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February 2016 Moms
FunnyGal18
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Couldn't hold it in any longer!
FunnyGal18
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Well, I just had an emergency c section on the 11th at 4:30am.
I was at home when i woke up to some blood at 4am 24 hrs prior. I'm supposed to be sleeping so I'll come back to fill in the gaps but I almost died from an abrupt placenta here at the hospital. Trust your mommy instincts, ladies. It could save lives. My twins were delivered at 32 weeks. Still working on names....born 3.5 Oz roughly. Totally sleep deprived but totally worth it! They are all little miracles.
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T&P glad you're all safe!
Spontaneous pregnancy #1
DD1 July 31, 2011
Trying for #2 since Oct 11
Spontaneous pregnancy #2= Ectopic #2= lost left tube
Spontaneous pregnancy #3= DD2 January 29, 2016
Spontaneous pregnancy #4= Ectopic #3
Spontaneous pregnancy #5= Baby #3 is a BOY!!!
Congratulations on your twins, I'm glad you're all ok!
Here are the deets: I went to get up to pee at 3am. 4 am I felt a leak. I thought, " well, I just peed so I better check what's going on down there." DH says, "Is it blood?" My towels are red so I walk over to the bed with a towel in my crotch. There is pink liquid on the bed. I say "yeah, its blood. We need to go to the hospital right away."
I put on a pad and some clothes and grab my hospital bag whilst DH is going upstairs to grab the baby. Pad is soaked within 5 mins. Change the pad only to find a piece of liver looking meat, which is the size of a filet mignon or the size of my hand. I think that it's the damn placenta. I chuck it down the toliet and save that bit of info for the 40 min drive that we have to the hospital. DH is freaking out. I tell him to be calm. I just need him to drive to get us there safely. I know that I could bleed out and die potentially from reading about placenta abruption... but I don't feel the gushing like I did earlier.
Leave the house and make it there in 20 mins bc dh drove 90 the whole way. Admitted.
Dr. Checks me with fingers. Everything is closed.
Dr. Checks me with speculum. Everything is closed but she can't really see bc of the blood. I'm not gushing. It's still just small amts. I'm having contractions here and there but I've been having those for a month bc the twins move like crazy...stress triggered them, not enough water, uterus not big enough, etc. I just usually take done Tylenol and lay down when I get too achy. No big deal, right? Besides, they aren't reg contractions like they tell me are the signs of labor. So, the lady dr says..."I'm just gonna treat u like u r gonna give birth."
Great. I think to myself. I'm getting all of this stuff for nothing. I'm not having these babies right now. I'm going to make it until 37 weeks. I have to wait until the holidays are over. I need my family to help me and they can't come until after christmas...
-Magnesium drip started
-Steroid for lungs given
-Antibiotics given
I'm not allowed any food for the whole 24 hrs. Only ice chips and they won't let me have too many of those either. I'm a starving, hungry, pregnant lady! All that I can think about is food. My mouth is like the Sahara desert. The mag drip is making me hot, sweaty, tired, like horrible...just awful. I never read how bad the mag drip feels. It's just a normal thing that they give you to stop early labor.
The mag drip decreases over time....
After 24 hrs...everything is so calm no big contractions. They even let me have a sprite and beef broth. We are talking about leaving and going home in a day. So awesome!!!! Around 3 am, my body changes like the weather. Some big contractions come but they aren't regular at all, so I'm not worried. I'm going home, I think. I feel the urge to make a bowel movement....The nurse puts a plastic, pink bedpan under me. I throw my hubsand out of the room. I need privacy. A nurse comes by a long time, after i had asked, "can I use the toliet?" The dr says yes. I need gravity to help me go potty. So, I'm in the bathroom with a catheter shoved up my urethra (they put that in there when I got the mag drip bc I'm not allowed to get up. At all. Mag drip makes you weak. But at this point im only getting 2 instead 6 units of mag so the mag is wearing off). Bm was successful and I'm peeing. I've Had This Giant Urge To pee this whole time bc babies are head down, right on my bladder. Well, I think that I'm peeing and it's a lot of pee! (They tell me later that it wasn't pee. It is in fact, blood. )
I feel light headed. I think that I'm going to pass out. I pull the emergency cord bc my nurse is changing my bedding and I'm all alone in the bathroom. Lots of nurses rush into my room. I remember mine being next to me as I'm being transferred from the toliet to wheelchair. I'm like please don't leave me *nurse's name*. I black out but I know that I'm back on my bed. I hear, " oh she's 4 cm dilated" from the male doctor (lady doc shift was over). Charge nurse had just checked me right before my little bathroom visit. She had said, "20% effaced. Cervix closed."
I am whisked away to the OR. The mask goes on and I'm out like a light. They cut me open like a deer. Both babies are born within the same min...4:18am. 2 doctors pulled them out at the same time-one boy, one girl. I was told that their bpms were 80 right before they rushed me into the OR. I ended up losing 2 liters of blood (mostly in the bathroom bm trip, I presume). The doc says that if I had had my placenta get detached at home, we'd all be dead.
I feel so lucky to be alive. My babies are fighting upstairs in the nicu. They are fighting for their lives. I never got to hold them or nurse them like I had planned. I'm just focusing on making milk, which is hard bc I'm only 32 weeks...I'm not even going to dwell on the negatives bc we have got to make the best of things. I'm setting goals for milk production and just taking it day by day. You never know how many days are left in this thing called life.
Thank you for reading. I feel so blessed in many ways. I've been lurking but not posting. I felt like life was passing me by bc I've been stuck in bed for the last month, feeling sorry for myself, wishing that I were on a vacation or shopping...I'm so selfish...still...and so vain. I read everybody's struggles here from time to time when I can keep up. Pregnancy and child birth is so hard...but the end result is so magical that the suffering is worth it.
Thank you again for the kind words and love tits.
Baby F.......02/02/2016