11 Years Ago Today

11 years ago today Boy Wonder enlightened us with his presence. It wasn't an easy pregnancy, I was 34 years old he was my first child and he was breach and high. My doctor (God love her) sent me off to a specialist to see if he could be turned in preparation for a natural birth. (Insert crazy laugh her).

The specialist who's practice according to him was to not tell anyone that a turning couldn't be done pushed and prodded my tummy (oh lord that hurts) and said

Dr: "well I can do it" (insert the unspoken 'but' here)
Me: But?
Dr: But, to be honest, your chances of a succesful turn are less than 50% he will most likely just turn back again
Me: Oooookay so what does that mean?
Dr: That means we can go ahead and try to turn him or you can have a C-Section, don't take too long thinking about this though because you don't have much time
Me: Okay then I will call my Dr. today with my decision

Is that the end of the story oh no of course not. I call my Dr. and say let's do the C-Section the other way sounds to drawn out and painful. This means another trip back to the city because the delivery can't be done at our local hospital. This whole story takes place over a 48 hour period of time. We almost didn't have Boy Wonder that day the nurses forgot I was waiting in the pre-op room and the Dr was going to leave when they 'discovered' me waiting and made me think it was my fault. Now I ask you how on earth could this have been my fault I was the one in the gown lying on a bed with tubes sticking out of every possible orifice ....NOT GOING ANYWHERE ....

Anyway, Boy Wonder was delivered healthy and peeing according to the Dr. weighing in at a whopping 8 lbs 15.6 oz. Now keep in mind C-Sections on breach and high babies is not for wussies no oh no (not all C-Sections are painful but when they manipulate to bring the baby out it causes much grief afterwards). I slept on a wedge pillow for about a month because I couldn't get out of bed otherwise. I couldn't put anything on my tummy and I couldn't laugh hard and do otherwise unmentionable things involving the bathroom easily. Did I survive? You bet, was it worth it? without a doubt.

Boy Wonder is one of my most precious gifts. He and Diva W are the most miraculous things I will ever do in my life and they mean more to me than money, possessions and yes even food.

So Happy Birthday to Boy Wonder may he have many more happy, healthy and fullfilling birthdays to come.