Surprise! Nicholas Follmuth Has Arrived

Hello Friends and Family! We are starting our own little blog to make it easier for everyone to keep up to date with all we have going on in our lives right now. Nicholas David was scheduled to arrive on October 15th, but God had a different plan in store for us. On Friday, August 28th I spent the day grocery shopping and preparing freezer meals to have after our new arrival….in October! So after spending 7 or 8 hours preparing 15 meals that day I was ready to put my feet up with some ice packs for a little swelling in my feet and ankles and just enjoy some time with David. I sat with David until about 11pm and then headed off to bed. Around 3am I heard Madi fussing on the monitor so I went down to tuck her back in. I was back in bed within 5 mins. Around 3:45am I woke up to find myself rather wet. I thought I had peed the bed and checked to make sure I didn’t get anything on David’s side of the bed. The entire bed was completely dry. So I went the bathroom and realized I was probably leaking amniotic fluid. I checked some things on the internet about leaking amniotic fluid and decided I should call the doctor. I called Labor and Delivery at Altru Hospital and they thought it would be a good idea if I came in. I continued to leak fluid slowly, but told Dave not to bother getting Madi up. I didn’t want to get her up in the middle of the night to hang out in a hospital just to have them stop the leaking and probably give me bedrest orders. I got to the hospital around 4:30. The nurse checked the fluid and it was definitely amniotic fluid. She checked me and I was 2cm dilated. Not a big deal really. I was 3cm dilated for over a month with Madi. The nurse said she was going to go call Dr. Trottier and see what he wanted to do. She returned a few minutes later and said “Call your husband; we are preparing you to go in for a C-section.” It was then that I began to slightly panic. I was shaking from all the adrenaline just worried about how this C-section would go (if you know anything about my last one, that was a trip and a half!) and if Nicholas would be okay being born at 32 weeks gestation. Our good friend Jennifer Walker took Madi at 5am and Dave headed on into the hospital. He arrived at the hospital about 5 minutes before they were ready to start. So good thing was…he didn’t miss the birth. All went well with the C-section and Nicholas David was born, crying a beautiful cry, at 5:58am on August 29th, 2009. He weighed 3lbs 13oz and was 16.5 inches long. Dave left the C-section room with Nicholas and spent the next hour with him in the NICU. Initial thoughts were he was doing pretty good considering his age. Dr. Trottier completed the C-section and sent me into the recovery room with a few things to think about. There seems to be some issues with how the placenta grows during my pregnancies and how my uterus is positioned in my abdomen as well. There is a good chance we will not be able to have any more children. That saddens Dave and I in one way, but we also realize that the Lord has blessed us with one girl and one boy. What more could a husband and wife ask for!? The future is in the Lord’s hands and for now we are focused on getting Nicholas home safe and sound. So that is the story of Nicholas’s surprising and miraculous birth! I will continue to put entries here in our blog with his progress over time.