So on August 15th Paul took me to our local hospital because I was having alot of lower back pain, and because I had spent the last week in the hospital dilated to one and trying to keep him in, I thought it was possible that I was in labor. Man was I right. We got to the hospital around 11 and when our Dr. checked me I was 4 and a half centimeters. This caused a panicked scene among the Dr. and nurses.
Because of Cams pre determined condition everyone thought it would be best if we delivered Cam in Winston Salem where they have a children's hospital and he would get the best care. So in anticipation of everything we had scheduled a c-section for September 2. But that all changed on this day...Cam was coming quick! So they decided to send me via ambulance to Wake Forest. Had Cam not been so eager to get out that probably wouldn't have been a bad idea, but instead he was ready and so by the time we got to Winston I was dilated to 9 with no pain meds and forced to lay on my back on a stretcher.....(I'm pretty sure it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced)
When we finally got into the delivery room for my c-section, there were about 25 people crammed in a seemingly small room, ready to welcome this baby with medical interventions on hand. About 15 minutes later out came Cameron Joseph Elliott. 6 lbs and 6 oz. and 19 inches long. Not so small for five weeks early!
The next days seemed like a blur. Cameron had to be intubated because he was having trouble breathing, but other than that he seemed to be doing really well, and for his first few days of life we thought everything was going to be ok and that we would be heading home within a week....boy were we wrong!
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