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On July 3, I found out I was pregnant. It was the happiest day of my life. My husband already had two boys (twins) by a previous marriage. They live with us full time. Their mom is not involved much. I decided I wanted my own child. We waited 9 months to get pregnant. Everything was going fine up until about week 11. I allowed them to do some testing to help out the sonographer. She noticed that Timothy had a larger neck than normal. This was a sign of Down Syndrome. So of course they wanted me to do a lot of other testing. I agreed to blood testing, but not to anything invasive. My pregnancy went on seemingly normal except the worry of what was going on developmentally with the baby. I was certain he was going to be fine. Then around week 20 something I was getting this pain in the upper right quadrant of my stomach, right under my right breast. It hurt so bad. I thought maybe it was heartburn (I had never had it before). I didn't say anything for awhile, but at my next visit, my blood pressure was up some and had been the past couple of times. So they decided to put me on aldomet. I told the Dr. of my pain. He said it was probably just gall bladder pain and suggested I drink lemon water. This seemed to help at first. The pain would come and go. There was never really any alarming protein in my urine so no one thought much of it. The pregnancy went on. I had a lot of ultra sounds because I came down with Bronchitis that would not go away, so they kept checking on the baby. At about week 26 they noticed that the baby had stopped growing at week 24. They suggested I go see a specialist. So I did. They did their tests, they confirmed that Timothy had growth retardation. They also had me do some genetic counseling. Before I left they checked my bp. It was something like 150/110. They admitted me right then. I laid in the hospital for 5 days with monitors hooked up and ultra sounds daily. There was also a problem with the umbilical cord. The blood wasn't flowing correctly. On the night of the fifth day, I started hurting really bad again. They were giving me antacids. They were not working. On the 6th day, I finally told the Dr. that I was hurting. They did some blood tests and within a couple of hours I was in the OR. They did an immediate c-section. Timothy was born 12-11-06. He was 1 pound 7 ounces, 12 1/2 inches long. He had a multitude of things wrong. They did testing and he was diagnosed as Trisomy 27. He also had a VSD,ASD and I can't remember the other. It was the opening at one of the valves. They were able to close that. He ended up getting a lung disease from the ventillator and eventually contracting MRSA. Needless to say, he passed away on Feb. 7, 2007. It was the worst pain that I have ever felt in my life. I just lost my baby, and not only that, he was the only baby I would ever have. I had a tubal ligation partly because of the complications. It has been almost 10 months since he passed. I am still dealing with the pain. For 7 months I was on Zoloft. I just went off of it. My baby would be a year old in about 2 weeks. I have to wonder if the hellp syndrome was a result of the other complications that TImothy had or if the complication Timothy had were a result of the hellp. I also wonder if the Aldomet contributed to any of this. |
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