FallingStar
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PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EASILY WORRIED. MASSIVE TMI.
I'm not exactly sure why I'm posting this.. maybe I feel a need to explain why I sometimes appear neurotic in my posts?? Maybe it's just something I need to get off my chest in order to cope with my new pg better. I really don't know and I'm sorry if it offends or upsets anyone, that's not my intention at all.
I think I just want someone else, other than me and hubby, to know what actually happened to us.
Really sorry if this goes beyond TMI.... you have been warned...
I fell pregnant in November last year. HUbby and I were living in Spain and had been for 6 years but were planning on heading back to the UK in March.
I had a dating scan at 7 weeks and heard the heartbeat once a fortnight from 8 weeks.
I had another scan at 17 weeks as I was moving back to the UK from Spain and wanted a reassurance that everything was fine in case it took a couple of weeks to get a doctor sorted in this country. Also hubby was leaving for the UK ahead of me, and as I didn't drive I needed him to be there to take me to the hospital and obviously I wanted him there anyway!
I then had contractions at 20 weeks on a Friday (still in Spain, hubby in UK) so went to hospital. Didn't really understand much of what the nurses were saying.. hubby rushed to bedside and was there by Friday evening.
Had another scan at hospital on Saturday morning in which the doctor actually showed me the screen and tried to explain that all the fluid had gone from around the baby (which I could actually see) and that all hope was lost.
I had to be induced, suffered 12 hours of labour and all for nothing. I finished labour with the baby still in the birth canal and a midwife had to physically pull it out of me.
I have no idea why I miscarried. Apparently in this country the hospital would have done tests on the baby to see if there was any reason. But I have no info at all.
That's it really...
On the plus side, and there IS one
Take comfort in the fact that it hardly EVER happens this way.. and if it happened to me, that makes it practically certain it WON'T happen to anyone here.
We are all looked after by UK health professionals, and while we may moan about how they do things.. it could be worse.
There is a happy ending.. I'm pg again, but only a few weeks so is very early days. So if I appear a little neurotic, or like I'm over-reacting or it seems I am a complete nutjob.. I'm not Just had a rocky road is all.
xxxx
I'm not exactly sure why I'm posting this.. maybe I feel a need to explain why I sometimes appear neurotic in my posts?? Maybe it's just something I need to get off my chest in order to cope with my new pg better. I really don't know and I'm sorry if it offends or upsets anyone, that's not my intention at all.
I think I just want someone else, other than me and hubby, to know what actually happened to us.
Really sorry if this goes beyond TMI.... you have been warned...
I fell pregnant in November last year. HUbby and I were living in Spain and had been for 6 years but were planning on heading back to the UK in March.
I had a dating scan at 7 weeks and heard the heartbeat once a fortnight from 8 weeks.
I had another scan at 17 weeks as I was moving back to the UK from Spain and wanted a reassurance that everything was fine in case it took a couple of weeks to get a doctor sorted in this country. Also hubby was leaving for the UK ahead of me, and as I didn't drive I needed him to be there to take me to the hospital and obviously I wanted him there anyway!
I then had contractions at 20 weeks on a Friday (still in Spain, hubby in UK) so went to hospital. Didn't really understand much of what the nurses were saying.. hubby rushed to bedside and was there by Friday evening.
Had another scan at hospital on Saturday morning in which the doctor actually showed me the screen and tried to explain that all the fluid had gone from around the baby (which I could actually see) and that all hope was lost.
I had to be induced, suffered 12 hours of labour and all for nothing. I finished labour with the baby still in the birth canal and a midwife had to physically pull it out of me.
I have no idea why I miscarried. Apparently in this country the hospital would have done tests on the baby to see if there was any reason. But I have no info at all.
That's it really...
On the plus side, and there IS one
Take comfort in the fact that it hardly EVER happens this way.. and if it happened to me, that makes it practically certain it WON'T happen to anyone here.
We are all looked after by UK health professionals, and while we may moan about how they do things.. it could be worse.
There is a happy ending.. I'm pg again, but only a few weeks so is very early days. So if I appear a little neurotic, or like I'm over-reacting or it seems I am a complete nutjob.. I'm not Just had a rocky road is all.
xxxx