Reflective Sarah

Pumping in a back room during shift change. My postpartum belly hanging out. I packed my dinner. My NICU badge hanging off my shorts. Random stuff thrown into my bag.  I'm exhausted but I'm so happy he's alive. 

For the past few months, little Samuel has been throwing parties in my belly every morning between 3:30 and 5. I usually can't get back to sleep after.  Well...bit appears only one of us is sticking to that schedule 😬 I am awake but he's perfectly sound asleep!!  *No tubes* 💗💗💗

Well this week has been ... Interesting. On Monday I noticed my arm hurt at my previous IV site. It was sore and also intensely painful right at the IV site. So I just waited it out and observed... Overnight the pain woke me up twice! In the morning I knew I had to be seen. I went to urgent care. They ordered an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed too blood clots--one in my brachial vein and one in my subclavian vein (a DVT!).  They had me go to the ER. So I went to Frederick. They sent me home with increased dosages of Lovenox, 80 mg twice a day.  Starting the next day I had groin pain. And by Thursday I was dizzy. Soooo back to urgent care I went. They did an ultrasound and a CT scan and blood test. I'm anemic, but nothing was wrong. Whew! All I needed to do was 20 minutes on the monitor with baby before I left. Well... I started having contractions. They're my usual evening contractions but they alarmed the midwife enough that she wanted to keep me and give me more IV fluids....