Had my appendix removed on Friday, at 32 weeks

lostaspen · January 2012

Hi Ladies! I'm most active on this board and thought I'd share. I started having a stomach ache Thursday night and it quickly got worse and worse, and I had waves of pain (that I knew were not contractions), diarrhea and throwing up. Talked to the nurse hotline and my midwife, and both told me to go to the ER since I was having pain across my entire abdomen. We got to the ER about 5am, and they sent us to labor and delivery since I'm past 20 weeks. They gave me an IV for fluids, which actually helped with the pain (dehydration makes cramps worse), and eventually decided to give me a CT scan to see if it was my appendix, or kidney stones, etc. It turned out to be my appendix, and an hour later they removed it.

There was a slight risk the baby wouldn't tolerate the surgery well and they would have needed to do an emergency c/s, but luckily the baby handled the whole ordeal amazingly well and my appendix hadn't ruptured yet! 30 hours after surgery they let me go home. So so glad to have an inside baby still and I'm still able to have a VBAC (barring any other emergencies)!

Recovery has been painful, especially when the baby kicks the incision/surgery area, but leaps and bounds easier than a c/s. All the nurses and doctors seemed supportive of me planning a VBAC, even though we're planning to do it at home :-) It's nice to know that if I end up at he hospital again, I kinda already know them.

Hope everyone else had a less eventful weekend :-)