After a really bad 24 hour stomach flue
I woke up around midnight the next
night feeling a trickle of something
coming out of me which I thought had to
be blood but it turned out that my
water had broken. I had just been at my
obgyn and everything had been fine 2
days before so I kind of thought I
would just go down to the hospital and
they would tell me not to worry about
it and send me home. Instead, they told
me to plan on staying there until I
delivered. That was a bit of a shock.
They told me most women deliver in 48
hours, but if I made it past that I
might go 2 or 3 more weeks. Well, 8
weeks later I was still there with
never a sign of labor or infection.
They finally chose to induce me at 34
weeks which was fine with me because I
had hardly seen my 20 month old
daughter while I was in there and I had
read that 34 weekers do really well.
The whole time I was on bedrest I
rarely had any fluid that they could
measure and I leaked constantly.
Joshua Michael was born 6 weeks early
at 4 lb. 13 oz with an apgar of 9, but
shortly thereafter had to be put on the
vent. We had a rocky first week with
his lungs and low blood pressure but
now, after being on the vent for 2
weeks they are about to wean him off it
and I don't think he will be in NICU
more than another week or two while he
grows and learns to eat. Now that it is
almost all over it seems like it went
by so fast. I think sometimes that if
they had let me I probably could have
delivered closer to full term since
everything was so stable the whole
time, but I will never know for sure if
my luck would have run out and I could
have gotten an infection towards the
end. I am happy to talk to anyone who
has questions about this experience.
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