Posted Monday, April 11, 2011 12:50 PM
"There I saw my beautiful baby with wires and IV hooked up to him. It was so hard to see, I just wanted to hold him, and nurse him." Gut instinct When I was 25 weeks pregnant with Parker I felt like something was just not right. I would call my Mom, go
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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 Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:46 PM
"I just kept thinking that I could hear her heart beating so everything must be OK. But then why wasn’t she moving?" A day like any other day… On Monday Feb. 22 (37 weeks 6 days into my pregnancy) I woke up at 5:30 am -- just like any other day -- to
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Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:53 AM
"Being on bedrest for two days before labor in a hospital bed was the biggest challenge for me..." Serafina Nellie arrived on Friday, April 24 at 9:51 a.m. She weighed 6lbs., 12 oz and was 19 ½ inches long. My doctor said it was the most successful failed
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Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:30 PM
"I couldn't sleep at all. I was 35 weeks exactly at this point and I didn't know if my baby would be healthy or not..." How it all began... It all started in the wee hours of the morning on November 26. I woke up to extreme cramps and vomiting. I called
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Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:53 PM
"When my water broke, it shot across the room and sprayed the ceiling, wall, and all 15 people in front of me...." A surprise beginning It was a Friday and I was on my way to school like every other day. In the thick of rush hour traffic I got really
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Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:46 PM
"We never expected to have her on a normal, routine Wednesday, but now I wouldn’t have had it any other way..." A stressful pregnancy Thanks to the joy of genetics, I have had high blood pressure since I was in my twenties. Now 31, my ob-gyn kept a very
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