Did you have difficult pregnancies?

**homesteadmamma** · 01-10-2006, 06:44 PM

I was very fortunate in that all 3 of my pregnancies went well. I had very little morning sickness and felt well all throughout it. I also had easy deliveries until my last one. That was a whole other story.

**mom22grls** · 01-10-2006, 07:07 PM

I had to be on bedrest with Ashleigh...low bloodpressure but other than that I was fine. Long labor, though.

Miss K....that was wonderful once I got past the low progesterone in the first trimester. I loved being pregnant.

We tried for several years before I got Missk though....that's a whole other story, too.

**babymav** · 01-10-2006, 07:12 PM

Smooth sailing here! No problems through all 3 pregnancies or deliveries.

**sixfreds** · 01-10-2006, 07:13 PM

Lets see 4 kids 2 bad pregnancies.........

With Kaitlyn I had all day sickness (I mean if I was awake I was sick and vomiting) only the first 5 months and the last 2 :~)

With the triplets I wasn't really sick I would be feeling fine and then all of a sudden I would have to vomit but I was on bedrest from week 20 on and in the hospital from week 26 on to 30 when they were born so in that way it was really difficult.

Eileen

**marym** · 01-10-2006, 07:23 PM

My first 2 were a piece of cake. The last one OMG!! breech baby
I ended up having a C-section.

**AmyBoz** · 01-10-2006, 07:42 PM

It was difficult getting pregnant with the first two, but with all three, once pregnant, I'm very healthy. For the 2nd and 3rd month I had the all-day sickness, but once month 4 came, boom, like magic, it was gone.

**sunshine** · 01-11-2006, 12:18 AM

All were very difficult

ruptured appendix/gangrene with Jake, preterm delivery at 32 1/2 weeks.

placenta previa with Doug and he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck-- vaginal birth in a hurry when I was only dilated 7 cm-- I tore internally and externally. . he was born "dead" and had to be recusitated.

had uterine tumor with Deana- and placenta implanted right over the tumor-- docs recommended I terminate the pregnancy and have a hysterectomy. I opted to try to carry her-- loads of problems with that, then I tripped and fell at 6 months and went into early labor-- loads of meds/bedrest, etc. But a tiny, healthy baby at the end.

I also lost 6 other babies - one shortly after birth, others in first trimester. . . one was a set of twins.

**eulac** · 01-11-2006, 12:34 AM

I had my first just 16 months ago and it was a very hard pregnancy. I was on bedrest and in and out of the hospital for the last 3 months and my son came 6 weeks early. Bedrest was the most boring thing I've ever done in my life. But it was all so worth it.

**bamamomto4** · 01-11-2006, 01:14 AM

Ashley--morning sickness for 5 months.placenta previa.2 weeks late,induced,3 ½ hour labor 4 pushes and she was born.

Katie-morning sickness 5 months.placenta previa,3 weeks early,31 hour labor,pushed for an hour.

Jackson-morning sickness 5 months,placenta previa,he was so huge I could barely walk the last few weeks. I was to be induced that morning at 7am and went into labor at home around 3 am and he was born a little after 6am...an hour after we got there!

Jayme-morning sickness 6-7 months,placenta previa,pregnancy from h*ll..everything hurt lol,breech,scheduled c-section 1 week early.
She was by far my most diffcult,but she's the most well behaved child we have

**Kimberlina** · 01-11-2006, 11:34 AM

No. but we had to take precautions to keep things from going south.

I have what my doctor likes to refer to as a "less-than-competent" cervix. I was having productive contractions as early as 14 or 15 weeks, and my cervix was noticibly thinning throughout the whole pregnancy. I was taken out of work at something like 32 or 33 weeks, and was on modified activity at 28 weeks when they discovered the problem. I had to have ultrasounds all the time after that. I think I had 8 total, because I had one early (6 week) due to bleeding (2x) that was too late to be implantation bleeding.

Despite that, it was a very easy pregnancy. I really had no morning sickness, and though I had back pain, that was really because I was injured by a patient years ago. I never had a painful contraction until I was in labor.

Labor was a bit tricky, as apparently poor pushing contractions run in the family. I never put 2 and 2 together until after I had dd, but my mother delivered my sister with the assistance of forceps because she had trouble, and both my sisters had trouble delivereing their firts- actually, ny nephew was pushed out partly by the nurses and his father.

I pushed for (drumroll, please)...........almost FIVE hours. If I had a doctor instead of an NP midwife, I would have ended up with a c-section or at the very least, forceps after about 2 hours. I was doing grat- no tears, no medical intervention oof any kind- when I heard the midwife ask how long I had been pushing after 4 hours. I didn't want a c-section or forceps, so I pushed when I didn't have to (which is what happened to my oldest sister) and ended up with a gigantic tear, but that kid finally came out!!!

All in all, though, it was a pretty intervention, medication free deal, which is exactly what I wanted ( so much so that I waited until I was in transition before getting into the car for the 45 minutes drive, but we won't get into that.)

It certainly sounds like my pregnancy was a WHOLE lot easier than some here.

**Deborah_Kate** · 01-11-2006, 11:49 AM

With Patrick, no, not at all.

With Logan, it was awful. I was sick the entire time, my blood pressure was out of control (wouldn't have had anything to do with the doctors being complete a$$e$ though would it) and I didn't have enough fluid. Logan was induced 4 weeks early and weighed in at 4 lbs 12 oz. They had a crash cart at the ready "just in case."

Deb

**Kimberlina** · 01-11-2006, 12:12 PM

Wow- talk about typos. It is too cold in here and my fingers aren't moving properly.

**pkellyc** · 01-11-2006, 12:13 PM

Cervical cancer while pregnant with second dd. 9 months of testing and a biopsy in my 7th month. Lots of morning sickness. Showing sugar. Induced labor and a hysterectomy 5 weeks after her birth. No fun at all.

**guest32** · 01-11-2006, 12:16 PM

No problems with the pregnancies...it was the 32 hour labor/near death experience/emergency c-section with the first one that nearly did me in. 18 months later, dd#2 was a scheduled c-section and all went fine. Except both were full length vertical incisions that didn't heal well.

We are a bunch of tough women!!!

**momof42003** · 01-12-2006, 03:17 AM

Pregnancies were perfect. No morning sickness, and no bad weight gains, blood pressure and diabetes tests normal.... Delivery of first born was hard though, and the other three were C-Sections... All schedualed.....