Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:45 PM
"Right then, a new sense of love came over me—I could feel it in every cell in my body." A false start My water broke on October 11 when I was 35 weeks pregnant. We hurried to the hospital, but since I wasn’t having contractions, the doctors told me to
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Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:34 PM
"Although I had enjoyed being pregnant, things had been starting to get pretty uncomfortable. I was relieved my labor was finally happening and that I would meet my baby soon!" “It” was happening! On December 29, when I was 38 and a half weeks pregnant,
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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, December 16, 2010 11:27 AM
" I held Rick's hand, but didn't seem to need to squeeze it, as I hear so many women do during childbirth. He says I didn't even make any faces, and I didn't have to yell out." Hoping for a later date I was two days shy of reaching 33 weeks into my pregnancy.
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Bump Eileen
Filed under: birth stories, NICU, with drugs, epidural, birth story, pre-eclampsia, premature birth, preterm labor, vaginal birth, medicated, premature, prematur, vaginal
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 Monday, October 25, 2010 10:31 AM
"My contractions started hitting me like a wall (I'm told this is due to the Pitocin), I don't know how else to describe it, and although I didn't actually time them, they were right on top of each other." I realize that I never wrote down the story of
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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 Monday, September 27, 2010 3:07 PM
"It was exhausting, and I was starting to get lightheaded. I tried to psyche myself up, while keeping a straight face. I didn't scream, I didn't grunt, I didn't complain about the pain or say "I can't do it!" -- which is exactly how I felt." Running out
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