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My First Pregnancy Part 1
Here I will share with you the story of my first pregnancy so you can understand just how different your pregnancy and labor can be those of others.
Just like every woman is different so is every pregnancy, some women experience morning sickness -others don’t, some women suffer with high blood pressure during their pregnancy -others don’t, some experience chronic backache in their last trimester -others don’t.
I first fell pregnant at 17-1/2 years of age, for the first 5-1/2 months of my pregnancy I breezed through with no morning sickness and I felt on top of the world. I had hordless amounts of energy and the baby was growing and progress at the required rate.
It started off slowly at first I could not handle food in the morning, this my doctor said to me,third trimester morning sickness not usual but also not uncommon.
Within a few days I could not eat solid food before about 4 PM in the afternoon, by the end of the week I could not keep solid food down at all. Within 24 hours of this fluids would no longer stay down either so naturally I was admitted to hospital.
Propped up in bed with drips running everywhere the doctors were doing every test they could possibly think of but nothing showed up. A few days later a nursing sister spotted that my eyes and turned yellow hepatitis, isolation, a great big panic but unknown as to where I had contracted it.
When I fell pregnant I weighed just over 9-1/2 stone by this stage my weight had dropped to 8 stone and was still dropping, although the babies seem to be progressing normally with the limited resources available to doctors in 1970 unlike what you have today.
As my weight continued to drop even with the injection of fluids via drips it was decided to transfer me to the big city hospital under one of the best gynecologist and baby specialist in the state.
Further test gave the Doctors no answers and at just over 7 months the doctors prepared both my husband and myself for the possibility that one of us either myself or my baby was not going to make it through this pregnancy. My parents were called to my bedside and I think that it was probably only at this stage that all I realized how serious the situation really was.
The Doctors discussed with us that they were considering cesarean section the baby if I could last another 2 weeks but as my weight was still dropping every day and I was now under 7-1/4 stone should I lapsed into unconsciousness they would operate immediatelly. But we should prepare us that the baby was not to expect to live considering all the weigh I had lost.
If you have ever been in isolation in hospital it is a pretty boring place to be but the staff were nice enough to leave the door open so I can see people coming up and down the passageway, my husband and family were allowed to visit only if they were covered from head to toe, but atleast visiting time were not limited as they were throuhout the rest of the hospital. And so we continued to wait.
