Posted Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:20 PM
"I was able to sleep for a little while, but woke up to chaos." Before it all started... My birthday was on August 4, so two days later, my husband and I went out for dinner in the city to celebrate. We hadn’t been in a rush to go on my actual birthday
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Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:24 PM
"It just seemed so surreal that my little one could be inside of me one day, and the next day she could be in my arms." “I can’t believe that I will have a baby tomorrow!” My baby was breech, so a c-section had been scheduled for April 26, when I was
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Posted Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:25 PM
"After we signed the paperwork, I was wheeled to the OR. I started to cry because I was so scared. This is finally happening , I thought." Not your typical anniversary On the night before our first wedding anniversary, my husband, Rudy, and I went out
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Posted Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:15 PM
"Before I knew what was happening, I was admitted to the hospital for additional monitoring. I couldn’t believe it—how had my regular appointment turned into this?" A not-so-normal appointment… At my 35-week appointment on July 26, everything was normal.
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Posted Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:56 PM
"Sometime during the wait, my baby’s heart rate had dropped dangerously. I was told that I’d need an emergency c-section." A bumpy ride My husband, Derrick, who is a truck driver, was going to work the Saturday I was 39 weeks pregnant. May 5—my due date—was
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Posted Monday, December 13, 2010 11:31 AM
"I was so worried my son's lungs would not be completely developed, and my husband, while still worried, was SO excited to be meeting my son that day!" Waiting for the final verdict After being diagnosed with placenta previa during an ultrasound at 19
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Bump Eileen
Filed under: c-section, NICU, with meds, with drugs, pre-term labor, birth story, premature birth, preterm labor, medicated, high-risk, premature, prematur, high-risk pregnancy
Posted Friday, October 15, 2010 3:00 PM
" It wasn't the way that I planned but I was happy I was getting ready to be something that I've always wanted to be, a mom." Unexpected news I was in my first semester of college and was a newlywed and 18 at the time so when I took the test and it said
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Posted Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:47 PM
Last date before baby Ben and I were going on one last dinner/movie date before we had a baby. We went to Burlington to pick out a car seat and then went to dinner. Movie was going to be “The American”. After stopping by the theatre, checking the time
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