The calm before the storm - Part 1


As many of you know we gave birth to our little girl last September, this blog is my way of telling my story in a cathartic way.

Tuesday September 17th 2024

This day started the same as any other day, still battling through extreme morning sickness I went to work not knowing it would be my last day there!

Throughout the day I remember being sat thinking I couldn't remember when I last felt my baby move which I was used to having an anterior placenta something just felt different this time. When I got home from work I phoned triage who told me to come in right away.
I nervously drove to the hospital where I'd been so so many times recently, I'd often joke it was like my second home

I was placed on a CTG machine for what felt like forever and the lack of movements were causing the machine to not meet the criteria so the midwives wouldn't let me come home. 

Given that I'd driven myself here, of course I had no phone charger, no clothes other then what I was wearing and most importantly no snacks :(

At 10pm I was moved from triage to the maternity ward and told I would have a scan in the morning to check the baby was okay.

I just sat there in bed thinking worst case scenarios but at the same time trying not to worry as my blood pressure was already really high given the circumstances. 

Overnight on the ward I was getting painful Brixton hicks and had a bit of bleeding so the midwives did a test to double check I wasn't in labour, I never heard back from them so assumed all was okay!

After an awful nights sleep I was glad to see 7am and the sound of breakfast being brought round cheered me up a little bit.

I was looking forward to going home and crawling into my own bed and then having a nice warm shower but my chilled out day just wasn't meant to be.






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