Gabriella Antoinette Viccellio

Wow! She actually made it into the world. I was starting to think she would never come. But she arrived on Wednesday, August 13th at 10:28am. She weighed in at 6lbs. 3oz. and is 19 in long. She was actually pretty big considering I had her at 36.3weeks (25 days early) She probably would have ended up being a 9lb. baby like I was. I am really glad the doctors took her early now. Goodness. What I think is pretty cool is that she has the exact same measurements as Isabel did.

The day started off pretty good. Since my doctor, Dr. Faucett, is LDS we asked him if he could help give me a blessing before we started this whole ordeal. Its not very often that you get your doctor to do that for you. It was neat. He actually didn't do my delivery though =( Dr. M? I forget his name took over. Before he started he looked me over and once he saw my previous incision and saw how high it was he got worried. It was a lot higher than he anticipated it to be. He thought that doing a classical (vertical) incision would be better to do than going through the same cut or cutting below doing a regular cesarean. I was worried about getting this classical cesarean done. This whole time I had been preparing myself that I was getting just a regular normal c-section. But oh how things changed. The doctor talked it over with Dr. Faucett and they both agreed that doing the classical would be best. The reasoning behind it was because with the cesarean I had before there would be a lot more scar tissue built up and they don't know what it would have connected itself too (bladder, kidney, uterus, etc). If they would have went in down low they wouldn't be able to see what was going on, making it more difficult to do. But if they went vertically they would be able to get a better look at things inside.

Once they decided all that they wheeled me back to get my spinal & epidural done. They went ahead and did both, because they weren't sure what they would find once they cut me open and the cesarean might last 2hrs instead of 1hr. Depending on all the scar tissue they would have to deal with. The spinal wouldn't last that long, so they had to give me the epidural too. Well, when I met the anesthesiologist I found out he was LDS too. Go figure. This room was just full of Mormons. Anyways, this was the most painful part of it all. When he first did my epidural it didn't work. They stuck me and laid me down, waiting for me to go numb, which I never did. They kept poking me with a tooth pick asking me if I could feel it in my stomach and legs. I kept telling them yes! I can feel everything. And I would lift my whole legs up to show them that I still had all feeling. After about 30 minutes they decided to sit me back up and do it all over again. He ended up sticking me 6 more times, each filling me up with the numbing medicine. I don't know where the medicine was going, but my tongue and mouth was getting numb. Not my legs. When I said that they got kind of worried. Finally after 6 times he got it. Ugh. My back is soooo bruised up from that. They laid me back down, put me on oxygen and started the procedure. I was so tired from all that medicine. I was fighting not trying to fall asleep. Dad just kept massaging my head trying to comfort me, but all that did was make me want to sleep even more.

Something that did scare me was when the doctor finally got all in there this is what I hear. "WOW! I don't know what to do with all that? What do you think I should do?" These are not very encouraging words you want to hear while you are under the knife. The doctor was replying to all of the scar tissue that he had found. He told me he was very glad that he had did the classical cesarean, because there was no way he would have been able to do it any other way. It must have been the blessing that I received before hand helping the doctor out in making his change of decisions at the last minute. I can't remember what all the doctor said he had to do, but he did advise me that I should really consider when having other kids. He said that what all he found from my previous cesarean and what he had to do for this surgery just was too much. My insides are all tore up and jumbled. I was pretty disappointed when he told me this, because I really wanted at least 1 more kid. His response to that was "If you do get pregnant again, I don't want to be your doctor to do the surgery." What????

I guess the Lord is trying to tell me I can only handle 3 kids. Anthony has always talked about how he wants to adopt some kids. Maybe this will be our way of getting our 4 kids in. Will have to adopt. Pam I might be hitting you up for some advice when the time comes for all of that.

Even though there were a lot of complications Gabriella is doing just fine. I have a big plus sign on my stomach now, but I am recovering just fine. Isabel and Anthony absolutely love their new little sister. Anthony can't get enough of her. He has to hold her constantly. When we make him give her up so Isabel can have a turn he cries like a big baby and pitches a fit. It was cute when he first saw her. Anthony pulls himself up on Dad and leans in on Gabriella kissing her and saying "Hey Honey!" He is so in love. I know he is going to be a great big brother.

Isabel is the nurturing one. She was so concerned for me when I started throwing up. I think I was sick from all of that extra medicine they stuck in me. I threw up 6 times after surgery. Isabel didn't like to see me do this and kept trying to comfort me. Then when I stood up to go to the bathroom and she saw blood on the bed she got worried again. "Oh No! Mom are you Ok? Here let me help you." As she grabs my hand and walk me to the bathroom. She is so sweet. Thank you Isabel for all of your help.

Ok that is enough for tonight. I need to get some sleep. I will post more pictures up tomorrow when ever I get a chance. I've taken over 100 so...I'm still pretty sore and having 3 kids on my hands now is a lot. It is hard to do anything right now, but I know my family is dieing to see pictures so I will try my hardest to get them up tomorrow. I won't say anything tomorrow I'll just post pics. I just wanted to hurry up and get the birth story down for now.