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August 15, 2006, 5:17 pm PDT
Birth Stories
Quote From: wsrchick
Has anyone else gone through this? I know I'm not alone.....
I am 33 weeks pregnant and have been experiencing some symptoms that suggest that I will go into labor sometime in the next 4 weeks! A little scary because I know the complications that can come with a baby born early! I've been nesting like crazy....cleaning everything over and over even if it's clean already, making sure everything in the nursery is in exactly the right place, and folding and refolding the baby's clothes over and over. lol! I feel like I'm going crazy! My husband thinks it's cute and funny! It's almost like I'm a robot controlled by something or someone else besides me! Another symptom is that the baby engaged into my pelvis last week which is making me waddle like crazy! That also means that I'm not out of breath all the time and my belly is a lot lower now. I can eat more now but I have to pee so much more at the same time! I have increased discharge but no "bloddy show" yet. Anyways, those are the symptoms I have right now. My husband and I are attending a childbirth class and we find it a little wierd that NO ONE else in our group of 30 people are experiencing any of those symptoms yet! A lot of the women in my class are a little further along than I am too!
What I'm wondering is if anyone has experience premature labor that was stopped because it was too early. I went into premature labor at 28 weeks and they stopped it twice. I was put on bedrest, but now I'm off. Have any of you experienced this? If so, how long afterwards did your baby come? Was your baby early? Are you going through this too?
Thanks for the help and advice.....
I had my daughter when I was 19 years old. I was driving to taco bell to get my father some food and sneezed while waiting in the drive thru, as my face turned bright red I thought, "Oh my gosh I just pee'd myself." I had heard that some women had these type of accidents when they were closer to the end of their pregnancy and didn't think much of it. I went home and used the toilet right away and heard water hitting the toilet but didn't feel like I was peeing. My bad had ruptured a small pin size hole and off to the hospital I went. I wasn't due for just over 6 more weeks and was terrified as could be. "Oh my gosh my baby is going to die" I thought. They gave me some sort of pills to try and stop the labor and several shots of steroids in my butt to help the baby get stronger I guess. 'How funny!' Unfortunately the pills made my heart act weird and I had to stop taking them. I was in labor with my daughter for 42 hours, with no pain medicine at all. They said it was because I needed to be aware of what was happening so I could tell them. I had a Bit$% of a nurse who I think personally hated her job, my arms were black and blue from all the blood they took and OH BOY was I in alot of pain. So 42 hours, alot of effort in trying not to push and out pops my 4 pound 10 ounce 18 inch BEAUTIFUL baby girl. I saw her for about 1.2 seconds before they rushed her off to neo natel intensive care(N.N.I.C.U). With in a few hours I was able to inch my way up to the N.N.I.C.U and saw her for the first time. I was unable to hold her at this point because she was in an incubator. Thanks to God she was going to be OK. The only thing that was and is still an issue with her is she has what is called Kidney reflex. She is now a perfect 10 year old girl who is a cheerleader and you wouldn't know she was preemie unless I told you. With all the technology today and with God sending his angels to us everyday I really would not worry to much. Keep yourself in bed and rested and leave the rest up to God!!!
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