My waters broke two days after I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes
Two days after being diagnosed with gestational diabetes Courtney Day of Victoria went into labour at 29 weeks.
First published in the October/November issue of Mother Baby magazine. Subscribe here バーバリー 財布.
I was coming home from a friend's birthday party when my waters broke. When we got to the car I went to put my foot in the door and I felt a big gush, as if I'd just wet myself. I looked up at my partner, Ged, and said, 'I think my waters just broke!' He said, 'You're only 29 weeks pregnant, this can't be happening!' But I knew it was. I was already having contractions so I asked Ged to call the hospital while I called my mum, crying hysterically.
Two days earlier I'd been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Up till then I'd experienced a fairly 'normal' pregnancy paul smith 財布.
Then at 28 weeks, I went for my diabetes test and my results came back extremely high. The day after I was diagnosed I was placed on a high dose of insulin three times a day. The day after that, my waters broke.
We made it to the hospital in record time. I waddled into the emergency department, still dripping water, and was rushed through to the birthing ward. I was given a variety of shots to try to slow the labour down, as well as help mature my baby's lungs and prepare her for birth if the labour couldn't be stopped.
At this stage I was having regular, mild contractions and I was already 4cm dilated. The midwives decided to send me to a bigger hospital as they knew this baby was coming whether we wanted her to or not.
When I arrived at the birthing ward I was strapped to a machine to monitor the baby. Again I was given a variety of shots but by this stage I was 7cm dilated and ready to have my baby to end the pain and panic.
Eleven hours after my waters broke I gave birth naturally to my premature little girl, Charlotte Rose, weighing a whopping 1.83kg.
One of the midwives said she was the biggest 29-week premature baby she had ever seen. Charlotte was rushed off to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and I was given a chance to clean up グッチ 時計, calm down and compose myself before I went after her.
When I saw her in the humidicrib in the NICU my heart sank and I cried. I've never felt so heartbroken in all my life. There was my first child strapped to every machine possible with so many tubes and wires coming out of her and I couldn't do anything to help her.
She stayed in the NICU for two weeks before being transferred to a special care nursery プラダ バッグ. Despite all the disadvantages of being born premature, Charlotte made leaps and bounds every day. She was only on a breathing ventilator for two days before being put on a CPAP machine, which only helped her to breathe if she needed it. She had jaundice for six days and was under the blue lights a lot.
I didn't have my first hold until she was five days old; Ged didn't get his first hold for seven days. I sat beside her humidicrib every day, talking and singing to her, stroking her hands and feet, bathing her with damp cotton balls, changing her nappies anything I could do just to touch her and feel like a 'real' mother.
I really wanted to breastfeed but as she was too little and not able to cope I expressed milk every three hours. At one stage I was expressing 200ml at a time and Charlotte was only drinking 2ml per feed. We had to buy another freezer to store all the extra milk. When she got older and stronger we did try breastfeeding but unfortunately it was too hard for her and too scary for me so she made her way through my frozen supply and 11 weeks later I put her on formula.
After 62 very long days I was finally able to take Charlotte home and it was the happiest and proudest moment of my life. I finally felt complete knowing I was taking my baby with me and no one was going to stop me プラダ 公式.
Doctors were unable to tell me why I went into labour so early or why Charlotte was so big for her age バーバリー マフラー. They think maybe the gestational diabetes played a role but I guess we will never know. I still think about it every day. Sometimes I even blame myself for what happened.
Charlotte is now nearly two years old and she is just perfect and beautiful. She did have a major setback when she was six months old and was diagnosed with epilepsy. I couldn't help but think hermes, 'Not again can't my little girl just have a break?' But thankfully we have that under control with medication and her reviews are showing she may grow out of it, which is fantastic ヴィトン 公式.
She also has some slight developmental delays, but her doctors assure me it will right itself when she is older. Despite everything, she is such a happy, beautiful child, so full of life シャネル バッグ. I can't wait to watch her keep growing シャネル 時計.
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