My wife promed on the 20th week of her
pregnancy. This was not the first
problem during our 7 month long journey.
She became pregnant on our second try
of IVF. We had no apparent reason for
not getting pregnant through natural
ways. On the 6th week of the pregnancy
she had massive bleeding. We rushed to
the doctor and stayed in the hospital
for few days. She had subchorionic
hematoma doctors suggested she stayed
home with minimal activity until the
hematoma was gone. She ended up resting
6 weeks.
After her long resting period our doctor
told us that she was free to do whatever
she wanted to do as a regular pregnant
woman. On the day that we finished 20th
week she promed. She was brought to the
hospital (I was out of town) and the
doctors gave practically no chance but
decided to wait one more night. Until
the next morning she did not have any
leakage. During u/s the next morning
there was enough water for the babe to
survive and we decided to wait another
day.
A day turned to a week and a week turned
to 9.5 weeks. She started to leak after
two days of break and continued to leak
until the last day of her pregnancy.
She did not develop any infection until
the last day. And the baby always had
enough water to survive. Her AFI level
never went below 9 and usually stayed
between 11 and 16. She had contractions
on 26+2 but was stopped and she had her
steroid injection. During the last few
days our little girl started to send us
messages that she was about to come out.
On 29+3 her contractions started again.
The AFI level went down to 5 during the
last day. And around 23:00 on 29+4 she
gave signs of being in stress. Our
little girl was born on 29+5 at 2:36 by
an emergency c-section.
She was 1,188 gr. when she came out.
She was able to breath on her own at
first but in few minutes after she was
born they had to put her on CPAP. She
was helped by CPAP for the next few days
and then by nasal canulla. She lost
about 120 gr. during the next 4 days.
After that moment almost everything was
downhill. She started to gain weight,
she did not develop any infection, and
her breathing got better everyday. The
only set back was on during her second
week. She had anemia. Although it was
an expected development considering her
GA, we were very concerned for a day or
two.
Our little daughter was discharged on
the day the she finished her 34 weeks.
We were expecting to stay at least few
more weeks but it seems that she will do
everything a little early then expected.
We spent 4 days with her at our house
and she is gaining weight with an
extreme pace.
It was a very tiring, stressful and long
process. We lost hope one day and then
found a way to keep our spirit up the
next day. The NICU process was
relatively easy for us and we are
grateful today that we have our daughter
with us at home growing very fast.
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