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Pregnant after a Loss
Birth Story Pic in post.... LONG
Callen?s birth Story
On 12/22/10 at 38 weeks I went into the OB office for my weekly BPP US /check up/NST. It had been ordered for the rest of the pg because I had low amniotic fluid and the baby was small. All went well with the tests. Got my first internal and I was high and tight? Dr asked when my next growth ultra sound was and I said Jan 5th my due date. He then asked when the last one was, I replied Dec 8th. Apparently at that growth U/S the baby was measuring in the 12th percentile. The Dr deiced that we needed to do another one that day. When the results came back the baby was only measuring in the 7th percentile, and when the Dr walked in the room he said ?How about we have a baby today??
I was a little taken aback to be honest. I had just an hour ago told DH that everything was measuring fine and that we likely would not be having a baby this week. He was sad because he wanted to meet the baby but understood. The Dr sent me over to L&D. He said that I could walk but I needed to move my car to the hospital garage so I told him I would do that and go up there. I was pretty much in shock. I called my best friend and had a total meltdown. I told her everything and she helped me to calm down (I knew if I called DH in that state he would get to the same place and I needed one of us to be calm!!) She told me she would change all her Christmas plans and drive up that night (2 ? hours away by car). I then called DH and told him we were having a baby. He did not believe me, but it sank in soon enough. He was ready to leave work and drive like a maniac to the hospital. I told him to take a deep breath, and since it was past lunch time I was going to move the car and grab something to eat because I was not sure when they would let me. I called my mom and she got a flight from AZ to Seattle. I got checked in and that is when the fun began.
They wanted to get me hooked up to pitocin and the monitors to see how his heart would react to contractions. If it was not favorable then it was going to have to be a c-section. They tried to get a vein for the IV and my nurse did not want to do it. She called her charge nurse and she did not want to do it. They then called the IV nurse. She could not make it so they had an anesthesiologist come out, the first try he blew out a vein. Second one he got in but 10 min after he left it blew out too. In the end I had to have 5 IVs total. They baby did well on the pitocin so we were going to induce and see where that got us.
They inserted Misoprostol ? soon the contactions were 5 min apart and about 40 sec in length. I had to stop talking and breath through them. At 3 am they came and checked me and no change. So they stopped it because they decided that it was not good for the baby. Thursday they decided to try a foley catheter to see if that would open the cervix. So all day I had contractions and it was not a good day. That night they came in and said that they could try the Misoprostol again or pitocin again but that my cervix was really unfavorable. The internal exams were the most painful things I had come across! I decided to try again that nigh with the Misoprostol because I wanted to make sure I did everything I could to have a vaginal delivery.
The morning of 12/24 I was still tight and closed. The baby was still good but had a few fetal heart dips. Because of the concerns of his size and the low fluid we decided that a C-Section would be best. By 10:53 PST I had an outside baby! A tiny one at that? He was born 38 weeks 2 days and was 5.8 lbs and 17.25 in long. We are so in Love!!
So far DH has been amazing. Helping me get in and out of bed and get to the bathroom. He has changed all the diapers but the one I did and a couple that the nurses did because they needed to. My recovery has been decent. I hurt but we only had to spend two days after surgery in the hospital. We came home today.
We were expecting a Jan baby. But on her way up my best friend stopped at target to get something to snack on and drink and found a stocking that said Baby?s First Christmas and was Winnie the Pooh which we did his nursery in.
Introducing Callen Thomas:
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Re: Birth Story Pic in post.... LONG
Isabella Faith---Born 12/17/10 via c-section.
Abigail Marie---Born 11/16/12 via c-section
m/c 12/25/09 (5w5d) mm/c D&C 4/9/10 (11w1d) Take home baby 2/22/11
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He's adorable. Congrats!!
4 losses (cp Feb 28 09, mc April 9 09 (5w5d), mc Aug 10 09 (7w1d), d&c Apr 12 10 (grew to 6w3d, mc confirmed at 8w5d). RX: Overies PCOS (hormones normal) & Balanced Translocation of Ch. 7 & 13 (40-50% mc risk)
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BFP #1 March 24, 2010; missed m/c May 26, 2010 @ 12w 4d; D&E May 28, 2010
BFP #2 Oct 20, 2010; My little boy was born on July 5, 2011
BFP #3 April 30, 2013; Chemical Pg May 5, 2013
BFP #4 Aug 22, 2013; It's a boy. Loss discovered at 24 weeks on Jan 15, 2014 (cause CMV virus)
BFP #5 April 6, 2014; missed m/c May 15, 2014 @ 9 weeks; Misoprostol May 15, 2014; D&C May June 3, 2014
Twin boys born too early at 17w4d and 18w2d in February 2010
Transabdominal cerclage placed September 2010
DS born at 35w1d in February 2011
Twin girls born at exactly 36w in February 2013
6/14/10 BFP; 6/30/10 Dx ectopic
11/16/10 BFP #2; DD born 7/26/11
BFP #2 4/13/10. Bridget born 12/28/10
BFP #3 Finn born 8/11/15
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BFP on Cycle 14--TWINS! Identical twin boys stillborn at 19wks(1/9/10)
3 break cycles; took clomid 50mg, BFP #2 Beta #1 35, Beta #2 338!!! Owen was born 2/11/11!
TTC#2: 4 cycles on clomid: BFNs
BFP #3: Cycle #5 100mg clomid; beta #1 21; beta #2 6=CP
Cycle #6 break cycle TTC no meds=BFN
Cycle #7: 150 clomid+ovidril+IUI=BFN (switched to RE)
Cycle #8: follistem+ovidril+TI=BFN
Cycle #9 Forced break due to cyst
Cycle #10 follistem+ovidril+TI=BFN
Cycle #11 follistem+ovidril+TI=BFN
Cycle#12 Forced break due to cyst, went on BCP; did repeat HSG, Saline U/S
Cycle #13 IVF: Follistim/Menapur ER 11-30 11 eggs, 5 mature, 4 fertilized and 3dt on 12-3; BFN
Cycle #14: IVF#2 lupron/follistim/menopur ER 1-22, 19 eggs, 14 fertilized, 5dt on 1-27, BFP!! beta 1: 63, beta 2: 119; EDD 10-15-13; 1 frozen embie
BFP#1 missed mc on 7/14/10 at 10 weeks
Missed m/c 11.09 | Missed m/c 3.10 | We miss you & love you so.
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? Kristen & Austin ~ Married 07.04.09 ?
-m/c at 11w2d due to partial molar 2008 -m/c #2 2009
Beautiful daughter born February 2011
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