Praise God! I'm glad your beautiful baby boy and mom are doing well.

All the best to your family.

My oldest son spent a handful of days in the ICU for multiple issues. He’s a 121 airline pilot now.

My niece just gave birth to her 1st baby, serious complications for both. I think it took 4 or more days to go home.

I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be here, breached & purple back in the 60’s.

The start of life can be very delicate. I hope everything turns out ok.

So glad everything worked out!!

Labor and delivery is gut wrenching at best. I have never felt as useless to my wife as I was for the birth of our first.

I can’t imagine the emotions of a rough delivery. Happy everyone came through healthy.

Thanks for the reminder. We often forget the things that are really important in life.

Grateful everything has gone well for your family! It’s a reminder how fragile life can be.

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Originally posted by HKAngusKL:
I have given it some time before posting about this, but three weeks ago my entire world came close to being upended. I am thankful and feel fortunate to be able to post with good news instead of being in mourning.

My wife was 36 weeks pregnant with our son when she came down with a bad case of COVID. She had had a very easy pregnancy to that point, but things went downhill quickly. She began to have random blood pressure spikes and shortness of breath. She (thankfully) went to get checked out at the hospital and they kept her overnight. Her doctors decided to induce labor that night when her blood work and vitals were off.

I had dropped my other children off with some relatives and was headed to the hospital when I got a call that I needed to hurry. When I got there and stepped into the maternity suite, I saw right away that things were really wrong. My wife's water had broken and there was a LOT of bright red blood on her and more oozing out.

The hospitalist arrived around the same time along with a team to transport my wife back for surgery. I got to hold her hand for a second and tell my wife that I loved her and that it would be ok. By that point she had lost a lot of blood and she was going into shock. I told her that I'd be there with her the whole time.

In surgery they discovered a placental abruption, but they had moved quickly enough and were able to save both my wife and my son. He was 20.5" long and 7.3 lbs, but needed a week in the NICU to clear his lungs and keep his oxygen up. I am thankful that he's doing great now and eating like he's playing catch up.

I am sure other members have been through something similar, or know someone who has. I now make sure to give my wife and kids a hug when I can, because each moment with them is precious.

G*d bless you all.

Our son tried hard for six days, but in the end, he didn't make it.

He died on the 4th of July, 1978.

We've lived our lives in a distant feeling of 'what-ifs'.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

G*d bless you all.

Our son tried hard for six days, but in the end, he didn't make it.

He died on the 4th of July, 1978.

We've lived our lives in a distant feeling of 'what-ifs'.

I am sorry to hear about you losing your son. We lost our first pregnancy to miscarriage and it took us a while to try again. It isn't something we usually talk about, but my wife was devastated at the time. I think she still is at times, but we have tried to focus on the positive and the precious present. Three kids later, and I figure that is going to be it for us. I feel both blessed and humbled at the same time by what happened.

Thank you all for your support, prayers, and well wishes.

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Originally posted by HKAngusKL:
My wife's water had broken and there was a LOT of bright red blood on her and more oozing out.

she had lost a lot of blood and she was going into shock.

In surgery they discovered a placental abruption

I feel you brother. I am happy to hear you also had a positive outcome.

Back in 2011 my wife was pregnant with our second. It was a difficult pregnancy and my wife was swollen like you cannot imagine. For example, while she worked in a downtown office building and business attire was the norm, she had to wear flop flips to work because her feet were so swollen that nothing else would fit.

Her doctor decided to induce at 37 weeks. He had been my wife's OB/GYN for years, he delivered our first and I had been to nearly every check up during the pregnancy so I knew him well. In the delivery room he was much more serious than normal. He reached into my wife to break her water and the amount of fluid that came out was astonishing. The nurse even commented that she had never seen that much fluid. After the clear fluid stopped, then came the blood. And it was dark, like nearly black.

The doctor then said something to the nurse I could not hear. She then asked, "Do you want that stat?" He answered yes.

I often tell people it was like a NASCAR pit crew within seconds. It went from the doctor and nurse and myself and my wife, to over a dozen people in the room within 20 seconds. Everyone went to work and I kinda watched in stunned silence, not really sure what was happening. At one point someone came over to me and said, "We are going to take your wife to surgery, stay right here and someone will come and get you in a just a moment." And as fast as the crowd appeared in the room they were all gone. And I was sitting alone. The minute or so I spent alone in the room was the most alone I have ever felt in my life.

My wife also had a placental abruption. But she and our son came through just fine. We bumped into the doctor a few days later in the lobby of hospital, he was walking with some colleagues. We said hello and he introduced us. The introduction included him saying to his colleagues, "This is the case I told you about from a few days ago, the placental abruption." The look of concern on their faces made me realize how serious the case had been. When other doctors have a look of "Oh shit, how are you still alive?" as you are standing in front of them, you realize it was a serious case.

And BTW, your son is precious! Congrats!

Congrats and God Bless.

God was watching over them and you. Happy Ending.

Thank God everything turned out all right. Continued prayers for full healing!

Wow, I’m glad your wife and new baby are OK!

Yes I needed that reminder too that nothing in this life is a guarantee and to hug my wife and kids more too.

Back in August 2020 we had our third child (she just celebrated her 4th birthday in August) and my wife needed a C-section and I was back there with her and everything was going well until all of a sudden the doctor doing the delivery gestured, all these alarms are going off and suddenly there is like 5 more medical people in there and I sense that things aren’t going right. My wife had started to lose a lot of blood and they worked hard and quickly to save her thank God.

Later the next day I was speaking to my stepmother and she told me she got a feeling that evening that she needed to get all of her friends and all of her family to pray for my wife and sent out a text to have everyone stop what they were doing and pray. It was the same time as the delivery it turned out.

Praise God! I have no words more profound to say than that.

So happy for you.

-Rob

Prayers up for you and your family!

Thanks for sharing an amazing story!!

Thank God everyone is okay. Children are a blessing from God that we should all take more time to appreciate. Your story is a vivid reminder of that most definitely. So glad mother and son are doing well now. God bless!

I am so glad to hear that both your wife and baby are doing well after that ordeal. God was definitely looking out for both of them.