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My little Kathryn was born on May 7th at 37+5 days. I had seen the midwife the day before and my bp was still sky high and I looked and felt horrible. She sent me to get bloodwork and 24 hour urine. Within 2 hours of me turning in the urine I get a call from the midwife, to get to the hospital ASAP as I have severe pre eclampsia and HELLP syndrome which is very rare and life threatening to me and baby. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELLP_syndrome" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELLP_syndrome</a> (if anyone is interested to know what it is, I had never heard of it)<br>
So we get to the hospital and they do lots more blood work and basically my liver was shutting down and getting worse and worse and my platelette count was so low it was critical. That and my bp was so high and tons of protein and elevated uric acid. I was in horrible shape. They start pitocin because a c-cection could have been bad since I hardly had plateletts I could have bleed to death. After 20 hours of pitocin and me getting sicker and sicker there was no choice but a c-section. Also I was on magnesium sulfate which makes you feel worse then anything in the world, but with me being so sick it would prevent me from having seizures. The doctor kept assuring me I would be ok once the baby was here. So I have an emergency c-section and I am so bad off at this point, plus being on the magnesium sulfate I didnt even know what was going on really, and was throwing up as I was getting my c-section and confused and not even sure what was happening to me. My baby girl was 7 pounds 6 ounces and luckily she didnt suffer as a result of all this. Within 72 hours I was so much better and liver and plateletts much better as well as bp. I am so thankful everything turned out ok in the end because HELLP is very very dangerous and deadly. My baby Kathryn is a total sweetie pie who loves to nurse, she is for sure a boobie baby, thats what all the nurses and doctors were calling her.
So we get to the hospital and they do lots more blood work and basically my liver was shutting down and getting worse and worse and my platelette count was so low it was critical. That and my bp was so high and tons of protein and elevated uric acid. I was in horrible shape. They start pitocin because a c-cection could have been bad since I hardly had plateletts I could have bleed to death. After 20 hours of pitocin and me getting sicker and sicker there was no choice but a c-section. Also I was on magnesium sulfate which makes you feel worse then anything in the world, but with me being so sick it would prevent me from having seizures. The doctor kept assuring me I would be ok once the baby was here. So I have an emergency c-section and I am so bad off at this point, plus being on the magnesium sulfate I didnt even know what was going on really, and was throwing up as I was getting my c-section and confused and not even sure what was happening to me. My baby girl was 7 pounds 6 ounces and luckily she didnt suffer as a result of all this. Within 72 hours I was so much better and liver and plateletts much better as well as bp. I am so thankful everything turned out ok in the end because HELLP is very very dangerous and deadly. My baby Kathryn is a total sweetie pie who loves to nurse, she is for sure a boobie baby, thats what all the nurses and doctors were calling her.
