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I went into the hospital at 4pm and I was 6cm when they checked me...they didn’t do any blood work. At 11pm when I should have basically been ready to push the doctors took tests and realized that I had preeclampsia. Everything went downhill from there!
Had they taken all the tests when I arrived, they could’ve prevented me from being in labor for 23 hours and losing so much blood that I needed 5 blood transfusions!
At 11pm they gave me pitocin to kickstart the contractions and it worked but nothing was happening because of the preeclampsia! It’s like my body was on standstill. The nurses and doctors I had in the middle of the night were horrible and had no idea how to handle the situation
They were literally checking my blood pressure while I was contracting. No shit it’s going to be through the roof! I’m having a frkn contraction!
They gave me a bunch of other things that I don’t even remember because I was so out of it! I just remember crying to my mom and begging her to make sure I was okay because I didn’t feel right
By the grace of GOD, the midwife who helped my mom to deliver my siblings and I over 24 years ago at the time walked in ready to deliver my baby
I swear I saw a light &my mother instantly started crying because she knew that it was going to be okay. I planned on not taking the epidural but at this point I was 9cm and nothing else would work. She told me to take the epidural,take a nap and when I woke up I would be ready
That’s exactly what happened! But because of everything they had given me throughout the night, my body was in shambles! After pushing my son out, I had blood clots the size of my head coming out nonstop! She had to push down on my stomach to get them out
I don’t remember anything after that. But it was 11:35am and I didn’t wake up until after midnight. I was disheveled and couldn’t hold my baby because I had no feeling In my hands.
After all of this I kept losing blood and this is when they started the blood transfusions. I couldn’t get up from the bed for 3 days...had to use a bedpan and catheter. And I was so swollen from the preeclampsia that I looked like a monster.
When I was finally able to get up and be transferred to the recovery room...I realized my son looked yellow, he had jaundice and they didn’t even realize!!!! So when I thought that I would be holding my baby all day, he had to go in an incubator
Two days later when I was ready to go home...they said my son wasn’t ready and he had to stay an extra day. I cried more than I have ever cried in my life!
I say all of this to say, YOU know your body! Ask all the questions! Get all the tests done! Ask for second opinions! Most of these doctors don’t care and it’s sad to say!! But we need to protect ourselves!
If it wasn’t for my mother watching every single thing they did and writing everything down who knows Wth They would’ve done to me! She refused so many things because she did her own research, and I thank God every single day that I had her right by my side
Hearing these stories of women dying from preeclampsia literally breaks my heart because it could’ve easily been me. Praying so hard for all of the families and children of these women
