After previous 2nd trimester losses my last pregnancy was very planned to accomodate any suprises that may have propped up.
At 14 weeks I was admitted to have a cervical stitch inserted this was done under a general so it was pretty painless. I was put on restricted bedrest for the next 18 weeks, with the exception of travelling to Melbourne to see my specialist and have ultrasounds.
At 30 weeks I was admitted for an overnight stay as I had slight bleeding but discarged the next morning. At 30 weeks I also had to go on insulin for gest diabetes and as the weeks passed the quanity of insulin was increasing to "unhealthy levels"
At 37.5 weeks we left home at 5am for admittion for a very planned c-sect as my stitch had to removed I had to have a spinal anyway. We arrived to have my cross matching of blood done and be preped for theatre. DH and I sat on the hospital bed and laughed that our lives were never going to be same and the midwife told us that they were on the way to "pick me up".
At 8.30 DH was taken away for scubs and I kissed my mum and dad goodbye. A spinal was put in place which took 3 attempts and to this day it hurt the most. The surgery began, the doctor had started to make the first incision. I could hear the assistant say ..ooh I haven't seen that before. What had happened was that the incision was made and the placental post which joins the ambilical cord the uterus together was sitting right where the incision was made. Poor bub was ripped from my womb with forceps. I began to lose blood, it is a funny experience to be fully awake but have no control on what goes on around you. I think in all I lost over a litre and as it would be the cross matched blood didn't make it in time so the put pack cells into me. Little Eliza was screaming away on my chest and I could still hear them talking about me...It felt so surreal at last I am a mother but I think I am dying.lol.
Eliza Jayne was perfect in everyway weighing in at 8 pound 8 and born at 9.08am. She was macrocomic due to the diabetes and thinned down by the next day. Due to the blood loss I had trouble establishing a milk supply and as a result she ended up in SCN for 2 weeks as a weight loss.
But all she is a healthy happy little bub.