jensen was born. Only 1 hr and 15 min after I woke up in labor she came into this world.
Not only did we have an unexpected birth with Jensen, we had something else unexpected happen. After she was born, Matt took Arya home to pack our bag that we didn't have, and I took a nap while baby girl slept in the nursery. After I woke up around 10:20, I called for baby girl to be brought to me.
At 10:23 she stopped breathing, while I was holding her. It was only God, that let the nurse come in when she did so that she saw how Jensen was turning blue. I couldn't see a thing, didn't have my glasses or contacts. It was so scary! She ended up being air lifted to Sioux Falls Avera. It turned out she ended up with Group B, and so she needed antibiotics to help her fight off the infection.
