By Krista Freed, St. Louis MO USAMy Fiance and I where extatic to learn that we where expecting we found out we where pregnant on July 13th 2006 by way of four at home pregnancy tests (yes you heard me right 4) i didnt beleive at the time that it was true i almost fell off the toilet whe it came back positive. and so begins our journey.
PROM at 19 weeks + 6 days. Delivery at 27 weeks + 1 days.
Story added: 2007-01-08
On July 30th 2006 was the first day we met our OB his name was Dr. Jay Padratzik i chose to use Dr. jay because he delivered my sister-in-laws to girls abby and alaina. and so we began our journey of what we thought would be nine months of normal Dr. visits with a man whom at the time we didnt know we ould become very well aquainted with .
My pregnancy passed quite norally as the weeks grew in numbers i grew in size grew is an understatment(i was HUGE) and so came the day we had been waiting for the day that we could know what the sex of our baby would be so we made our 20 week ultrasound appointment for October 10th 2006 little did we know at that time that we would never make it to that appointment.
Saterday October the 7th was like any other day for me i was off work that day so i was doing laundry and working on the cross stich quilt i was making for the baby. the day passed without incedent when curtis came home we had dinner and sat down and watched a movie togather then around 11pm that night we both headed off tobed beingthat i was schedualed to open the restraunt that i worked at I never made it to work the next morning .
At around 12am on sunday October 8th i got up with the 30 second warning that ive got to pee or atleast i though so i go to get out of bed and i never make it to the bathroom at 12:30 am i feel this gush of liquid and im thinking holy crap i just peed on the carpet (little did i know this wasnt pee) i went the the bathroom to clean up and i kept gushing fluid so i put on a pad and went back in my room to clean the carpet and when i looked at the carpet there was blood in the water so i woke my fiance and told mih to call his mom and let her know that we where on our way to the hospital.
As we left for the hospital i was just in shock i was only 19 weeks pregnant things like this arnt saposed to happen untill your in labor. so we arrived at st.johns at 1:45 am on sunday the 8th of October and had to tell the ladys at the desk why we where here and to be totally honest i didnt know what to say at that point so i thought of the first thing that came to my mind and that was "I think my water broke". As fast as i said that they had me in a gown in a hospital room that looked like it was painted by clowns . they got me all hooked up to the iv's and the machines and examined me and got this horribal look on there face and they all left about a half an hour later my OB who was on call that night at the hospital came in and he looked terrified. He told us that indeed my water had broken and that there was no chance that it could reseal because i had lost my membranes as well this comdition is known as PPROM (premature perminate rupture of membranes ). i was told the work that my baby would probibly be born within twenty four hours and if he or she made it past the twentyfour hour mark that the baby would never be able to breathe.
We where so terrified and cried for a long time .We where given the staistics on PPROM 90% of women who rupture go into labor within 24 hrs. 50% with in the week of rupture and 10% go to carry for longer . so as theday wore on they watched me like a hawk and in late evening of the second day they prepared to send me home they said that i had beaten the first statistic and that there was nothing they could or would do if the baby was born anywhere before 24 weeks .
my first three weeks of bedrest where spent at my house consuming so much water i thought that id float away . and they passed without incedent and my fouth week was spent at my mother in laws house because curtis had to go to back to work.
on November 3rd i went into the hospialt for montiored bedrest one of the frist things they did when they got me all hooked up was give me shot of betamethazone which is a shot to help the babys lungs and i settled in and hoped for the best .
as thanksgiving came and went we where all hoping for a goodhealthy baby and time to pass without incedent .
On november 27th st about 12 noon i started to have these weird pains in my back and i called the nurse and she checked me and said that i was "fine" and as she was leaving paula came in to sit with me to keep me company and the pains continued so later on that day we called the nurse back in and she checked agian and said that i was not in labor if i was it would show up on the machine . so now apparently the machine is all knowing (pssst i hate the machine) and the day goses on .
later on that night curtis came in after he got off work and sat with me for a bit and around 11pn i told him to go home and get some sleep (little did he know that he would never get the sleep) .
at around 12am on the 28th i went to use the restroom and noticed blood when i whiped so i called the nurse who then called the resident who ushered me bakc to bed and proptly checked me agian and got as white as a sheet she told the nurse to go and get the dr and said that i was 4 cm dialted and that we where going to have a baby .
so i called curtis and then he called my mom and his mom and they call headed down just as they where getting me prepped for my epidural curtis walked in the room (i never want to see a needle that large agian) .
they weeled me into the OR and started the c section in what felt like time stopping was only a few minutes at 1:41 am they pulled my little girl out but first and she cried!! (she wasnt even expected to breathe) they wisked her over to a table to help her breathing and vitals get more stable .
asia is now five weeks old she was born weiging 2 lbs 4 oz and 13 in long she is now 3 lbs 2.2 oz and 13.5 inches long . her breathing is still a concern but she is doing well she just needs to grow a bit more and he little lung with do great she is still on a ventilator but doing well .
i will update you all as time passes and she gets stronger and bigger