I wanted a baby so badly.
We conceived on our wedding night.
At our anatomy scan at 20 weeks we got the bad news:
I had placenta previa. I was put on modified bed rest.
At 22 weeks I had massive bleed and I was rushed by ambulance in the middle of the night in a snow storm up to Rochester.
The NICU team came in and explained what would happen to the baby if they did an emergency C section that early.
The bleeding stopped and I went home a few days later.
A couple weeks later I was back in the hospital with another bleed. Then sent back home.
On my third bleed they discovered the placenta moved but it divided itself in half. The condition turned into vasa previa, which is very dangerous.
I was admitted to the hospital where I stayed for the rest of the pregnancy.
They warned me about complications and problems that my baby might have as a result of coming early.
I prayed and prayed and prayed.
They did a C section at 35 weeks. My baby was born perfectly healthy. He didn’t spend a second in the NICU.
During the C section I lost a lot of blood. Almost two litres. At one point I felt myself slipping away. My blood pressure bottomed out. My heart rate was erratic. I was vomitting and aspirating on my vomit.
The busy and loud operating room went silent.
I thought, “this is it. I’m about to die.”
A warm white light came over me and I prayed to Jesus and to Our Blessed Mother to intercede for me.
Next thing I knew I was back. The doctors started talking again. My husband sighed audibly. The anaesthesiologist who was monitoring my vitals said, “we got her.”
A few minutes later I was all stitched up.
Before leaving the OR the surgeon showed me the placenta. It was so covered in lesions it looked like ground beef. The surgeon said it was also embedded too deeply in my uterus, and I lost a lot of blood when they removed it.
As they wheeled me out of the operating room to recovery I thanked them for keeping me alive, and I was greeted at my recovery room by a priest was there to baptise my baby.
That little baby turned one year old yesterday.
So yes. Prayer has “worked” for me.
@CrazyVibes_1 He will send you signs that he is with you and that he is ok. My Rupert will take him under his wing and be his friend. Rupert loved all cats in life.
@TrueBlue17@TheSnowDreamer Very unlikely, the low would need to track further south with London on its northern side to see snow. Current track if correct shows a messy cold rain, and then sleet as the low pulls away to the east.