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Tggant update...I'm back!

TggantTggant member
in February 2014 Moms
Hi Ladies!!

Thank you @OTMFL for posting my status last week.  Sorry for the delay in giving more info.  It's been over a week of amazing events. And thank you all for your thoughts and prayers!!  I do remember checking in at some point and seeing @OTMFL's posting and your responses really brought a smile to my life.  I still wasn't ready to post at that moment though.  

My brief story:

I was super sick for two weeks, to the point of losing 20lbs bc i wouldn't/couldn't eat.  
Went to routine office visit, blood pressure elevated, fundus small for first time. 
Sent to hospital for blood pressure monitoring.  given ultra sound sheet and told to get ultra sound "soon"
Get to hospital, bp won't regulate.  they take me for ultra.  find that LO is growth restricted, placenta not giving him nourishment, in fact he stopped growing at week 31.  They inform me they will start inducing.  This was Monday about 8 pm. 
Inducing was awful.  Vaginal drugs, oral drugs, pitocin.  Plus Magnesium sulfate to counter seizures with bp.  Wednesday I had enough awareness to check out HDBD and my Wednesday ladies.  By Thursday, they're ready to label me "failed inducement c section".  Last chance was to break waters and see.  After a half day of decent contractions, I requested the epidural.  I figured since I wasn't getting my drug free water birth, I may as well ease the pain.  Plus after days of laboring, I was so fatigued.  And Mag Sul was awful too.  
Then shit got scary.  
Epi failed.  I bled out.  LO's heart rate disappeared, my bp plummeted. Rushed to OR.  My doctor finds LOs beat, my vitals return.  She very sternly tells the team she's calling off the c section ( the one thing i do remember from that moment).  I thought I was gone for 5 min.  Family tells me it was more like 20-25 min of painful waiting.  Epi redone even though there was no answer as to why it failed and no knowledge if it would fail again.  Dr. asks me if I want to continue laboring and hope for vaginal or go for c section.  dilation was still just not happening, think i was at a 4 at this point.  I told her I trusted her and would continue laboring.  Next check, I'm at a 10!  I push through three contractions.  I really didn't believe the team all chanting about how great I was doing...all these "good girl" comments, I was in total disbelief.  My mother tells me I could have had baby out in three pushes but I "prairie dogged" him" (yep, thanks ma).  So fourth push and he arrived!  Let's not forget, it was four pushes for a premature baby.  Of course there's more, but this is already longer than expected. 

LO is still a patient.  I am grateful to have a great team taking care of him and teaching me so much.  Motherhood has taught me that I can't plan for anything anymore.  I had such a routine, non-eventful pregnancy...never did I expect to birth a premie.  Here's my fav pic of him at his most alert (and posing for the lactation consultant):
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