What complications, diagnoses or surgeries did you or your child face? I was wheeled in for a C-section due to Nina being breech, and within 5 minutes, she was out and crying. As the days went on, we saw good growth for Nina and lung tissue developing, making the doctors hopeful they could get me to 36 or 37 weeks.Īt 30 weeks and 4 days, my water broke, but I was told as long as I wasn’t in active labor, I could keep Nina in until 34 weeks. I was given steroid shots to help with Nina’s lung development, and at 24 weeks I was admitted to the hospital in hopes to make it to 34 weeks. We were given three options: 1) do nothing and let the pregnancy continue as it was 2) do everything and be admitted to the hospital until I deliver or 3) terminate the pregnancy. The hardest part was nobody could tell me for sure, so I lived in constant fear that it would happen at any second. It all depended on how Nina was developing in the womb. We were told that I may need to deliver as early as 25 weeks. When we went to MFM, my doctor explained that this condition, called oligohydramnios, could restrict Nina’s growth and development, but worst of all could cause her lungs to not develop properly. Nobody in my family had ever had major complications in pregnancy, so this was all new to me. I had no idea that this could even be a problem it was only mentioned in small paragraphs in my pregnancy books. My doctor sent me to the maternal fetal medicine doctors, since I was now considered a high risk pregnancy. When I was 20 weeks pregnant with Nina we went in for a routine ultrasound and it was discovered that my amniotic fluid was very low, measuring at a three when it should have been somewhere between 8 and 10.
What were the circumstances surrounding your child’s birth? At 20 weeks pregnant, Krista was diagnosed with oligohydramnios, or low amniotic fluid, a rare condition that happens in only 4% of pregnancies.
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