Personal Narrative: A Personal Story Of A Baby Changed My Life

I gave birth to my daughter on November 8, 2014. After 20 hours of labor, she failed to progress further and I

Becoming a mother changed my life in a very profound way. Due to my own upbringing, I was

In 2006, data was collected on 303 babies who were diagnosed with anencephaly and were not terminated. Of those 303 babies, about 40% were born prematurely (before 37 weeks) and 4% beyond 42 weeks. Two-thirds of the mothers were either induced or had a planned cesarean section for those born at term. Polyhydramnios was present in 30% of the cases which accounted for 60% of those born prematurely. When delivered by cesarean section, 4% died during birth, 53% died within twenty-four hours, 30% lived up to five days, and 13% lived longer than six days. For vaginal births, 37% of babies died during birth when a doctor or midwife ruptured the amniotic bag, opposed to 18% if the amniotic bag ruptured naturally.

She is without complaints. She has not noted any increase in preterm labor. No signs/symptoms or change in pelvic pressure. She is compliant with bedrest and has help taking care of her son. She is otherwise aware that she should discontinue Motrin next week and is aware of the signs/symptoms that we are monitoring. The placental cord insertion does appear marginal as noted on prior ultrasound and we are following monthly growth. She is aware that after surveillance of cervical length which will the last one we would anticipate would be next week at 32 weeks and after that we would still recommend monthly evaluation of fetal growth. Preterm labor precautions were reviewed. She is scheduled to return in one

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the care of Ms. Megan Robertson, who as you know is a 20yo female, G2 P0101, currently at 16 weeks 5 days EGA with a pregnancy complicated by a history of prior spontaneous preterm delivery at 35 weeks of gestation and maternal underweight status. She presents today for evaluation of cervical length and fetal growth due to her history of prior preterm delivery and started her course of 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate injections today and these are weekly injections for her to reduce the risk of preterm birth secondary to her history of prior spontaneous birth.

As the nurses put an oxygen mask on my face, the head OB/GYN began explaining that my son's heart rate had fallen from 150 beats per minute to 40 beats per minute. They were able to get his heart rate back to normal, but they would need to do internal monitoring and, if his heart rate dropped again, I would be prepped for a c-section immediately. I was at 9.5 cm and I was terrified. Not only was this not my dream birth, this was a nightmare. After a 36 hours roller-coaster ride, I became a mother;my son was born. He weighed 9 pounds, 3 ounces and was 21 inches

This particular case study involves a 29 year old obstetric patient who presented to the labor and delivery unit at 33 weeks gestation with complaints of abdominal pain for the past three days that had become more severe and absence of fetal movement noted since the previous evening. Her obstetric history revealed she has one living child and has had one previous miscarriage at ten weeks

When they told me about the bilirubin i was scared out of my wits. And self blame started "another person i love is hurting because of me". After alot of talking with the midwife and nurses i knew it wasn't my fault. I was in a lot of pain so Jenessa took over some things while i slowly recovered. Little did i know that was the only time i would be able to. I am not good with pain. It was time to leave this fantastic hospital and head home. I want to point out here that there was no idea that i was about to lose my son. My family was so supportive my god mom brought his furniture and my sisters put it together,and fixed up the room he would be in....when i came home there was a sign hanging in our window saying it's a boy made by Virginia. My best friend called our development to put the announcement into our daily

Catarina’s scan was overall reassuring Measurements were consistent with dates. I explained to her that amniotic

Ultimately, after examining the child's location with an ultrasound, the physician informed Dax, "I have to take her for the C-section." I yowled for 10 mins. I was so dissatisfied. I attempted actually difficult! Yet she appeared magnificently. They placed her on my breast, and also I was so delighted that everyone was safe.

As stated by Penny Simkin, April Bolding, Ann Keppler, Janelle Durham, and Janet Whalley, the authors of the number one best-selling book, Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide, “While maternity care practices are continually changing the way women are helped to give birth, childbirth itself hasn’t changed. How a women’s body functions during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period—and what she needs during these things—hasn’t changed since the beginning of humankind.” The process of birth is one of God’s greatest miracles. Although all babies go through the same stages of conception and development while in utero, that “average gestation period is 280 days, but it can be shorter or longer by as many as 14 days. At the end of the gestation period, the fetus has reached full term and is positioned for the birth process. The process, generally referred to as labor, includes three stages” (Wittmer, Petersen, Puckett, 2013, pg. 103). However, not all babies are born through vaginal births and as technology has increased many doctors are beginning to see a trend of patients asking for elective C-sections for non-medical reasons for convenience and avoiding the pain of labor, as well as concerns about vaginal tearing, incontinence, or other complications.

My mom got me my very first dog when I was seven. As a seven year old you can only imagine my excitement, but I had to contain myself or my mom would get mad all I wanted to do was talk about my new puppy. Instead I bounced my leg and hummed the whole way there. Once I saw him I knew he was the one. I had a hard time finding the name for my new puppy, my brother, Jacob, was the one who suggested the name Kooter as a joke, but to his surprise I loved it and ever since his name changed from Baby to Kooter. There are times when Kooter gets on my nerves, but I try not to yell at him. I do this because I know my time is short with him and I don't want him to remember me as a mean and high stress owner. I've had Kooter for ten years that makes

Let’s talk about the evolution of the surgical approach. The serious harm to the pregnant women would have been a showstopper for the enterprise had doctors had maternal deaths year after year at centers, innovators wouldn’t be where they are now. There was a lot of incentive to decrease risk to women, and that was successful largely because of a gradual trend towards doing less and less invasive procedures. Today what fetal surgeons do is that they use 2-3 mm tools, such as scopes or lasers, that go through the maternal abdomen to either cut amniotic bands, insert a balloon in the trachea, or even use nanomedicine to treat certain diseases (Bawa, p.881). With these new and improved surgical techniques, fetal surgeons use less general anesthesia on their patients, less aggressive tocolysis, shorter hospital stay, no requirement for cesarean delivery, and lower rates of preterm births. Little by little, preterm births have slowly decreased as techniques have improved. The main complication, to this day, is premature rupture of the membrane. In one of the few randomized trails, fetal surgeons put a balloon in a trachea in fetus’ with congenital diaphragmatic hernia to try to get fluid to accumulate and allow the lungs to grow. The majority of the babies in the intervention group had preterm delivery and, of course, in the conventional management group that wasn’t the case (Velpeau, 1997). This isn’t the only trial made for fetus’. There have been clinical trials were fetal surgeons have used fetal tissue transplantation to treat advanced Parkinson’s disease. One huge risk with this is placebos in drug trials are viewed as therapeutic intervention. Therapeutic procedures-whether they it be a drug or surgery- are administered with therapeutic warrant and with the hope of providing direct benefit to the research subject. Non-therapeutic procedures-include blood tests

Statistical analysis included 153 patients; 79 in Group I and 74 in Group II. Table 1 shows no significant difference between group I and group II regarding mean maternal age, BMI, gestational age, parity and mean cervical dilatation at enrollment (P>0.05).

The reason I decided to explore this particular subject is an experience a friend of mine went through – I will call her Lynn - when she had her first and only child by an elective C-section at the age of 40. The surgery was scheduled for one week before the due date and went well, but baby Emma had to stay in progressive care nursery due to transient respiratory issues. Mom and baby got discharged three days later.