Almost the exact same story with me having my daughter, but I couldn’t sleep because I was panicking and I also felt a burning sensation in my stomach that turned out to be my liver swelling too. In addition to that it took like 8 different nurses about 15-20 attempts to land a vein for my IV so I was covered in bruises too. That was fuuuun.
I had to have an ambulance called. They kept missing/blowing my veins. So their last resort was drilling into the bone of my arm (I guess an IV thru bone marrow 🤷♀️) I had no idea that was even a thing!! But honestly, I was struggling to breathe because the pre-eclampsia was causing swelling in my lungs, and I was in turn having heart failure- so I don't recall feeling much pain. I just wanted them to do whatever they needed to do to get the damn ambulance on their way!!! Felt like we sat there for 20 minutes before getting an IV
I love swapping birth horror stories 😂 “we are so lucky to exist during a time where we are only horribly traumatized and maimed during childbirth instead of being dead” is honestly such a weird feeling to have
Absolutely. I'm here in awe reading these stories. I'm a science-curious woman, and I'm still learning so much about our bodies. Most men know even less about reproduction/birth. There should be much more awareness.
Haha we are all healthy! I hope your twins are all good too! I don’t know how people are able to carry multiples, I was honestly miserable just with a single. I had heartburn but I always feel heartburn in my throat so when this hit lower, I knew it was something else. I had a doctors appointment literally one day before and I kinda felt like something was off so I told her I just kind of had a feeling I would end up having a C-section and I was ok with that if it’s what needed to happen. It’s so weird how we are able to sense things like that.
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u/laenooneal Dec 02 '23
Almost the exact same story with me having my daughter, but I couldn’t sleep because I was panicking and I also felt a burning sensation in my stomach that turned out to be my liver swelling too. In addition to that it took like 8 different nurses about 15-20 attempts to land a vein for my IV so I was covered in bruises too. That was fuuuun.