HALLLLOOO JULLE!!! jammer my mail is in engels...is bietjie preoccupied
hi ladies,
yep i still owe you pics. we are still settling in. my lil boy is such an angel. the opposite of how his older brother was. Liam hardly cries, he is (BF) feeding and sleeping very well. the only times he moans a bit i when it is feeding time, nappy changing time of burp time. what a bliss my lil man!
Birth weight: 2.685
Lenght: 42cm (very short)
time of birth: 9:10
In short, the BH i experienced was REAL CONTRACTIONS and i was dialated (only 2/3cm) BUT
the problem was that my lil man's heart was not coping to well (missed beats and was all over the show). his bpm ranged between 90-170bpm throughout the night and he took a huge dip at bout 02:00. I was doing fine at that stage, so fine that i thought i'd be going home. I got 2 sets of steroid shots - cos he is so tiny for 38w - one the night before and one the morning.
dr came round the following morning and checked the night's observation reports and said that i should go to his rooms (in hospital) in 5mins time that he could do a scan. Still i thought i would be going home after that. the pains were still there and it did not get stronger, but it did not go away either. so on my way to the dr's rooms DH came and we went together - still said to him it is a false alarm.
ok dr did the scan, it revealled that there was basically no fluid and with each contraction the cord was cut off from circulation. only one of the three veins had a proper flow. and with the contractions LO's heart missed a beat/two (two sec's at least).
so there we went to his office (did not know i had to go back to the l-ward), dr's sec came to tell me to go back to the ward asap cos dr's getting theathre ready i am going in for a c-sec. meanwhile the dr rushed to get theatre ready....i got premeds and my 'sexy white jacket' and we completed the forms (AND i had coffee and a rusk at six that morning)...and then we went to the theatre...and the rest is history....