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we seem to be fairly active in here lately either that or a sudden influx of premmie babies ! so lets here your story if you want ? an abit about your self ???
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well im Gemma , im 25 , married to Brian who's 30 . Our lil boy is called Leland . We live in the borough of hillingdon ( close to harrow) area of london ( i hate it) with our soon to be 5 yr old staffy Millie.
It took us nearly 2 years to concieve our lil man , after finding out i had PSOC and a dermoid tumour on my right ovary , and dh had a borderline low sperm count to boot. But on 10th May 2007 the lil mr dermoid was kindly removed and the 16th june i concieved ! EDD march 10th 2008 we were so thrilled you cant beleive !
so the next 9 months ( well 7ish lol ) was hell ! i bleed at 9 weeks ( all was well ) suffered hurrendous morning sickness from 6 to 21 weeks and lost 2 stone
, my work were arses with me ( im a rep for crown paint so drive round london all the time , not goo when sick! ) and i generally hated it !
found out we were having a boy at 16 weeks and were very excited to be having a son ! and at 24 weeks i finally felt him ( im a bigger girly) and it sunk in ! we then saw our lil man in 4d at 29 weeks and he was naughty so was rubbish pics !
at xmas i started to feel ill again , sickness returned at 30 weeks , i was finding myself soooo hot that i would pass out shopping , it was winter and i was wearing strappy tops ! i began to get itchy and i thought it was cos i was hot .
at 31+5 i rang hossy after a hurrendous night itching , then called me in for blood tests. these came back inconclusive , i had high liver function and enzyme , low blood count but normal Bile acids so they werent sure if i had OC or not , told to come back in 2 days for repeats
so at 32 weeks off i trott first thing for repeats , wasnt allowed to eat or anything ! waited hours for results to be told my levels has got worse and i needed to see a consultant
who then wrote on my notes ADMIT !
i was like noooooooooo admit , why ! was to have dailey bloods and monitoring
the friday the news was broken to me that i had suspected HELLP syndrome and i wouldnt be leaving the hossy till after the birth ! MY GOD I WAS ONLY 32 WEEKS ! in time i was told i wouldnt make term and babe was given steriods.
at 33 weeks i was told they wanted to get me to 34 , it was best for baby , my levels were getting worse and i was getting fed up ! i begged for a natural they said unlikey being prem ! but they did an internal and low and behold i was viable !
i then had tummy ache and i thought my IBS was playing up ( but nooo it was my clear out
)
at 34 weeks i was took down to labour ward for my induction , where they did an internal ( my god how much these hurt ! ) and i was 2 cm gone ! and whoooossshhhhhhhhhhh they broke my waters ! this was at 4pm
so my labour was started , hooked up to god knows what. i had a drip started at 6pm and a cathetor put in
the drip leaked so at 8pm they fixed it i went from zero contractions to 3 mins apart instantly 
8.45 i begged for a epi , which was done and i had small releif for 20 mins , it got bad again an they topped up TWICE ! the blooming thing had falling out !
just before midnight mw said i can have pethadine , but when she went to do it she checked me first and i was ready to push ! all hell let loose and the neonatel team where called and incubator set up etc
finally at 12.31 ( after being threat to be cut at 12.30 lol ) leland entered the world !
He was sooo big and healthy ! apgar of 10 ! and weighing in at 6lb5oz we tried to breast feed and he was having none of it , so was took to neonatel where he was tube then bottle feed . he was back with me by 2pm the next day under the neo team but on the ward with me 
my results started returning to normal straight away , on the fri i was discharge but leland got jaundice so spent fri and sat on the billi bed but sunday just 5 days after his born we were home !
his had his issues , we had to give up breast after 3 weeks as he was lazy and never got the hang of sucking , i got mastitus and my milk dried up.
he has a stiff neck which is causing him to get a flat spot / side of his head and were starting baby physio for it .
but his now 11 weeks old ( 5 corrected ) and weighs 12 lb ! his doing well and most of his development is still at his corrected age ( toys / head holding etc)
i count myself soooo lucky ! i has such a serious illness but neither of us come to harm and i have the best prem baby ever , i count myself lucy everyday we didnt have more problems . i know that my next baby i will also get HELLP again but im hoping were lucky 2nd time round too , prem babes are so special ! ( prem mummies too
)
here's some pics of the journey !
20 week scan
33+6 last bump pic
born
growth ! birth to 8 weeks
The familly
and taken yesterday at 11 weeks !
so there ya go ! prob all asleep now lmao
well im Gemma , im 25 , married to Brian who's 30 . Our lil boy is called Leland
. We live in the borough of hillingdon ( close to harrow) area of london ( i hate it) with our soon to be 5 yr old staffy Millie. It took us nearly 2 years to concieve our lil man , after finding out i had PSOC and a dermoid tumour on my right ovary , and dh had a borderline low sperm count to boot. But on 10th May 2007 the lil mr dermoid was kindly removed and the 16th june i concieved ! EDD march 10th 2008 we were so thrilled you cant beleive !
so the next 9 months ( well 7ish lol ) was hell ! i bleed at 9 weeks ( all was well ) suffered hurrendous morning sickness from 6 to 21 weeks and lost 2 stone
, my work were arses with me ( im a rep for crown paint so drive round london all the time , not goo when sick! ) and i generally hated it ! found out we were having a boy at 16 weeks and were very excited to be having a son ! and at 24 weeks i finally felt him ( im a bigger girly) and it sunk in ! we then saw our lil man in 4d at 29 weeks and he was naughty so was rubbish pics !
at xmas i started to feel ill again , sickness returned at 30 weeks , i was finding myself soooo hot that i would pass out shopping , it was winter and i was wearing strappy tops ! i began to get itchy and i thought it was cos i was hot .
at 31+5 i rang hossy after a hurrendous night itching , then called me in for blood tests. these came back inconclusive , i had high liver function and enzyme , low blood count but normal Bile acids so they werent sure if i had OC or not , told to come back in 2 days for repeats
so at 32 weeks off i trott first thing for repeats , wasnt allowed to eat or anything ! waited hours for results to be told my levels has got worse and i needed to see a consultant
who then wrote on my notes ADMIT ! i was like noooooooooo admit , why ! was to have dailey bloods and monitoring
the friday the news was broken to me that i had suspected HELLP syndrome and i wouldnt be leaving the hossy till after the birth ! MY GOD I WAS ONLY 32 WEEKS ! in time i was told i wouldnt make term and babe was given steriods.
at 33 weeks i was told they wanted to get me to 34 , it was best for baby , my levels were getting worse and i was getting fed up ! i begged for a natural they said unlikey being prem ! but they did an internal and low and behold i was viable !
i then had tummy ache and i thought my IBS was playing up ( but nooo it was my clear out
)at 34 weeks i was took down to labour ward for my induction , where they did an internal ( my god how much these hurt ! ) and i was 2 cm gone ! and whoooossshhhhhhhhhhh they broke my waters ! this was at 4pm
so my labour was started , hooked up to god knows what. i had a drip started at 6pm and a cathetor put in
the drip leaked so at 8pm they fixed it i went from zero contractions to 3 mins apart instantly 8.45 i begged for a epi , which was done and i had small releif for 20 mins , it got bad again an they topped up TWICE ! the blooming thing had falling out ! just before midnight mw said i can have pethadine , but when she went to do it she checked me first and i was ready to push ! all hell let loose and the neonatel team where called and incubator set up etc
finally at 12.31 ( after being threat to be cut at 12.30 lol ) leland entered the world !
He was sooo big and healthy ! apgar of 10 ! and weighing in at 6lb5oz
we tried to breast feed and he was having none of it , so was took to neonatel where he was tube then bottle feed . he was back with me by 2pm the next day under the neo team but on the ward with me my results started returning to normal straight away , on the fri i was discharge but leland got jaundice so spent fri and sat on the billi bed but sunday just 5 days after his born we were home !
his had his issues , we had to give up breast after 3 weeks as he was lazy and never got the hang of sucking , i got mastitus and my milk dried up.
he has a stiff neck which is causing him to get a flat spot / side of his head and were starting baby physio for it .
but his now 11 weeks old ( 5 corrected ) and weighs 12 lb ! his doing well and most of his development is still at his corrected age ( toys / head holding etc)
i count myself soooo lucky ! i has such a serious illness but neither of us come to harm and i have the best prem baby ever , i count myself lucy everyday we didnt have more problems . i know that my next baby i will also get HELLP again but im hoping were lucky 2nd time round too , prem babes are so special ! ( prem mummies too
) here's some pics of the journey !
20 week scan
33+6 last bump pic
born
growth ! birth to 8 weeks
The familly
and taken yesterday at 11 weeks !
so there ya go ! prob all asleep now lmao
Hello,
I just read your stories and can't tell you how happy I am to read you successes, and Gem your little boy is GORGEOUS!!
I have a premie in SCUBU at the moment. My little Austin was born on April 5th at 31.2weeks weighing 3Ibs 1oz.
It took nearly a year to conceive and having had a miscariage and 2 chemical pregnancies I discovered I had low progesterone levels and needed to take pessaries to maintain a pregnancy through the first trimester. I was given the progesterone and on the first month of taking them after ovulation, I conceived.
I was having a dream pregnancy, hardly any morning sickness and great energy levels after 20 week, so much so that the week before Austin was born we took a holiday in the Lake District walking 6 miles a day effortlessly.
On Friday 4th April we were having an evening in and had just discussed how I should think about packing a hospital bag (even though I was planning a home birth). I stood up to go to the loo and my waters burst. I called my midwife who said I may not be in labour but should go to hospital to be checked out. When I arrived they told me I was having contractions (I couldn't honestly tell) and was given a steroid injection to help his lungs when he was born. They gave me 4 doses of drugs which delayed things for 5 hours but when they couldn't give me any more I went into full labour. Austin was born at 8.24am and I was allowed to see him an hour later in his incubator.
Those first few days are still a bit of a blurr, I never want to go through that again. The shock and emotional traumer of having your baby then having to go home without him. Then having to ask if you can touch or hold your baby and not being able to comfort him when he cries. It breaks my heart every day that he is there and not here, but at least now I can identify how I can help him, by expressing and Kangeroo care and steady touch into his scubu unit. I wash him and change his nappies, feed him and hold him for 2 or 3 hours a day skin to skin and he is g
doing so well. I am amazed and proud everyday to be him Mum. He has put weight on finally and is hardly on his CPAP. Feeds are going well, he is mostly having breast milk and has even started non- nutrative suckling at my breast. Each day I see a new brightness in his eyes and a growing familiarity when I hold or care for him, where I think he instinctively knew before now he is positevely reasurred by me. When Dad holds him he just falls into a deep sleep and to see them together is the most awsome sight I have ever come across in life, all that I love swept up together in a loving embrace.
I don't know when Austin will come home, we don't talk that far ahead yet. But I know he is strong right now and that is what I focus on each day.
'Right now he is fine' That's my mantra.
I know it's wrong to wish time away so I don't, but I feel as though I have discovered a secret 4th trimester where you still don't quite get your baby.
Praying he comes home soon.
Becs xxx
I just read your stories and can't tell you how happy I am to read you successes, and Gem your little boy is GORGEOUS!!
I have a premie in SCUBU at the moment. My little Austin was born on April 5th at 31.2weeks weighing 3Ibs 1oz.
It took nearly a year to conceive and having had a miscariage and 2 chemical pregnancies I discovered I had low progesterone levels and needed to take pessaries to maintain a pregnancy through the first trimester. I was given the progesterone and on the first month of taking them after ovulation, I conceived.
I was having a dream pregnancy, hardly any morning sickness and great energy levels after 20 week, so much so that the week before Austin was born we took a holiday in the Lake District walking 6 miles a day effortlessly.
On Friday 4th April we were having an evening in and had just discussed how I should think about packing a hospital bag (even though I was planning a home birth). I stood up to go to the loo and my waters burst. I called my midwife who said I may not be in labour but should go to hospital to be checked out. When I arrived they told me I was having contractions (I couldn't honestly tell) and was given a steroid injection to help his lungs when he was born. They gave me 4 doses of drugs which delayed things for 5 hours but when they couldn't give me any more I went into full labour. Austin was born at 8.24am and I was allowed to see him an hour later in his incubator.
Those first few days are still a bit of a blurr, I never want to go through that again. The shock and emotional traumer of having your baby then having to go home without him. Then having to ask if you can touch or hold your baby and not being able to comfort him when he cries. It breaks my heart every day that he is there and not here, but at least now I can identify how I can help him, by expressing and Kangeroo care and steady touch into his scubu unit. I wash him and change his nappies, feed him and hold him for 2 or 3 hours a day skin to skin and he is g
doing so well. I am amazed and proud everyday to be him Mum. He has put weight on finally and is hardly on his CPAP. Feeds are going well, he is mostly having breast milk and has even started non- nutrative suckling at my breast. Each day I see a new brightness in his eyes and a growing familiarity when I hold or care for him, where I think he instinctively knew before now he is positevely reasurred by me. When Dad holds him he just falls into a deep sleep and to see them together is the most awsome sight I have ever come across in life, all that I love swept up together in a loving embrace.
I don't know when Austin will come home, we don't talk that far ahead yet. But I know he is strong right now and that is what I focus on each day.
'Right now he is fine' That's my mantra.
I know it's wrong to wish time away so I don't, but I feel as though I have discovered a secret 4th trimester where you still don't quite get your baby.
Praying he comes home soon.
Becs xxx
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aww becs he sounds like his doing fab ! and was a pretty good weight huh ! i really hope lil man will be home with you soon ! for now enjoy those nights your sleeping hehehe !
cant wait for us to eventally meet up and our lil premmies can say hi to each other !
cant wait for us to eventally meet up and our lil premmies can say hi to each other !
I love hearing everyones stories so heres mine.
I'm Louise, I'm 34yrs and single. My son is Oliver, he was 6 wks premature & is now 13weeks old (7 corrected).
My pregnancy was unplanned - and early on I found that although I was really happy at being preggers, it made me realise I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with the father - so at 7weeks I split with him ending an 11month relationship.
This was my 3rd pregnancy - I'd been married previously and had 2 miscarriages with my husband. Because of this (and the failed relationship) I was pretty stressed in the early weeks, so elected to pay for a private early scan to check everything was ok. So my first scan pics are at 7weeks, just a blob with a heartbeat.
I didn't find out the sex prior to his birth.
Everything then went text-book right through til things started to happen. I was still at work, I had 3 weeks left to go before starting maternity leave. I was sat at my desk when I noticed I was starting to 'leak' I called the hospital & they said to come in to be checked out.
I'd been there for about 2hrs hooked up to monitors etc. when my waters fully broke (I'd just stood up & it made a nice puddle in my shoes!) & contractions started. I was 33wks & 5days at this point. I was given tablets to stop the contractions & a steriod jab for babies lungs in case he still came early.
The contractions stopped, and I was then kept in hospital for monitoring. 4 days later the monitoring showed that babies heartbeat kept dipping, due to him lying on the cord becasue I had so little water left so it was decided that he needed to come out. I was initially induced, but only left for an hour & nothing much was happening, so they took me through for a cesarean.
He was born at just past 7pm that evening. I got to hold him on my chest for 10mins while they were stitching me up - then he was whisked off to special care. He weighed 5lb 4oz.
The next morning I was hoping to go see him first thing, but fainted when they got me out of bed due to low blood pressure & ended up back over on the delivery suite for monitoring as they were concerned I may have some internal bleeding.
Everything was ok in the end - but I didn't get to see him until 4pm, 20hrs after he was born.
He was kept on a heated cot for one night, then just kept on special care until he was strong enough to breastfeed, until then I was tube feeding him my expressed milk. We finally came home 2 weeks later.
He's doing really well now - still sleeps a lot, but a completely fatty, being up on the 96th centile for weight
so heres mine.I'm Louise, I'm 34yrs and single. My son is Oliver, he was 6 wks premature & is now 13weeks old (7 corrected).
My pregnancy was unplanned - and early on I found that although I was really happy at being preggers, it made me realise I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with the father - so at 7weeks I split with him ending an 11month relationship.
This was my 3rd pregnancy - I'd been married previously and had 2 miscarriages with my husband. Because of this (and the failed relationship) I was pretty stressed in the early weeks, so elected to pay for a private early scan to check everything was ok. So my first scan pics are at 7weeks, just a blob with a heartbeat.
I didn't find out the sex prior to his birth.
Everything then went text-book right through til things started to happen. I was still at work, I had 3 weeks left to go before starting maternity leave. I was sat at my desk when I noticed I was starting to 'leak'
I called the hospital & they said to come in to be checked out.I'd been there for about 2hrs hooked up to monitors etc. when my waters fully broke (I'd just stood up & it made a nice puddle in my shoes!) & contractions started. I was 33wks & 5days at this point. I was given tablets to stop the contractions & a steriod jab for babies lungs in case he still came early.
The contractions stopped, and I was then kept in hospital for monitoring. 4 days later the monitoring showed that babies heartbeat kept dipping, due to him lying on the cord becasue I had so little water left so it was decided that he needed to come out. I was initially induced, but only left for an hour & nothing much was happening, so they took me through for a cesarean.
He was born at just past 7pm that evening. I got to hold him on my chest for 10mins while they were stitching me up - then he was whisked off to special care. He weighed 5lb 4oz.
The next morning I was hoping to go see him first thing, but fainted when they got me out of bed due to low blood pressure & ended up back over on the delivery suite for monitoring as they were concerned I may have some internal bleeding.
Everything was ok in the end - but I didn't get to see him until 4pm, 20hrs after he was born.
He was kept on a heated cot for one night, then just kept on special care until he was strong enough to breastfeed, until then I was tube feeding him my expressed milk. We finally came home 2 weeks later.
He's doing really well now - still sleeps a lot, but a completely fatty, being up on the 96th centile for weight
Not my story but thought i'd add it anyway.
My ex's brother was having a baby last year and being only 17 at the time we didnt even find out about it until she was about 5 months, apparently he'd been too scared to tell everyone, so we just about got used to this news when his girlfriend developed pre-eclampsia, she was in hospital for a while but it didnt get any better and at 29 weeks she had an emergency c-section and Paige came in to the world.
She was very lucky and must have had one of the easiest times in SCBU, she wasnt ill at all and gradully got bigger, she looked like an alien at first and was so tiny you were scared to touch her, she came out a few weeks before her due date and was still only tiny then.
Now she's around 7/8 months old a HUGE!! She's doing really well and has no problems which have been identified.
I worry now about my baby being born early but i saw how well she was looked after and there was never any doubt she'd make it
oh meant to say i'll try and add some photo's later, its amazing how much she's grown, but i wanna make sure it's ok to do so, though she's all over facebook so i'm sure they wont mind.
My ex's brother was having a baby last year and being only 17 at the time we didnt even find out about it until she was about 5 months, apparently he'd been too scared to tell everyone, so we just about got used to this news when his girlfriend developed pre-eclampsia, she was in hospital for a while but it didnt get any better and at 29 weeks she had an emergency c-section and Paige came in to the world.
She was very lucky and must have had one of the easiest times in SCBU, she wasnt ill at all and gradully got bigger, she looked like an alien at first and was so tiny you were scared to touch her, she came out a few weeks before her due date and was still only tiny then.
Now she's around 7/8 months old a HUGE!! She's doing really well and has no problems which have been identified.
I worry now about my baby being born early but i saw how well she was looked after and there was never any doubt she'd make it
oh meant to say i'll try and add some photo's later, its amazing how much she's grown, but i wanna make sure it's ok to do so, though she's all over facebook so i'm sure they wont mind.
How nice to hear such positive stories
Lovely to hear your story Becs - My little Jack was born on the 11th of april at 30 wks - He's still there but doing fab, on a bit of low flo (i'm guessing you know the terminology ) and feeding well.
All the best to you and Austin- he's lovely
Lovely to hear your story Becs - My little Jack was born on the 11th of april at 30 wks - He's still there but doing fab, on a bit of low flo (i'm guessing you know the terminology
) and feeding well. All the best to you and Austin- he's lovely
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becs is a busy cos she and austin are home now 
i love hearing the really early prem success stories , i was so lucky with leland but im pretty much prob gonna ahve a prem next time too so its nice to hear everyone doing well !
i love hearing the really early prem success stories , i was so lucky with leland but im pretty much prob gonna ahve a prem next time too so its nice to hear everyone doing well !
Finally got around ot getting some pics of paige. This is her shortly after she was born, about 11 weeks early
and this her just after leaving hospital
and one from march
Cant beleive she'll be 1 soon! And i'll have my own little one too!!
and this her just after leaving hospital
and one from march
Cant beleive she'll be 1 soon! And i'll have my own little one too!!
