He Couldn't Wait!

We would like to introduce Jakob Henderson Dopp. Born June 6, 2009 at 12:35 a.m. and weighing 4 lb. 15 oz. and measuring 17.5 in. This has seriously been a whirl wind for us. Last week was crazy enough with the last week of school and then Friday being the last day of school turned quite eventful. I said goodbye to my students, packed up the classroom and turned in my key and said goodbye to the other teachers. I was so excited to switch gears into baby mode and get my home and family ready for baby thinking I still had a week or two. I went out to lunch for Lori's bday and took the kids to swim lessons. I crashed when we got home. I later came down to watch the news with Brad and just after sitting there no more than 2 minutes I had a contraction and then felt a huge gush thinking my water had broke but I was sitting in a big pool of blood. I have known that I had a low lying placenta and I was experiencing placenta previa and abruption. Brad called my Dr. to find out he was out of town so the on call Dr. told us to go to the ER. Luckily all the kids were in bed and we called our neighbors Mark and Tiffany and they came over. Mark drove us to the hospital. Brad's dad met us at the hospital to give me a blessing and my parents came to the house to watch the kids. When we got to the hospital I started contracting and the nurse told us we would be having a baby that night. I was so mad and frustrated. I had not done anything to prepare for this. I had come to the hospital with a robe and flip-flops. Brad's dad went back home to get our camera. It was just craziness. The on call Dr. had to do an ultrasound to find out where my placenta was exactly. I have c-sections and was planning on that anyways but he said it was pretty bad and that I might have to have a hysterectomy too. They called in another Dr. to help with the surgery. I had a lot of scar tissue from past c-sections and my uterus was essentially sealed to my abdominal wall. So lots of cutting and lots of stitches. I didn't have to have a hysterectomy but they did tie my tubes that I wanted done. I got out of surgery around 2 a.m. and my parents and Brad's dad were there waiting. They had taken Jakob into nicu for observation as he was a month early. He was grunting a little bit. They had him on oxygen and on the way back to my room they let us see him. Luckily he was able to move to the nursery later that morning. I am just so thankful that everything was okay with him especially being early and tiny. We came home Tuesday and we have had so much help. I appreciate everyone for all they have done for us. Physically, I am doing okay as long as I stay on my meds. Mentally, I am a basket case. This has so put me over not being prepared for this. I just sit here thinking of everything I could be doing but physically am not suppose to. It's hard. I know that I will have more of a summer now because I will be healed sooner and be able to spend more time with the kids and the projects I wanted to get done. Jakob is such a good baby and the kids love him. They have been good little helpers and of course want to hold him constantly. I am just glad that everything turned out fine. He just knew school was over and it was his turn.