It's been over a year now. Since my last post. Closer to a year and a half.
My last post? Yeah, feels stupidly ridiculous.
My second child ended up being another girl, who ended up being born A WHOLE TWELVE WEEKS EARLY. I went to the ER for some stomach pain thinking it was gas.
Nope. It was my liver shutting down.
A dose of morphine, an ambulance ride, and a whole lot of fckn trauma later; my second daughter was born- via emergency c-section.
She required intubation.
Blood transfusions.
PICC line placement.
Donor milk until mine came in.
Steroid shots for her lungs to grow.
One hundred and six days in the NICU.
Oh that was the WORST part; leaving the hospital; barely held together from a major surgery, missing my toddler something FIERCE, and not having my second baby with me.
My god, I'm crying now just thinking back to it.
She's fine now; learning to walkl and talk, and her first two teeth popped the other day.
But the trauma is STILL there.
Both of my children play so well together. You can clearlt see the love between them when they interact. That's one of the many things I have to tell myself every day.
"She's okay, she's here," on a loop.
The NICU is so far away and still so close.