The Boards Birth Stories Info Alley Mom's Lounge Reading List Resources Your Leader Click here to visit Frugal Living! A parenting community concentrating on diaper, cloth diapering, breastfeeding, and baby clothes free auctions as well as a Market with attachment parenting products. belinda's Story dre' 2/11/2002 My first pregnancy was hell from the word go. I started to get sick from about 9 weeks and i was sick until 38weeks. At 5 months i had gone to work and i was taken to the hospital 5 minutes later due to extreme abdominal pain. Once there at the hospital i was given tests and told that i had an infection. I was sent home and told to rest for a few days. Then for the next 4 months i was sick everyday except for about one day a week. Then at 36 weeks i was watching my nephews and neices play touch football and i sat down and then the next time i went to get up i was practically immobile. I was in extreme pain once again and after 2 hours of begging my mother finally convinced me to go to the hospital except it took half an hour to get into my car. Once at the hospital i had alot of blood taken out and told i had high blood pressure and was admitted for the night. Once there i wasnt allowed to leave and then thats when they told me that i had pre-eclampsia had my baby had stopped growing. All this had started at 5 months but they just didnt think of it! After daily traces,2 ultrasounds a week and 2 weeks of being in hospital on strict bedrest i was told that i was to have my baby today or we could both die if i went into labour!!!!!!! Just a bit of a shock to the system at 19. 6 hours after being told the news we had a cesarean section and at 6:17pm on February 11th 2003 we had a little boy Dre' Calem weighing 4 pound 6 ounces and being 44cm long both apgar tests were 9 and 10. Apart from a little touch from asthma when he was 4 months old he is now a cheeky little boy. Back to: Birth Stories Home