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Had my baby! (updated with pictures)
Well it looks like I'm a March Mommy instead of April mommy. As most of you know I've been on bed rest since 32w 6d, and things started to go down hill over the weekend. Friday night I started to have contractions, I called the on-call OB, Dr. Lenowich (sp), who basically told me just drink two cups of water and lay on my left. I did that and finally got to sleep that evening. Saturday came and went and no contractions, but Sunday was another story. Sunday I just woke up feeling off, I tried to lay around, but we had a few visitors that day. After our visitors left I ended up going upstairs to lay down, and started to really time my contractions, they were two every five minutes, so I ended up calling the on-call doctor and he told me come in.
We arrive at FSH around 4:30 p.m., my blood pressure was good, but I was still having contractions every two minutes. I was dilated to 2.5 cm. Things really never progressed, and finally at 11:30 they decided to keep me in triage for monitoring. Around 1:00 a.m. I asked for something for the pain, all I got was ambein and about an hour later I asked for something stronger, they gave me staydah (sp), which I was able to fall for about an hour. I guess in that hour, my uterus relaxed because my nurse rushed in w/ the triage doctor, they checked me and I was 6/7 cm. As you can imagine, I was kind of freaking out, I was still in a twilight, so I was just coming too, sound awful, but that's how I felt. They rushed me down to L&D, got the room set up, I remember asking for an epidural, but things happened so fast, that the OB walked in and asked if I was ready to go. You also have to understand that I had never met this doctor, not my regular OB. I was told that I could wait 30 minutes for the epidural or have the baby now. At that moment, I felt the urge to push. I pushed 3 times and Caroline Vivian was born at 3/12/12 at 4:57 a.m. weighting 5lbs 5 oz and 19 1/4 inches long. She was taken to the NICU because she was born at 34w 5d.
She's currently still in the NICU, off cpap, we are trying breast feeding, she latched this afternoon and we are hoping that she will be home in the next two weeks. I will try and keep the board posted as much as possible.
Thank you all who have been praying for us.
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Re: Had my baby! (updated with pictures)
Congratulations! Glad to hear she is doing well so far. Post some pictures of your little girl when you can.
Who is going to do the "pregnant after preemie check-in post" now lol. :-)
BPF May 12, 2013 :: EDD Janaury 22, 2013 :: MC Began On July 14, 2013 at 12W4D
Born at 34w2d:
Me: PCOS DH: Low everything (MFI)
Clomid with TI x 3 2010 BFN
Clomid+IUI+Ovidrel 2010 BFN
IVF w/ICSI #1 2011
9/8/11 Beta #1: 2082!! 9/19/11 Beta#2 34,689!! U/S 9/22/11 HR 127! 11/8/11 HR 150! 12/6/11 HR 136! 12/14/11 HR 139! Born at 26w2d on 2/4/2012! After 83 days in the NICU, Adalyn came home on 4/26/12!
FET 1 3/2013 BFN
FET 2 5/2013 BFN
Congratulations!! Sounds like she's doing pretty well. Hope her stay in the NICU is a quick one.
P.S. I just love both your girl's names. Too cute!
Peanut Butter and Jelly!
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Hopefully one of the new mama's to be will take over!
Our precious girl, born at 27 weeks.
Yup, sorry I just cross posted this from my local board and didn't think about changing anything. Yes, I delivered at FSH with both my girls and we had a great experience both times.
Check out the Baltimore Board, we do monthly playdates.
This time I had PTL, unlike last time which was pre-e.