How to deal with a pregnant teen (baby, support, girl)
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I've been checking the threads several times today to see if there has been an update! Hope everything has gone well and everyone is just too busy enjoying the new family member!
After a very long day in which my daughter was already in labor when she got to the hospital, a beautiful 9 lb. 14 oz., 21 inch long baby girl was delivered via c section at 8:15 pm.
It was a very hard day for her but everyone is well. My daughter started spiking a fever and the baby was sunny side up so the c section was emergent. They did allow just one person in the OR and my daughter did have me in there with her.
She was so scared she was shaking.
The only bit of anything wrong happened after the birth. I went with the little sweetheart to the nursery for suction and a bath.
There was a pediatrician in there checking her out. She was doing a blood draw for cultures and glucose and the like. Ok. No problem. I was able to stay with her for a while. Then the recovery nurse came to get me because my daughter wanted me who was shaking and trembling something terrible. I went to comfort her. While in the recovery room, I could hear the baby screaming something awful. It stopped. Then a few minutes later it started again.
I told my daughter I would be right back. I went to check on the baby and she had 3 more sticks with blood coming for them, a doctor and a lab tech hovering to try and get these needles into her veins. STILL trying to get blood from the baby.
I heard the nurses angry as they were and let them know I was angry too that this poor baby was still being stuck. They told me to go say something. I did. I had to tell the doctor to leave baby alone and don't stick her again. The baby hadn't even met her mother yet.
I actually had a nurse pull me aside an hour later and thank me for that and that she had never seen anything like that before and that there's no way that child should have to be stuck that much. The doctor was being stubborn because she couldn't get the vein so just kept trying. It was terrible. That nurse and the others were writing up the incident
The doctor tried to get consent from my daughter to stick her again. A nurse stood behind the doctor and shook her head no and I told my daughter as well that there's no way that doctor should try again tonight. My daughter agreed. Thankfully and baby got to go meet mom and begin nursing. All is well that ends well. My daughter was thankful that there was someone there to help the baby and make sure all was going the way it should since she couldn't be and admitted that she wouldn't have known it wasn't right.
We are all so exhausted. I took today off just to get some rest and I want to go back and hold that baby for the first time. The first holds were her mom and dad as it should be. I figured I will have plenty of time to cuddle her in the future.
Just thought I'd give you all an update and thank you for the well wishes and prayers.
To the poster that wondered if my husband changed his mind about dd and the baby staying with us, the answer is yes. We changed our minds a while ago when dd said she didn't want a relationship with the fob.
She made this life changing choice, so it is going to be HER responsibility. YOU will just have to lay down the law, tell her that she needs to get her G.E.D., find a place to stay etc. She will soon find out how hard is to raise a child. I hope things work out for you. <3
Big baby! Glad the birth went well and you stood up for the baby against that doctor.
Congrats Grandma! And from that baby's first minutes you already stood up and protected her.... it is so good you were there, right on the "inside" and not out in thewaiting room unaware what was going on.
I'm sorry she did need the surgery which she had been concerned about... so after all the talk and discussion baby daddy was not in the room after all. What was his demeanor during the day...and
when he first held his daughter? Hope everything can go well and be "civil" throughout this journey.
All best to the new family!
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