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So, on Wednesday June 8th, I was having abdominal cramps severe enough to send me to ER. They were not constant though and felt more like contractions. I was kept overnight so an ultrasound could be done in the morning, and ultrasound said everything looked fine, and that what I thought were contractions weren't because according to the doc it was too soon.
I was diagnosed with a UTI though and given an antibiotic for this and sent home. Well at home the contractions didn't stop, and in fact that night (now Thursday) I started to bleed a little bit. I called the midwife when this happened but she said it didn't sound like anything to worry about and that it was quite possibly just a result of the infection irritating the uterus.
Fast forward over the course of the next few days where nothing really changed symptom wise. I kept having these contraction at extremely irregular intervals and never lasting more than 10 seconds in length.
This brings us to Monday June 13th. This was the day I was really starting to doubt it was the infection irritating the uterus and that more was involved, since by this point it was 4 days I'd been on my meds. I had made up my mind at this point to just finish out the last 3 days of the meds and then demand my midwife do some looking into what was causing my contractions pain.
I went through the day in a bit of pain, like the past few until early evening. At this point I realized I had not gone poop for a few days, so I decided to try and go poop. I spent a fair bit of time here, not forcing anything but yet still trying to go. I did this until about 8-8:30. All of a sudden I started to really feel like I was going to be sick, so I had my OH get me a bucket. A short few minutes later I had a couple dry heaves, and on the second or third one there was a HUGE gush come out me, not vomit but amniotic fluid. This was immediately followed by blood.
My OH quickly brought me to the ER, where I was immediately taken in. I had to be given 2 bags of IV fluid to get my blood pressure back up, which had gotten apparently dangerously low. They called down the on call OB from the birthing unit. It took him a little time to get down, and just before he got down though, I mentioned to a nurse that I felt something was starting to come out, because with the contraction I'd just had I had felt a very full hardness down in my vagina. The OB came down and was mentioning that the baby as coming but that it was too early for it survive, not that I didn't realize this already.
He then ordered two types of meds, one in IV format and one in tablet format. I never found out what the tablet one was, because I was never given it. I can only assume it was meant to help flush things out, and that it wasn't needed because just as he was calling for the meds, another contraction hit me and I felt the hard full object even further down my vaginal tract. I was smart enough to know it was the head of the baby. I didn't know if the doctor wanted me to push it out yet, but I couldn't help it, I couldn't stop it. My body did it by itself, and just as the doc had finished asking the nurses for the meds, I felt a popping sensation followed by something much more squishy-like, and I knew I had just pushed the baby out.
It took a few more minutes, and a little bit of the doc pushing on my stomach but I also pushed out the placenta. I didn't look at it, I just couldn't bear it. One of the nurses suggested finding out gender, but I told her no. Unfortunately the doc chose that moment to state it, and so despite not wishing to find out at all, I learned that my little baby was a boy.
Im not thinking about the fact I know the gender though, in my mind im trying to think of it as genderless, because it's just a little easier to deal with.
I was diagnosed with a UTI though and given an antibiotic for this and sent home. Well at home the contractions didn't stop, and in fact that night (now Thursday) I started to bleed a little bit. I called the midwife when this happened but she said it didn't sound like anything to worry about and that it was quite possibly just a result of the infection irritating the uterus.
Fast forward over the course of the next few days where nothing really changed symptom wise. I kept having these contraction at extremely irregular intervals and never lasting more than 10 seconds in length.
This brings us to Monday June 13th. This was the day I was really starting to doubt it was the infection irritating the uterus and that more was involved, since by this point it was 4 days I'd been on my meds. I had made up my mind at this point to just finish out the last 3 days of the meds and then demand my midwife do some looking into what was causing my contractions pain.
I went through the day in a bit of pain, like the past few until early evening. At this point I realized I had not gone poop for a few days, so I decided to try and go poop. I spent a fair bit of time here, not forcing anything but yet still trying to go. I did this until about 8-8:30. All of a sudden I started to really feel like I was going to be sick, so I had my OH get me a bucket. A short few minutes later I had a couple dry heaves, and on the second or third one there was a HUGE gush come out me, not vomit but amniotic fluid. This was immediately followed by blood.
My OH quickly brought me to the ER, where I was immediately taken in. I had to be given 2 bags of IV fluid to get my blood pressure back up, which had gotten apparently dangerously low. They called down the on call OB from the birthing unit. It took him a little time to get down, and just before he got down though, I mentioned to a nurse that I felt something was starting to come out, because with the contraction I'd just had I had felt a very full hardness down in my vagina. The OB came down and was mentioning that the baby as coming but that it was too early for it survive, not that I didn't realize this already.
He then ordered two types of meds, one in IV format and one in tablet format. I never found out what the tablet one was, because I was never given it. I can only assume it was meant to help flush things out, and that it wasn't needed because just as he was calling for the meds, another contraction hit me and I felt the hard full object even further down my vaginal tract. I was smart enough to know it was the head of the baby. I didn't know if the doctor wanted me to push it out yet, but I couldn't help it, I couldn't stop it. My body did it by itself, and just as the doc had finished asking the nurses for the meds, I felt a popping sensation followed by something much more squishy-like, and I knew I had just pushed the baby out.
It took a few more minutes, and a little bit of the doc pushing on my stomach but I also pushed out the placenta. I didn't look at it, I just couldn't bear it. One of the nurses suggested finding out gender, but I told her no. Unfortunately the doc chose that moment to state it, and so despite not wishing to find out at all, I learned that my little baby was a boy.
Im not thinking about the fact I know the gender though, in my mind im trying to think of it as genderless, because it's just a little easier to deal with.
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You'll (should be) monitored like a hawk next time but hopefully you'll get some answers and next time this can be prevented. It's pretty sad really that it takes a woman to have to go through this for anything wrong to be found out. Chip up hun and good for you keeping positive. The first 2 days I thought I'd never get out of this black hole but it does get easier x
