Hello everyone
Firstly a MASSIVE thank you to LeigeandLeif - to whom I quite literally owe not only my life but that of my new baby girl! and thanks to everyone else for their kind messages!
To briefly fill you all in after my last post on Saturday I rang DH and told him I was nipping to hospital to get checked over and then drove myself to hospital and was seen in MW triage at about 2pm where my blood pressure was found to be 170/112. MW immediately transferred me to CDU at which point I wasn't that concerned - didn't realise fully the implications and quite frankly felt a little silly when they insisted that I wasn't allowed to walk the 20 paces or so to CDU.....little did I know!
They got me onto a monitor to check my BP and Baby and took a urine sampple which showed 5+ of protein, they then started to get a little more panicky!. Still not really taking in what was going on I was a bit taken a back when they told me I was being admitted and that I should phone my husband. I phoned DH and told him to come to hopsital as I was being admitted as they thought I may have pre-eclammpsia.
I was catheterised and monitored by an increasing number of Dr's and Nurses - Cons Obstetrician, SPR, Paediatrician, Anethetist.....at which point I was starting to realise that things weren't going to well .
They said I had pre-eclampsia and would need to get my BP under control and more than likely deliver baby within 3 days or so......
I was given drungs to bring my blood pressure down but nothing seemed to work. I was then put on a drip and also put on magnesium sulphate (?) as my Liver function tests showed that my liver wasn't working.
They did various tests and realised that my kidney's were also struggling and my platlets were going drastically low. At this point they explained that I would need to have a C-Section asap but that they needed to stabilse me first. By this point I was vomitting and each time I did so Baby's heart rate dipped so they had me lying on my left side just trying to keep me and baby going whilst they got my blood pressure down. At this point I was kind of loosing all sense of what was going on but was aware on them saying that an incubator was ready and then as my BP was just about stable I was whisked off to theatre where I had to be tilted on the bed as they put me under to keep baby's heart going.
I was put under at 8.40pm and baby was born at 8.53pm. Needed ventiliation immediately after but was off completely withing a few hours and is has been breathing completely on her own since then.
She is going from strength to strength and her feeds are gradually increasing every 12 hrs.
She is a tiny thing only 2lb 0.5oz at the moment as she has lost a bit of weight. Although I was 30+6 she is the size of a 27 week gestation. However is 31 wks maturity wise. I get to have a cuddle each day skin to skin and she has already got a personality - seems to be taking after me - always hungry!
It would appear that I had severe Pre-eclampsia/HELLP and that every thing that could happen with Pre-eclampsia did!
However after a rocky and emotional few days, thanks to amazing care at St Mary's Manchester I was discharged today and feeling much better despite still having high BP. It is horrible leaving her behind but I feel so much better being out of hospital and I will be going to see her everyday.
THANKS SOOOOOOOO MUCH to LeigeandLeif once again I am so glad that I posted on here otherwise as jojosmaman said I dread to think what might have happened.
MN is the best and as one of you said this should get a mention somewhere in the media because I feel that without MN my story could have had a very different ending.