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I came across your facebook page and it led me to this website. I wanted to share my story with you. I have had four children, three being preemies, and out of the three preemies, two have lived and one has received her wings. I hope that my story can help someone. I found out [...]
At 18 weeks I started the progesterone shots. At 19 weeks I started to feel contractions. The doctors did not think I needed to start bedrest yet because the contractions weren’t doing anything, but I was so nervous about the contractions that I prescribed bedrest for myself and stayed off of my feet for the [...]
Question from Susan – I am so glad that I came upon your blog. I’ve had 3 prior premature births. (36 wks, 33 wks, & 28 wks in that order.) All of them are healthy living boys! I am now pregnant with number four and am terrified. I was told never to get pregnant again [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
These next two posts may seem a little out of place following my latest post A Confession because I actually wrote these posts first. Thinking about these posts and being involved in other conversations led to my most recent post. Anyway, here goes: I was just thinking about the fears I had about getting pregnant [...]
I received an insightful comment on yesterday’s post that asked me to expand on how “time and new friendships helped me to accept my limitations and find peace in what I could do” after delivering two preemies and feeling inadequate as a woman. First of all, time is necessary to heal wounds of loss. As [...]
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