I had almost the same experience - I went to the hospital, having contractions 5 minutes apart but since I wasn't dilating, they kept me on monitors for one day and sent me home, although I was in such a pain. As soon as I got home, my water broke, so we went back to the hospital. I still had contractions 4-5 minutes apart, but wasn't dilating, so they waited for another day to give me some pitocin. I got an infection because I took so long, I had very high fever and my blood pressure dropped to 60/30. My son was born with apgar score 0, it took them 5 minutes to resuscitate him. He pooped in the utero and got the infection from placenta. It was really hard and they told us he might have developmental delay because of the lack of oxygen, but so far it seems that he will be fine. He is three month old now. Good luck with your baby!!!What is the scariest moment you have had as a parent?
my baby is 6 months and so far theres been nothing to worry about BUT
just not being near my daughter while i work is just so scary b/c you dont know how theyre treated when your not around and you dont know if they fell or not and those simple things so yeah thats about it but i know that in the future i will be terrified when my daughter goes out whenb shes older
When my son was about 1 month old, I always had this thing about clipping babies' nails, I was so scared. Everyone kept telling me it wouldn't happen (yeah...) So you know where this is going. I was clipping his nails and I took a chunk of skin off. Boy did it look painful! It bled a lot, too. I freaked out, but my son only cried for like a minute (I was torn up for DAYS about it). When I took him to the emergency room, no one took me seriously, they were just like ';oh, well you're a new mom';. But he was really bleeding, and it wouldn't stop! So that and the hospital staff being a bunch of jerks, saying ';oh well you should have taken him to the children's hospital, where they specialize in this kind of thing.'; I was so mad, it was the closest hospital in my area. After waiting for 4 hours, I got so angry, I just packed up and left.
Anyway, LOL sorry about that, I'm sure there are a ton of things that you (and I for that matter) will encounter as a new parent that will scare the crap out of you! I think it all just comes with being a mom though. As for what happened to you, I think the hospital should have just gone ahead and given you a C-section. I had one (my son was too big), but he was never in any kind of danger like that. With something like that, I would have to insist on it. But then again I'm not the hospital staff. I dunno.
Best of luck to you!
With my son there's been several (he's now 3.5). At 4 days old he had to go back to the hospital for jaunice. At the time I really didn't understand what it was, all I remember was crying hysterically.
Then when he was almost 9 months old and still not sitting up. I thought there was something really wrong with him. So did the doctor. It turns out his ears were full of fluid and needed tubes. After that he was so delayed up until he hit about 2.5 years.
Then (okay I'll admit this) last summer I accidentally locked him in the car. Very dangerous considering we live in AZ. To make a long story short, the Glendale fire department was very nice and got him out in like 2 minutes.
With my current pregnancy, I almost miscarried at 14 weeks. It was so scary!
I agree with you....I started leaking amniotic fluid 5 weeks early. When I called my OB that morning, she thought it was urine and told me to shake the baby off my bladder. I called her back 8 hours later and told her it was no better. When I got to the hosp , they said I was leaking fluid and put me on IV antibiotics because I had a fever. My son's fetal monitors were concerning, so they induced me quick! My son had his umbilical cord around his neck 3 times! The scariest moment was waiting to hear him cry...it took a long time, they had to do CPR on him.....it was the longest, scariest, most agonizing time of my life. Now he's 5 months and happy , smiling, giggling...and yes crying!
Wow, it truly is a miracle that you daughter came out fine in the end!!! I'm very happy for you.
My scary thing is when I went into labor with my daughter %26amp; my husband %26amp; I first got to the hospital, the nurses went through the whole routine of getting me hooked up to the monitors, IV, etc. Well when they went to hook up the fetal heart rate monitor they could not find the babies heartbeat.
The room was absolutely dead silent for like 5 minutes [which as many of you know seems like an eternity] while she kept moving the monitor around trying to get the babies heartbeat. My husband and I couldn't even look at each other.
Finally though she did find it. Turns out her stupid monitor just wasn't working right.
I could have died though waiting to hear her!
that is sooo scary. I'm gald everything turned out well. with my last one i had her normally. But when she came out she wasn't crying and then i looked at my husband and they had him holding an oxygen mask over her. But she is now 10 months old now and all is well. And it was so scary.
wow that's frightening!
my scariest moment was with my son when he was only 2. We have a pool. He thought he had his little floatie wings on his arms but nope... in to the deep end he jumped! My husband jumped in after him, shoes on and everything, thankfully my son was ok but that definitley shook me up. Near water you CANT take your eyes off of children, even if they can swim. Thankfully within 5 seconds of my son jumping in, my husband got him out!
Wow...that must have terrifying. Thank God for the happy outcome. My second son had to be put back in the hospital when he 3 days old. They thought he had meningitis. They did a spinal tap. He had wires and tubes coming out of every part of his body. He was in ICU for 10 days. They never figured out what was wrong. He just got better with antibiotics. He is now a 21 year old college student. I thank God everyday for all my children.
I think the scariest moment with my 15 month old so far is when she had an EKG done. It was so sad to see her hooked up to all those wires. (Her doctor thought she might have a heart problem.) She's fine as well, thank God~
wow... but I'm so glad everything turned out well. My scariest moments were two. One, when my baby fell off our bed :( She was 7 months. Thank the Lord she didn't get hurt bad but it was SCARY. And second, when my baby at 9 months started choking.... she coughed out the piece of chcken. But also SCARY. We have to be so careful with tiny ones!!
my scariest moment was when my son stuck a bobby pin in the electrical socket!!! my silly a%$ sister left one on the coffee table up under some papers and he found it. Thank God the only thing he suffered was the burn from the bobby pin being stuck to his leg!
Wow! That is a terrifying story!!! My water broke like that, too, with just leaking here and there. I'm so glad I kept insisting that I be seen at the doctor's office. They did an ultrsound, and yep! All the amniotic fluid had leaked out!
So glad to hear your precious daughter is ok! She did indeed have an angel watching over her!
That was quite the scare for you. I'm really happy that things turned out well! :)
I don't know if I can count my moments... LOL.
During labor with son... his heartrate dropped to the low 50's, and it turned out that he was stuck. If it weren't for the emergency c/section, we both could have died.
During labor with daughter... her heartrate dropped to the 30's, she had to be taken out immediately, though I did have a planned VBAC with her.
Daughter was born with cleft lip/palate... she's had 7 surgeries, and isn't even 5 years old yet. Every surgery we've been through has been scary for me.
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