Rebecca’s Story – The Pregnancy

Tomorrow my little girl turns 2, i cannot believe its been two years since she was born . 2 whole years since we first got to meet the sweet little girl who changed our life forever. We have a whole day of fun at the zoo planned tomorrow and her birthday party is on Saturday.

I have spent alot of time reflecting the last few days, thinking of the pregnancy and the birth and of course everything that happened afterwards . I have been wanting to write it all down for a while, already details are starting to fade and i never want to forget it . I figured just now was as good as time as any . I’m of course writing this two years down the line so some details may be fuzzy or not 100% corret but its was i remember and that’s what matters.

The Pregnancy

Pregnancy

Finding out we were pregnant with Rebecca came as a surprise, we were happy about it though and quickly accepted the idea we were going to become parents.
I guess you could say I was lucky with the pregnancy as I never experienced any morning sickness, then again I would of happily taken morning sickness over the 2 months long migraine I had.
To say those first few months were hell would be an understatement, I was in pain every moment of every day and for me could see no end in site. I signed off work sick and spent the time in bed feeling sorry for myself and trying to sleep when I could, I watched movies and TV shows on the laptop and just prayed for it to be over.
Thankfully at around the 14 week mark the headache finally went away and I started to feel pretty good. Over Christmas I felt ok although was still tired and my skin was a mess, I spent
A lot of January in pain with round ligaments problems – I was feeling the baby move by this point which as any mother can tell you is a wonderful thing.
Dh and I got married in the February, I was around 5 months pregnant at the time and already massive. I got lucky though and felt fine through-out the day and my skin even completely cleared up just in time.
I was around 26 weeks when they first noticed a problem, I was measuring around 28 weeks but they were not that concerned yet. Next time around I was 28 weeks but measuring around 34 weeks, I was sent for another scan which showed everything was fine.
I still continued to get bigger and bigger and was officially diagnosed with Polyhydramnios (excess fluid) , I had more scans and the baby was checked by a few different doctors but no one could see anything wrong, we were told if there was anything it would be minor and not to worry. Sometime Polyhydramnios just happens for no reason. Around 34 weeks we found out we were having a daughter – for me that was just amazing. I always wanted a girl, more than I was wiling to admit to myself.
The rest of the pregnancy continued in a drama free way I guess, I constantly measured big getting up to around 45 at about 36 weeks but it stayed around the same till the end.
I felt terrible though, tired and in so much pain. Doing the simplest of tasks was horrible and I barely done anything except lie in bed and wish for this to be over.
We were so sure I was going to go early, had been told by the doctors to expect it and to make our way to the hospital at the first signs of labor – due to the fluid there was a chance the baby wouldn’t drop down and thee was a chance of cord problems . Each day from around 35 weeks seemed to last forever and I was sure she was never going to come.