Mamas with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders

Story Time💕

Story time for y'all as today is 10/18/23 And you will find out why a year ago today our lives turned upside-down and for the worst yet!

I had went to Shands ER in Gainesville, Florida a total of 2 times for excruciating paina dn major bleeding. On 10/18/22 (last year) I was supposed to have been 10 weeks pregnant with our first baby. I had been bleeding with excruciating pain and the blood was enough to fill a pad up every 30 minutes or less. The first time I went and they said "Mrs. Fulton, you're only 5 weeks 3 days. And the baby is fine." I told them "No I'm supposed to be 7 weeks today! And this much pain and bleeding is not FINE!" They discharged me to go home. 2 weeks later with even more excruciating pain and bleeding I went back to the ER and they said "Mrs. Fulton, you're only 6 weeks! And again the baby is fine!" I told them "y'all are wrong or crazy or something! I know my own body! I just came in here 2 weeks ago and y'all said I was 5 weeks 3 days when I was supposed to be 7 weeks. Now it's 2 weeks later and I'm only 6 weeks and I should be 9 weeks today!" They discharged me. I went home with NO ANSWERS! I was called 3 days later when I was 9 weeks 3 days to come in for my 10 week appointment instead of my 11 week appointment. And they gave me the lame excuse of "We want to make sure you have transportation here." Instead of telling me "We wanna do an ultrasound early to check on the baby." So I went in to my appointment on 10/18/22, my mother-in-law took me and my husband was doing demolition at the time and working at Shands. He met us over at my appointment. When they did the ultrasound I was bleeding and in so much pain. The doctors looked at eachother. Eventually we were told "Mr. & Mrs. Fulton, we need to an emergency D&C surgery to locate the baby to rule out ectopic pregnancy and remove the left fallopian tube which is dead." I went into surgery and my husband stayed and waited for me. I went to my follow up appointment a few days later (I think 1 week later) and they told me "We found that you had a miscarriage" and I was back there in the doctors office all by myself too.

Almost a year later t the end of August, I was told it was an ectopic pregnancy after all and that's why they removed my left fallopian tube and why it had died. With the ectopic pregnancy it killed my left fallopian tube.

Rest in peace to our sweet angel baby! We know your in Heaven watching over us all. Your baby brother will never take your place either! God just saw we wasn't ready at the time yet. So that's why he took you early 💔😭

Until we meet again our precious angel baby❤️

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Anyone else up feeding their Bebe?

As above. Trying so hard to keep my eyes open

Is this normal??

I’m 29 weeks pregnant and having really aching legs and they’re all lumpy and swollen. Above the knee and behind the knee . Should I be worried ? My legs have never looked like this up until a few days ago. ??

Induction experience

I just wanted to share my experience with being induced as I wasn’t sure what to expect and thought it may help others.

I opted for the foley balloon which was inserted at 8am Saturday morning, I had to stay in hospital due to hypertension and protein urine however usually you can just go home once this has been done. The insertion of the balloon was not painful, was slightly uncomfortable as there was slight pressure. I actually found having the cervix checked prior to be worse (again not painful at this point just uncomfortable) The balloon had little effect and after having it removed I was still only 1cm. Removal also was pain free and hardly even noticeable.

I then had my first dose of the gel and definitely noticed a difference, I started experiencing period like cramps almost immediately however they were light and manageable. After 6 hours I had another cervix check and although my cervix was soft it was still only 1cm and was only open at the front. I had another dose of the gel and felt an increase in pressure and more intense cramping where I now required pain relief (codeine). After another 6 hours I had another cervix check and I had now dilated to 2-3cm however was still quite difficult to get all the way through so a third gel was recommended which I agreed to.

Almost immediately I noticed the difference and was in considerable pain, I had paracetamol and codeine however the contractions had now become intense and a lot closer together (around 3 minutes apart). After a couple of hours I had my last cervix check and was 4cm and taken down to the Labour ward to have my waters broken and an epidural.

I had been in my room for approx 20minutes when my waters broke by themselves and I was now 10cm and actively pushing…. There was no time for the epidural and my beautiful girl arrived into the world within 2 minutes of pushing.

All in all I would say the cramps/contractions were manageable up until the third gel where it became pretty unbearable however it was for a very short time a gas and air helped take the edge off. The worst part about any of it was actually the later cervix checks where after stimulating the cervix my contractions were at their most painful.

If I had to be induced again I would skip the balloon and opt for the gels immediately as thy had a quicker effect and I would have been out a lot sooner if I had done this to begin with.

One more thing, I’ve never believed when people say “you forget the pain once they’re here” but I can honestly say this is true. It’s been 4 days and I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Gave birth (vagina) 5 days ago and yesterday morning and this morning getting lot of pain in my right bottom side and lower back

Doctors appt horror stories

I got peed on at my one month olds doctors appointment and I wanted to see if others had similar experiences. It was just hilarious but also like whyyyy! Also jeez those doctors seem to be so rough when they’re pressing on the baby’s stomach and just moving them around checking their muscles and stuff.

Exercise 6 weeks after c section

What movement did people start to introduce? I won’t do anything too vigorous until I’ve seen the pelvic physio as I don’t want to compromise anything that may have been extremely weakened through pregnancy! But just wondering what types of classes/movement people started off with?