Well today was fun, met a group of girls that I will be at university with come September!
We met in a cafe in hyde park and it was pouring with rain so we pretty much all got soaked! It was really nice getting to know each other a bit more finding out where we are coming from, what we've been doing before now etc and it's so strange there's a couple of girls that went to school together then moved away and did different degrees and have now finished their degrees and both ended up in London at the same university doing the same course! And even weirder, there's another couple of girls who pretty much the same thing happened to except they are a couple of years difference in age.
There's still a LOT more people to meet and I think we'll be meeting again before September..
It was also relieving slightly that a couple of people brought their children today and they were the same age as Jakob so I feel less alone. It's hard though - just being out today I missed my babies so much :( but I guess in September I will be so busy I hopefully won't think about it so much
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
Natural breech birth at 32 weeks
This week I remembered why I wanted to be a midwife, not that I had forgotten exactly - but more that life had gotten in the way of my passion.
My best friend text me saying that she was in labour and on the way to the hospital. I was excited, but pretty nervous too. She wasn't due for another 8 weeks. I was hoping it would be a false alarm or random niggling but as she arrived at the hospital early that morning she was VE'd 4cm dilated and her waters broke!
They put her on a hormone drip to pause the labour whilst giving her steriods to help try and mature the babies lungs. This was repeated that evening and then again the next morning. That evening they stopped the drip and let her get on with it. Her baby boy was born in the early hours of the next morning on 4th July 2011. He weighed 4lbs 7oz.
He's still in the NICU and she went home yesterday. She has informed me that all she's been doing since he was born is sleeping and expressing! He's struggling to feed and they don't want him to go home until he is feeding well.
I couldn't stop thinking about her for days! Literally wanting to know WAY too many details!
I have to say, I do love a natural breech birth story.
My best friend text me saying that she was in labour and on the way to the hospital. I was excited, but pretty nervous too. She wasn't due for another 8 weeks. I was hoping it would be a false alarm or random niggling but as she arrived at the hospital early that morning she was VE'd 4cm dilated and her waters broke!
They put her on a hormone drip to pause the labour whilst giving her steriods to help try and mature the babies lungs. This was repeated that evening and then again the next morning. That evening they stopped the drip and let her get on with it. Her baby boy was born in the early hours of the next morning on 4th July 2011. He weighed 4lbs 7oz.
He's still in the NICU and she went home yesterday. She has informed me that all she's been doing since he was born is sleeping and expressing! He's struggling to feed and they don't want him to go home until he is feeding well.
I couldn't stop thinking about her for days! Literally wanting to know WAY too many details!
I have to say, I do love a natural breech birth story.
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