{"id":307295,"date":"2021-11-13T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/a-babys-birth-story\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:47:10","slug":"a-babys-birth-story","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/a-babys-birth-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baby&#8217;s Birth Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Reissig tells the harrowing story of the birth of her fourth child, Ben. Some problems cropped up late in the pregnancy that threatened both of their lives and left some emotional scarring in its wake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Reissig tells the harrowing story of the birth of her fourth child, Ben. 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Like any new mom, she had her fears of what could go wrong; but for Courtney, those fears became <em>real<\/em> in labor and delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> The doctor on call came in; and then, the contractions just kept getting worse. She was like, \u201cI think you\u2019re having a placenta abruption,\u201d which is everyone\u2019s worst nightmare. You can\u2019t tell when it is happening. A placenta abruption\u2014if it\u2019s a full abruption\u2014means certain death for the baby within five minutes and ten minutes for the mom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> We\u2019re going to talk with Courtney Reissig today about the harrowing and amazing birth story of her fourth son, Ben. Stick with us. You\u2019re listening to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Preparing for a baby to be born is a special time in most parents\u2019 lives. You get to choose the paint colors for the nursery; they have to be perfect. You get to put the crib together; you buy diapers and clothes. You pack the outfit you bring the baby home in. It\u2019s a special time, usually. But what happens when things don\u2019t go as they should?\u2014and you don\u2019t have time to prep the nursery; or do all the things you wanted to do that last month, like cook extra meals and freeze them; prewash the baby clothes and blankets. Sometimes, a baby\u2019s story gets hard.<\/p>\n<p>Hard stories are hard to hear, but it\u2019s in those hard stories that many times we see God\u2019s hand clearly. When we pull back the curtain, we see, not just His fingerprints on the journey, but we see His miracles. We walk away; and we are strengthened by knowing that He actively sustains us, actively pursues us, and He walks with us through the hard.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine is here in the studio, who walked through the hard. I\u2019m talking about Courtney Reissig. Courtney, thanks for joining me today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Thank you for having me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You\u2019re welcome. I\u2019m <em>excited<\/em> about our time. It was a little over a year ago when your youngest son, Ben, was born. That was kind of a traumatic experience; wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, it was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was kind of a Psalm 23: \u201cWalk through the valley of the shadow of death\u201d moment for you. Can you tell us why he is a miracle baby?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, if I don\u2019t cry! [Laughter] Someday, I\u2019ll get to the point where I can talk about this without crying. I was 32 weeks pregnant with Ben and was rear-ended in a minor car accident, barely bumped on my way to pick up groceries at Walmart<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. It was a Monday morning. I remembered, in a labor and delivery class when I was pregnant with my twins\u2014so five years prior to that\u2014that if you are ever get in a car accident when you\u2019re pregnant, you should call the doctor. I called; honestly, there is no damage to my car\u2014no damage to anyone else\u2019s car\u2014didn\u2019t think a thing of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was just a quick sort of bump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> She bumped me; yes. I didn\u2019t even get her information. She was an older lady; when I got out of the car, and she saw I was pregnant, she felt terrible. In all honesty, I was thinking, \u201cI just need to go get my groceries and go home. [Laughter] Everyone needs to eat lunch and take a nap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called, as a formality, my doctor\u2019s office. They said, \u201cStandard protocol; you need to go to labor and delivery and be monitored for an hour.\u201d I did; they took lab work. Everything obviously looked fine, but my labs came back with a positive fetal trauma bleed. It was a really high fetal trauma bleed\u2014and it was kind of surprising\u2014they didn\u2019t really know why. That meant I had to stay the night in the hospital and redo the fetal trauma bleed again the next day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wait; trauma bleed from just a bump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Actually, now in hindsight, nobody thinks that the bump did that. They think my body did it. Our pediatrician\u2014he\u2019s a believer as well\u2014and he was like, \u201cI think God had you get hit by a car\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cso we could find this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cso we could find this out.\u201d So that then was on my\/everyone was aware that something was going on. They retook it the next day\u2014did an ultrasound\u2014everything came back fine. The doctor was like, \u201cI think it was just a lab error\u201d; because there\u2019s no way it would\u2019ve come back that high. We went home; they said, \u201cIf you have pain, come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I spoke at a women\u2019s retreat, at your church, that weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes! It was a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; it was a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I do remember you having some uncomfortable\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I was uncomfortable; yes, I was uncomfortable. As I was speaking, I started feeling uncomfortable in my side and thought, \u201cIt must be because I am standing. I <em>am<\/em> almost 33 weeks pregnant with my fourth kid, so surely I am just uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Went home; did the elliptical, because I thought, somehow, I was going to work out whatever pulled muscle I had from sitting and standing all weekend. The discomfort got <em>worse<\/em>. I was sitting on the couch and I thought, \u201cMaybe I just need to go to bed; sometimes they say, \u2018Just go to sleep, and you\u2019ll feel better in the morning.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went to bed; and around 3 in the morning, I woke up in <em>extreme<\/em> pain, where I couldn\u2019t go back to sleep; the pain was so severe. I tried to go to the bathroom, and I just couldn\u2019t walk; I couldn\u2019t stand up straight. I felt my stomach, and my stomach felt rock hard. I was like, \u201cThis is just weird that I\u2019m in so much pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called the on-call doctor, and the nurse called me back, and [I] told her, \u201cThis is what happened on Monday\u2026This is how I\u2019m feeling now.\u201d She said, \u201cI think you need to go to the hospital; I\u2019m concerned your uterus is rupturing.\u201d Because I\u2019ve had previous C-sections, there was this concern that my uterus was rupturing.<\/p>\n<p>I get to the hospital; my pain gets <em>worse<\/em>. At this point, my triage nurse thought: \u201cMaybe your appendix is rupturing,\u201d \u201cMaybe your gallbladder is messed up,\u201d\u2014that can happen when you\u2019re pregnant\u2014which would\u2019ve been preferable to what ended up happening. They did all this testing; they did some lab work. They did internal exams, and they did an ultrasound. With the ultrasound, the pain kept getting worse; every time they would go over the top part of my uterus, I would scream in pain.<\/p>\n<p>A couple hours in, I realized, \u201cI think that\u2019s where my placenta is; that\u2019s where they told me my placenta was on my last ultrasound a few days ago.\u201d At this point, it\u2019s been like four hours. I started having contractions, which caught everyone off guard; because I hadn\u2019t had them before. The contractions then started speeding up. My doctor said I had the most consistent pattern of all the women who were there at labor and delivery; she was like, \u201cWe don\u2019t want you to have a consistent pattern.\u201d [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> This would be <em>good<\/em> <em>if<\/em> you were\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> \u2014if you were forty weeks pregnant and <em>not<\/em> in extreme pain. My pain\u2014I had been in labor before, so I <em>knew<\/em>\/I could explain that this is the worst contraction I\u2019ve ever felt, except it never lets up\u2014which contractions give you some break\u2014it\u2019s like this one <em>long<\/em> constant contraction.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor finally came in\u2014or the doctor, on call, finally came in\u2014I was explaining everything to her; I said, \u201cIt feels like someone took a\/when I have a C-section, like someone cut across the top part of my uterus.\u201d She looked at the ultrasound, and then the contractions starting getting worse. She was like, \u201cI think you\u2019re having a placenta abruption,\u201d which is everyone\u2019s worst nightmare; you can\u2019t tell when it\u2019s happening. A placenta abruption\u2014if it\u2019s a full abruption\u2014means certain death for the baby within five minutes and ten minutes for the mom.<\/p>\n<p>We knew in that moment\u2014like it was one of those moments where, my husband was sleeping in the chair next to me, because he thought I was just having appendicitis\u2014to, all of a sudden, he was like wide awake, thinking, \u201cWhat is happening?\u201d At that moment, everything starting getting much more serious. Ben\u2019s heartrate started going down with each contraction, which meant that the placenta\u2019s not giving him the oxygen he needs during contractions. They were prepping me to give me steroids to get his lungs ready in case they needed to deliver him.<\/p>\n<p>I still remember\u2014I\u2019m lying in this triage bed\u2014we were all just talking. Then the doctor looks at the monitor and sees his heartrate go down, and was like, \u201cTurn her on her side now and give her those steroids, like immediately.\u201d She\u2019s like, \u201cIf he does that again, you\u2019re going into the OR, immediately, to have him.\u201d That was when we were like, \u201cOkay; this is really serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I always wondered, when I\u2019ve been in the hospital for other pregnancies and other things, thinking, \u201cHow do you know when things are really serious?\u201d You know when everyone is in your room all the time. They moved me to a regular room in the high-risk wing of the labor and delivery unit. I\u2019ve <em>never<\/em> seen so many people in a room. Every five minutes there was a nurse in there, trying to move me on my side. They were giving me pain meds, because the pain was so severe. I saw the doctor three or four times just that day.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, after 24 hours, things slowed down a little bit. My contractions were not as regular; the pain subsided some. We started thinking, \u201cAt least, if it\u2019s an abruption,\u201d\u2014which they thought it was\u2014\u201cthen, it\u2019s stopped abrupt-ing for right now.\u201d With an abruption, though, there\u2019s always the risk that it could, all of a sudden, abrupt immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that was always on the table was our doctor said, \u201cThere will come a point where his heartrate goes down and does not come back up. That\u2019s the gamble that we just don\u2019t know: we don\u2019t know if we can get him out in time; can we get you to the OR in time to get him out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Was there ever a [point] in time, where you were thinking, \u201cI just want him out of\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Oh, every <em>day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cbecause I want to be able to\/I know they can fight for him if he\u2019s not [inside me].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney: <\/strong>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney: <\/strong>About a week in, they let me walk the halls of the labor and deliver unit. I would get to walk three times a day. I still remember walking those halls with my husband and saying, \u201cI don\u2019t care if he\u2019s born early; just get him <em>out<\/em>. I <em>know<\/em> he can do okay; I\u2019ve seen\/I\u2019ve taken care of a NICU baby. I <em>know<\/em> what it\u2019s like.\u201d But then, also, every NICU baby\u2019s different. Some babies are born at 31 weeks and do great, and some are born at 34 and do <em>terribly<\/em>. You have <em>no idea<\/em> of what kind of baby they\u2019re going to be, so there is always a risk of\/I mean, the risk was great.<\/p>\n<p>We live ten minutes from the hospital; and at one point, my husband said, \u201cCan I go home and help with the kids?\u201d\u2014this is a few days in. They were like, \u201cHow far away do you live?\u201d He said, \u201cTen minutes.\u201d They were like, \u201cI would stay.\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cSo there\u2019s\/it\u2019s that close?\u2014like she could have him at any moment.\u201d They were like, \u201cYes; we have no idea how it\u2019s going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had a long-term IV in, called mid-line IV, where an IV specialist has to come in and put it in your arm. That was this constant reminder that they could get me under general anesthesia in a matter of <em>seconds<\/em>. They explained the whole process of what it looks like if they have to get him out in a very quick amount of time. They could get to the OR in less than a minute\u2014we would not even know what was happening\u2014and it would be done. That was <em>always<\/em> on the table.<\/p>\n<p>We lived there\u2014for three weeks, we were there in antepartum for three weeks\u2014and just waiting. That was where we lived every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was constant waves of: \u201cWe\u2019ve got this; he\u2019s okay\u201d;\u2014everything\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014and then, all of a sudden, you never knew, when it was going to drop, and he\u2019s not doing okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> But it was just one constant big wave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That\u2019s hard to sustain that for a <em>day<\/em>, let alone weeks on end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes; three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We had <em>great<\/em> care. We had <em>great<\/em> nurses that would answer the same questions over and over again. My husband was <em>amazing<\/em>. He works from home, and so his job was just great\u2014he\u2019d work from the hospital, and he would do his conference calls with his employees from the hospital\u2014his boss was like, \u201cDon\u2019t even worry about work\u201d; so on good days, he\u2019d work a normal amount of hours; on bad days, he would not work as many hours. The Lord was so faithful in all of that.<\/p>\n<p>The other complexity is that we have three other children. They went to bed the night before I went to the hospital, thinking we would be there, and woke up to three weeks of a steady stream of different people every day. You were there; you helped take care of them. My two-year-old had barely started talking, and was super introverted and scared, and wouldn\u2019t get out of bed sometimes when people would go get him; because they would have three different sets of caregivers a day. Our church was <em>great<\/em>; but they [children] went from having <em>me<\/em> every day to having someone in the morning, someone in the afternoon, and someone at night. Sometimes Daniel would get to go home and help put them to bed if I was doing okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I remember they were listless little boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> They were, and they had <em>no<\/em> words. How do you explain to two four-year-olds and a two-year-old what\u2019s going on? When they would come to the hospital, they would cry; they didn\u2019t understand. When Daniel would come home, he was nervous about leaving me at the hospital alone; so then someone at church would come sit with me at the hospital. There was a lot of difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>My mom was able to come\u2014after us being in the hospital for about ten days, she came\u2014it became apparent that I was <em>not<\/em> coming home. My dad decided to go get them and drive them back to Florida, where my parents live. Going to Florida was the best thing for them; it gave them some stability. They had the same people caring for them every day. It took a lot of the frightening nature of what was happening to them out of the equation.<\/p>\n<p>It was the <em>worst<\/em> experience of my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You\u2019re already just thinking about this possible loss of this newborn\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014or this baby that you\u2019re carrying\u2014and then, all of a sudden, experiencing the loss of your three boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes: \u201cWhat if they leave, and I <em>die<\/em>?\u201d [Emotion in voice] \u201cWhat if I <em>die<\/em>, and they don\u2019t see me again, and I don\u2019t get to say goodbye to them?\u201d \u201cWhat if I have to bring home\/come home without Ben?\u201d \u201cWhat if\u2026\u201d\u2014there was all of that. They didn\u2019t get any of it; it was horrible; it was one of the worst days of my life.<\/p>\n<p>They went to Florida, and it was so good! It gave Daniel the opportunity to go to our house and get the house ready for when Ben was born. We had a lot of things we needed to do; we needed to move cribs; we needed to get bunk beds for the twins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014all of that stuff that you had planned to do that last month while he was\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes; and thankfully, we had planned a lot of things before the twins were born that we never got to do, so I was used to my kids totally surprising me in their births. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes, kids will do that. They surprise us all the time; don\u2019t they? Really, <em>life<\/em> surprises us.<\/p>\n<p>We need to take a break. Courtney, when we come back, I want to talk about the surprising turns and also the fallout of the birth story of baby Ben.<\/p>\n<p>I want to invite <em>you<\/em> to stay with us. We\u2019ll be back in two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>[Radio Station Spot Break]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Courtney Reissig joins me in the studio today. She\u2019s been sharing about the difficult third trimester and birth of her fourth son, Ben.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney, you were sharing that, at 32 weeks, the doctors discovered a placenta abruption, which is really bad and life-threatening. After three weeks in the hospital, things seemed to calm down a little bit; didn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; things had gotten really stable. We scheduled his C-section for<\/p>\n<p>37 weeks; they\u2019re like, \u201cWe\u2019re going to get you to full term, and then we\u2019re going to schedule it and end this ordeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We should have known, when we scheduled it, that my body would be like, \u201cOh, you made a plan? [Laughter] I\u2019m going to change that plan.\u201d Daniel had gone home. The night before\u2014it was a Saturday night\u2014I started having contractions again, really consistently. We\u2019d had visitors\u2014we had a lot of visitors\u2014we\u2019d had visitors that night. I remember thinking, \u201cMan, I\u2019m so uncomfortable,\u201d and moving around, like you do when you\u2019re in labor.<\/p>\n<p>My nurse [finally came in] and was like, \u201cAre you feeling your contractions?\u201d because she was watching them on the monitor. I was like, \u201cYes, they seem more consistent.\u201d She was like, \u201cThey are.\u201d She was a little nervous, so she went and talked to the doctor. He was like, \u201cLet\u2019s just keep her on, see what\u2019s going on.\u201d His heart rate was monitoring fine; so they thought, \u201cYou\u2019re fine; you\u2019ll be okay.\u201d The next morning, the doctor on call came in and said, \u201cYou need to <em>behave<\/em> today; don\u2019t be <em>crazy<\/em> on us today,\u201d because they were all just terrified of having to deliver this baby with a partially-abrupted placenta.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel went home to go get our bag ready; because we thought, \u201cOh, he\u2019s going to come probably in the next few days,\u201d\u2014because I\u2019m going to have a C-section\u2014\u201cso let\u2019s get everything ready.\u201d He was going to work during the week as much as possible. I had to be monitored three times a day; I was on my afternoon monitoring, and they were about to take me off. My nurse and I looked at the monitor. I said, \u201cDid his heartrate just go down with that contraction?\u201d He was like, \u201cOh, it did. You\u2019re not coming off this; I\u2019m going to talk to the doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We thought, \u201cBen has given us multiple false alarms.\u201d I honestly thought, \u201cThis is just another false alarm.\u201d Apparently, it did it two or three more times in that span of him going to talk to the doctor. Also, it went down and didn\u2019t come up very quickly; the doctor was like, \u201cThis is the last straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He came in\u2014I was on the phone with Daniel\u2014he comes in and sits down. When they sit down, it is <em>never<\/em> that they\u2019re going to tell you something good. [Laughter] He said, \u201cIt\u2019s time to deliver this baby.\u201d I said, \u201cLike when?\u201d He said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to prep the OR right now.\u201d I was like, \u201cDaniel, we\u2019re having him right now.\u201d Daniel was like, \u201cThis is my worst nightmare!\u2014that I\u2019m not there.\u201d He\u2019s like frantically running around; he had to go drop something off at someone\u2019s house. He\u2019d forgotten how to get back to the hospital. One of the other pastors in the church, who is a <em>dear<\/em> friend of ours, had said, \u201cI will come and be with you the minute they tell you.\u201d He gets there when Daniel gets there.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re clearing out my room, because I\u2019m not going to be in antepartum anymore. They had to pack up our stuff from living there for three weeks, on top of getting me\u2014<\/p>\n<p>By the time Daniel gets there, they\u2019ve given me everything in my IV; they\u2019ve given me all my medicine for a C-section, and they\u2019re getting me ready.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had two C-sections; I\u2019ve had a lot of surgery, and I\u2019ve never been nervous beforehand like this, mostly because it\u2019s never been this life-or-death. As they\u2019re wheeling me out, I\u2019m looking at all these people\/like all these people in the high-risk unit, who have been our lifeline for three weeks. I\u2019m crying and saying: \u201cThank you!\u201d \u201cThank you for everything you\u2019ve done!\u201d \u201cThank you for being my friend,\u201d \u201cThank you for caring for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They take me to the OR; our nurse prays with us before they take us in. You have to go in by yourself, without your husband, as they prep you; I know that. I get there; and I\u2019m like [whispering], \u201cI don\u2019t know any of these people\u201d; because this is a <em>new<\/em> team of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You were all alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; literally, it was like, \u201cI\u2019m all alone.\u201d When I\u2019m nervous, I talk incessantly; [Laughter] so I start talking incessantly to the nurse, like, \u201cHe almost died when I was first pregnant with him, and now he almost died again.\u201d I explained to her that this was really serious. She was trying to prep me for a C-section.<\/p>\n<p>I turn around\u2014and my\/she wasn\u2019t my nurse that day; but she\u2019d been my nurse in antepartum\u2014she had my nurse that day cover her. She came in\u2014he covered all the other patients\u2014and she came in for the sole purpose of holding my hand; scrubbed in\u2014everything\u2014and she came in and held my hand. I am having a panic attack, unable to breathe. She\u2019s like, \u201cThis is what\u2019s happening; you\u2019re fine.\u201d She\u2019s singing to me; she\u2019s stroking my hair. This is all before Daniel can come in.<\/p>\n<p>He gets there; they start the procedure. It takes awhile because I have some other issues from previous C-sections. He\u2019s born, screaming; when I heard him cry, we both started sobbing; because we were like, \u201cHe\u2019s breathing! At least, he\u2019s breathing.\u201d We have no idea what\u2019s going on; but at least, he\u2019s breathing.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear them, be like: \u201cThis is a miracle baby,\u201d \u201cThis is a miracle baby,\u201d \u201cPlacenta abruptions don\u2019t stop for three weeks; they don\u2019t.\u201d We feel like, in so many ways, God was like, \u201cI\u2019m going to make this placenta abrupt for a little bit and stop it, so you\u2019ll feel the weight of your mortality and your son\u2019s mortality; but I\u2019m <em>not<\/em> going to let you die today.\u201d In hindsight, that\u2019s how we <em>feel<\/em> like it really happened. Nobody saw that and thought, \u201cThere\u2019s no way this just stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> What was it like in those moments? He\u2019s crying; and you\u2019re sitting there, going\/I mean, did you think, \u201cGod had answered our prayers\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes! It was just this big exhale of weight being lifted off. We didn\u2019t know how he was doing at that point; but we knew he was, at least, alive. And we knew that, at least, I was alive. We knew, at least at that point, there\u2019s enough\/he came out <em>breathing<\/em>, which is <em>huge<\/em>; and I wasn\u2019t bleeding out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Was there a scary moment after he was born that you were thinking, \u201cI could still die\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Not me. He didn\u2019t do as great right away. He did well initially; then, it became apparent that he would need the NICU. That was harder for me, emotionally; because they had prepped us all along that: \u201cIf you can get to 36 weeks,\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014\u201che can go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes\u2014\u201che can go with you in your room.\u201d They really tried to make him not have to go; but they think, either the placenta issue or the force with which he was brought out, because it was a difficult C-section\u2014they think some of that made it so that he wasn\u2019t\/because he struggled a little bit at first.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of moments where I had, in hindsight, I think I had a lot of anxiety about dying. I would have these things happen, where I think they were panic attacks\u2014but I wasn\u2019t aware that they were\u2014I was like, \u201cI can\u2019t breathe. Give me some oxygen; I can\u2019t breathe,\u201d a couple days after the fact. I think it was from having to come down from like living up pretty high in this heightened sense of: \u201cDeath is always around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My issues, postpartum, were more like physical, like the C-section, which is really physically taxing. But he was in the NICU for six days, and then he came home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Then he came home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You got to bring your little boy home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; then the twins and Seth came home two days later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> And the family was reunited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Never Once <\/em>Music]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Such a great song and also a <em>great<\/em> story from Courtney Reissig, reminding us of God\u2019s <em>faithfulness<\/em>. God\u2019s hand is all over our stories. I hope today, as you listened to Courtney, that you were encouraged in seeing how God sustained her life and her son\u2019s life. Also, a reminder that we serve a God, who can be trusted during the hard times.<\/p>\n<p>If your story wasn\u2019t like Courtney\u2019s, and it ended in a different way, we have some links on our website, including an interview I had with Nancy Guthrie. She shared how she walked through the loss of two of her children. That\u2019s on our website, FamilyLifeThisWeek.com; that\u2019s FamilyLifeThisWeek.com.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Courtney and her husband brought baby Ben home; and Ben joined his brothers Luke, and Zach, and Seth. But home wasn\u2019t quite how Courtney had remembered it. In a couple of weeks, we\u2019re going to hear that story.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up <em>next<\/em> week, we\u2019re going to remember what it\u2019s like to be thankful in an entitlement world. Kristen Welch shares how her family is surrendering their claim to stuff, and things, and privileges. I hope you can join us for that.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the co-founder of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, along with our president, David Robbins, and our station partners around the country. A big \u201cThank you!\u201d today to our engineer, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers, Marques Holt and Bruce Goff. Justin Adams is our mastering engineer, and Megan Martin is our production coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Our program is a production of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, and our mission is to effectively develop godly families who change the world one home at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I'm Michelle Hill, inviting you to join us again next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u00a9<\/sup>Song:\u00a0 <em>Never Once<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Artist:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matt Redman<\/p>\n<p>Album:\u00a0 <em>Never Once<\/em> (p) 2011 sixstepsrecords\/Sparrow Records<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?<\/p>\n<p>Copyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2021 FamilyLife. 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Reissig tells the harrowing story of the birth of her fourth child, Ben. Some problems cropped up late in the pregnancy that threatened both of their lives and left some emotional scarring in its wake.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/flw\/flw2021-11-13.pdf","transcript_content":"<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> As a young mom, Courtney Reissig was excited for the birth of her fourth son. Like any new mom, she had her fears of what could go wrong; but for Courtney, those fears became <em>real<\/em> in labor and delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> The doctor on call came in; and then, the contractions just kept getting worse. She was like, \u201cI think you\u2019re having a placenta abruption,\u201d which is everyone\u2019s worst nightmare. You can\u2019t tell when it is happening. A placenta abruption\u2014if it\u2019s a full abruption\u2014means certain death for the baby within five minutes and ten minutes for the mom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> We\u2019re going to talk with Courtney Reissig today about the harrowing and amazing birth story of her fourth son, Ben. Stick with us. You\u2019re listening to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Preparing for a baby to be born is a special time in most parents\u2019 lives. You get to choose the paint colors for the nursery; they have to be perfect. You get to put the crib together; you buy diapers and clothes. You pack the outfit you bring the baby home in. It\u2019s a special time, usually. But what happens when things don\u2019t go as they should?\u2014and you don\u2019t have time to prep the nursery; or do all the things you wanted to do that last month, like cook extra meals and freeze them; prewash the baby clothes and blankets. Sometimes, a baby\u2019s story gets hard.<\/p>\n<p>Hard stories are hard to hear, but it\u2019s in those hard stories that many times we see God\u2019s hand clearly. When we pull back the curtain, we see, not just His fingerprints on the journey, but we see His miracles. We walk away; and we are strengthened by knowing that He actively sustains us, actively pursues us, and He walks with us through the hard.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine is here in the studio, who walked through the hard. I\u2019m talking about Courtney Reissig. Courtney, thanks for joining me today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Thank you for having me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You\u2019re welcome. I\u2019m <em>excited<\/em> about our time. It was a little over a year ago when your youngest son, Ben, was born. That was kind of a traumatic experience; wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, it was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was kind of a Psalm 23: \u201cWalk through the valley of the shadow of death\u201d moment for you. Can you tell us why he is a miracle baby?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, if I don\u2019t cry! [Laughter] Someday, I\u2019ll get to the point where I can talk about this without crying. I was 32 weeks pregnant with Ben and was rear-ended in a minor car accident, barely bumped on my way to pick up groceries at Walmart<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. It was a Monday morning. I remembered, in a labor and delivery class when I was pregnant with my twins\u2014so five years prior to that\u2014that if you are ever get in a car accident when you\u2019re pregnant, you should call the doctor. I called; honestly, there is no damage to my car\u2014no damage to anyone else\u2019s car\u2014didn\u2019t think a thing of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was just a quick sort of bump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> She bumped me; yes. I didn\u2019t even get her information. She was an older lady; when I got out of the car, and she saw I was pregnant, she felt terrible. In all honesty, I was thinking, \u201cI just need to go get my groceries and go home. [Laughter] Everyone needs to eat lunch and take a nap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called, as a formality, my doctor\u2019s office. They said, \u201cStandard protocol; you need to go to labor and delivery and be monitored for an hour.\u201d I did; they took lab work. Everything obviously looked fine, but my labs came back with a positive fetal trauma bleed. It was a really high fetal trauma bleed\u2014and it was kind of surprising\u2014they didn\u2019t really know why. That meant I had to stay the night in the hospital and redo the fetal trauma bleed again the next day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wait; trauma bleed from just a bump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Actually, now in hindsight, nobody thinks that the bump did that. They think my body did it. Our pediatrician\u2014he\u2019s a believer as well\u2014and he was like, \u201cI think God had you get hit by a car\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cso we could find this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cso we could find this out.\u201d So that then was on my\/everyone was aware that something was going on. They retook it the next day\u2014did an ultrasound\u2014everything came back fine. The doctor was like, \u201cI think it was just a lab error\u201d; because there\u2019s no way it would\u2019ve come back that high. We went home; they said, \u201cIf you have pain, come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I spoke at a women\u2019s retreat, at your church, that weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes! It was a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; it was a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I do remember you having some uncomfortable\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I was uncomfortable; yes, I was uncomfortable. As I was speaking, I started feeling uncomfortable in my side and thought, \u201cIt must be because I am standing. I <em>am<\/em> almost 33 weeks pregnant with my fourth kid, so surely I am just uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Went home; did the elliptical, because I thought, somehow, I was going to work out whatever pulled muscle I had from sitting and standing all weekend. The discomfort got <em>worse<\/em>. I was sitting on the couch and I thought, \u201cMaybe I just need to go to bed; sometimes they say, \u2018Just go to sleep, and you\u2019ll feel better in the morning.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went to bed; and around 3 in the morning, I woke up in <em>extreme<\/em> pain, where I couldn\u2019t go back to sleep; the pain was so severe. I tried to go to the bathroom, and I just couldn\u2019t walk; I couldn\u2019t stand up straight. I felt my stomach, and my stomach felt rock hard. I was like, \u201cThis is just weird that I\u2019m in so much pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called the on-call doctor, and the nurse called me back, and [I] told her, \u201cThis is what happened on Monday\u2026This is how I\u2019m feeling now.\u201d She said, \u201cI think you need to go to the hospital; I\u2019m concerned your uterus is rupturing.\u201d Because I\u2019ve had previous C-sections, there was this concern that my uterus was rupturing.<\/p>\n<p>I get to the hospital; my pain gets <em>worse<\/em>. At this point, my triage nurse thought: \u201cMaybe your appendix is rupturing,\u201d \u201cMaybe your gallbladder is messed up,\u201d\u2014that can happen when you\u2019re pregnant\u2014which would\u2019ve been preferable to what ended up happening. They did all this testing; they did some lab work. They did internal exams, and they did an ultrasound. With the ultrasound, the pain kept getting worse; every time they would go over the top part of my uterus, I would scream in pain.<\/p>\n<p>A couple hours in, I realized, \u201cI think that\u2019s where my placenta is; that\u2019s where they told me my placenta was on my last ultrasound a few days ago.\u201d At this point, it\u2019s been like four hours. I started having contractions, which caught everyone off guard; because I hadn\u2019t had them before. The contractions then started speeding up. My doctor said I had the most consistent pattern of all the women who were there at labor and delivery; she was like, \u201cWe don\u2019t want you to have a consistent pattern.\u201d [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> This would be <em>good<\/em> <em>if<\/em> you were\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> \u2014if you were forty weeks pregnant and <em>not<\/em> in extreme pain. My pain\u2014I had been in labor before, so I <em>knew<\/em>\/I could explain that this is the worst contraction I\u2019ve ever felt, except it never lets up\u2014which contractions give you some break\u2014it\u2019s like this one <em>long<\/em> constant contraction.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor finally came in\u2014or the doctor, on call, finally came in\u2014I was explaining everything to her; I said, \u201cIt feels like someone took a\/when I have a C-section, like someone cut across the top part of my uterus.\u201d She looked at the ultrasound, and then the contractions starting getting worse. She was like, \u201cI think you\u2019re having a placenta abruption,\u201d which is everyone\u2019s worst nightmare; you can\u2019t tell when it\u2019s happening. A placenta abruption\u2014if it\u2019s a full abruption\u2014means certain death for the baby within five minutes and ten minutes for the mom.<\/p>\n<p>We knew in that moment\u2014like it was one of those moments where, my husband was sleeping in the chair next to me, because he thought I was just having appendicitis\u2014to, all of a sudden, he was like wide awake, thinking, \u201cWhat is happening?\u201d At that moment, everything starting getting much more serious. Ben\u2019s heartrate started going down with each contraction, which meant that the placenta\u2019s not giving him the oxygen he needs during contractions. They were prepping me to give me steroids to get his lungs ready in case they needed to deliver him.<\/p>\n<p>I still remember\u2014I\u2019m lying in this triage bed\u2014we were all just talking. Then the doctor looks at the monitor and sees his heartrate go down, and was like, \u201cTurn her on her side now and give her those steroids, like immediately.\u201d She\u2019s like, \u201cIf he does that again, you\u2019re going into the OR, immediately, to have him.\u201d That was when we were like, \u201cOkay; this is really serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I always wondered, when I\u2019ve been in the hospital for other pregnancies and other things, thinking, \u201cHow do you know when things are really serious?\u201d You know when everyone is in your room all the time. They moved me to a regular room in the high-risk wing of the labor and delivery unit. I\u2019ve <em>never<\/em> seen so many people in a room. Every five minutes there was a nurse in there, trying to move me on my side. They were giving me pain meds, because the pain was so severe. I saw the doctor three or four times just that day.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, after 24 hours, things slowed down a little bit. My contractions were not as regular; the pain subsided some. We started thinking, \u201cAt least, if it\u2019s an abruption,\u201d\u2014which they thought it was\u2014\u201cthen, it\u2019s stopped abrupt-ing for right now.\u201d With an abruption, though, there\u2019s always the risk that it could, all of a sudden, abrupt immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that was always on the table was our doctor said, \u201cThere will come a point where his heartrate goes down and does not come back up. That\u2019s the gamble that we just don\u2019t know: we don\u2019t know if we can get him out in time; can we get you to the OR in time to get him out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Was there ever a [point] in time, where you were thinking, \u201cI just want him out of\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Oh, every <em>day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cbecause I want to be able to\/I know they can fight for him if he\u2019s not [inside me].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney: <\/strong>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney: <\/strong>About a week in, they let me walk the halls of the labor and deliver unit. I would get to walk three times a day. I still remember walking those halls with my husband and saying, \u201cI don\u2019t care if he\u2019s born early; just get him <em>out<\/em>. I <em>know<\/em> he can do okay; I\u2019ve seen\/I\u2019ve taken care of a NICU baby. I <em>know<\/em> what it\u2019s like.\u201d But then, also, every NICU baby\u2019s different. Some babies are born at 31 weeks and do great, and some are born at 34 and do <em>terribly<\/em>. You have <em>no idea<\/em> of what kind of baby they\u2019re going to be, so there is always a risk of\/I mean, the risk was great.<\/p>\n<p>We live ten minutes from the hospital; and at one point, my husband said, \u201cCan I go home and help with the kids?\u201d\u2014this is a few days in. They were like, \u201cHow far away do you live?\u201d He said, \u201cTen minutes.\u201d They were like, \u201cI would stay.\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cSo there\u2019s\/it\u2019s that close?\u2014like she could have him at any moment.\u201d They were like, \u201cYes; we have no idea how it\u2019s going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had a long-term IV in, called mid-line IV, where an IV specialist has to come in and put it in your arm. That was this constant reminder that they could get me under general anesthesia in a matter of <em>seconds<\/em>. They explained the whole process of what it looks like if they have to get him out in a very quick amount of time. They could get to the OR in less than a minute\u2014we would not even know what was happening\u2014and it would be done. That was <em>always<\/em> on the table.<\/p>\n<p>We lived there\u2014for three weeks, we were there in antepartum for three weeks\u2014and just waiting. That was where we lived every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was constant waves of: \u201cWe\u2019ve got this; he\u2019s okay\u201d;\u2014everything\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014and then, all of a sudden, you never knew, when it was going to drop, and he\u2019s not doing okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> But it was just one constant big wave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That\u2019s hard to sustain that for a <em>day<\/em>, let alone weeks on end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes; three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We had <em>great<\/em> care. We had <em>great<\/em> nurses that would answer the same questions over and over again. My husband was <em>amazing<\/em>. He works from home, and so his job was just great\u2014he\u2019d work from the hospital, and he would do his conference calls with his employees from the hospital\u2014his boss was like, \u201cDon\u2019t even worry about work\u201d; so on good days, he\u2019d work a normal amount of hours; on bad days, he would not work as many hours. The Lord was so faithful in all of that.<\/p>\n<p>The other complexity is that we have three other children. They went to bed the night before I went to the hospital, thinking we would be there, and woke up to three weeks of a steady stream of different people every day. You were there; you helped take care of them. My two-year-old had barely started talking, and was super introverted and scared, and wouldn\u2019t get out of bed sometimes when people would go get him; because they would have three different sets of caregivers a day. Our church was <em>great<\/em>; but they [children] went from having <em>me<\/em> every day to having someone in the morning, someone in the afternoon, and someone at night. Sometimes Daniel would get to go home and help put them to bed if I was doing okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I remember they were listless little boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> They were, and they had <em>no<\/em> words. How do you explain to two four-year-olds and a two-year-old what\u2019s going on? When they would come to the hospital, they would cry; they didn\u2019t understand. When Daniel would come home, he was nervous about leaving me at the hospital alone; so then someone at church would come sit with me at the hospital. There was a lot of difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>My mom was able to come\u2014after us being in the hospital for about ten days, she came\u2014it became apparent that I was <em>not<\/em> coming home. My dad decided to go get them and drive them back to Florida, where my parents live. Going to Florida was the best thing for them; it gave them some stability. They had the same people caring for them every day. It took a lot of the frightening nature of what was happening to them out of the equation.<\/p>\n<p>It was the <em>worst<\/em> experience of my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You\u2019re already just thinking about this possible loss of this newborn\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014or this baby that you\u2019re carrying\u2014and then, all of a sudden, experiencing the loss of your three boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes: \u201cWhat if they leave, and I <em>die<\/em>?\u201d [Emotion in voice] \u201cWhat if I <em>die<\/em>, and they don\u2019t see me again, and I don\u2019t get to say goodbye to them?\u201d \u201cWhat if I have to bring home\/come home without Ben?\u201d \u201cWhat if\u2026\u201d\u2014there was all of that. They didn\u2019t get any of it; it was horrible; it was one of the worst days of my life.<\/p>\n<p>They went to Florida, and it was so good! It gave Daniel the opportunity to go to our house and get the house ready for when Ben was born. We had a lot of things we needed to do; we needed to move cribs; we needed to get bunk beds for the twins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014all of that stuff that you had planned to do that last month while he was\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, yes; and thankfully, we had planned a lot of things before the twins were born that we never got to do, so I was used to my kids totally surprising me in their births. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Yes, kids will do that. They surprise us all the time; don\u2019t they? Really, <em>life<\/em> surprises us.<\/p>\n<p>We need to take a break. Courtney, when we come back, I want to talk about the surprising turns and also the fallout of the birth story of baby Ben.<\/p>\n<p>I want to invite <em>you<\/em> to stay with us. We\u2019ll be back in two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>[Radio Station Spot Break]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Courtney Reissig joins me in the studio today. She\u2019s been sharing about the difficult third trimester and birth of her fourth son, Ben.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney, you were sharing that, at 32 weeks, the doctors discovered a placenta abruption, which is really bad and life-threatening. After three weeks in the hospital, things seemed to calm down a little bit; didn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; things had gotten really stable. We scheduled his C-section for<\/p>\n<p>37 weeks; they\u2019re like, \u201cWe\u2019re going to get you to full term, and then we\u2019re going to schedule it and end this ordeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We should have known, when we scheduled it, that my body would be like, \u201cOh, you made a plan? [Laughter] I\u2019m going to change that plan.\u201d Daniel had gone home. The night before\u2014it was a Saturday night\u2014I started having contractions again, really consistently. We\u2019d had visitors\u2014we had a lot of visitors\u2014we\u2019d had visitors that night. I remember thinking, \u201cMan, I\u2019m so uncomfortable,\u201d and moving around, like you do when you\u2019re in labor.<\/p>\n<p>My nurse [finally came in] and was like, \u201cAre you feeling your contractions?\u201d because she was watching them on the monitor. I was like, \u201cYes, they seem more consistent.\u201d She was like, \u201cThey are.\u201d She was a little nervous, so she went and talked to the doctor. He was like, \u201cLet\u2019s just keep her on, see what\u2019s going on.\u201d His heart rate was monitoring fine; so they thought, \u201cYou\u2019re fine; you\u2019ll be okay.\u201d The next morning, the doctor on call came in and said, \u201cYou need to <em>behave<\/em> today; don\u2019t be <em>crazy<\/em> on us today,\u201d because they were all just terrified of having to deliver this baby with a partially-abrupted placenta.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel went home to go get our bag ready; because we thought, \u201cOh, he\u2019s going to come probably in the next few days,\u201d\u2014because I\u2019m going to have a C-section\u2014\u201cso let\u2019s get everything ready.\u201d He was going to work during the week as much as possible. I had to be monitored three times a day; I was on my afternoon monitoring, and they were about to take me off. My nurse and I looked at the monitor. I said, \u201cDid his heartrate just go down with that contraction?\u201d He was like, \u201cOh, it did. You\u2019re not coming off this; I\u2019m going to talk to the doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We thought, \u201cBen has given us multiple false alarms.\u201d I honestly thought, \u201cThis is just another false alarm.\u201d Apparently, it did it two or three more times in that span of him going to talk to the doctor. Also, it went down and didn\u2019t come up very quickly; the doctor was like, \u201cThis is the last straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He came in\u2014I was on the phone with Daniel\u2014he comes in and sits down. When they sit down, it is <em>never<\/em> that they\u2019re going to tell you something good. [Laughter] He said, \u201cIt\u2019s time to deliver this baby.\u201d I said, \u201cLike when?\u201d He said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to prep the OR right now.\u201d I was like, \u201cDaniel, we\u2019re having him right now.\u201d Daniel was like, \u201cThis is my worst nightmare!\u2014that I\u2019m not there.\u201d He\u2019s like frantically running around; he had to go drop something off at someone\u2019s house. He\u2019d forgotten how to get back to the hospital. One of the other pastors in the church, who is a <em>dear<\/em> friend of ours, had said, \u201cI will come and be with you the minute they tell you.\u201d He gets there when Daniel gets there.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re clearing out my room, because I\u2019m not going to be in antepartum anymore. They had to pack up our stuff from living there for three weeks, on top of getting me\u2014<\/p>\n<p>By the time Daniel gets there, they\u2019ve given me everything in my IV; they\u2019ve given me all my medicine for a C-section, and they\u2019re getting me ready.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had two C-sections; I\u2019ve had a lot of surgery, and I\u2019ve never been nervous beforehand like this, mostly because it\u2019s never been this life-or-death. As they\u2019re wheeling me out, I\u2019m looking at all these people\/like all these people in the high-risk unit, who have been our lifeline for three weeks. I\u2019m crying and saying: \u201cThank you!\u201d \u201cThank you for everything you\u2019ve done!\u201d \u201cThank you for being my friend,\u201d \u201cThank you for caring for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They take me to the OR; our nurse prays with us before they take us in. You have to go in by yourself, without your husband, as they prep you; I know that. I get there; and I\u2019m like [whispering], \u201cI don\u2019t know any of these people\u201d; because this is a <em>new<\/em> team of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You were all alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; literally, it was like, \u201cI\u2019m all alone.\u201d When I\u2019m nervous, I talk incessantly; [Laughter] so I start talking incessantly to the nurse, like, \u201cHe almost died when I was first pregnant with him, and now he almost died again.\u201d I explained to her that this was really serious. She was trying to prep me for a C-section.<\/p>\n<p>I turn around\u2014and my\/she wasn\u2019t my nurse that day; but she\u2019d been my nurse in antepartum\u2014she had my nurse that day cover her. She came in\u2014he covered all the other patients\u2014and she came in for the sole purpose of holding my hand; scrubbed in\u2014everything\u2014and she came in and held my hand. I am having a panic attack, unable to breathe. She\u2019s like, \u201cThis is what\u2019s happening; you\u2019re fine.\u201d She\u2019s singing to me; she\u2019s stroking my hair. This is all before Daniel can come in.<\/p>\n<p>He gets there; they start the procedure. It takes awhile because I have some other issues from previous C-sections. He\u2019s born, screaming; when I heard him cry, we both started sobbing; because we were like, \u201cHe\u2019s breathing! At least, he\u2019s breathing.\u201d We have no idea what\u2019s going on; but at least, he\u2019s breathing.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear them, be like: \u201cThis is a miracle baby,\u201d \u201cThis is a miracle baby,\u201d \u201cPlacenta abruptions don\u2019t stop for three weeks; they don\u2019t.\u201d We feel like, in so many ways, God was like, \u201cI\u2019m going to make this placenta abrupt for a little bit and stop it, so you\u2019ll feel the weight of your mortality and your son\u2019s mortality; but I\u2019m <em>not<\/em> going to let you die today.\u201d In hindsight, that\u2019s how we <em>feel<\/em> like it really happened. Nobody saw that and thought, \u201cThere\u2019s no way this just stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> What was it like in those moments? He\u2019s crying; and you\u2019re sitting there, going\/I mean, did you think, \u201cGod had answered our prayers\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes! It was just this big exhale of weight being lifted off. We didn\u2019t know how he was doing at that point; but we knew he was, at least, alive. And we knew that, at least, I was alive. We knew, at least at that point, there\u2019s enough\/he came out <em>breathing<\/em>, which is <em>huge<\/em>; and I wasn\u2019t bleeding out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Was there a scary moment after he was born that you were thinking, \u201cI could still die\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Not me. He didn\u2019t do as great right away. He did well initially; then, it became apparent that he would need the NICU. That was harder for me, emotionally; because they had prepped us all along that: \u201cIf you can get to 36 weeks,\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014\u201che can go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes\u2014\u201che can go with you in your room.\u201d They really tried to make him not have to go; but they think, either the placenta issue or the force with which he was brought out, because it was a difficult C-section\u2014they think some of that made it so that he wasn\u2019t\/because he struggled a little bit at first.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of moments where I had, in hindsight, I think I had a lot of anxiety about dying. I would have these things happen, where I think they were panic attacks\u2014but I wasn\u2019t aware that they were\u2014I was like, \u201cI can\u2019t breathe. Give me some oxygen; I can\u2019t breathe,\u201d a couple days after the fact. I think it was from having to come down from like living up pretty high in this heightened sense of: \u201cDeath is always around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My issues, postpartum, were more like physical, like the C-section, which is really physically taxing. But he was in the NICU for six days, and then he came home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Then he came home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You got to bring your little boy home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; then the twins and Seth came home two days later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> And the family was reunited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Never Once <\/em>Music]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Such a great song and also a <em>great<\/em> story from Courtney Reissig, reminding us of God\u2019s <em>faithfulness<\/em>. God\u2019s hand is all over our stories. I hope today, as you listened to Courtney, that you were encouraged in seeing how God sustained her life and her son\u2019s life. Also, a reminder that we serve a God, who can be trusted during the hard times.<\/p>\n<p>If your story wasn\u2019t like Courtney\u2019s, and it ended in a different way, we have some links on our website, including an interview I had with Nancy Guthrie. She shared how she walked through the loss of two of her children. That\u2019s on our website, FamilyLifeThisWeek.com; that\u2019s FamilyLifeThisWeek.com.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Courtney and her husband brought baby Ben home; and Ben joined his brothers Luke, and Zach, and Seth. But home wasn\u2019t quite how Courtney had remembered it. In a couple of weeks, we\u2019re going to hear that story.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up <em>next<\/em> week, we\u2019re going to remember what it\u2019s like to be thankful in an entitlement world. Kristen Welch shares how her family is surrendering their claim to stuff, and things, and privileges. I hope you can join us for that.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the co-founder of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, along with our president, David Robbins, and our station partners around the country. A big \u201cThank you!\u201d today to our engineer, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers, Marques Holt and Bruce Goff. Justin Adams is our mastering engineer, and Megan Martin is our production coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Our program is a production of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, and our mission is to effectively develop godly families who change the world one home at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I'm Michelle Hill, inviting you to join us again next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u00a9<\/sup>Song:\u00a0 <em>Never Once<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Artist:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matt Redman<\/p>\n<p>Album:\u00a0 <em>Never Once<\/em> (p) 2011 sixstepsrecords\/Sparrow Records<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?<\/p>\n<p>Copyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2021 FamilyLife. 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