Surprise BFP! 06/08/15
Nadine GraceMarie 02/10/16
Diagnosed with placenta increta post delivery:
emergency partial hysterectomy - cervix and ovaries still intact
Gestational surrogacy or adoption TBD
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Nadine's Scary Arrival (Update in comments)
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Monday morning I had my 39 week appointment. I had progressed to 3cm and 80% effaced, so they decided to strip my membranes.
Yesterday morning, (2/9) my water broke around 9:30am. We got to the hospital around 10:30 and were checked in and in my room by 11:30. They let me labor on my own (ended up not needing any pit). From 11:30 to about 9pm I only progressed from a 3 to a 5, but after getting in the shower I progressed from a 5 to a 7 in 30 minutes. At that point I decided to get some nubain. I continued to labor and pushed her out in 45 minutes. I only had a minor 1st degree tear.
However, my midwife started having problems with my placenta not coming out. After what seemed like forever and a ton of pain, they had to call in the Doctor. He was able to get it out but they discovered I still had a part in me. They ended having to rush me for an emergency surgery to attempt to scrape the rest of the fragments out. When they got in there, they discovered my placenta had somehow grown into my uterus, and after so much blood loss they decided that they needed to perform a hysterectomy.
Nadine GraceMarie was born 2/10/2016 at 12:05am. She weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces and 20 inches long! She has a beautiful head of dark brown curly hair and she is literally perfect. I am currently in the ICU but will be moving up to L&D very soon. I got to hold her for 30 minutes earlier but I'm excited to be going up to the room where I'll be with her for good! I had to get 5 blood transfusions so they were definitely monitoring me. I am at peace with my hysterectomy and realize that it was what needed to be done.
Lastly, my SO is a total champ. He has been such an amazing support system and daddy through this all! And thankfully, everything still is in working order down there so in the future we may be able to use a surrogate!
Yesterday morning, (2/9) my water broke around 9:30am. We got to the hospital around 10:30 and were checked in and in my room by 11:30. They let me labor on my own (ended up not needing any pit). From 11:30 to about 9pm I only progressed from a 3 to a 5, but after getting in the shower I progressed from a 5 to a 7 in 30 minutes. At that point I decided to get some nubain. I continued to labor and pushed her out in 45 minutes. I only had a minor 1st degree tear.
However, my midwife started having problems with my placenta not coming out. After what seemed like forever and a ton of pain, they had to call in the Doctor. He was able to get it out but they discovered I still had a part in me. They ended having to rush me for an emergency surgery to attempt to scrape the rest of the fragments out. When they got in there, they discovered my placenta had somehow grown into my uterus, and after so much blood loss they decided that they needed to perform a hysterectomy.
Nadine GraceMarie was born 2/10/2016 at 12:05am. She weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces and 20 inches long! She has a beautiful head of dark brown curly hair and she is literally perfect. I am currently in the ICU but will be moving up to L&D very soon. I got to hold her for 30 minutes earlier but I'm excited to be going up to the room where I'll be with her for good! I had to get 5 blood transfusions so they were definitely monitoring me. I am at peace with my hysterectomy and realize that it was what needed to be done.
Lastly, my SO is a total champ. He has been such an amazing support system and daddy through this all! And thankfully, everything still is in working order down there so in the future we may be able to use a surrogate!
Re: Nadine's Scary Arrival (Update in comments)
BFP 12/31/14, EDD 9/08/14 ~ Natural M/C 2/21/14 at 11.5 weeks
BFP 5/24/15 - EDD 2/4/16
Pregnancy #2-Due 8/24/17 MMC-01/09/17
DD-Due 10/24/17
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Congratulations and I hope you have a quick recovery.
So my midwife came and talked to me this morning and really put my mind at peace. Most likely, I had a placenta accreta. It's rare, and most women that get it had a previous c-section or uterus surgery. It's not something that can be seen on ultrasound. It's when the placenta attaches deep into uterine wall. Even when the majority of my placenta tried to detach, not all of it could. They tried to perform a D&C but in the end needed to remove all of it. All of my doctors said they are incredibly moved by my natural childbirth, my calmness before surgery (it got hectic, especially when I started losing a lot of blood), and how amazing my recovery has been.
I have officially got all of my medical paraphanelia unhooked (I had a central line in my neck, a catheter, an arterial line in my left arm, and a regular line I guess in my right arm) and I will be released at some point tomorrow!
Thank you everyone for the well wishes!
Surprise BFP! 06/08/15
Nadine GraceMarie 02/10/16
Diagnosed with placenta increta post delivery: emergency partial hysterectomy - cervix and ovaries still intact
Gestational surrogacy or adoption TBD
While not even close to what you went through, I had a part of my placenta break off during my c-section with my first. I heard it all going down, the OB urgently calling another doctor into the OR to decide what to do and my stomach turning at the thought of a hysterectomy. It still give me chills to talk about, and I can still hear that doctor in my head yelling for them to get someone else in there. Make sure you take some time to talk though it if you need to. Maybe you won't now, but down the road if it starts to get to you. There's no time-limit on emotions/decompressing from childbirth, no matter what the delivery situation is.