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My pregnancy had been going well, I was 39 weeks pregnant and patiently waiting for

Posted On Tuesday, June 25, 2002  by Ashley
My pregnancy had been going well, I was 39 weeks pregnant and patiently waiting for something to happen. It was shortly after midnight, March 5,2002. I started to feel my contractions coming on. This was my second pregnancy and I wasn't concerned of any complications. My water broke at about 4:30AM, at that time I decided it was time to go. My mother drove me to the hospital. I had no pain out of the ordinary, only thing of concern to me was that I was bleeding very heavily. And that seemed to be the concern of the hospital staff. I remember them doing an ultrasound and telling me everything with the placenta looked fine, but I was expelling huge blood clots. And they couldn't see where all the blood was coming from. I have very vague memory, but I do remember them saying my blood pressure was starting to sky rocket. I still don't remember having any intense pain and I wasn't on any pain medication. My son was born at 7:04AM, by emergency c-section. I later found out that I suffered from preeclampsia, abrupted placenta, and hemmoraging. I can remember being ran down the hallway to the surgery room and being told everything would be fine. I don't recollect any symptoms. I know that I came to a point of having no feeling in my body and feeling a sense of drifting away. This scares me, especially now, because I did not receive a clear answer of why this happened and what brought all this on. I read up on preeclampsia because I was curious of what caused it and the symptoms. I do remember my doctor telling me in my last prenatal visits that I had a little protein in my urine. I asked if that should be anything I should be concerned about, he said, only if it was an excessive amount. Its a daze to me, but my husband and family later told me, that both my son and I came very close to being lost. I'm just happy that we didn't suffer any affects from this. But I do worry of the chance of this happening to me again. It was a traumatic experience for me. And because of it, I have expressed my fear to my husband of never having children again.
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