Well, this is the place where I get to brag about my Angels!!
Lets see, Riley is a miracle to say the least! I had been told that I probably would never be able to have kids due to a complication from when I was 18. Well, God planned differently!!
I was in my last semester of college in 2000 and wasn’t feeling well so I decided to take a pregnancy test and lo and behold it was positive!! Jim was at work and I was on my way to a night class and I called him at work and left a voicemail saying he was going to be a Dad!!
That night he picked me up at school and drove me home to see the pregnancy test with his own eyes! Wow, was he thrilled!!! We called a doctor the next day and the following week we went for our 1st visit and got to hear the heartbeat!!!!!!!!
I had a great pregnancy and only wanted watermelon cantaloupe and wonton soup! They told me the baby was going to be big and we decided not to find out what we were having.
The last few weeks of my pregnency were horrible, I couldn’t drive, hardly walk or put shoes on!
On Thursday September 14th I went to Bristol hospital at 4 in the morning to be induced. Well, my Dr never showed!?!? By 2 Jim was at her office and was told she didn’t know I was at the hospital! The nurse called her and she told us to go home and come back at 4.
We did just that and at 5 I was told the baby was in the wrong position and I needed to spend the night and have a csection the next day! I never slept due to crying all night.
The next morning the Dr told us the baby was in bad shape and we needed to get it out! Please God I prayed let the baby be ok!
Off to the operating room and Jim was there and I heard him say “it has my hair”! I then was told it was a boy and we never heard the cry! We found out later that Riley wasn’t breathing he had lodged his head in my hip and his Dr. had to revive him!
Well, today Riley is 6 and you would never know he was that bad!
Now onto Hanna! I was supposed to be having surgery on my thumb in May of 2003 and my Dr. decided to send me for blood work on a Saturday. Well, again Jim was working so off Riley and I went for the blood work. We went home after and the phone rang and my orthopedic told me he just talked to a Gynecologist and I better too!! I dropped the phone and Riley got it and said “Mommy Dr. Wisch said you are going to have a baby”!!
Wow, did this shock us! Jim was shocked and happy at the same time! Again my pregnancy was fine until I received a phone call on a Wednesday telling me that I may need to abort the baby! I was 18 weeks pregnant and supposed to be flying to Florida the next day for my youngest brothers wedding! I was devastated and cried till Jim got home. Well, we decided to send Riley to be in the wedding with my sister and we stayed home.
On Monday September 15th Riley’s 3rd birthday Jim and I went to another hospital for a lvel 2 ultrasound. The tech told me I must have a lot of faith to still be pregnant because anyone else who was told this kind of information would have had a miscarriage.
He did the test and saw the 4 chambers of the heart( I was told by my Dr. there were only 2) and both kidneys(my Dr. said there was only 1) and more than enough amniotic fluid(again, I had no fluid from what my Dr. told me). We decided to find out what we were having and were told she is going to be a healthy baby girl!!!
Well, the rest of my pregnancy went well with new Dr.’s and new hospital and on Monday January 19th Hanna was born via c section and was healthy!
Riley weighed 8lbs 5 ozs 21 inches long and Hanna was 9lbs 7ozs and 20 inches long!
