Baby Audrey is here!

Praise God she is here and mom and baby are fine! It was a little scary for a bit, but thanks to God, the wonderful nurses at Centennial and Dr. Wingo, we have a healthy baby girl. We found out she was breech and decided to go in Wednesday, October 7th to try and turn her. The ultrasound showed she had turned on her own, so we thought we were good for natural labor, yea! The doctor broke my water and labor began. Things were progressing right along until her heart rate began to drop with each contraction. Her heart rate would go from 150 down to 45 or 50...scary! They put an oxygen mask on me and that didn't help. The nurse wanted me to go ahead and get an epidural just in case I needed to have a C-Section....WHAT? I thought we were in the clear? Once I got the epidural my blood pressure began to drop. It went as low as 50/30...I felt like I was going somewhere...all of a sudden there were 10 people in my room and I was being rolled out the door and down to the OR for an emergency C-Section. Since I had the epidural I was able to stay awake...Baby Audrey was born a few minutes later. The cord was wrapped around her neck 3 times and her shoulder once, which explains why her heart rate dropped with each contraction. Thank Goodness for C-Sections...or what was a great day in our life could have very easily been a tragic one. Audrey was taken to the nursery and I was put back together and taken back to my room. Audrey was brought to us a little while later. Mom and Baby were just fine!