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Welcome Dominic Francis!!
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Due Date: 4/25/07
Birthday: 4/17/07
Time of Birth: 3:45 pm
Weight: 7 lbs, 6 ounces
Length: 19-1/2 inches
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Birth Story:
This was a scheduled induction, I got into the hospital around 6:30am and was started on Pitocin at around 7:30, I was already
having nice contractions before hand I was told. I decided on getting an epidural so that I can somewhat enjoy the experience.
My OB broke my water at around 9 and started having more frequent contractions. When I first got in there I was still 2 cm
dilated it slowly progressed and then they upped the pitocin when they did that the babys heart rate fell drastically so they
stopped the pitocin until he stabilized, this actually happened one more time and were actually talking Csection which freaked
me out it. Seemed like the babys umbilical cord was being constricted somehow when I was having a contractions. So when they
upped it again the third time I started massaging my stomach which I found he liked and boom I was progressing and his heart
rate did not fall after that after increasing the pitocin dosage!! Then it came time to push and at 3:45pm Dominic was born.
We also had a massive scare afterwards, on Thursday the day of discharge and were as happy as can be, when the pediatrician
came in and told us about two tests that they were going to be doing before discharge, I thought that they were routine and
the nurses and her led me to believe that until I heard "chromosomes" then I was like wait is this routine and she
said no and that they were going to do a FISH and chromosome test because his eyes looked slanted and seemed like they were
"downs shaped eyes" it was such a shock he looked perfectly normal to us and everything was normal he had an agpar
score of 9 and I had been tested during the pregnancy for all that stuff plus I have two other healthy children and no sign
of it in either of our families, it never occurred to me that he might have it. Well since it was Thursday that they took
the blood and it takes at least 3 days to get the results and we had to go through all of Thursday-Monday afternoon with
this possibility. Those days were absolute hell, and I knew we would love him with all our hearts but it would be so difficult.
I did a lot of research and was looking at pictures and kept looking at eyes. I still didn't see what they saw and thought
as a mother you see them as beautiful anyways.
Well finally Monday around 2 pm my husband calls and says "are you sitting down?" my heart dropped and said
"what, please just tell me" my husband says "HE IS NORMAL, the tests came back normal" that was the
best news I had heard in my whole life and felt such relief and broke down. What a scare. I'm still very upset at the hospital
pediatrician for making us go through this even though he did look normal. During a time when we are supposed to be happy
turned into a nightmare. During those days I would break down when looking at him and feeling sorry for him and apologizing
to him. Absolute misery. But he is a super healthy baby and his eyes don't look slanted anymore. He was swollen and you
would think that they would take that into consideration.
He is perfect!!
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