Our Third Miracle.....

Cooper Elliot Hubbard was born on Monday, January 19th at 1:34 p.m. He weighed in at 7lbs 11 oz, the tiniest Hubbard yet. He was 21 inches long...the shortest Hubbard yet.

I will work my way through his birth...it became rather dramatic at times.

He we are at the hospital waiting to be prepped for the c-section. I had to have a c-section because Simon was born via c-section and I had a chance of rupture and because Cooper was also breech. I am told that I have antibodies in my blood due to my blood and one of my babies bloods mixing. This has made my blood very rare and they only have 2 pints of it at the hospital. If something happened during surgery they would not have enough blood for me. Surgery may have to be cancelled....not good news at all. In the end they decided that they should be fine to go ahead based on my history. Goodness I hoped they were right.


Jason gets his scrubs on.


I am ready to go. The sheet is up so we can't watch...which proved to be very ineffective. Jason and I were able to watch the entire operation because they did not dim the lights and the mirrored ceilings provided a great...or not so great reflection. Jason watched most of it, I just took a few glances.


Cooper arrives!!!!! He is weighed in and I get to see him for the first time.



Jason leaves the operating room with Cooper to go and meet Nee Nee while I am taken care of. My Dr. tells me that I had 2 placentas and that they may have been a twin at some point. Why none of the ultra sounds showed this...we don't know. How early I lost they second...we don't know. This second placenta was on the bottom, which pushed Cooper up under my rib cage. This explains my inability to breathe over the pregnancy. His head was under my ribs, as my doctor puts it "he was in Sudbury and we had to push him into Simcoe County." There is a whole lot more to this story but, I wasn't aware of it yet....THANK GOODNESS!!!!!



Here's the part of the story that I didn't know until much later. It was a very difficult c-section for many reasons.
1. The anti-bodies in my blood
2. The second placenta
3. Cooper's positioning and location. During surgery I kept saying to Jason that they are really pushing hard on my ribs. Jason was watching and responded "they are not pushing." Later he told me that one of the two doctors was pulling my skin up and over my rib cage in order to get Cooper out. Nice.
4. Cooper had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck.
5. Due to the damage that was done during Simon's c-section. He was breech, in the splits and had travelled down my birth canal in labour. Now the damage done to my uterus during Cooper's, they were unable to close my uterus. They came very close to giving me a hysterectomy. My Dr. has advised us to not have anymore children because my uterus is in very poor condition and they would most likely have to do a hysterectomy after that child's birth. We had no intention of having a fourth but this news sure does make that decision absolutely final.

After all this drama, we ended up with a beautiful, healthy baby boy. We are the luckiest people alive...three angels.