The day finally arrived

Day Before Birth-Day

The time finally arrived for our precious baby to come into this world. Throughout all of the scare-tactics, I would call it from these so-called professionals of the health practice, we just wanted to see from our own eyes, OUR MIRACLE. 

I had to check into the hospital the night before the scheduled c-section, because they had to get me prepared for certain tests to be taken, because of my gestational diabetes. They had to monitor me to be on the safe side. I was more than prepared, because at that time I was just so tired of being pregnant it wasn't even funny anymore. It felt like I was pregnant forever and ever and it was never going to end. 

Still and all me and my husband was prepared for this precious miracle to come into this world being an addition to our growing family. She was someone we new that was a blessing to us and will change our lives for the better. Making us realize that many people don't have this privilege in the world. She was coming now or never. The time was now!


Lack of Sleep

That whole night before the c-section I just couldn't sleep through the night. I just was so ridden with anxiety in a good and bad way. I was thinking about what the gestational diabetes had done to her health and was she okay from it. I was thinking about her feet on how severe the deformity of Club Feet was, because it is different levels of severity on Club Feet.  I was thinking if the right doctor was going to be at the hospital postpartum to perform the correct procedure on her feet. The sooner the better the results! 

I knew that I did my part as the mother of disclosing and informing my doctors in all areas that she was going to be born with Club Feet and have the right physicians there at the hospital to perform the work. I had a lot of faith that everything was going to turn out okay, because I had my previous daughter, who is now 3 years old, at the same Hospital, but different ob/gyn. The big difference was that my previous daughter wasn't born with Club Feet.

My mind and body couldn't rest properly, because I couldn't see her fast enough and I was just tossing and turning all types of ways to be comfortable and just to find that comfy spot to just go to sleep. I just couldn't stay asleep, I just kept waking up throughout the night and watching television and looking at the clock. Every time I woke up it felt like a long time had passed, but it would just be like 2 hours or so. The c-section was scheduled for 8:30am. 


Finally 8:30 arrived and no one came to get me. I started to get even more anxious and was wondering what was going on. The regular nurses were still coming in to do the regular vitals, but not my ob/gyn to inform me of anything. When she did finally arrived in my room it was after 10am. I would have to wait until 11am, because of a previous c-section that is already being done at this time.


Time is Now

The c-section procedure was the same as my previous c-section 3 years prior, but the slight difference was that she was born not only with Club Feet, she was born breech, so it took the doctors a little longer to take her out of my uterus.  When a baby is born breech, they are positioned foot down instead of head down, which is the normal position for a baby when giving birth. 

The doctors had to be extra careful of how to cut my previous surgery scar as well as the baby, because of her position.  I was getting kind of worried, but I had to stay strong and think positive and continue with my faith. It worked for me, because she came out so much better than I expected. I didn't think the worst, but she was 100% healthy. That includes her weight of 5lbs 12oz, her breathing, and her apgar score, which was excellent. We couldn't have asked for a better outcome. She didn't need any extra care or time in the hospital. Besides a little jaundice, which is common for most babies, she needed to stay a little extra time under a special light.  

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Just Another day of thoughts

Growing so Fast

My precious baby is such a blessing to me that when I look at her I couldn't have been so lucky to have her, because she makes me realize that I am blessed. She is starting so sleep through the nights now that she is 5 months old. In addition she started to eat solids at 4 months old, so she had more of a full stomach than just drinking milk. It seemed that from the start, milk just wasn't enough for her. It seemed like every hour and a half, she wanted another bottle. She was wearing me and my husband out every night.

She started to sleep a little through the night when she was two and a half months old. That gave us a little rest. I stay home with the children while my husband goes to work. He is Self-Employed, so he doesn't have to be to work from 9-5, but he does have a contract with whom he works for. So, throughout the day, I am with the children home everyday. After a while it just felt like the walls were literally closing on my everyday, because it was the same routine everyday.

I love my children, don't get me wrong, I just felt like I needed something to do for myself to feel some sort of fulfillment towards something or some sort of goal to accomplish. That's one of the reasons why I decided to blog down my feelings into the world, because I am sure I am not the only one in this world feeling this way. Everyone needs some sort of fulfillment, from the everyday struggle we go through.

Not getting off the subject of my precious Miracle, I just had to let those particular feelings out. We named our precious baby girl, Shandi. We decided on that name from a listing of African names we saw on a website, which I can't remember. We also chose that name, because it is very eclectic, different, really not heard, as far as our knowledge. We feel it fits her as well as her personality perfectly. My other two children also has names really never heard of or that it's just rare.

Eating habits


One thing that I can say about my children, is that they have a healthy appetite. I try to feed them the best cooking as possible. That includes a rarity of eating out and going to fast food restaurants. I like to cook, as well, that is one of my hobbies that I enjoy. I love to see how my family feels after a nice warm home-cooked meal.

I started to feed my baby girl single-grain cereals for her age. They first have to start off eating single-grain rice, barley, and oatmeal cereals. Once they master those, then they move up to the whole-grain, then multi-grain. She is also eating 1st foods now as well, which I am feeding her the fruits of all kinds and vegetables.
Oh my God! You all should see her face of excitement when she sees her bottle or the bowl of her warm cereal. She starts to move her legs and arms all over the place, and if I am holding her and I am making her bottle or cereal, I would have to stop every once and a second,  because I would have to hold her back. 

For her age of 5 months, she is so intelligent and very alert towards people.  Is aware of her food, especially when she sees it. Has such a healthy appetite and tries to hold her bottle when she is drinking it. She knows that is her milk and bottle by the way she just grabs it with such strength and authority. When I am feeding her cereal, she just grabs the spoon while I put it towards her mouth, like she is trying to guide me in the right direction or something. Yea, towards her mouth.

When she starts to feel satisfied and full, she starts to look at me and smile, letting me know, "thanks mommy, that hit the spot", and I just feel so happy that I am privileged to feed her and see her so happy and satisfied. It is the best feeling in the world when your children are fed their warm food and the expression of happiness and satisfaction is just draped all over their faces. It's one of the best feelings in the world as a parent.

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Miracle after Miracle

From the beginning of my pregnancy, my mind was focused on having another baby boy, because I also have a son who is 11 years old. So since my second child was a baby girl, I thought that I would get lucky again into having another boy. I wanted to have a boy with my husband since we have a baby girl together already. I found out when I was 5 1/2 months pregnant that I was having a baby girl again. At that point I didn't care, because I would rather here that than to here the "Down Syndrome" Diagnosis. We knew right then and there that we was once again blessed. God always blesses you when you least expect in. The blessings always happens on time.

Around the time that I was six months pregnant I had to take a sugar test to determine if my sugar numbers were high to detect gestational diabetes. The range of my numbers were high so I didn't need to take insulin, I just had to speak to a Nutritionist to adjust my diet to not intake food with too much sugar. It was so hard at first to change my diet from "Good food" to "Boring food". I mean it was nasty, for real. I couldn't eat any starches, rice maybe. Even eating one banana made my sugar high. I had to prick my fingers and take my own sugar with this monitor by measuring the sugar from my blood. Never experienced that before. I gained a whole new respect for Diabetes sufferers. It ain't easy. You have to be very diligent with your diet and blood sugar counts, and to ledger the information on a daily basis. I have a few people in my immediate family who suffer from diabetes. One of my Grand-Aunt's, which she had to loose one of her legs. My Great-granduncle died from Diabetes. My Grandmother had Diabetes, and I just found out about that one.

I had to be closely monitored from two of my doctors, my main Physician, and my OB/GYN Physicians. To tell you the truth I took it very seriously, but I was so healthy during all of my pregnancies. This pregnancy I am just a little older, and more wiser on a lot of things. From the beginning when I found out I was pregnant, I never missed any of my prenatal appointments and I took all of my vitamins and sonogram schedules.

I was going through a bad situation at that time in my pregnancy on a Mental and emotional basis that I sometimes didn't eat as much as I should have. It started to show on each of my prenatal visits, because I wouldn't loose weight, but I wasn't gaining any weight. My ob/gyn physician started to worry after a while,and informed me that I might need to get a sonogram to see if the baby is growing properly if I continue to be this way, as far as my weight. That's when I started to worry, and she didn't even have to order a sonogram, because at that time, I was still seeing the genetics counselor, from the Down Syndrome Screening test, for the Level II sonograms.

Those types of sonograms can determine the weight, length, the circumference of your baby's head, nose bone, down to the foot bone,spine and the back of the baby's brain stem. On my final Down Syndrome sonogram diagnosis test, at about 32 weeks gestation, I was told that my baby was 3lbs and a few ounces at that time. The doctor informed me that the weight of the baby was normal for that age of gestation. Nothing to worry about. One thing about me is that I am going to listen to an authority about information, but I would always like to hear a second opinion. In addition, I like to search for information my self on questionable subjects to gain more knowledge as well. I don't like to feel lost, especially if there are ways to find out.

SIX MORE WEEKS FOR THE MIRACLE

I knew that I had to separate the problems that I was personally going through and start eating three full meals a day. I had only six more weeks to go before my baby girl comes, and I want her to come out at a healthy weight. I started to stuff my face three full-plate meals a day plus a few snacks throughout the day. I tell you, I was so in-love with drinking soda. That's what probably made my sugar go high from the first place. I had such cravings for sweets. I ate fruits here and there, but nothing to the place of "sweet junk", I am telling you.

So the last few prenatal visits I started to gain weight so fast. I started off at 165lbs before my pregnancy. By the time I was three months pregnant I was already 178lbs, because I ate so much the first 3months of pregnancy. Some women can't even hold nothing down the first three months, because of it being the first trimester and the nausea is bad. Mine was bad, but I also had an appetite and I was able to hold my food down. I had gained almost half of what a woman is supposed to gain throughout her whole pregnancy.

By the time I was 8 months pregnant, I was weighing about 185lbs. I knew that I was doing well and I was determined for her to come out a healthy weight. Besides the Club Feet, we knew that was was going to be a healthy baby. We didn't care, because we knew that she was a special child and a miracle. Club-Feet can always be fixed. That's not a permanent obstacle. We are going to go through this challenge as a family and the ending result is she IS going to walk if I have something to do with it.

The last four weeks of my pregnancy went by so slow, I didn't know what to do. My belly started to feel so heavy and my body started to feel weak because of my low iron. I just was tired of being pregnant, but at the same time I wanted her to come at the time she was supposed to come, which was at 38 weeks.

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My doctor already scheduled a c-section for me at SoundShore Medical Center in New Rochelle, NY, where I also had my previous daughter. I already informed two of the ob/gyn physicians that my baby was going to be born with Club-Feet, so have someone there at the hospital to cast her legs. I wasn't aware which one of the physicians, at the, time was going to perform the c-section on me so I informed the both of them. Later on I found out which one it was going to be. I wasn't all that happy, but she was experienced and I am sure she was going to do a good job. In certain situations, you have to try your best to think positive, no matter what.

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My Miracle baby born with Club Feet-The beginning

When I found out that I was pregnant with my third child, I was shocked.  I didn't expect it or either was trying to conceive. The news was surprising, but a blessing at the same time. It's a lot of people in this world that would love to bare children and are trying to conceive and can't. They go through all of these tests and fertility procedures, and sometimes nothing works. So they wouldn't have a choice but to adopt or have a serogate. I have gotten married 3 months before the big news.  So me and my husband was excited to have another child together.

I found out I was pregnant August of 2008, and I was already 7 weeks into the pregnancy.  I didn't know I was pregnant for that long, because my first daughter was 2 1/2, so I already was busy. I wasn't really paying attention to my body or the signs, I guess, until I started getting consistent cramping on the left side of my abdomen.  In addition my breasts were starting to feel sore and tender to the touch, then my period didn't come, that's when I knew.

I had to start taking prenatal vitamins, and something new this time compared to my previous pregnancies, folic acid pill. I can't stress enough the importance of taking folic acid during pregnancy. It prevents a neural tube defect called Spina Bifida. It's also contained in Orange Juice. That's why it is very important to maintain your health as well as to take some extra precautions before your planning to conceive;it will prevent a lot of health problems for the baby long-term.

I had a lot of nausea in this pregnancy, but soon as the 1st trimester ended, the nausea stopped. I really gained a lot of weight during the first trimester, because I ate a lot. Everything was going well, then other tests had to be taken, normal test taken during pregnancy, and the Tb test came back positive. I had to take extra test like a lung x-ray, had to cover my abdomen area, because I was 4 months pregnant at the time. Had to take some sputum specimens on three separate occasions in two week intervals. Every test came back negative. My regular doctor wanted me to take some medication anyway, just in case. Then the big test came, which was the Down Syndrome Screening Test. What scares people and also me was that I wasn't aware, at first, the this test wasn't a diagnosis, it was a screening to see what are my chances for my baby to come out with this disease. It came back positive. I had an OB/GYN doctor at the time who was very inconsiderate, with no compassion, who told me the news and left is like that. She didn't decide to give me and my husband, who was there, more information about the results of the test being "positive". We wasn't aware yet about the test being a screening either, at that time. The doctor's assistant was told to give us a pamphlet with information to take further testing and one of our options, at that time, was amniocentesis. We didn't agree on amniocentesis because it was more harm than benefit to choose that option.

We chose to call the Genetics Counselor in Westchester County to get more information on our options in this situation. We made and appointment with them in the following week or so. We were so worried the whole time we was waiting for the appointment day. We were gathering information off of the internet about other woman experiencing a "positive" result from their Down Syndrome Screening Test. Don't you know their were a lot of women who experienced the same senerio in my situation. I felt such a flash of relief over me. When we received the results of the test from the doctor, she gave us a copy of the results for our own records and also to show the Genetics Counselor.  On that document, their are a range of numbers based on the results of the Hormone level in your body that detects it to be in higher or lower amounts. Some hormones are priority to determine if the baby definitely has the disease or not. My levels, specifically, were in the right range for the baby to be on the safe side of not having Down Syndrome.  The Genetics Counselor also confirmed that when she was reading the results of my test.

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So talking more with the counselor we were informed that almost 80% or more of women who take this Screening for Down Syndrome, the results come out "positive", and the baby would be born healthy. A huge boulder was lifted off me and my husband's shoulders at that point, because she confirmed the information that we have learned while researching on the internet. It was good to hear it in person from a person the specializes and has experience with this type of disease and how it is detected, especially. She answered all of our questions, candidly as well as thoroughly. She made us feel so relaxed and at ease with our worries and questions. She told us about another option to find out further, called the Second Level Sonogram. She gave us an appointment in two weeks for the first sonogram.

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The day finally came to find out firsthand if there are any detectors for the determination. Me and my husband was so nervous you could use a knife to slice through it in the testing room. When the Ultrasound Assistant was taking the sonogram, I wanted to know right away if they see any detectors, because they were so quiet for a long time before saying anything. In the middle of her doing the sonogram, a few people just popped out of no where into the room and was just staring at the screen. I couldn't take anymore and I had to asked if everything was okay and she told me not to worry that everything was looking fine, but do I know that my baby's feet was going to be clubbed. I was shocked because I didn't expect that. I started to think and it became clear at that quick second that I would rather hear "clubfeet" than "Down Syndrome" diagnosis. Not to say that I wouldn't have loved her anyway, because that is not true. Every body wishes for a healthy baby and pregnancy without any complications. I had to continue to get Level II Sonograms until I was like 32 weeks.

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