Back to the beginning
When I found out I was pregnant with Hunner i was 12weeks. I did not have period because I had been on the Depo shot since March 2005 when my daughter was born, So i was in complete shock when they insisted I peed on a stick when I went to receive my regular 3m shot, and floored when they told me it was positive and they could not give me my shot. I was part of the .01% of people whom the shot failed. I remember being happy, sad, and scared all at the same time. They immediately got in with a obgyn not knowing what was going on, how far along I was, or even if my baby was ok. Thank the good lord everything was ok. I was 12w and 2d they baby was so very active and had such a good strong heartbeat, all of the sadness began to diminish and I was overwhelmed with joy.
About 4w after I found out I was pregnant it was my birthday, and i had been craving some wonderful, at the time, egg drop soup, so my loving mother went with me to dinner, everything was so yummy and we had a wonderful time UNTIL 12am that night. I woke up sick, sicker than I had ever been in my entire life. So sick I passed out in the bathroom and woke up in an ER room with needles in my arm, and straps on my belly. I was scared. SCARED. Clueless on what had happened, clueless on what was going on, I knew my baby was ok. I could hear its little heart beating away. Shortly after I was informed I had contracted Food poisoning and e coli. Ecoli is scary for anyone, but more concerning when you are pregnant. I was advised and given some very strong antibiotics and 13 bags of iv fluid due to sever dehydration and this continued through out the remainder of my pregnancy. I did not have a well day from that day forward. I was on a twice weekly schedule from then until delivery.
We went to the doctor on February 4th, and the did an ultrasound and a stress test and they determined that Hunner was full term and weighing in at a whopping 10 pounds. and that we needed a c-section to do the weak state of my body(I lost over 65lbs) and prior c-section with my daughter. So we scheduled it for Feb.6, 2008.
We arrive at the hospital bright and early on 2/6 readily waiting to meet our bouncing baby boy, and I of course was sick as a dog, being medicated for nausea and group b strep. They wheel me into the OR and began prepping me for surgery. 45 minutes later I hear the doctor say "Its a boy" and then immediate panic hit the room. Doctors running in. Why? What could be going on? Is something wrong with my baby? YES. They had it all wrong. EVERYTHING from my duedate, his weight and his health.
Hunner made his grand appearance at 2:01pm weighting 5lbs exactly a very tiny 18 inches long and his skin was so transparent. He was beautiful yet pitiful at the same time. He was unable to latch to me or a bottle. But we got him learning fast and he was doing wonderful. But to me he seemed different, not in a bad way, he was perfect to me but acted nothing like my daughter, I didnt put to much thought into it at first because as we are always told... "know two babies are alike"
.....But as time went on I knew their was something unique about my little man, but little did I know that something would take me 5 long years to figure out.
