Julia Grace ~
Born 5/17/12 @ 32wks 5days ~ Weighing 4lbs 7oz @ 18.25in long!
My blood pressure had been trending up, but on 5/9 it really started spiking, and doubling and then tripling my BP medication did nothing. I was admitted with pre-e, started on magnesium sulfate, and got the steroid injections. We got our two days, and then induced on the 17th. I'm one of those people that cervadil works all by itself; cervadil was placed at 11:55am, baby arrived 6:38pm. The placenta started to separate a bit, so it's just as well she decided to slide right out. Julia is doing really well; she needed no surfactant, was only on CPAP for a day and a half, and on room-air today (she kept getting her cannula out of her nose and doing fine, so they decided to take it off completely and see how she did.) Right now she's glowing under bili-lights, and fed partly via her IV and partly breastmilk though her NG. It's been hard to leave her in the NICU; but we feel blessed to have her safely out, as it seems likely that she wouldn't have been thriving very long had she stayed in utero.
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