After comlicated pregnancy and giving
birth after 36 weeks i was so worried i
would start labor early and have to stay
in hospital many weeks. This time i had
gained access to the internet and spent
hours reading about pregnancy, delivery
and stories of other women and the fact
no one has the same story to tell. One
could think after reading 10 stories
about delivering you know it all, but
after reading thousands of stories, i
still come across some experience i
never read about before. And every
story is so unique and interesting to
read. I am sure i was a midwife in my
previous life. Bringing child into this
world is truly the greatest experience
of all.
I was on birth-control pill when i got
pregnant with our first child, but it
took us three years, many examinations,
operations and finally IVF treatment to
conceive again. After trying so hard to
get pregnant i was terrified i would
miscarry, and took wery good care of my.
As good as you can with a demanding 4
year old prince in the home. I was
under strong care of midwife and ob
doctor due to difficulties of my last
pregnancy. I started to have regular
contractions at 18 weeks and my cervix
was checked in sonografie every 4 weeks,
but it looked ok, no opening. At 35
weeks i noticed extra wetness in my
underware. Morning after my bed was
wet. I got bad feeling about this and
went for examination. The doctor
checked me and told me i was fully
effaced and with 3cm dialation, but the
baby was high up and not causing
pressure on the cervix. They took
example and said the test was negative,
it was not prom situation. The docktor
told me she had many women with this
opening that had full term pregnancy, so
i should not worry, in spite of the
opening i could go 40 weeks and longer
in this situation. Mark the time,
11:45. I drove home and as i walked up
to the door, i found something running
down. I went to the bathroom and it was
blood. Usually i bleed after vaginal
examination, so i went to bed while my
husband prepared lunch. He called "its,
ready" and i stood up and both trousers
and floor got wet. I was sure my
membraces had ruptured as they did in
the first pregnancy. All i could think
about was that it was december 30, and
the baby would be born a whole year
earlier just because of these two days
left in the year, start scool one year
earlier, would be shortest kid in his
class, would get his drivers licence
latest in the class, be the last
teenager in his class allowed to buy
alcohol.
When i changed clothes i realised that
it was not water, it was blood, and a
lot af blood. I calmed myself reminding
me "you can loose 2 liters of blood and
still be ok". I called hospital and
they sent ambulance after me. 10
minutes later i was in the hosptial, but
the experienced midwife said, this is
very thin blood, it must be your water.
And it was. Again i experienced prom
and this time it was erlier in the
pregnancy, after 35 weeks. I was not
terrified, because i had read so many
stories about babies beeing born this
early in pregnancy and was sure he would
not have to stay many days in nicu and
probably not need to go to
breath-ventilator. I had been diagnosed
with GBS early in this pregnancy (i now
believe that is the reason for my
prom's) so i had to have iv with fluids
and antibiotics running during delivery.
Again my delivery was fast. My
membraces ruptured at 12:30, and when i
came to the hospital monitor showed
contractions every 5 minutes. "How long
did you have this contractions" asked
the nurse. "Since 18 weeks" i told her,
but i am sure she thought i was not
thinking clear because of early
delivery, svo she wrote in my file pain
had started 11:30. But in fact painful
contraction started 14:30 and i began
pushing 14:50. 3 pushes and 11 minutes
later, a surprisely big boy came out in
a huge gush of water. He was 3368gr and
50 cm long. But his brother was only
2450 gr after 36 weeks pregnancy.
Average child is usually 3500-3700 and
54 cm long. The doctor rushed with him
to the nicu, only to give him back and
said he was not a preemie. This is a
full grown boy after full term
pregnancy, they told me.
I had to tell people it was a IVF (in
vitro fertilation) over and over again,
for sure he was born after only 35 weeks
and i was so scared he would just stop
breating or something bad happen to him,
i could not sleep the first 3 days. I
kept him in my arm all nigth long to
make sure he was ok. He got jaundice on
4th day and needed light treatment for
many days. Again no one understood why
this big boy needed so many days in the
lights, and i got more and more angry,
in the end i nearly shouted at anyone
who came to the door, it's an IVF 35
weeks pregnancy and he is not full term
baby. This is yet another angle of prom
situation, when no one believes the
length of the pregnancy and you are
alone worrying about the healt of your
baby.
Viktor is a helthy 20 months old boy (at
time written), the joy of his parents
and his big brother. His homepage is at
www.barnaland.is/barn/9775
Thank's for reading his story
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