It seems everyone else in the NICU expected a normal birth only to have something go wrong and their babies were suddenly whisked away, even life-flighted to Portland NICU. My story is the opposite. I had a couple months mentally preparing for my baby to be whisked away. I came to the City ready to …
After a long sleepless night, this morning was filled with the chaos of me getting released from the hospital. Drs checking on me, and lots of paper work. Packing up my room, pumping milk for the baby and trying to visit her. The baby is learning to use the “hammerman” bottle (that’s not really what it’s called). …
I woke up at 6am thinking, “I guess I’ll go see the baby in NICU now.” Then I realized I was very hungry and needed a shower, so I pumped milk and sent it down to the baby. In doing so, the nurses knew I was awake and wanted to check my blood pressure etc. …
Sunday night I had contractions all night long at 10ish minuets apart, for the 7th time in the past 3 weeks. I slept off and on and waited till morning, because usually my fake labor stops by 5 or 6am. Instead of stopping, it was getting more intense and 5 minuets apart, so I dragged …
