I woke up one morning (23 weeks and 3
days) and found liquid running down my
legs. I convinced myself I had 'wet'
myself and went back to bed. A couple of
hours later, the same thing happened. I
told my husband and we decided to go to
the delivery suite to be checked. The
doctor did an internal examination and
took swabs then sent me home telling me
I had an incontinence problem!
Over the next few days I continued to
lose liquid and then it seemed to stop.
That night I had extremely bad pains,but
it felt like indeigestion. the next
morning I started bleeding and knew
something was not right.
I went to hospital to be checked out, by
this point thinking I had turned into
Miss Paranoid. I was admitted to
hospital, not for the bleeding but for
high blood pressure. The doctor wanted
it monitoring for 24 hours.
The next morning the consultant arrived
and said he would send me for a scan and
take blood for testing. This turned out
to be one of the worst days of our lives
as we were informed from the scan that
there was no fluid at all round the
baby.
We were spoken to by lots of doctors and
midwives to tell us what would happen if
labour started and what the chances of
survival were. I started to pray that I
would be spending Christmas and New Year
and hopefully the next 3 months on bed
rest in hospital.
Unfortunately I caught a sickness bug in
hospital and was violently ill for 3
days, not able to eat or drink. I was
given strong painkillers, antibiotics
and by this point my blood pressure was
over 100 and so I had to have medication
to reduce it.
After recovering from all that, our
little girl only managed to fight for
another day. The worst part was that
that day I felt better than I had in
ages and was really positive. That night
I had more pains and the midwife assured
me it was just the baby moving without
the fluid to cushion the movements. By
mroning I knew something was drastically
wrong and insisted the midwife found the
baby's heart beat. There wasn't one. An
hour later Georgia was born with no
signs of life. A perfect, beautiful
little girl peacefully asleep. She was
born exactly 24 weeks.
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