I can't believe it has taken me this long to do this.
I would like to announce the birth of our beautiful baby
JUDE
This is the story of Jude. I became pregnant in August last year and sadly m/c. I was a really hard time for all of us and I didn't think I would get thru it. But we did and by miracle I become pregnant again before my next AF. The first 6 weeks were really tough, as the Dr's didnt belive this was a new pregnancy but HCG levels from the last one. I had 3-4 blood test per week until 12 weeks to keep track of levels. My hcg levels were low and I remeber stressing about it but things progressed okay.
On boxing day at about 12 weeks I had a huge bleed. I was beside myself as was my DH. We heading to the local hospital only to be treated poorly and be told I was m/c and I couldn't have an u/s until the next day. Sadly we went home and cried ourselves to sleep. I did have the u/s the next day and you couldn't believe how I felt when I saw a still beating heart beat. WOW! The bleeding continued for 2 weeks and I had to rest as much as I could. Hard to do with 3 kids.
From that day to the end of my pregnancy not a day went by that I didnt stressed that something would go wrong. I had a total of 4 admissions in hospital with early contrations and did have a feeling I would go early.
The end of my pregnancy became very hard as I struggled with chronic back pain due to previous surgery. It was really tough as I couldnt take much to help the pain and was unable to move around freely. I know I did become more depressed by this and I felt like a black cloud followed me around for weeks.
The week before Jude was born, 6 weeks before due date, I lost my MP. I went into the hospital twice that week. I was told that it was nothing, given pain relief for the painful contractions I was feeling and sent home. This was Wenesday and Friday. On Saturday I was like a mad women, cleaning, scrubbing, tidying. I needed to keep myself busy.
I went to sleep at 11pm that night and woke up at 12:30am with really painful cramping. I stayed in bed for 30mins as I was waiting for a break in the contractions to get up and walk to the lounge room. Finally I did this, woke my DH who was asleep and asked him to call the hospital. I walked to the toilet, because I felt the urge to go and there I stayed. My DH called the hospital but within a mattered of moments I told him to call the ambulance as I didnt think I would make it in our car. DH called the ambulance just as I felt the head crowning OMG! Next thing you know Iam holding our son. DH was still on the phone. My oldest son and daugther had woken up and my son was helping by getting clean towels. It seemed so sureal, sitting there with our tiny boy trying to make sure he was breathing okay and waiting for the ambo's. The ambulance finally arrived 15 mins after the birth and after the placenta was delivered. The next hour was a blur really. We arrived at the hospital, Mum, baby and placenta LOL. Jude was taken immediately into SCN and put into an isolet as his tempreture was very low.
I was had to deal with the whole birthing experience for days as I was seperated from my baby and concerned about him. I spent 3 days in hospital and went home without baby. That was really hard. I spent the next 5 days, driving to hospital for 3hrly feeds. Finally on day eight we were able to bring him home.
It has been two weeks since then and everyone is doing fine. Jude is growing nicely, feeding well and totaly spoiled by his sisters and brother. DH and Jude made front page in the local paper( nice photo for his 21st) and me I am doing okay.
Taking one day at a time.
I would like to say thanks to all who answered my questions I posted and to my belly buddies group.