It is interesting to hear what we were thinking about at the time. I was blissfully unaware of what it meant if I had DD at that time. I had been in hospital for 24 hours following a small bleed. I had to have no bleeding for 48 hours to go home and had only just stopped. I had been asleep for one hour and due to get my second steroid shot. I woke up busting big time to go to the toilet and put my had on the bed. It was very wet. I turned the light on and discovered i was lying in a pool of blood from my waist to my knees. I knew it was very bad and rang the bell as they were coming in for my shot. I started shaking so badly one of the nurses half lay on top of me as they wheeled me from the ward. When the doctors were checking out my cervix a part of the placenta came out and then they got bubs heart rate at about 70 and rushed me off for an emergency c-section under GA. That was at 29 weeks 6 days. My placenta had abrupted. She had a heart operation at 12 weeks as well so her breathing was laboured and growth very slow until after that.
I am now pregnant with number two who is a boy. I worry so much about another premmie. I check my undies constantly in case of blood, if I feel too "moist" (sorry TMI) I check. It is hard for me to see it as a different pregnancy as they do not know what caused the abruption. I am seeing the psych at the hospital who is helping me through these emotions.
Miss K is going great. She is about 10.5kg at 20 months so still little (bottom 25%) and still seems a little delayed but really not by much and I do not care.
This time DH and I already have a provisional name as last time I had not thought of names and DH had.
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