What is your proudest moment?

3boys=love · May 2013

Besides the moment your child was born (for 2+ moms), what is your proudest moment so far?

0hkgbs · May 2013

Besides when DD was born I would have to say graduating with my MSN in 2010.

3boys=love · May 2013

Mine was last year. I kept telling my doctor I had mastitis, she kept telling me no it was a blocked duct. I ended up in the ER a couple of times after being to my doctor about this 4 times. And was given a couple of different antibiotics. By that point it was to late.

i woke up on the morning of April 14th and could barely move my right breast was so sore and large. My parents and boyfriend decided right away I was going back to the ER. My mom and dad stayed home with our boys who were just 11 months and 1 month at the time and we headed down to the ER again.

This time they took it more seriously and called in the surgeon. I had an emergency surgery on my right breast to remove a 13 cm abscess AND two and a half cups of fluid from it.

After that I was sent home to the care of in home nurses who came everyday to unpack, clean and repack my breast.

A week later one nurse noticed some more symptoms of mastitis and sent me back to the ER. While there again a different surgeon came in and said he had heard about me it was the biggest they had removed at the hospital. He said I was ok for the time being (I was seeing my surgeon for a checkup two days later anyway). Which I ended up having another surgery after seeing her again to remove another abscess and more fluid.

I had the nurses continue to come into my house for the next five months.

This brings me to my proudest moment. I continued to breast feed my youngest throughout all of this and continued up until he was a year old, only on one side and exclusively breast fed.

SvedkaStoli · May 2013

Wow! You're my hero! That is amazing.

sbrick15:

Mine was last year. I kept telling my doctor I had mastitis, she kept telling me no it was a blocked duct. I ended up in the ER a couple of times after being to my doctor about this 4 times. And was given a couple of different antibiotics. By that point it was to late.

i woke up on the morning of April 14th and could barely move my right breast was so sore and large. My parents and boyfriend decided right away I was going back to the ER. My mom and dad stayed home with our boys who were just 11 months and 1 month at the time and we headed down to the ER again.

This time they took it more seriously and called in the surgeon. I had an emergency surgery on my right breast to remove a 13 cm abscess AND two and a half cups of fluid from it.

After that I was sent home to the care of in home nurses who came everyday to unpack, clean and repack my breast.

A week later one nurse noticed some more symptoms of mastitis and sent me back to the ER. While there again a different surgeon came in and said he had heard about me it was the biggest they had removed at the hospital. He said I was ok for the time being (I was seeing my surgeon for a checkup two days later anyway). Which I ended up having another surgery after seeing her again to remove another abscess and more fluid.

I had the nurses continue to come into my house for the next five months.

This brings me to my proudest moment. I continued to breast feed my youngest throughout all of this and continued up until he was a year old, only on one side and exclusively breast fed.

BuckeyeANG · May 2013

Sbrick: that's an amazing story! I can't believe you BF through all of that.

Which reminds me of my proudest moment: BFing my DS for a year.

alie78_80 · May 2013

Besides when DS was born.

Becoming a home owner by myself at 24 and graduating with my masters (I'm pretty proud of both of those).

alie78_80 · May 2013

sbrick15:
Mine was last year. I kept telling my doctor I had mastitis, she kept telling me no it was a blocked duct. I ended up in the ER a couple of times after being to my doctor about this 4 times. And was given a couple of different antibiotics. By that point it was to late.
i woke up on the morning of April 14th and could barely move my right breast was so sore and large. My parents and boyfriend decided right away I was going back to the ER. My mom and dad stayed home with our boys who were just 11 months and 1 month at the time and we headed down to the ER again.
This time they took it more seriously and called in the surgeon. I had an emergency surgery on my right breast to remove a 13 cm abscess AND two and a half cups of fluid from it.
After that I was sent home to the care of in home nurses who came everyday to unpack, clean and repack my breast.
A week later one nurse noticed some more symptoms of mastitis and sent me back to the ER. While there again a different surgeon came in and said he had heard about me it was the biggest they had removed at the hospital. He said I was ok for the time being (I was seeing my surgeon for a checkup two days later anyway). Which I ended up having another surgery after seeing her again to remove another abscess and more fluid.
I had the nurses continue to come into my house for the next five months.
This brings me to my proudest moment. I continued to breast feed my youngest throughout all of this and continued up until he was a year old, only on one side and exclusively breast fed.

WOW!! That is amazing!! Great job!

ChuggingWater · May 2013

Making it through my divorce with phenomenal credit (in addition to surviving the years of single motherhood).

RunningMom08 · May 2013

I would have to say it's a tie between EPing for 7 months, and raising DS a lot on my own while DH was away this past year. He was gone for about 5-6 months, so I was by myself.

blondie10m · May 2013

Probably BFing with no supplementation for 14 months while pumping at work. Battling supply issues and many nursing strikes at times and despite this, donated over 16 gallons of BM to a milk bank, which was pasteurized and used for sick babies in the NICU.

I think that was more difficult than getting a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from an Ivy League school, honestly.

LMCB12 · May 2013

I just started crying. Pregnancy hormones......

sbrick15:
Mine was last year. I kept telling my doctor I had mastitis, she kept telling me no it was a blocked duct. I ended up in the ER a couple of times after being to my doctor about this 4 times. And was given a couple of different antibiotics. By that point it was to late.i woke up on the morning of April 14th and could barely move my right breast was so sore and large. My parents and boyfriend decided right away I was going back to the ER. My mom and dad stayed home with our boys who were just 11 months and 1 month at the time and we headed down to the ER again.This time they took it more seriously and called in the surgeon. I had an emergency surgery on my right breast to remove a 13 cm abscess AND two and a half cups of fluid from it. After that I was sent home to the care of in home nurses who came everyday to unpack, clean and repack my breast.A week later one nurse noticed some more symptoms of mastitis and sent me back to the ER. While there again a different surgeon came in and said he had heard about me it was the biggest they had removed at the hospital. He said I was ok for the time being I was seeing my surgeon for a checkup two days later anyway. Which I ended up having another surgery after seeing her again to remove another abscess and more fluid.I had the nurses continue to come into my house for the next five months.This brings me to my proudest moment. I continued to breast feed my youngest throughout all of this and continued up until he was a year old, only on one side and exclusively breast fed.

cnwilbur1030 · May 2013

0hkgbs:
Besides when DD was born I would have to say graduating with my MSN in 2010.nbsp;

Me too but I graduated in 2012 with my MSN, 2 weeks after DD was born! I love being a nurse practitioner!

meluevano · May 2013

I would giving birth to DS and having a natural birth!!

Saltina11 · May 2013

Graduating from law school (debt-free) and carrying my 9 month old baby girl across the stage with me last May. I worked full time during the day and went to school at night. Not that I'm doing anything with that degree (yet)!

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