emmerypemmery
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Hi,
Emma is currently feeding Isobel Willow with one arm.
Lets start at the beginning. The short/abridged version is: -
Trying for several years. Get a BFP
Couple of weeks later and Emma is in a car fire on the motorway. She survives but has severe smoke inhalation. Not well for a few days.
Fast forward to week 6. Lets go to hospital again. This time hyperemesis gravidium. She's sick 20+ times a day and throwing up blood. Not a good look.
Weapons grade anti emetics and regular trips to hospital for rehydration just about keep her human.
Repeat several more times untill about week 20, when the Hypermesis abates somewhat to be replaced by Gestational diabetes. Fantastic. She finally feels like eating something to be told she now has to be super careful about her sugar intake. Fortnightly scans are a slight bonus.
Finally we get a quiet spell.
Week 32, Hyperemsis returns.
Week 39 and we are due at the anti natal diabetic clinic.
She's forgotten her BM record for the blood sugar. So pops back into the house. A couple of minutes later my son comes out and says Emma has broken her arm. I wander in not unduly worried. Em can be a bit of a drama queen at times (she's now reading over my shoulder..oops). She's sitting on the kitchen floor with her arm at a most peculiar angle. 999 ambulance blue lights fun and games not!
To cut a very long fraught and frustrating story short.
Her arm is smashed where she hit it against the doorframe protecting her bump. It badly needs plating and pinning. They won't give her enough pain relief to immobilise it properly because of the baby and they won't operate because of the baby. The pain and shock is such that a natural birth would only end in assisted delivery of some sort (I work in the operating department, I see this a lot) so after lots of informing people how things should be done and quoting NICE guidelines. We finally get someone who can make a decision. (10 hours after admission). The only way Em is going to get pain relief is to not be pregnant so at 7:08pm on Thursday the 3rd of September, she became not pregnant via emergency C section. It was both the best and worst of days. A horrible pregnancy ended in a horrible way, with a fantastic beautiful daughter.
Em now has both a daughter, and an immense 11 hole broad AO plate with several dynamic and lag screws fitted and a 12 inch incision on her arm, not to mention the C section wound which has some of the untidiest suturing I've seen in my 6 years working in an obstetric theatre!!!
Mum and baby are now both home and doing incredibly well considering the circumstances.
And she wants a second child!!!!!! Mad!!!!!!!!
As typed by Dad. The tired one!
Emma is currently feeding Isobel Willow with one arm.
Lets start at the beginning. The short/abridged version is: -
Trying for several years. Get a BFP
Couple of weeks later and Emma is in a car fire on the motorway. She survives but has severe smoke inhalation. Not well for a few days.
Fast forward to week 6. Lets go to hospital again. This time hyperemesis gravidium. She's sick 20+ times a day and throwing up blood. Not a good look.
Weapons grade anti emetics and regular trips to hospital for rehydration just about keep her human.
Repeat several more times untill about week 20, when the Hypermesis abates somewhat to be replaced by Gestational diabetes. Fantastic. She finally feels like eating something to be told she now has to be super careful about her sugar intake. Fortnightly scans are a slight bonus.
Finally we get a quiet spell.
Week 32, Hyperemsis returns.
Week 39 and we are due at the anti natal diabetic clinic.
She's forgotten her BM record for the blood sugar. So pops back into the house. A couple of minutes later my son comes out and says Emma has broken her arm. I wander in not unduly worried. Em can be a bit of a drama queen at times (she's now reading over my shoulder..oops). She's sitting on the kitchen floor with her arm at a most peculiar angle. 999 ambulance blue lights fun and games not!
To cut a very long fraught and frustrating story short.
Her arm is smashed where she hit it against the doorframe protecting her bump. It badly needs plating and pinning. They won't give her enough pain relief to immobilise it properly because of the baby and they won't operate because of the baby. The pain and shock is such that a natural birth would only end in assisted delivery of some sort (I work in the operating department, I see this a lot) so after lots of informing people how things should be done and quoting NICE guidelines. We finally get someone who can make a decision. (10 hours after admission). The only way Em is going to get pain relief is to not be pregnant so at 7:08pm on Thursday the 3rd of September, she became not pregnant via emergency C section. It was both the best and worst of days. A horrible pregnancy ended in a horrible way, with a fantastic beautiful daughter.
Em now has both a daughter, and an immense 11 hole broad AO plate with several dynamic and lag screws fitted and a 12 inch incision on her arm, not to mention the C section wound which has some of the untidiest suturing I've seen in my 6 years working in an obstetric theatre!!!
Mum and baby are now both home and doing incredibly well considering the circumstances.
And she wants a second child!!!!!! Mad!!!!!!!!
As typed by Dad. The tired one!
