MSE Pregnancy Club 28

I’m starting mat leave at 33 weeks as my job involves loads of walking and I’m struggling now so in 7 weeks time I dread to think what it will be like

HopHop wrote: »

Last day at work is on Friday and the inbox has increased in the last day so I'm starting to panic! I think Friday morning I'll just have to start forwarding on emails tbh.

Can you not set it so it’s automatic or set it where any emails that come through from now will get an automatic reply of ‘I’ll reply before 5pm Friday if I can, but if it is after this date can you please forward your email to x to deal with. Tia

Early delivery for us!

Monday night 14th started getting really bad pains under my ribs/top of womb area. Went into hospital and they gave me a whole heap of drugs before I could calm down and let them check me and baby over. My blood pressure was through the roof, protein in urine and bloods of my liver and kidneys showing they weren’t functioning properly.

Monitored through the night, as baby wasn’t in distress and my cervix was closed they prepped me for a general anaesthetic C section the following morning. As mentioned above my placenta was still low lying and anterior so that created a further issue. Hubby couldn’t come with me at all but could be in the recovery room.

I was taken in and put under while they got her out. The standard C section incision was given in the end despite my placenta. This did create problems for me, 2000ml blood loss to be exact. I came round and saw my husband and daughter. Her being 36 weeks exact was still classed as premature so was taken up to special care, sent my husband with her. I went into intensive care for 24 hours for monitoring and then onto a ward folllwing day.

She’s been discharged from special care, they did that yesterday as they were happy with her progress and I’d established breast feeding, despite being so ill I got her on the boob fully Saturday. Still on the main ward hoping to be discharged today.

I’ve not had a blood transfusion but they did talk about the possibility of it however my observations are improving enough to not need it. Got a load of iron tablets to take though.

Reading online I had preeclampsia with HELLP which is very rare and they told me I was lucky it started at 36 weeks and not 28 so she had a fighting chance.

I’m so grateful to those who saved us both

Oh my goodness Sarah, what a week! So glad you and baby are both well. Hope you get home soon. In case you don't know, iron tablets make you massively constipated - probably not quite so bad if not a vaginal birth, but worth upping pears/prunes etc to help!

Still waiting not-so-patiently here... 40+3 and counting. Went for accupunture yesterday as it's supposed to help. And failing all else, it helps with ripening the cervix, so should make induction less traumatic if that's where I end up on the 31st.

Welcome HappyLassie, glad things are ok x