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By skiingone Wed 11-Mar-09 18:30:06 Add a message | Report post | Contact poster
Sorry for being silent - but this is my BA and BS!!!
My little girl Marianna was born on the 12/02 at around 32/33 weeks.
Sorry this is long, but here are the details of my BS.
On the 11/02 at about 00.30 I woke up feeling that something warm had leaked out of me and thinking that these could be my waters. It was not a lot, but I definitely knew it was waters, so I called the hospital and they asked to make my way to them. On arrival I was checked, the consultant confirmed the rupturing of membranes and has given me my first lot of steroids at 4 AM on the 12/02 to help baby's lungs develop faster in case she was coming soon. I was monitored overnight, had a scan next morning which showed that the baby was happy and there was still enough water left. I got given the second lot of steroids at 4PM and got sent home to see what happens. I only managed to get home, have a shower and as I didn;t slep most of the prevous night I decided to have some rest. My husband was measuring my temperature every 30 minutes as instructed ny the hospital and unfortunately the temperature started to go up: 37,3, 37.4.
My consultant called and asked me to come back to the hospital. All this time I continued to loose waters. When I arrived the consultant checked me for signs of labour ( there were none), measured my pulse which was very high and temperature which kept rising and announced that she had to come out then and there, in the next hour by emergency c section...to avoid exposure to possible infection. From this moment it all was extremely fast, within 5 minutes I had an epidural and about 15 minutes later at 23.20 on the 12/02 she was out.
Marianna didn't need help with breathing ( steroids must have helped) and was just about 2 kilos which was great weight for her and has a full head of brown hair. I could only see her for 5 seconds before she was taken by the doctors. Her Apgar score was 8 at 1 minute and 9 at 5 minutes.
Although it was a great shock as I never expected anything like that, the pd was going really well ( except for SPD which vanished as soon as she was out) I'm really glad she was in good shape and my consultant didn't waste any time getting her out. The tests didn't show any infection but during c section the doctors mentioned that the placenta and membraned were turning yellow which was not a good sign.
We have spent 3 weeks in the hospital with me spending the first 10 days there as a patient as well ( I had severe reaction to the antibiotics) and then travelling between home and hospital to get Marianna to learn to feed independently ( she had a tube for feeding for the first 2.5 weeks). About 9 days ago she started breastfeeding and kept gaining weight ( she was 2kg 450gr on discharge) and I stayed with her for her last 4 days at the hospital to make sure she feeds. We left the hospital last Friday afternoon after 22 days in intensive and special care. Now we are home and trying to settle. She is feeding every 2-3 hours day and night. As I missed out on my antenatal classes ( they were supposed to start one week after she was born) I'm learning it all on the job and becoming an expert day by day.
While at the hospital we also had a scare of a entero virus that she tested positive catching it from another baby in NICU ( her nose swab showed traces of the virus). She end up having 40 ml of immunoglobuline, chest x-ray, blood tests every day for 5 days, antibiotics just in case, while we waited for the 10 day incubation period to be over, but luckily the virus didn't develop.
Thank you for all your support.Wishing you all great last weeks of pregnancy and easy deliveries in APRIL!!!
Hugs
Ana