The Baby Page
We would love for you to let us know when you’ve had your baby! It’s become so tough to keep track of everyone’s due dates here and we want to be one of the first to congratulate you!
Please post below if you’ve recently had your baby. Feel free to share:
- Your story
- A link to your blog where you tell your story and show any pictures (Your name will be linked and clickable, so be sure to link to the full address of the blog post you want to link to
- Anything else
We’re not sure if this is the best solution, but we needed to get something up and running here. We’ll see how this method goes. :)
We’re looking forward to reading your stories!
Jane and Tarzan
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Hmmmm. My baby girl, Charlotte, was born on July 20th. The story was not very exciting – I suffered at home until I told my husband to call the doctor. He was on lunchbreak, so we left for the hospital. By the time we hit the hospital, I was 9cm. They gave me meds to slow it down. At 6:14pm, I delivered a healthy baby. And a HUGE placenta lol. And got 12 stitches. And found out that breastfeeding hurts at first. =)
I had my first baby, Rory Michelle, on July 30. The full birth story is posted at my blog here: Birth Story
@Sarah … Whooo hooo! Congrats Sarah! 9cm by the time you got to the hospital!? Whoa! You just reminded me. There was so much going on in the room after Monkey was born, I never got a chance to see the placenta. I really wanted to see what it looked like. Oh well, I’ll have to wait until Baby Jane comes along.
@Brittany … Whoo hoo! Congrats! Jane and I will check out your birth story.
What a lovely idea J&T!
My little guy , Asterios Erik , was born on July 30th. Welcome little leo! My husband is allergic to cats, and I am a cat fanatic – so now I have my hypo-allergenic lion!
We had a weird pregnancy with lots of scares (we had Dr. DoomandGloom who gave me agida everytime we had an ultrasound) : a two vessel cord, what they *thought* was an enlarged ventricle in his brain (turned out to be a shadow), family history of heart abnormalities(his echo was perfect), predicted low birthweight due to cord issue (he was 6lbs 12oz), off center cord insertion (also never true), & placenta previa (it was next to cervix but never blocking it).
It turns out that I had a c-section because he didn’t tolerate the induction meds at all (his heart rate kept decelerating to 50!!) and he is PERFECT!!!! not one little thing wrong. not even jaundice. so take that Doctor Doom! we will be changing OBs for the next (and last) babe.
he eats like a champ (regained all his birthweight plus an oz and grew an inch in 7 days) and the nurses said he has the strongest suck they have ever seen in all their years of nursing. YEOWCH! i pump one side b/c he was voracious from first latch-on and made me bleed for everyday for the first week on one side (no, there is nothing wrong with our “form” – he is just a maniac)…i will pump that side forever if I feel like it too – i refuse to feel fear everytime i feed my child!!
I don’t have a blog but I thoroughly enjoy yours. It’s nice as a first time Mom to read what another first time Mom is going through – so encouraging and so relieving to know we experience so many similar feelings. thank you thank you!
My baby boy, Xavier, was born August 13th at 11:21pm.
It was a fast and easy delivery for me! I’m trying to keep up blogging about parenthood as well, but it’s so much harder than blogging about pregnancy with an extra addition!!! I really respect you guys (and everyone else… I actually read your blog too Sarah) for being able to keep up with so many posts!
Abbreviated Birth Story
I came across your blog a few weeks ago after seeing a reply someone made to you on Twitter. I have been enjoying it ever since.
My birth story is a little older than most of the rest on here! My daughter (affectionately known as Darling Girl or DG) was born on August 27, 2008. She will be a year old in a week! We had a fabulous pregnancy despite lots of worries. I have two uteruses and a family history of congenital heart defects. DG came through just fine. She was born healthy and happy. DG was a planned c-section exactly one week before her due date because she was breech. We made the choice not to turn her in utero because of the two uteruses and the risk of uterine ruptrure was VERY high. I caught all kinds of hell from people for that choice! I had people tell me my child would grow up retarded if I had a c-section (no, I’m not kidding!!). We kept her a surprise through the pregnancy, but we were certain we were having a boy until she popped out and the doc said, “Tell her what we have, Dad!” I was so shocked we had a girl, I made hubby tell me twice!
DG lost 7% of her birthweight in the hospital and we had to supplement with formula. She had trouble with latch and we thought she might be tongue-tied. We did a lot of work with a lactation consultant and a BF’ing support group to figure things out. She finally made it back to birthweight at 3 weeks. She has since gone on to meet or beat all milestones and she’s fine. Go figure.
It has been quite the year! I can’t believe we made it sometimes! There were times that my husband and I weren’t sure, but here we are! DG is happy, healthy, trying to walk, crawling like a champ, eating and loving solids like crazy, and still getting the occasional breastfeeding in before naps and at bed. I love being a first time mom and I love reading about your experiences on here! I can’t believe it was just a year ago that I was in this place!!
I love the idea of the baby page! I just gotten to the point that I can read or hear about other people’s “normal” deliveries again. My experience was not so nice. But the result is:) My baby Mia was born on July 1. My due date was August 15.. On July 1st, after having a tiny bit of bleeding, I decided to call my doc and they send me right to L&D of my hospital, which was around the corner. I went there with a coffee in my hand and sunglasses on my head and thought I would be out of there in 10 minutes. And that’s what everybody else thought too. The nurse joked how it would be nice that I filled everything out so that I wouldn’t have to do that six weeks later when I would deliver. They put me on the fetal heart monitor and examined me and I remember hearing the midwifes saying that everything was fine. And then everything changed. They started to shift me around from side to side w/o telling me why (my baby’s heart rate dropped into the 50’s!). I realized that the room filled with more and more people and then somebody disinfected my arm. I looked at him and asked him why he was doing that and he says “because you’re having an emergency c-section now”. I thought they must be joking, but they were rolling me to the OR!! That was 15 minutes after I walked in there. All I could was yell out my husbands number and that he would not pick up for another hour. I saw doctor’s coming from every side (and heard them talking how they had to quit their lunch early because of the call..). I don’t know how many faces I saw in the next five minutes who tried to calm me down, by telling me how scary it all must be. One of the doctor’s just told me that the baby’s heart rate dropped and that we need to get her out now. One minute later I was out. My baby was born at 12 pm. 30 minutes after I walked in there, thinking I would be home in no time. She was 4 lbs 13 ounces. When I woke up, one of the nurses showed me a picture of the baby on her cell phone. I was in so much pain and didn’t know what to think. When my husband finally arrived he looked so shocked! I will never forget his face when he saw me.
My baby spend the next 2.5 weeks in the NICU. I was not able to see her for the first 24 hours and never worried so much before in my life. When I saw her for the first time with all the machines I was devastated. Now she is almost two months and today four days past her due date. Although there are still a lot of things that are difficult (breast feeding doesn’t work as I imagined and she is on a machine that monitors her breathing and heart rate), she is doing great now. She is over 7 pounds now and I am so glad that she is healthy. I love her so much!
The worst thing about this is that I still don’t really know what happened. My doctor said that it might be that I had placenta abruption, but they can’t say for sure. For weeks I couldn’t see a pregnant woman without crying. I felt so robbed of the whole birth experience. But everybody tells me, I will forget all that soon and just be happy that all went well.
I’m getting there, but I never ever would have thought that I would have my baby all alone and completely knocked out..
You have inspired me to write my birth story, but I won’t get it up for a few days probably (my baby takes very short naps!)
The shortish version:
My waters broke on Friday 22nd May. And nothing happened. Hospital policy is to be induced after 18-24hrs after waters break if labour hasn’t started. As we had planned a home birth and were being closely monitored (2x daily) by my midwife we decided to wait longer to see if labour would happen spontaneously. On Saturday night I had contractions every 7 or8 minutes but they didn’t progress, so on Sunday afternoon, 48hrs after waters broke I headed to the hospital to be induced. The baby was posterior by this stage which I was really bummed about – She’d been in a great position until about a week before.
I was hooked up to the drip and monitors. It was pretty awful, induced labours hit you hard and fast, with little chance for resting between contractions. I was doing every I could within the confines of the hospital room to get baby to turn anterior (standing/leaning forward etc). After 6hrs of labour I had an epidural and was found to be 8cm dilated. I had a rest and then pushed for an hour or so, at which point baby’s heart rate started getting erratic, and her head wasn’t in a good position to come out. I was wheeled down to the operating room for a C-Section – something I really hadn’t considered as I was so certain of my bodies ability to deliver a baby. My husband stopped the team and asked if we could pause for a prayer, which they very obligingly did.
In the OR the dr said she would be willing to try with the vontouse vacuum cup for 3 pushes before starting the cesearean (last chance!), as baby was getting quite distressed.
After the 2nd push I heard a “wow” from the drs. Baby had turned anterior of her own accord, and on the 3rd push was born. This was a miracle as babies don’t turn from posterior to anterior while mum is lying flat on her back, working against gravity.
Our daughter Daisy was born on Mon 25th May, and was 10lb 11oz (4.86kgs) and 61cm long. Praise the Lord!
I had 3rd degree tears which have healed well.
She is now nearly 3months old and delightful.
I found your blog when I was on bedrest during my pregnancy. My little dude was born June 7th (due date was June 18th), 6lbs 7oz. 19.5 inches long. My birth story is pretty simple… planned c-section due to breech presentation, and then we moved the date up five days because I was toxemic and swollen like crazy, with a higher than normal BP. He lost over 10% of his birth weight while we were in the hospital thanks to jaundice, which required four days with light blanket therapy. BFing was a no-go thanks to him being too tired to latch on, so we supplemented with formula and I pumped exclusively. Luckily for us, last week he started latching on again and now I’m BFing most of the time with a few formula bottles here and there. There are tons of pictures and videos on our family blog (linked) that I update at least weekly.
Hi Tarzan and Jane
I had my little girl on the 11th
The labor its self was a bit of a drama, labor started at 2.45am on Monday morning, I stayed at home till about 6 pm then we went to the hospital only to be sent home
. when we got back home my waters broke about an hour later at (about midnight). We rang the hospital they didnt believe me and told me to stay at home a little longer. contractions then started coming on at about 2 mins apart, I started freaking out and realised i was not going to be able to make in a taxi to the hospital so we Dave called an ambulance, they took us to manly hospital (I was booked in a royan north shore) once there the pain was completly unbearable and I wanted my epi but they were so understaffed they could not do it there and said I would need to be transfered to Royal north Shore after all, so off I go in another ambulance (dave was not allowed to come with me and followed behind in a taxi). Once we got there they were ready and waiting to do the epi but because of my back problems they took over an hour to get the epi in. I was on the gas plus was given a pethadine shotr and totally high I dont remember those couple of hours. All went really well from there on and Paige Arrived on at 1.31pm on tuesday the 11th.
she is perfect in everyway.
I was blessed with a quick, complication free delivery. My little guy was in a flying hurry as it turned out! I’m not sure how to put a link in here, but here’s my birth story:
http://www.i-am-pregnant.com/vip-kids/EmilyG
Now he’s 2.5 months old and I’m still amazed by him every day!
My twins were born on 7 July – they are IVF miracles but I’m discovering that mothering is not as easy as I thought it would be………..
Hello!
My baby girl, Natalie was born on July 31, 2009. I was scheduled for an induction on August 2, but was surprised to be 40% and one centimeter when I went in for the NST! My BP was a little high at the time and we were told that we could be induced that day…And the rest is history. I had 4th degree tears and although I am feeling much better, I can still feel the stitches.
We found out that she isn’t gaining enough weight after 3 weeks and so we have started to supplement BF with formula. I wish I could be one of those BF mothers who have enough milk to feed their baby, but I can’t be happy knowing that she’s not getting enough to help her grow. So, this was a decision that my husband and I have made. My family is very supportive of our decision as well, especially after they have seen me struggle.
Now, she sleeps! Allows us to get rest, get out, and play with her without her screaming all the time.
Great idea! It gives us a way to connect with you two
Great idea!
My baby boy was born on July 18th. He came so fast and furious that we didn’t make it to the hospital, and he was born on the stairs at home. His birth story can be found here
P.S have now made a wee video clip to go with my story. you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XneAbPHWu4Y
Hey guys! Jane and I will be going through these this weekend.
Sorry for the delay on this, but as you know, things have been a little crazy around here.
But I must quickly say… CONGRATS to Peta! We’ve been wondering where you’ve been! If you look at some posts awhile back, I mentioned in some P.S’s that Jane and I were about to call the search party and have them look for you!
Thanks for sharing your stories with us – big CONGRATS from us and a more ‘formal’ reply to come to all of you this weekend.
@Elisa Please visit http://www.ican-online.org They have forums with very supportive women who can help you grieve your birth while celebrating your baby.
My birth stories are at
#1 & #2 http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/BBWBirthStories/bbwvbacstories.htm#Devaskyla%27s%20Stories
#3 http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=71605328956&h=Hv5yj&u=MtCn3
Long stories very, very short ; #1 cesarean in 2001, #2 complicated UBAC in 2005, & #3 easy, fast but painful water UBAC on March 3, 2009
My son Julian was born on July 23! He’s our first and it’s been an interesting (and sometimes difficult) journey. My blog with birth story.. http://www.thelotaks.blogspot.com
Hopefully I’ll be added soon!
We’re finally TTC but I just had the first failed month… I know things weren’t as you planned but right now I’m thinking expenses and all yall are so LUCKY!
Congrats to everyone who has a baby story right now.. Hopefully I won’t be too far behind *fingers crossed*
Little “B” was born June 24th. I hated being pregnant, but loved giving birth. It was a great experience and just makes me want to do it all over again…crazy I know. I just started a new blog. I was blogging for a long while, but kept it private. I now have one public and hope that my journey as a new mom will meet the needs of others out there going through this fabulous time in life. I don’t want it to end.
Visit me @ http://dietdrlovingmom.blogspot.com
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Hello Tarzan, Jane, Monkey and fellow readers,
After a roughly 10-hour labor, my wife gave birth to our first child on September 17. She was very tired during most of the pregnancy, so I guess it’s fitting that the labor went through the night and into the early morning.
I’ve started a blog to document life as a new dad — one who hadn’t changed a single diaper in his life before this but is ready and willing to do his part.
Good luck with Monkey, and keep up the good blogging!
We just had our first child on September 8th–a beautiful little girl named Maggie. I had a blog for my pregnancy experience: http://www.threetimesababy.wordpress.com and my “regular” blog is http://www.airingdirtylaundry.wordpress.com.
Short version of birth story . . .I was one week past my due date. My water broke on Labor Day (ha!), but I wasn’t having contractions. After choosing not to have an epidural and 19 hours of pitocin-induced contractions, I was only at 5 cm and had to have a C-section. She was 10 lbs 2 oz and 21 1/2 inches long. She’s thriving and happy (a good portion of the time, at least) !
Hi guys! I didn’t realize y’all were doing this page so I’ll add my crazy story. I found this blog while pregnant and am STILL loving every minute of it!
) Much love to T&J and baby Monkey!
I was due on September 23rd, but due to complications from gestational diabetes and heart problems that i had was induced on Sept. 7th at 9 p.m. They started me on cytotec to get things going, which immediately gave me menstrual like cramps. At 6 a.m. on the 8th, I was given pitocin, which is when the real fun began.
About 9 that a.m. I became very very sick from the pitocin and the pain i was beginning to feel. When i asked to be checked i was only 1.5 cms lol I thought i was going to be a tough gal and be able to get to 5 without pain intervention. boy was i WRONG! I asked for something to take the edge off, so i was given Nubain. 45 minutes later the pain had returned and i was given another dose, which did NOTHING! At 11 a.m. my contractions were coming on so fast and furious that my water broke. The contractions after that were so severe i honestly thought iw as going to die lol My doctor came in around 1 to check me and i was only 2 cm. God Bless him he was so sweet and so sympathetic to my pain. Around 3 p.m. i asked to be checked again and was FINALLY at 3 cms, whereas i received my epidural, THANK GOODNESS! One of the BEST inventions EVER! LOL! But after receiving the epidural, baby’s heart rate kept dropping to the 80’s. They were propping me up on my side and giving me oxygen which finally stabilized his heart rate.
I was very comfortable and was able to get some sleep. My doctor returned at 5 to check on me, where I was only 4 cm. He was very concerned and told me he would return in an hour to check me again and if i had not made significant progress, he would section me. At 6 he returns and I was suddenly 6 cms, which was the biggest jump I had since being induced. He wanted to give me a little bit more time to see how i continued to progress, but he was going off of call. He didn’t think I would be able to do this vaginally as I was being induced because the baby was so big, but he wanted me to give it a fair shot. He said that if i began to slow down or stall in progress that he would tell the other doctor to do a section on me. Well it all went downhill from there.
My two night nurses were TERRIBLE! One was a new RN who would check my cervix and would just leave her hand in me, trying to figure out how dilated i was. Then the more experienced nurse would come in and double check me. Not fun at all. Around 7 I was still at 6 cm, so I requested that we go ahead and do the section as I was exhausted from being in labor almost 24 hours. The experienced nurse told me my “real labor” had only begun not that long ago (oh really?!) and that i WOULD do a vaginal birth. We gave it another hour. I was 6.5. So we asked again. They told me my dr said i was doing a vaginal birth (which we knew wasn’t true). At this point my epidural was starting to wear off a bit, so I was feeling the intense pressure with the contractions. I also started to run a fever being my water had been broken for so long.
Around 11 p.m. I couldn’t take the pressure anymore, and told them i felt i needed to push. They checked me and I was 9.5 cm. His head was still behind the lip of the cervix, so they were trying to stretch me to get his head pass it. PAINFUL! PAINFUL! PAINFUL! I was feeling quite a bit at this point and they weren’t giving me another epidural. I pushed until 1 a.m., which was 2 hours later. He was NOT coming down, and though he was head down he was facing my left side. They flipped me on each side for about 15 minutes in a position called the “pretzel” *thank goodness i’m a professional dancer lol* At this point i’m SO exhausted I’m in tears, and I told my husband I simply could NOT push anymore. I was done. He was so high up he was hurting me, i was feeling an incredible amount of pain, and I just couldn’t go on. Justin went and yelled at the nurses b/c they were being ridiculous and weren’t being honest with the doctor. The doctor came in and after checking me (i was still at 9.5, which put me there for two hours) he said “we’re taking him”. So they began to prep me for surgery.
At 2:04 a.m., 28 hours of labor and 2 hours of pushing later, Baby Dax was born at 8lbs 3oz (2 weeks early), and 20.5 inches. Despite the very difficult labor, he was in great health, tho he had some fluid in his lungs. That was quickly expelled, and he had a black eye. it took a while for him to be able to breathe well, but he was a-ok. I was able to kiss him before they knocked me out and whisked him away.
There were more complications afterwards, but since i’ve written a novel i’ll stop there. Baby Dax is a very healthy boy at 8 weeks, and is continuing to thrive. Thanks for letting us all share our birth stories
Love this blog – Jane was 2 months ahead of me or so, so it was fun to see what was to come!
My boy is 3 weeks old now (born Oct 18th) – my birth story is here:
http://ocrumbs.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-wrote-this-down-day-after-giving.html
My little M was born Sunday Nov 8th at 9:47 am. Friday my doctor said that he thought I had a big baby cooking in there. The ultrasound predicted 9lbs 2 oz. My husband and I had discussed the possibility that if she was 9 or 10 lbs we would most likely schedule a c-section. Large baby’s run in the family and we wanted to be prepared. At this point I was not effaced or dialated at all. It seemed she’d settled in for a long winters nap. We decided to do the section and the only time the dr had the next week was on Sunday (my due date). At 9:47 we heard that wonderful powerful scream and my beautiful M was born. A couple minutes later I heard the nurse say “8lbs 13oz”. I said “Only 8 13?” To which another nurse replied, “Only!!! That’s plenty big honey!” LOL
PS . If you are worried about a potential C-Section, don’t be. They are not all riddled with complications like I was constantly reading about on the internet. Mine was a breeze. One week later I can’t believe how well I’m feeling and the staples come out tomorrow.
Good luck to Everyone!!
Jane and Tarzan- We love your blog as always!!
My due date was the end of August; i went to the hospital on July 25th bc i thought i was leaking fluid; turns out my liver has stopped working and my blood was full of biliruben. I had cholestasis and was 36 weeks pregnant. if you look up cholestasis after 36 weeks it is dangerous to carry your baby bc they have a greater chance of being stillborn. so i had an emergency c-section that night. Karidee Jane was born at 1110 and weighed 6lbs. she was in NICU for 10 days. now she is happy and healthy and VERY CHUBBY
I just now noticed this page and thought I’d make a quick comment. I have been following you for a little bit now. (Before Monkey was born) I love your site!! I stumbled on it somehow (I don’t remember) and just became addicted. I am due on March 12th and I can’t wait to meet my little guy. So far everything has gone pretty smoothly with the pregnancy. I am miserable all ready and I am just waiting to get him out : ) Oh the joy. That’s about it! Only 3 more months to go : ) Yay!
how can i make a calendar where friends can guess the date and time they think my daughter will be born? please help me
Just came across your site today and love it! Congratulations on the baby
I love the page for dads and emailed the link to my husband. I’m sure he’s sick of the fruit references as well! Continued well wishes to you and your family and I’ll definately keep coming back to read your blog!
Ok, Jane and Tarzan, we’re new to following your blog about your days with Monkey (love the nicknames by the way). We’re due in September and keep getting over-saturated with advice about what we Need to start off with. And we’re having trouble telling the difference between advice for useful things and marketing ploys.
Don’t know if there’s already a post about this, but would you mind writing about: Here are the things you really really should set up by the time your last 3 months are done (furniture, items, services) A “these are necessities” category, and “these are nice-ities”
And then maybe do the same type of post for the first three months?
Thank you!!!
I’ve been reading your blogs for the past 2 weeks and I love them! At the moment, I’m 32 weeks and 4 days pregnant and due May 8,2010! This is my first pregnancy and my husband and I are so excited! I just started a blog site and am trying to update it to where I can post current happenings. I started it when I was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes so that I might could help other women with Gestational Diabetes,but haven’t had much time to post anything until now. Anyway, thanks so much for all the advice you’ve given! I will continue to faithfully read your blogs, they’ve already helped so much!
Late Congrats on becoming a Mommy and Daddy!
Oops! I forgot to post the url!
Here’s my blog site:
http://www.twotrollsandamurloc.blogspot.com/
Sorry for the double post.
Hello. I love your website! I admire everything you have done. All the information on here has been very helpful and it is wonderful reading your blog. I also am blogging about my pregnancy experiences, although mine is different because I have AutoImmune Hepatitis. You’re more than welcome to check it out!
I am the super-proud mom of Carson John, who blessed us with his presence on October 23, 2009. He has transformed our lives into something so wonderful. Please come visit my blog to read all about our experiences. We love visitors and comments!
My beautiful baby girl, Juliette Elizabeth, was born on February 7, 2010. I too wrote a blog about my pregnancy experience, . I love the idea that you made it anonymous- I wish I had done that too, although I do share some pretty gory details : ) Thank you Jane and Tarzan for sharing your stories. I love reading them! I started at the beginning just last week, and am now into March of 2009, so I’m a little behind (don’t worry, I’ll catch up eventually!).
I love your website and twitter page! Im 18 weeks pregnant and stumbled upon Jane’s 35 things /lessons learned by week 18 and could not stop laughing! I love the humor and felt bad cracking jokes with my hubby since all the other sites you read are so serious and whimsical. Love it!
Thanks!
I am pregant at the moment and I have a blog called Pregnancy Timeline.. Hope that worked properly!
Hi Jane & Tarzan!
I found your blog when I was about to TTC then the month BEFORE I wanted to TTC I actually became pregnant so I didn’t need to “try” but I was trying isn’t that funny? I will post a brief birth story here, not just for ya’ll but also to help anyone going through any rough obstacles during pregnancy and…after delivery! So, if you are looking for someone who went “all natural” and had this glorious experience then stop reading- parts of my story aren’t all peaches and roses but I’m so very blessed to have a healthy baby girl. You & I were actually pregnant at the same time- so I got to read about your 3rd trimester and labor & delivery story in my early stages of pregnancy! My little girl will be 6 mths on the 21st of June so she is nearly a Christmas baby- due date was December 31st.
I have had female issues my whole life and in fact had surgery on my uterus in Jan so I had to have a c-section, there was no debate or discussion I was jus told that pushing a baby out might cause a rupture especially since I may not have technically healed from my surgery from just 2 mths prior to getting pregnant.
Right after I moved into the 2nd trimester I had acute urinary retention which is med talk for you can’t pee no matter how bad you want to. Believe me, being pregnant and not being able to pee IS a true emergency! I sadly had to go through that 3 times and the 3rd time I made the mistake of going to a local small hospital rather than my large one I had planned to have the baby at…and had to wait nearly SIX HOURS before I was relieved. I thought I was going to die! After 13000 ml of urine were removed, I was told by both my OB and a urologist specialist that no one had a clue what was wrong. Then, at close to 15 weeks the problem went away on its own! Thank God. I then caught a strain of the lovely “swine flu” in August and at 5 mths pregnant that was scary. I made it through though and so did baby but I hated taking antiviral drugs while pregnant. But, then delivery time approached and although I suffered a strained ligament and could hardly walk for a few weeks during my 3rd tri (the uterine ligaments) the rest of the 3rd tri was uneventful. I didn’t go into labor before my scheduled section or anything. My baby was frank breech (bottom first with feet above shoulders) so when they did the C it felt like they had to tug and pull a lot to get to her. Everything was fine during the C but I was given “extra” meds in the epidural and then in recovery was given pain killers that literally sent me to the moon. I hadn’t even begun to resume feeling in my legs at ALL at this point and they were shooting me up with pain killers. I kept asking why and they just kept giving it to me. I do not even barely remember the 1st day with my baby and that still upsets me. However, once I started coming around and tried to eat/drink a little in about 12 hrs everything came up and I mean everything. Turns out I ended up with a “post operative ileus” which is med talk for “your bowels shut down completely”. I had NO clue this could even happen during a section but apparently the extent to which I had it (needing nasogastric suction- its NOT pretty) and IV fluids is extreme. Like 1 in 1,000 c-section patients extreme! My OB kept asking if I’d ever had surgery on my intestines or bowel because usually you see people with that get ileus. I hadn’t. He was stumped and at first wanting to see if I improved on my own before doing the “NG” tube but I could not stop vomiting so we had to, as nasty as it is and as much as it hurts at first. I spent Christmas in the hospital and went home 1 week after delivering my baby.
I was in a dark place at the time but on about the 6th day I realized only God could heal me and help me that the dr’s were stumped and the reason I was so mad was because I was putting it on the Dr’s to help me. So I just prayed and prayed about it and then once I improved & they were sure I’d stopped throwing up I was able to get the tube out and try food. What’s scary about that is if you can’t hold it down you get tubed again and can’t go home still!
Since I believe in humor as its helped me- Here is some irony and funny stuff for you too- As bland as hospital jello is I was literally dreaming about the stuff when I was banned from NO food OR drink not even water by mouth! NPO (Nil per os!) for me!! I went to sleep and dreamed of jello and woke up begging to just taste it LOL. My family knew something was wrong when I said gosh I miss that jello. They all looked at each other like oh God, that’s crazy!
Oh and even though I was in a hospital I was literally awake for days because nurses keep coming in to check me and the baby and all on different schedules. My husband was a saint in taking care of my daughter, but was about to go insane from nurses waking her up – she is SUCH a good little sleeper too!! Dr kept saying “get rest” and I wanted to say please send the nurses awayyy!
So, by night 4 they actually had to give me an ambien to sleep!!! I ended up hallucinating (if you haven’t taken ambien before its powerful stuff lol) that I was on a tropical island and floating on the bed through tranquil waters…husband was about to tell the nurses then said, meh, let her think she’s on an island she’s been through enough LOL!!! That was the best sleep I’ve had in awhile!
Oh and I also forgot about the 3rd tri a few weeks before delivery when I lost my voice for 3 days…due to acid reflux! It was so bad it had eaten away at my throat lining! I had terrible, terrible reflux and my baby was born with a full head of hair- lending to that old wives’ tale about hair and heartburn! I have a friend who has never experienced heartburn before (unlike me- I had it before just not that bad) until pregnancy and her daughter had even more hair than mine!! Wondering if there is some truth to that- ladies can ya’ll comment on this?
I just recently found your blog and wanted to tell my story. First let me say I have been blessed with three beautiful children who have been a great joy in my life. In February after trying for about a month we found out we were pregnant. My two daughters who are 14 and 16 are from previous relationships. (I was a teenage mother) My youngest who is my baby boy is from my marriage to a wonderful man who has raised all of my children as his own for the last 11 years.
So on Mothers Day I woke up and saw that I had been bleeding during the night. I went to the hospital and after awhile and a few tests the bleeding had stopped and they said it was a “threatened miscarriage” so we went home and tried to salvage the rest of Mothers Day by having a nice dinner with family. Tuesday morning we saw our doctor and they did a sonogram and found no heartbeat. At midnight I started bleeding VERY heavily and rushed to the hospital. Thet checked me out, confirmed that we were miscarrying, despite my repeated arguements that I was bleeding too much…sent me home. Two hours later I was rushed back to the hospital by ambulance. At around noon they finally did a D&C and sent me home extremely weak and completely worn out emotionally. I had been bleeding for 11 hours! It is now two months later and I am starting to feel normal again. I am not posting this to be depressing but I hope it helps someone else who may have to deal with anything similar. It has taught me that you have to fight for yourself. If I had only pushed harder the first time I was in the hospital I would have gotten surgery sooner and not lost so much blood! I have had to struggle so much over that last two months and spent several weeks on bedrest because I listened to the doctor instead of myself.
On a more positive note: I still continue everyday to find great joy in the three beautiful children that God has blessed me with. I have learned alot about myself in the last couple of months, and although that was terrifying, we are planning to try again probably at the end of the year.
Sorry again to be such a downer, but one thing I learned after all this is…That there are alot of people who have been through this and never tell anyone. Hopefully this will help them know they are not alone.
SP I’m sorry about your loss. I’ve had a couple of miscarriages as well n they can be very painful both physically n emotionally. Last year at months had an ultrasound n there was no heart beat, I was sent to a specialist n it was confirm that there was no heart beat. My NP told me I had miscarried n that my body was going to “pass” the fetus n it was going to be painful. So about 2 weeks later when I started cramping BAD I though it was normal, then I started sweating, getting the chills, feeling light headed n finally throwing up. I called the dr n after 30 minuresof waiting for them to call me back i had my husband drive me to the ER. I asked him to drop me off n go back to my son’s first t-ball traning session. After waiting about an hour I felt something come out n the pain was gong. Im still not sure how I managed to walk to the restroom but when I got there n pulled my pants down I saw my baby… s/he was the size of my palm. It took mea looong time to get past this, especially because I didn’t talk about it with anyone. It was a very painful experience. Now almost a 1 1/2 yr later I’m 3 weeks from my due date. Just like SP I’m not trying to depress anyone w/ my story but rather encourage those who have experience or are experiencing a miscarriage to talk to someone about it if you need help.
Oops! I forgot to mention that my miscarriage happended at 3 months pregnant