My pregnancy was wonderful in the beginning. At 32 weeks protein in my urine. 24 hour test, I'm fine. A week later , extreme headaches and feeling ill. I took tylenol for 2 days and no
relief. On the third day I went to the hospital. Protein in my urine again. They run some blood tests. Liver enzymes high but may be due to tylenol. I am admitted to stay overnight until the enzymes drop and for another 24 hr urine test. It's Easter and I make up my 3 year old son's basket from my hospital bed. He is away with my mom and it kills me to be in the hospital.
Enzymes go down, protein is normal, I am sent home. A month passes and I feel totally well and have had normal blood pressures and protein since. I go to attend a childbirth class with my fiance early in the morning, an all day class. It is much earlier then I ever get up and the food they cater is fruit and tiny muffins so I am starving. I sit down with him and they start a
video about breastfeeding. I am exhausted being 37 weeks, my baby is so big I get no sleep. I fight to keep my eyes open. Sitting in a chair in this class with about 10 other couples, I
doze off, feel like I fell asleep. I come to and my fiance is frantic, yelling my name saying" can you hear me ? someone help!". I am shaking uncontrollably and can't remember any thing. He said I dropped my drink, fell back in the chair and started shaking with my eyes open but not responding for about a minute. A seizure. So I am rushed to the hospital and monitored.
everything is normal, enzymes blood pressure proteins, all of it normal. Baby healthy happy. I am admitted to the hospital again. It's saturday. On Monday an ultrasound and low fluids
warrant an induction. I am the all natural childbirth enthusiast and I got scared that my plans would be put on the back burner. First dose of cervadil at noon. Nothing until 7pm and just a
little cramping. Second dose at midnight. Kicks my *** and I am having active hard contractions and no one believes me. The nurse says they aren't real and I am hooked to monitors!
At about 3:30 in the morning I feel like I have to push and I go to the bathroom. I manage to poo a little but still feel all the pressure and urge to push. I stand up and blood is everywhere
my fiance calls the nurse and helps me into bed while she is screamin at me to stop pushing and get in bed. She checks me and I am fully dilated. One nurse is frantic for my midwife or a doctor and the other is trying to prep. I couldn't stop pushing and I could feel all the intense burning and pushed one more time and screamed " She's coming out, Oh my god!" and she did
right on the bed with no doctor or midwife just a nurse and my fiance. I did it all natural! I was so happy and it was pretty easy to me. I just couldn't hold her in. my muscles forced her out I am later told by another doctor because of HELLP syndrome and eclampsia that I developed but my doctors didn't know how to handle it. My body was toxic and forced the baby out.
My organs were trying to shut down and I had a seizure! It was so scary. Nothing like that has ever happened to me before. I ate healthy I only gained 20lbs and my blood pressure was
always normal. It was an atypical case but severe, so much that I will never have any more kids. It's to dangerous to the both of us. I was forced to stay over a week in the hospital because of my liver enzymes. It was awful. i missed my 3 year old and just wanted to be home. I just wanted to share my story, I think it's really weird and would love to hear anyone elses labor story.