A continuation of the first day

When a baby is born you expect certain things and you take other things for granted, like a normal blood sugar level or normal blood acidity level, which is 7.5.  You assume everything will function like it's supposed to, the lungs, the heart, the kidneys, the brain, all of these things you expect to be ok unless you are otherwise told prior to your child being born.  None of these things were ok for her.  Because she went without oxygen for so long she was diagnosed with fetal respiratory acidemia.  The article I put up is extensive and full of really big words, but basically it means that because she went without oxygen her blood was acidic.  Babies don't breathe like you and I, they get oxygen through their umbilical cord.  Hers was prolapsed, therefore making her oxygen deprived.  She had to have a plasma transfusion right after she was born and everyday they would test her blood gas by taking blood from the artery in her umbilical cord.  How they do that is they put in a line to the artery through the cord.  Her hand held an IV line for fluids. Because she was on cold cap they couldn't feed her right away so they put an IV into her umbilical cord too for meds.  Also, because of the acidemia, her kidneys and liver were damaged.  Her lack of oxygen also did a number on her heart and she was on heart medicine for the first couple of days to help it pump enough blood to heal her body.

As a recap here is what she was on, medicine for her heart to beat strong enough, medicine for her kidneys to function, medicine for her liver to function, cold cap to slow down any possible side effect of HIE, medicine to keep her sedated because cold cap hurts, an IV to keep her hydrated, a ventilator to keep her breathing and trial drug for brain swelling.  She had tests run everyday while she was there and in the first 72 hrs was so sick that one nurse had just her when they can have up to 3-4 at once.

The Dr. and nurses truly thought she might die or have seizures at any moment.

Clint and others gave her a Priesthood blessing, and he stayed by her side, not moving, until they kicked him out to rest.  Karen saw her finally at 11pm, a full 12 hrs after she was born.  We got to hold her hand and that was all.  Karen stayed until she couldn't stay awake and asked to go back to her room.  She never thought it would be the last time she saw her.  She always had faith that if life was what our daughter had chose than she would continue to live.  Karen believed that if our daughter was going to die she never would have come back.  

She NEVER seized, she didn't die.

Baby born at 11:11 am, weighing 5.9 lbs and 19 inches long.