About premature babies.....

[MMM]

Andaiz:

MMM, that's the situation I'm in too. With each pregnancy, the gestation period gets shorter and shorter...and there's no explanation for the premmie births either. For DD2 and DD3, I didn't even know I was in labour!


So it's close shop for us too - and I've got 3 gals. So MIL's freaking upset coz she's got 2 boys and 4 grand-daughters

In my case, BP was the culprit. I had this condition HELLP that with each pregnancy, things will just get worse. My no. 1 is born at 37 weeks (considered full term), no. 2 at 35weeks and no. 3 at 34weeks. But the scariest is that in the last pregnancy, so many things happened. My platelet count was so low that I had to do a transfusion during delivery to ensure blood clotting, few days later, my vision just went blur for around 1 month. In addition, I started to get migraine attacks that I never had as well. My 1st gynae told me to close shop at 2. But the 3rd came and I don't believe in abortion. Anyway, we believe our no. 3 is a god's gift. She is just so different in everyway and she is a real cutie.

Well.... having granddaughters is better than not having any grandchildren. People just have to learnt to count their blessing. I've a auntie with 2 sons. The eldest had medical complications so they adopted a girl from China. The 2nd son been married for a very very long time and no child. So imagine no offspring of their own.

[GreenQ]

I have triplets. They were born at 36th week with diff weight - 2kg, 2.2kg and 1.5kg. Two of them stayed in hosp for 1 wk to monitor and check thoroughly for any complication. The youngest stayed for 3 wks and only discharged when he reached 2kg. Thank God all ok other than they were underweight.


The hosp have trained them to have 3 hourly feeding routine. Then only waked up once for midnight feed. So it was not really tough to take care of them.

They have catched up eventually with weight ard 9kg by 1 yr old.

[auntieM]

I had pre-eclampsia and was warded 1 week before to try 'keep' the baby in womb as long as possible.

Took 2 steroid jabs on alternate bums to mature the lungs...
DH stayed in hospital with me, heng baby turn out 'normal'.
Nurses were having trouble taking my blood pressure every few hours cause me kept sobbing and BP kept escalating.
Hubby joked that the rate I had my doctors running in and out of my room very worth it :roll:

[autumnbronze]

Reading all the mummies' posts here, let me just say ...


:udawoman: :salute: :salute:

For putting up with the worries, stress, heart pain etc that you all went through, positively and to the best of your abilities.

[Andaiz]

auntieM:

I had pre-eclampsia and was warded 1 week before to try 'keep' the baby in womb as long as possible.

Took 2 steroid jabs on alternate bums to mature the lungs...

Brave auntieM, that's the ventolin that was jabbed right? I had that for DD3 too coz my \"water bag burst\" (leaked rather) but I was not dilated. She was 34 weeks then...sigh! And all these happened when DH was away on training.

MMM:

Well.... having granddaughters is better than not having any grandchildren. People just have to learnt to count their blessing.

Yes, I'm just so thankful that my girls are well-adjusted (generally) and coping well in school. But you know these lao ren jia...sons better than daughters...but seriously, a child is a blessing no matter what gender :love:

[rocklee]

I was a premature child with a birth weight of 4 pounds nia and gotto be in the incubator for 1 week. For my whole life up till now, I have been underweight. Though both my boys are not premie, they have always been at the lowest percentile in the growth chart. That worries me. So each time I brought them for the jabs, I would ask the pd for help and each time she would tell me, "what to do, like mother like son lor!" Really helpless. I guess it’s just too bad that they both inherited my genes.