The journey begins…
Pregnancy is not always a linear road; this is something I learned a bit over two years ago.
April 10, 2019…This date will forever be engraved in my heart. It might sound cliché but this is the day my life changed. I was about 24 weeks pregnant, taking a nap after work in my bedroom. I woke up to some liquid on my bed. I checked and realized that I had not peed on myself. I took a breather and phone my sister to let her know that I needed a drive to the hospital. Thank God she lived close by and she was there within 20 minutes.
Once we arrived at the hospital triage, they assessed me within the hour. The nurse that checked me initially told me that my water did not break and I should be on my way out soon but the doctor on call needed to assess me as well. Well that I was a relief, I just needed to wait for my discharge papers and would be on my way home.
Oh, I was wrong! Once the doctor assessed me, I got a totally different diagnosis. She told me that my water had indeed broken and I would not be able to go home. So technically she told me that I would be stuck there until I deliver since I had almost no water left and the risk of infection were too high for them to let me go home.
At that point I couldn’t process everything since it was going so fast. But in my head, I made a quick calculation and realise that I would be on hospital bed rest for a very long time.
I settled in to my hospital room quiet nicely. I decided that I would keep working remotely, so I did for the next two days.
If you were ever in a high-risk unit of hospital, you know that the nurses come in to monitor you quiet frequently, to listen to the baby’s heartbeat or to check your own vitals.
Fast forward to April 14, 2019. At my night monitoring, my nurse could tell that something wasn’t right, the baby’s heartbeat was going a lot faster than usual. She kept me on the monitor for seemed like hours and called a doctor just to get his input on my situation. Once the doctor examined me, he decided that it was best that I was transferred to the Labor and Delivery unit just to be on the safe side.
On April 15, 2019, my daughter was born by emergency c-section at 25 weeks, weighing 610g.
