https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:12:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92572 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:03:37 +0000 tequiero21 92572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>awww she's a little doll. i'm so sorry you had to go through all that traumatic scare! but so glad everything worked out in the end and pray that she no longer has any problems!</p> <p>i guess they didn't pick up her heart issues during ultrasounds? i guess i'm lucky that they do u/s pretty often (since i'm considered high risk), so they check all that stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92550 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:47:58 +0000 lavender 92550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>congrats! What a crazy scary story!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92385 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:18:24 +0000 kml636 92385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congrats Mama! Wow! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92327 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:18:34 +0000 Rosie Girl 92327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you all! She is my 2nd baby. My first was totally different! Water broke at home, labor for 9 hours with pain meds :) And no issues. This totally took us by surprise! </p> <p>They still aren't sure why she wasn't breathing to begin with. They think it could do with her heart (she had some valves that didn't close at first), but aren't 100% sure. We have to do follow-ups with the heart dr to make sure everything is still going ok. </p> <p>Here is a picture of her later that day in the NICU. (I hope this works!)</p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i823xo_R6qU/T15CUQiRyGI/AAAAAAAAAqo/54YfX1MSLKs/s1600/Lyla.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i823xo_R6qU/T15CUQiRyGI/AAAAAAAAAqo/54YfX1MSLKs/s1600/Lyla.jpg</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92190 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:06:59 +0000 banana 92190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So glad everything turned out ok! Your story was a total page turner. I kept wanting to read the next paragraph asap to make sure everything turnd out fine! Congratulations on your beautiful baby girl and I hope the best for her!!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92187 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:02:30 +0000 Crisark 92187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! Congrats on your new addition and I'm so happy all is well.<br /> What a scary situation though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92177 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:51:22 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 92177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG!! What a crazy story. I got chills hearing what you went through. I'm so glad to know that your LO is on the road to recovery and I'll keep you in my thoughts that everything continues to progress. Congrats to you, new mommy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92170 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:45:14 +0000 Alivoo01 92170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations on your bundle joy and bless your heart for such a scare! Thankfully, she's growing stronger every day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92127 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:21:39 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 92127@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations! That is so scary! Thanks for sharing. I hope your little one continues to improve. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92126 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:20:52 +0000 Mrsbells 92126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>wow.. what a story. did they tell you why she wasnt breathing when she was born and what caused it? Thank God she is okat now.! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92125 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:19:56 +0000 chopsuey 92125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG!!!!! I totally got chills and major anxiety reading your labor story!! must have been SO SCARY! Crazy how quickly you progressed too.<br /> Glad to hear your LO is doing better..<br /> btw, CONGRATS!<br /> &lt;3 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92123 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:19:30 +0000 winniebee 92123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations Rosie! I followed you back on the IF boards on WB and am so happy that you and your baby are now recovering and healthy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92122 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:15:37 +0000 skibobrown 92122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes! The birth sounds kind of ideal to me -- i.e. show up at hospital already completely dilated and effaced and ready to push with no pain meds necessary. But the part after the birth sounds very scary. I'm so glad that you're home w/ your daughter now and that she's doing much better. Was is the heart issues that was causing her to not breathe right? </p> <p>Congrats mama, and enjoy your beautiful baby!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92120 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:13:09 +0000 twinmama 92120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been wondering about you! So glad your precious girl is here, sorry she's made you worry so much already! Praying she keeps getting stronger and doesn't give you any more scares :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92115 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:09:29 +0000 MsMini 92115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations on your little girl. I am glad that despite a scary start, that she turned around, and is going to be just fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92111 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:01:02 +0000 Shutterbug 92111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! Is she your first baby? What a whirlwind! I'm glad everyone's ok :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92110 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:00:25 +0000 hilsy85 92110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Goodness! Sounds like you guys had quite a scare, but glad everything worked out and she's home safe and sound with you :) Congrats mama! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dds-birth-story#post-92104 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:53:47 +0000 Rosie Girl 92104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to my weekly check on Thursday, February 16, at 37 wks 4 days. I was measuring 41 wks though, and was in a LOT of pain. As my hips started to separate to get ready for birth, my sciatica got pinched, and I couldn't walk. Because of my HUGE size and pain, my dr called Labor and Delivery, and set me up for an induction the following Wednesday, February 22. On Tuesday I was to go in for an US to check DD's size. If she was measuring big, my dr was thinking of doing a C-section. I was also supposed to go see my dr and she was going to check my cervix and make sure it was good enough to have the induction if we didn't do C-section. I was so excited when I left, we had a date for our baby! And I could spend the weekend getting ready, painting toenails, cooking and freezing some meals, doing any cleaning that I could possibly think of, and possibly go out one last time to dinner with DH, just the 2 of us. Well, none of that happened.</p> <p>Because DH had been going into work super early all week to get some overtime, I thought I would be a nice wife and sleep on the couch on Friday night. I was so uncomfortable anyways, that the couch was a little better because I could sit up more. Plus, I didn't snore as bad sitting up, so we both could sleep a little sounder :) Well, that didn't last long! I got up at around 1:00 AM with really bad cramps. I felt like I was going to get sick, and went to the bathroom to try and make myself take a poo. I finally was able to take a little one, but the cramping didn't stop. I wasn't sure what was wrong with me, but as the pain got worse and more persistent, I knew something was going on. I went into our bedroom and woke up DH, telling him I thought I might be in labor. He asked me to lay day saying it might help me, but I knew I couldn't. I decided to call my dr. If I wasn't in labor, then something else was going on and she needed to know. She told me to go ahead and go into L&amp;D. M and I got ready really quick, brushing our teeth and grabbing our bag, and headed out.</p> <p>Of course, it decided to start to snow. And lots of big flakes! The drive into town was slower than normal due to the snow, and DH being scared that every car we passed was a drunk driver (bars had just closed!). We finally made it to L&amp;D at about 3:00 AM and I made my way inside. The pain wasn't letting up at all and I felt the constant need to poop. But I walked to the room, got my pants off and up on the bed. The nurse came in to check me and was beyond surprised to find that I was 100% effaced and 9 cm dilated!</p> <p>They called for an epidural, but it wasn't going to make it. My dr wasn't even there, and I had to push. I kept telling the nurse that I didn't because I REALLY wanted the drugs, but I soon I couldn't deny it. I can't even explain the pain I was in. I thought I was going to throw up it hurt so bad. I was hot and tingly. My face felt numb. I didn't think I could do it, that I might actually break in half. But I did it. My water broke on its own, and I kept pushing and screaming and clenching DH's hand. DD's head was right there when my dr arrived. She gave me an episiotomy, and finished delivering DD.</p> <p>At 3:23 AM (it felt like so much longer than 23 minutes!) on Saturday, February 18 (DS's original due date!), little DD was born, weighing 7 lbs and measuring 19 inches long. They lifted her up so we could see her, and she was blue. She didn't make a sound. They didn't let DH cut the cord, they didn't lay her on my chest. Instead they cut the cord and took her over to the little table and started to work on her. It felt like hours that I lay there with them working on our little girl. They kept telling us that everything was ok, but we knew it wasn't. There were no sounds coming from the table and all the nurses and my dr were huddled around. Finally they brought her over to me, let me give her a kiss, and then took her to NICU.</p> <p>I then got to deliver my placenta and get my stitches, but I really wanted to see my daughter. They wouldn't let us though, and no one was telling us anything. We had to sit in the delivery room and wait. It was the longest scariest time ever. My nurse finally decided to take us down to see her. DH wheeled me down to the NICU and there was our little girl, all hooked up to machines. They told us that she wasn't breathing when she came out, and they had to bag her (breath for her) for 3 minutes, and then had to assist her for another 4 minutes. She still wasn't breathing right and had to be on oxygen. We were able to finally get to hold her though, and it was so wonderful!</p> <p>They tried to lower her oxygen that day, but she stopped breathing again, and they had to up it. They did an x-ray on her chest and an US of her heart, but didn't really tell us much of what was going on. She was in the NICU until Sunday afternoon, then we finally got to have her in our room with us. </p> <p>She got jaundice right before we were discharged from the hospital (late Tuesday night), so she had to be on bili lights until the following Monday. She had to go see the heart specialist, and she has 2 holes in her heart. One between the upper chambers and one between the lower chambers. He doesn't think they will give her any problems though, and may possibly even close up on their own. </p> <p>Her sodium and chloride levels remained high for about 2 wks, but have finally come down. Since she has been home, she has had one episode where she quit breathing. It didn't last long, but she did turn blue. Scared the daylights out of me! We have been at the dr's every day the week after she was born, then about every other day the next week, and we are finally down to once a week! </p> <p>It has been a rough start, but she is here, and beautiful, and we are so in love! </p>