Kennedy Conterio

Kennedy Conterio

Born: November 28th 2011

Weight: 6 pounds 4 ounces

Height: 19 inches

Time: 12:03 PM

Birth Story:

Friday November 25th: I started to feel cramping they were consistent and were about 8 minutes apart but they never got closer. That night I woke up about four times with really bad cramping/contractions but it would be one and then just very mild cramping would follow.

Saturday November 26th: Throughout the day I had the same thing but nothing really painful it was all just mild cramping.

Sunday November 27th: I went over to my Moms around 3:00 pm I still had the mild cramping off and on throughout the day. Her birthday was the next day so she told me to come back that night and jump on the tramp. I told her I was not going to come back so I would just do it then. I went outside and just bounced for about 3 minutes on the tramp and left. At about 4:00 pm I started to have contractions 5 minutes apart in my back. They were consistent and were very painful. Jeremy called the doctor and he said if they remained like that for an hour to come to the hospital. At about 5:15 pm we were at the hospital. They hooked me up on the machines so we could see her heartbeat and my contractions. They were about 3 minutes apart at this point. They checked me and I was about 70 effaced and not dilated. They decided to keep me to see if things would change. Three hours later I was still the same. They gave me some morphine and that slowed my contractions down to six minutes and helped with the pain. They sent me home. As soon as I got home the contractions came back to about 2-3 minutes apart. I took a bath and that helped. We watch Dexter to try to get my mind off of things. At about 12:00 am I tried to go to sleep. I was in so much pain at this point I thought I may die. I told Jeremy I couldn't take the pain and we had to go back to the hospital. We went back to the hospital and they hooked me back up to everything and checked me again. I was still not dilated but I was about 90% effaced. She told me they would keep me to see if things changed. They gave me more morphine which did absolutely nothing. At 3:00 AM they came back to check me. I was dilated to about 1 and still 90% effaced. They decided to keep me because I was in so much pain. I was finally officially admitted then. After 12 hours of the worst pain I have ever felt in my life I was given an epidural to relieve the pain. They gave me pitocin and from 4-8 am I dilated to a 4. At 8:00 am they broke my water. Jeremy about passed out. In the next hour I dilated from a 4 to an 8. Then.. I started to feel the worst pain of my life again. My epidural had started to wear off. It was unbearable and I thought I was dying once again. The Doctor was in surgery and couldn't come give me more pain so for the next hour I could feel everything once again. I was so angry I told the nurses to find another Doctor ASAP! Finally someone came in and gave me more but I was dilating so fast it took so long to catch up. Finally at about 10:30am I was dilated to 10. They waited until about 11:00 am for me to start pushing. At 12:03 PM November 28th 2011. Kennedy Conterio decided to enter the world.


Problem Starts:

Kennedy's cord was wrapped around her neck which caused her to have a bowel movement and swallow the Meconium. This is something that happens often but Kennedy's case was a level 3 out of 4. They took her to the NICU after birth. Jeremy was able to go with her. Kennedy oxygen level was low because of her swallowing the Meconium so she had a CPAP placed on her. They said if they could get her off of it they would release her from NICU. She was not able to get off of it without her oxygen and respiratory rate dropping so they admitted her to the NICU.
Tuesday: They were able to get her off the CPAP. But her CRP level was still high so they said they were going to keep her.
Wednesday: They told us if her CRP level had dropped below a 2 we would be able to take her home Friday. Her CRP level was at a 7.1
Thursday: Her CRP level came back 3.9. Although it had dropped a lot since Wednesday it was still not enough. They told us she would now at least need to stay until Sunday. They need to do a full seven says of antibiotics. Thursday was a very hard day. I thought I was going to maybe get to take my baby home then next day and my dreams were shot. Then the Doctor came up to me asking if they could to a spinal meningitis test on her. I would have to give my consent. It was a little procedure that took about an hour. They would go into her spine and take some fluid to see if she maybe had spinal meningitis. The preliminary results came back negative which is a very good thing. They won't know the full results until Sunday but they said its already a good sign she doesn't have it.
Friday: Today Kennedy has been doing great. She is nursing perfectly. Everything is looking good. They won't do anymore tests until Sunday so now we just wait.

This has been a very hard thing for Jeremy and I. Jeremy has been so great though and positive with everything. You hope and never really think anything will go wrong with your baby. When I left the hospital for the first time and we pulled into our home I just cried. It was so hard not to have her with us. I was released Wednesday but they have put me in a sleep room so that I am able to nurse her at night I am at the hospital about 23 hours a day. I usually go home for about an hour to shower and get anything I need and then I head back to the hospital. It is hard to leave for long because whenever she is awake I want to be there and I have to nurse her anyways when she is awake. We want Kennedy to be healthy when she comes home so we know its best for her to be here. Thanks for all the prayers for Kennedy and our little family. Hopefully Sunday will be the day she can come home!

Now here are pictures of our beautiful girl!