Browsing all posts in "Pregnancy Complications".

Aura’s Story

This story was submitted by one of our readers. I had had a relatively normal pregnancy, despite being under extreme levels of stress due to personal and family tragedies. I was a little bit concerned as I hadn’t gained much weight throughout the pregnancy and at 6 months I was hardly showing at all. Over [...]

Parent Needs Support / Advice

This was a comment on the post “When My Water Broke”.  The commentor, Thornette, would really appreciate some advice and support for what her daughter is going through with her twins.  Please share any thoughts or experiences that might benefit this dear family. Posted Nov 1st, 8:18pm: My daughter had complained of pain in her [...]

Rylan’s Story

This story was thoughtfully submitted by Corinne, one of our readers. I just got back from our Make-a-Wish trip to Florida when I found out I was pregnant.  At the time I had 3 childen who had all been born near there due dates so I thought it was going to be a regular pregnancy.  [...]

Amber’s Story

The following post is a personal story submitted by Amber, one of our Preemie Babies 101 readers. We found out in Feb 10 that we were pregnant with twins after having a miscarriage in Nov and having problems getting pregnant. We used Clomid. May 6 we went for our growth u/s. It was an hour [...]

Review of The Preemie Primer

Last night I finished reading The Preemie Primer, by Jennifer Gunter, MD.  Truthfully, it’s the first book about preemie babies that I’ve read cover to cover.  I was pleasantly surprised at how helpful and informative many sections of the book were, but I was also disappointed at how unpersonal it was.  Jennifer does share her [...]

Were you prepared?

So, I’m reading The Preemie Primer, by Jennifer Gunter, MD, and the book starts out with some general information about prematurity, descriptions of the causes of prematurity, and many statistics about rates of survival and other things.  I’m not very far into it yet, but I was imagining parents of preemies picking the book up [...]

The Story of Alayna Marrie

Thoughtfully submitted by reader’s Marria and Raul. Alayna Marrie was born at 32 weeks in Brandon,Fl., due to my preeclampsia.  All throughout my pregnancy she was a fighter.  I was in and out of the emergency room, for spotting, severe headaches, high blood pressure…till they had to hospitalize me at 30 weeks for preeclampsia and [...]

The Story of Jack Matthew

This story was shared by Lindsay, one of our readers. I am writing to share our story of our 24 week (15 ounces) miracle with you…JACK MATTHEW Now a little timeline of our whirlwind before I begin.  Matt and I had our first date in april 2005, engaged 2 weeks later, married 1 year later, [...]