Listen to your body! I REPEAT LISTEN TO YOUR BODY!!!

My baby girl made her arrival August 26th with a due date of September 15th via Scheduled C Section. I was at work on August 25th and started having bad abdominal cramping and lower back pain. Originally my doctor told me to go home and shower and see if that helped because it might’ve just been round ligament pain but I already have a son and knew this wasn’t the same pain. I went to the hospital and she failed her NST. The next morning I went for an ultrasound and she looked good on the ultrasound but on the monitor her movements still weren’t right. My doctor called for an emergency c section within the next 15 minutes and it all happened so fast. My spinal failed so I had to be put to sleep. Turns out after talking to my doctor after delivery, I had a placenta abruption! Thank God I listened to my body and my gut and went to the hospital. My co workers had been noticing me walking in pain all day and I pushed through but decided that night something wasn’t right so I told my fiance we need to go now. At first I thought I was just overthinking and turns out I wasn’t. Now I have a beautiful baby girl named Jewell 💎

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Spotting

Hi, I have pink spotting after sex, it’s only when I wipe. I’m 8 weeks on Sunday but I also went though a misscarrige in Feb at this stage but wasn’t ever pink. Also have a toddler who’s 2.5 so can’t remember spotting pink when I had him. Anyone else have this?

Keloid scar

Hey guys, has anyone had a keloid scar develop from their c-section scar?

The drs have only given me different steroid creams which haven’t helped and have actually made it even more sensitive and irritated.

Has anyone had a steroid injection? If so, did it help?

Planning baby number #2

My husband and I have talked extensively about possibly having our kids 18 months apart or 22 months apart. We want them close in age. I’m 6 months post partum so if we wanted them 18 months apart I’d have to conceive at 10 months post partum and if 22 months I’d have to conceive in march of 2027. I am wondering what are peoples opinions on having two under 2 and if you’ve done it would you do it again? I was c-section for my first due to hip pain as I had prior hip surgeries so my hips had limited range of motion but even when they went and delivered my first they said due to the size of head and how tightly wedged and engaged he was I wouldn’t have been able to deliver him naturally. So I’d likely need another c section which I’m fine with if it gets the baby here safely.

Side note: due to trauma with anesthesia team I am looking for a different provider and have an appointment set up to meet one. For context I was poked 7 times with an IV needle even after the 3rd time when I asked for them to call the IV team and then I was subjected to 3 spinal pokes because they missed twice. And my partner got separated from me while the anesthesia placement happened even though I was told weeks before I could have him there and then they didn’t update him at all when those failed spinal happened he didn’t find out till a day later when I was able to talk about it.

Really really struggling on induction ward need a bit of encouragement/positive stories that started off the same way as mine💔

Had my pessary inserted at 12:30 Wednesday night, was monitored until 2am so that’s when I went to bed…contractions started at 4am! I thought wow that’s good stuff, working fast. (There were girls next to me who didn’t have a single contraction the whole 24 hours so I thought I’d be having baby sooner than expected). I was timing them on my app, first of all thet were 5 mins apart. Then they were 3 mins appart. Then from 9am onwards they were 2 mins apart, lasting 1 min and getting more intense. I was constantly counting down the hours for my next check thinking I’d be decently dilated….I got checked after the 24 hours and they said I am only 2cm !!!!! Disappointed isn’t even the word! They said it’s enough to break my waters & I don’t need the next stage of the induction, but I’m seeing people on here go for SWEEPS and being told they’re 4cm without any pain ?? Its REALLY made me doubt myself, If I’m not coping now, how am i actually going to do this ?? Like what on earth does even 4 or 5cm feel like…I don’t even want to know. I’m trying so hard to think of a way out🤣 Im currently keeping myself constantly dosed up on pain relief. (Coedine, oramorph + paracetamol) but i want the epidural already.

Did anyone find that this first stage was super long & hard, and then the second stage was faster & a better experience? Or does it just continue going downhill🤣

cervical ectropion.

Did anyone have this, and what tips or tricks can I do to help or prevent it! My cervix is completely fine and tight

Labour - FTM Question!!

Hi guys, I am currently 39+4 days (internally screaming) and Labour could come any moment now.

Without annoying the majority of mamas out there, my pregnancy has been fairly straight forward and I have had a fairly pleasant experience.

I’m a bit concerned I’m not mentally prepared for labour and tbh I don’t really know what to expect - my periods were always pretty easy (if not heavy due to PCOS) so I don’t really know what “period cramps” feel like and what to expect.

Basically… can someone explain a contraction to me like a 5 year old 😂? How does it feel? I’ve been getting Braxton Hicks so will early labour feel the same?

Thank you !!!