Wantabean
mumma with a new surprise
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hi all :wave:
i am so happy to be able to write my birth story. it was the most terrifying experience of my life so it will be quite a long one. everything is still a bit blurry but ill do my best to get everything in order.
here is the short version
i got checked for reduced fetal movement on thursday 18th nov. i was on monitor for hour and they decided to burst my waters. 20mins later i got knocked out and an emergency c-section. Cameron John Gillies was born at 1404 weighing 6lbs 8oz and was 2weeks early. He got taken to NNICU where he battled for his life. 8days later we got to go home together
and the detailed version lol
so as i said on thursday i was really worried as i hadnt felt the baby move the night before or that morning so i called my midwife. i have had loads of problems so they said just to go in and get checked out. i called my mum and she laughed it off, telling me i was paranoid. i told OH and again told i was paranoid. i decided to go up myself anyway as i didnt feel right. i got strapped upto the monitor and we all had a laugh and a joke about how he was a lazy baby. after about 20mins on monitor i was told to drink a bottle of lucazade. his heartbeat was good but he appeared to be sleeping. the drink done nothing to wake him so we sat for another 30mins. he still wasnt responding then a consultant came in, done an internal and said they were gona take me to the labour ward and break my waters. at this point i started to panic and got them to call my mum lol she then contact OH and off we all went. they broke my waters and there was meconium. 20mins later the babys heart rate was dipping and because he still hadnt moved they told me i was getting a section. really really started to panic and kept telling them that i wasnt ready. they said there was no time for spinal so i had to get knocked out.
ok so here is where it becomes really blurry due to lots of morphine lol
when i came round i immediately asked to see my baby and i got told that he was in nnicu coz he 'was a bit pale'. i cant really remember much but they finally let me go see him at 6pm. 4 hours after he was born!
all i can say is thank god for the morphine coz i was out of it or i wouldnt have coped at all as he was in an incubator. i was told that he had started taking seizures, had a line put into his umbilical cord, his blood count was only 3 when it should have been about 15, he was on c-pap, his kidneys and liver were failing and he had swelling in his brain. they gave him 3 blood transfusions and had to wait before another one coz they were worried his heart would give up. he was put on anti-biotics and anti-convulsants. this was all in the four hours from him being born and me seeing him.
on the friday he deteriorated further. he started taking more seizures and coz he wasnt getting any oxygen to his brain so they had to intubate him they also gave him a forth blood transfusion and fitted an arterial line so they didnt have to keep poking holes in him to get blood. they were very doubtful that he was gona make it so we decided to get him Christened. it was lovely and they let us bring the shawl that all my family were Christened in in. he got to wear it for the pictures. 
on Sat i came down and was told they were gona try put him back on c-pap as he hadnt had any seizures since just before the Christening. i was so excited but they asked me to go away incase it didnt work and they had to recucitate him. i was quite happy though so off i went to try sleep and have my lunch. mt mum came up for a visit so we both went down to nnicu after lunch. soon as i walked in i burst into tears coz there was my little boy breathing on his own!
i have never been so proud in my life! they also said that the 4th transfusion was enough and he wouldnt need anymore i was so so happy they then asked about feeding and wot was i planning to do. i told them that i had planned on bottle feeding but would be willing to breast feed now as i felt i needed to do something for him. i started hand expressing that night. i also got to touch him and change him for the first time that night. i was howling 
lol
Sunday i came down with the syringes they had asked me to fill and he tasted milk for the first time. i have never laughed so much as he was very greedy and grabbed my finger and tried to put it in his mouth he was improving dramatically! his liver and kidney function came back great, his blood count was way upto 9! On sunday night i got to hold him for the first time
Monday the doctors said they could not believe the change, he really was like a different baby. I started feeding him myself that day and was doing all his care myself. fast forward to tuesday night lol i was so tired as i was breastfeeding every 3 hours and was barely sleeping. he was going from strength to strength!! i could not believe how much things were improving. anyway on tuesday night they told me he proub would put him into an open cot and they took all his lines and and other bits out
i went down on wednesday morning to see him in his big boy cot i was so so happy but things got better!!! they told me that he was coming upto the ward with me!! i burst into tears again and started hugging the midwife!! so off we went upto the ward together. i was really scared now it was gona be me that cared for him now lol friday came and we both got discharged and sent home!! i have never been so happy in all my life!!
he is sleeping and feeding like a pro. you would never know there had been anything wrong with him nevermind the fact that last week he had been fighting for his life. they dnt know what long term damage we are looking at but we will deal with it if and when it happens, we are jus so glad to be here now
thanks for reading, i know it was a long one lol
heres a few pics
this is from his christening at 2days old
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/cameronchristening4.jpg
this is on thursday- 1week old
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0067.jpg
and then a few from yesterday and today
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0068.jpg
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0075.jpg
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0076.jpg
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0077.jpg
this is today at 10days old
i am so happy to be able to write my birth story. it was the most terrifying experience of my life so it will be quite a long one. everything is still a bit blurry but ill do my best to get everything in order.
here is the short version
i got checked for reduced fetal movement on thursday 18th nov. i was on monitor for hour and they decided to burst my waters. 20mins later i got knocked out and an emergency c-section. Cameron John Gillies was born at 1404 weighing 6lbs 8oz and was 2weeks early. He got taken to NNICU where he battled for his life. 8days later we got to go home together
and the detailed version lol
so as i said on thursday i was really worried as i hadnt felt the baby move the night before or that morning so i called my midwife. i have had loads of problems so they said just to go in and get checked out. i called my mum and she laughed it off, telling me i was paranoid. i told OH and again told i was paranoid. i decided to go up myself anyway as i didnt feel right. i got strapped upto the monitor and we all had a laugh and a joke about how he was a lazy baby. after about 20mins on monitor i was told to drink a bottle of lucazade. his heartbeat was good but he appeared to be sleeping. the drink done nothing to wake him so we sat for another 30mins. he still wasnt responding then a consultant came in, done an internal and said they were gona take me to the labour ward and break my waters. at this point i started to panic and got them to call my mum lol she then contact OH and off we all went. they broke my waters and there was meconium. 20mins later the babys heart rate was dipping and because he still hadnt moved they told me i was getting a section. really really started to panic and kept telling them that i wasnt ready. they said there was no time for spinal so i had to get knocked out.
ok so here is where it becomes really blurry due to lots of morphine lol
when i came round i immediately asked to see my baby and i got told that he was in nnicu coz he 'was a bit pale'. i cant really remember much but they finally let me go see him at 6pm. 4 hours after he was born!
all i can say is thank god for the morphine coz i was out of it or i wouldnt have coped at all as he was in an incubator. i was told that he had started taking seizures, had a line put into his umbilical cord, his blood count was only 3 when it should have been about 15, he was on c-pap, his kidneys and liver were failing and he had swelling in his brain. they gave him 3 blood transfusions and had to wait before another one coz they were worried his heart would give up. he was put on anti-biotics and anti-convulsants. this was all in the four hours from him being born and me seeing him.on the friday he deteriorated further. he started taking more seizures and coz he wasnt getting any oxygen to his brain so they had to intubate him
they also gave him a forth blood transfusion and fitted an arterial line so they didnt have to keep poking holes in him to get blood. they were very doubtful that he was gona make it so we decided to get him Christened. it was lovely and they let us bring the shawl that all my family were Christened in in. he got to wear it for the pictures. on Sat i came down and was told they were gona try put him back on c-pap as he hadnt had any seizures since just before the Christening. i was so excited but they asked me to go away incase it didnt work and they had to recucitate him. i was quite happy though so off i went to try sleep and have my lunch. mt mum came up for a visit so we both went down to nnicu after lunch. soon as i walked in i burst into tears coz there was my little boy breathing on his own!
i have never been so proud in my life! they also said that the 4th transfusion was enough and he wouldnt need anymore i was so so happy they then asked about feeding and wot was i planning to do. i told them that i had planned on bottle feeding but would be willing to breast feed now as i felt i needed to do something for him. i started hand expressing that night. i also got to touch him and change him for the first time that night. i was howling lol Sunday i came down with the syringes they had asked me to fill and he tasted milk for the first time. i have never laughed so much as he was very greedy and grabbed my finger and tried to put it in his mouth
he was improving dramatically! his liver and kidney function came back great, his blood count was way upto 9! On sunday night i got to hold him for the first time Monday the doctors said they could not believe the change, he really was like a different baby. I started feeding him myself that day and was doing all his care myself. fast forward to tuesday night lol i was so tired as i was breastfeeding every 3 hours and was barely sleeping. he was going from strength to strength!! i could not believe how much things were improving. anyway on tuesday night they told me he proub would put him into an open cot and they took all his lines and and other bits out
i went down on wednesday morning to see him in his big boy cot
i was so so happy but things got better!!! they told me that he was coming upto the ward with me!! i burst into tears again and started hugging the midwife!! so off we went upto the ward together. i was really scared now it was gona be me that cared for him now lol friday came and we both got discharged and sent home!! i have never been so happy in all my life!! he is sleeping and feeding like a pro. you would never know there had been anything wrong with him nevermind the fact that last week he had been fighting for his life. they dnt know what long term damage we are looking at but we will deal with it if and when it happens, we are jus so glad to be here now
thanks for reading, i know it was a long one lol
heres a few pics
this is from his christening at 2days old
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/cameronchristening4.jpg
this is on thursday- 1week old
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0067.jpg
and then a few from yesterday and today
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0068.jpg
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0075.jpg
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0076.jpg
https://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad167/stillacookiewhore/SP_A0077.jpg
this is today at 10days old
