Here's my story:
My name is Ellie and I'm an RN and work
in Labor & Delivery. My pregnancy was
going great aside from alot of morning
sickness. I had started having some
cramping, mostly at work due to the
business of our unit, we did over 500
deliveries a month. When I went to my
DR at 29 weeks, I mentioned the
cramping to her and she checked my
cervix, she said it was soft and 1cm
dilated, I probably should have stopped
work then but she said we'll re-check
in a week and go from there. Well, I
took it easier at work, taking the less
busy patients, one evening shift it was
so busy and a lady came in who needed
an emergency C/S and I was the only one
free enough to be able to do it, so I
did. I went home that night and was
cramping, so I just went to bed. The
next morning when I woke up I got out
of bed to go make breakfast, while
standing in the kitchen I had a very
large gush of water come out of me, all
I could think of was please God, let
that just be the baby kicking my full
bladder (she was breech 3 days before),
I walked carefully to the bathroom and
sat on the toilet only to have more
fluid gush out of me. I called my
husband to get me a pad and told him
what happened. We went to the hospital
right away where they confirmed that my
water had ruptured. I was worried that
they would need to do a C/S right away
because she had been breech only 3 days
before. They gave me a shot of
Terbutaline to stop any contractions I
was having. As it turned out she was
head down and I wasn't in Labor. I
stayed in the hospital on strict
bedrest, taking terbutaline orally the
whole time. I received betamethasone
shots to help mature her lungs, the
plan was to try to get me to 34 weeks
if we could. Well, when I was 30 weeks
and 4 days, on August 3, 1998, I went
into Labor, they started me on
Magnesium Sulfate to stop my
contractions but it didn't work, the DR
came in and checked me and said I was
already dilated to 5cm. I was so
upset, I knew what complications could
arise from having a baby at this age.
My Labor progressed really quickly and
after only 6 contractions of pushing I
had my beautiful daughter, she weighed
3lbs 8ozs and was 16inches long, she
came out screaming and had apgars of 9
& 9. She never once needed to have any
oxygen. She spent 1 month in the NICU
before she got to come home. She had
no major health problems, she had
immature bowel and needed the help of
glycerine suppositories to poop for
awhile and they found a cyct on her
brain during a routine head U/S when
they were looking for bleeds, the cyct
never changed and miraculously
disappeared by the time she was 6
months old. She is now a very healthy
3 1/2 year old and we are finally
expecting a sibling for her, I have
fears that the same thing could happen
again, but now I know better and I be
sure and stop work should I have any
concerns. I don't know if my water
broke because of the cramping or what,
I do know that there were no infections
detected, when she was born she had a
true knot in her umbilical cord and we
believe that God was watching out for
her and allowed her to enter this world
a little early so we could enjoy her
alive.
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