Browsing all posts in September, 2009.
Interview – Preeclampsia & Gallstones: Part 3
Q. Did your baby go home on anything? (oxygen, medications, g tube, fortified breastmilk, etc.) A. An Apnea monitor. Not fun to carry around or when it would go off. At first I didn’t mind so much cause it gave me some peace of mind but it only ever went off when it was an [...]
Interview – Preeclampsia & Gallstones: Part 2
Q. Tell about your baby when he/she was born. How did you react to seeing your baby for the first time? A. When I was in labor I said I’d never get pregnant again because I was in hell. The second I saw my daughter I knew that I could do it again-but it would [...]
Interview – Preeclampsia & Gallstones: Part 1
The following three posts share an interview with a woman who struggled with preeclampsia and gallstones during her first pregnancy. Q. Tell about any pregnancy complications you experienced and how you dealt with them. A. My main complications were gallstones and Preeclampsia. Some days I’m not sure how I dealt with them cause [...]
Preparing for Flu Season
Supposedly it’s supposed to be a bad flu season this year – especially for the swine flu. If you’ve watched the news over the past few months you’ve probably heard that children with weak immune systems are especially at risk with swine flu and most deaths occur because of already weakened immune systems or other [...]
Journal Entry: 4 Months 1 Week Old
Dear Readers: I pulled this entry from my journal to give you an idea of what many preemie parents face after bringing their baby home. My baby at this time was 4 months and 1 week old actual age and had been home from the NICU for 4 1/2 weeks. “(Baby Girl) has been doing [...]
“How Can I Not Love You”
If you have ever seen “Anna and the King” then you might remember the song “How Can I Not Love You”. In the movie it’s actually a love song between a man and a woman who can never be together, but for my purposes I want you to read the lyrics in the context of [...]
Your Next Pregnancy
I don’t know how all of you women felt after losing your first baby or delivering your first baby prematurely, but I was absolutely determined to believe that my first experience was a fluke. I was in complete denial that there might be something wrong with my body, that I couldn’t conceive healthy children, or [...]
