Cryssie
Mommy to Alek & Lainee
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I found out I was pregnant Labor Day 2013 when I was watching my 2 year old watch a dolphin show and I was so happy I wanted to cry. I was nearly 4 weeks along, after having a blighted ovum and having a D&C February 2013.
My pregnancy went as an old wive's tale. I was sick daily until 20 weeks and then I had heartburn until I delivered.
I had to have regular ultrasounds with a specialist because my son had complications and we had to make sure she didn't. We found she was a girl at 12weeks, 15weeks and 18weeks. At 15 weeks I decided on her name. My husband asked me about the name Lainee and I chose Alexis for her middle name.
Monday, November 11th, I started coughing. I thought I was getting another sinus infection like a few weeks prior. By Friday I was feeling bad, left work early. Over the weekend I barely ate because everytime I coughed, I would puke. By Monday, I called in for work and my dr for meds. My chest hurt, but we thought it was from coughing so much. The dr prescribed me a z pack over the phone.
Tuesday I had a regular follow up ultrasound with my specialist. I still felt horrible. Just the walk from the car to the hospital drug the air out of me. I only made it to my vitals, they sent me to triage.
In triage, they tested me for the flu. It was negative. They found out at that point I needed to be admitted. I had pneumonia. Lainee, through all of this was still perfect and under no stress.
I got admitted to L&D November 19th. That's the last day I remember. I've been told the rest of my story..
I had to have my lungs cleaned out November 22nd because they filled up fast with fluid. They sedated me and started and that's when I started to go downhill. They decided they needed to get Lainee out then. They tried to wheel me to the OR but I coded and they did an emergency c section(vertically) right there in my sicu room. I was fine after.
Lainee was on O2 for a few days and an iv for a few days. She was breathing on her own and only need the billie lights for 2 days. She weighed 3lbs 3oz, dropping to 2lbs 12oz after losing her water weight. She was born at 29 weeks and 2 days.
By sunday, I was bad again. They did a test Friday when I delivered for H1N1, Monday it had came back positive. They sedated me and put me into a medically induced coma, on a ventilator, a trache, and 8 ivs, where I gained 76lbs in fluid blowing up to over 200lbs. They gave my husband no survival rate, the only thing I had on my side was my age. I remained in that coma until December 23rd.
When I woke up, I couldn't talk. And I couldn't imagine what I was hearing when I was told I had my baby and I was asleep for a month and a half. But I progressed quickly, moving to pcu after the new year started. I was no longer sick, but I was still weak. They removed all my chest tubes and trache over the next few weeks. I finally got to see Lainee after a month and a half. Couldn't hold her until a week after that. And when I hold her I have to gown/glove up thanks to a bacterial colonization I have in my blood. But it's worth it.
January 16th I moved to a rehabilitation center to help get my strength back so I can do what I did before all this happened. My goal to be home is Lainee's due date, February 5th. For both of us. She just has to master bottle feeding, I need to walk and get my strength back in my body.
All this happened because I didn't get my flu shot. I didn't get one with my son and got lucky I never got sick. Sorry this is so long. But I had to tell it. I'm new to being a preemie mom, and it's a scary thought. As of yesterday, Lainee weighs 6lbs 3oz. She's still in the nicu and is almost 2 months old.
My pregnancy went as an old wive's tale. I was sick daily until 20 weeks and then I had heartburn until I delivered.
I had to have regular ultrasounds with a specialist because my son had complications and we had to make sure she didn't. We found she was a girl at 12weeks, 15weeks and 18weeks. At 15 weeks I decided on her name. My husband asked me about the name Lainee and I chose Alexis for her middle name.
Monday, November 11th, I started coughing. I thought I was getting another sinus infection like a few weeks prior. By Friday I was feeling bad, left work early. Over the weekend I barely ate because everytime I coughed, I would puke. By Monday, I called in for work and my dr for meds. My chest hurt, but we thought it was from coughing so much. The dr prescribed me a z pack over the phone.
Tuesday I had a regular follow up ultrasound with my specialist. I still felt horrible. Just the walk from the car to the hospital drug the air out of me. I only made it to my vitals, they sent me to triage.
In triage, they tested me for the flu. It was negative. They found out at that point I needed to be admitted. I had pneumonia. Lainee, through all of this was still perfect and under no stress.
I got admitted to L&D November 19th. That's the last day I remember. I've been told the rest of my story..
I had to have my lungs cleaned out November 22nd because they filled up fast with fluid. They sedated me and started and that's when I started to go downhill. They decided they needed to get Lainee out then. They tried to wheel me to the OR but I coded and they did an emergency c section(vertically) right there in my sicu room. I was fine after.
Lainee was on O2 for a few days and an iv for a few days. She was breathing on her own and only need the billie lights for 2 days. She weighed 3lbs 3oz, dropping to 2lbs 12oz after losing her water weight. She was born at 29 weeks and 2 days.
By sunday, I was bad again. They did a test Friday when I delivered for H1N1, Monday it had came back positive. They sedated me and put me into a medically induced coma, on a ventilator, a trache, and 8 ivs, where I gained 76lbs in fluid blowing up to over 200lbs. They gave my husband no survival rate, the only thing I had on my side was my age. I remained in that coma until December 23rd.
When I woke up, I couldn't talk. And I couldn't imagine what I was hearing when I was told I had my baby and I was asleep for a month and a half. But I progressed quickly, moving to pcu after the new year started. I was no longer sick, but I was still weak. They removed all my chest tubes and trache over the next few weeks. I finally got to see Lainee after a month and a half. Couldn't hold her until a week after that. And when I hold her I have to gown/glove up thanks to a bacterial colonization I have in my blood. But it's worth it.
January 16th I moved to a rehabilitation center to help get my strength back so I can do what I did before all this happened. My goal to be home is Lainee's due date, February 5th. For both of us. She just has to master bottle feeding, I need to walk and get my strength back in my body.
All this happened because I didn't get my flu shot. I didn't get one with my son and got lucky I never got sick. Sorry this is so long. But I had to tell it. I'm new to being a preemie mom, and it's a scary thought. As of yesterday, Lainee weighs 6lbs 3oz. She's still in the nicu and is almost 2 months old.
