Soldato
Sorry to hear you going through a rough time of it. Rest assured, MANY children are born much more premature than yours and do perfectly fine. Stay calm and be confident. Even if you don't feel like you are confident, at least appear to be on the surface and be supportive of your partner, then come back here to vent instead rather than fill her with your worry you know you're getting stressed when the usual NHS is doing its usual NHS stuff but it feels like the end of the world to you (waiting around and all the bs). Still, remain calm and be happy that very soon you meet your childSeriously ******** myself right now for me and my partner. Just got back from the hospital, which was a return journey from an "urgent" checkup yesterday. Got there at 3pm for a 1 hour appointment, left 50mins ago after multiple scans, 2 consultants and what seemed to be an age of fetal doppler monitoring.
Docs have told us that the amniotic fluid is increasing (it increases just days prior to birth apparently), Junior is head down (though has been for 4 weeks) & everything is looking like systems are go. The problem with that is that we still have 8 1/2 weeks to go to the due date, Junior isn't ready for the world.
Docs have decided that it's going to happen so have begun courses of steroid injections so that they can be passed to Junior in the hope of bolstering his lungs should he appear.
On top of this they're also suggesting that my partner may have developed diabetes during the pregnancy (she was tested and clear when we first found out we were having another child)
My head is an absolute shed, I'm seriously ****** off at her so-called best mates who haven't even been round in the last month or so, just as things were getting rough for the Mrs in terms of the pregnancy and
I just feel like I'm going to lose my ****. I have no idea what to do. I absolutely detest hospitals, hate every second, it stresses me out yet I'm faced with spending most of the day in one for the next few weeks. It doesn't help that there seems to be absolutely no efficiency or forward planning.
At one point today a midwife told us that we need to wait for the consultant who will most likely order a 30min fetal monitor. 45mins later consultant walks in and within 10secs says to start the monitor & then he can decided further action on those results. Why couldn't the midwife just get it done whilst we were waiting? After the monitor we then had to wait another half hour for the consultant to come back. Wasted time! No wonder the NHS is on it's backside!
Sorry, venting and not the point.
Edit sorry for the stars ...