Little miss pink
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Hey everyone
Well i can safely say yesterday was the one of the worst days of my life i think.
Sorry for the long email but i want to explain fully to see if anyone can help me.
Yesterday i had my consultant appointment in the morning and all seemed to be going, well, urine was clear, blood pressure was fine and baby's position was head down which was great. Then it came to listening to the babies heartbeat...... the midwife couldn't find the heartbeat for ages and then finally when she did i knew straight away (from other montioring's and usingmy dopler) that it sounded completely wrong and different. I could see by the midwifes face she was worried about how difficult it was to find the heartbeat and secondly how it sounded so inside i started to panic....
I then said that "sounds wrong doesn't it".... "no answer" the consultant then walked in the room for our appointment and her face changed to puzzled as she heard the doppler sound! So i said again that sounds wrong doesn't it!!!!!!!
She said yeah but don't panic it might be the doppler.......... She then said we'll stick you on the monitor to see how things are.... So they took me through to the monitoring room and started to hook me up to the monitor but again they couldn't find the heartbeat position to strap the monitor on so they were searching like made and i was slowely slipping into a crying panicing mess because i knew this wasn't good.... they would then pick up the heartbeat and it would sound very odd and then it would go again in the end they strapped on the monitor and left me laid on the bed for 45 minute looking at the machine reading no heartbeat........
other mums were coming and going having listened for 10 minutes to their lovely heartbeats and i was just laid there crying knowing this wasn't right.
Then finally the midwfie came back to say she can hear the heartbeat but the machine isn't picking it up and i explain yes but when you do heart the heartbeat it sounds wrong. and she said yes but this happens all the time and its probably the machine or bubs position.... And she started to insinuate she would be sending me home. So i said surely you are not going to send me home having not manged to get a continuous heartbeat and when the one you do occasionally get sounds wrong... and at that point she went to get the consultant who said ok we'll send you for a scan.
I then had to wait an hour and half for my scan which showed up that i had reduced fluid and that the baby's heartbeat was infact beating out of rhythm but they could find no reason as to why so they said they would need to send me to a special fetal echoing unit in the RVI Hospital in newcastle to have a fetal echo done to see it they can determine why. And they said i will now not be ablet o have the waterbirth or a birth at the midwife led unit and depending ont he results i will either have my baby at Durham hospital (if results show baby won't need an op when born) or newcastle RVI (if baby does need an op when born)
But the next fetal echoeing clinic isnt till Thursday of next week so i have to wait a whole week to have this checked out and i am so so worried.
I keep telling myself that if they were more worried they wouldn't make me wait a week but then i remind myself i was going to get sent home without a scan being told it was the machine!! So i have a conflict of confidence......
Has anyone heard of this problem with babies hearts before, can anyone reassure me about it at all!!
Desperate for any advice if anyone knows of anything!
LMP x
Well i can safely say yesterday was the one of the worst days of my life i think.
Sorry for the long email but i want to explain fully to see if anyone can help me.
Yesterday i had my consultant appointment in the morning and all seemed to be going, well, urine was clear, blood pressure was fine and baby's position was head down which was great. Then it came to listening to the babies heartbeat...... the midwife couldn't find the heartbeat for ages and then finally when she did i knew straight away (from other montioring's and usingmy dopler) that it sounded completely wrong and different. I could see by the midwifes face she was worried about how difficult it was to find the heartbeat and secondly how it sounded so inside i started to panic....
I then said that "sounds wrong doesn't it".... "no answer" the consultant then walked in the room for our appointment and her face changed to puzzled as she heard the doppler sound! So i said again that sounds wrong doesn't it!!!!!!!
She said yeah but don't panic it might be the doppler.......... She then said we'll stick you on the monitor to see how things are.... So they took me through to the monitoring room and started to hook me up to the monitor but again they couldn't find the heartbeat position to strap the monitor on so they were searching like made and i was slowely slipping into a crying panicing mess because i knew this wasn't good.... they would then pick up the heartbeat and it would sound very odd and then it would go again in the end they strapped on the monitor and left me laid on the bed for 45 minute looking at the machine reading no heartbeat........
other mums were coming and going having listened for 10 minutes to their lovely heartbeats and i was just laid there crying knowing this wasn't right.
Then finally the midwfie came back to say she can hear the heartbeat but the machine isn't picking it up and i explain yes but when you do heart the heartbeat it sounds wrong. and she said yes but this happens all the time and its probably the machine or bubs position.... And she started to insinuate she would be sending me home. So i said surely you are not going to send me home having not manged to get a continuous heartbeat and when the one you do occasionally get sounds wrong... and at that point she went to get the consultant who said ok we'll send you for a scan.
I then had to wait an hour and half for my scan which showed up that i had reduced fluid and that the baby's heartbeat was infact beating out of rhythm but they could find no reason as to why so they said they would need to send me to a special fetal echoing unit in the RVI Hospital in newcastle to have a fetal echo done to see it they can determine why. And they said i will now not be ablet o have the waterbirth or a birth at the midwife led unit and depending ont he results i will either have my baby at Durham hospital (if results show baby won't need an op when born) or newcastle RVI (if baby does need an op when born)
But the next fetal echoeing clinic isnt till Thursday of next week so i have to wait a whole week to have this checked out and i am so so worried.
I keep telling myself that if they were more worried they wouldn't make me wait a week but then i remind myself i was going to get sent home without a scan being told it was the machine!! So i have a conflict of confidence......
Has anyone heard of this problem with babies hearts before, can anyone reassure me about it at all!!
Desperate for any advice if anyone knows of anything!
LMP x