Note to self.........

Don't try to put your wedding ring back on too soon after you have a baby. Oh yes that was the case for me at 4:00 this morning. I woke to feed Landan around 2:30 and while doing so I realized that my ring finger felt and looked different than the rest of my fingers. I touched it and it was warm and very swollen. While I was pregnant I had the same reaction while wearing my wedding band and I think it was triggered again. Except this time I didn't have much wriggle room to get it off seeing as my fingers haven't gone back down to normal. I tried not to panic as I was in the middle of feeding Landan so I waited and once he was done I attempted to slide it off with baby oil, lotion soap, you name it. I even held ice cubes to it, soaked my hand in a bowl of cool water and held my hand above my head all in an effort to try and get the swelling to go down. After about an hour of trying I told Nate I may have to go down to the fire department to get them to help get if off. He agreed seeing as my finger was about to explode. So I looked up the non-emergency phone # for the fire department and spoke with a lady and told her my (very embarrassing) situation. She said I didn't have to go down to the fire department but that she could dispatch and engine to come to the house. So at 4:05am what seemed to be the biggest fire engine the department had rolled up to our house. I couldn't believe it had come to this. The guys walk in with this little ring cutting tool. after about 20 mins the ring was off! But to my dismay it was cut and now bent. All cause I had to wear it all too soon.



Here is the pic I sent to Nate after I was able to get the ring on. See it fit. (mind you it was in our safety deposit box at the bank, so that shows the effort I made to wear it.)


Some of the tools used in the operation



The finished project. Cut right in the middle and bent. this picture doesn't do it much justice. It was a very sad moment to see them cutting my wedding rings.