Our pediatrician thought she had a slight heart murmur and wanted us to get it checked out with a routine echocardiogram. He said make sure you take your car seat as you will need it take her home later that afternoon. Little did we know that our journey was just beginning!!! They transported her by ambulance and we followed.…
She continues to complain of contractions today. She did receive an epidural which we have turned off as her cervix is unchanged and there were minimal contractions on the monitor. On ultrasound there is a live fetus in cephalic presentation. Amniotic fluid is low-normal at 7.5 cm. Umbilical artery Doppler…
Once I’m awake the anesthesiologist gives me my epidural. It quickly sets in and it’s time to push. I push with all I have, but everyone keeps telling to push harder. I can’t feel anything below my bellybutton, so I can’t tell how hard I’m actually pushing. The nurse sets up a mirror so that I can see what’s happening.…
They found out that her white platelets in her blood were severely low and she needed a blood platelet transfusion immediately. The doctors wanted to draw fluid off her brain because her test results were puzzling. I watched them tuck her into a ball, she began to turn blue due to no oxygen supply, draw fluid from her spine. The doctors gave her two bags of platelets. She stayed in the hospital for a month and was released.…
Baby To Beast Freshman year is already stressful as it is. You are the new kids on the block, you dont know the ins and outs of the high school, and you dont want to make a fool of yourself in front of all these upperclassmen. Not only did I have to overcome that, I got diagnosed with an Atrial Septal Defect, or ASD for short. In other words, I had a hole in my heart between the two chambers of my heart. I was always a smaller kid in middle school.…
Dr. Williams checked my cervix to make sure I was dilated. He then looked at me and said, “You’re ready to deliver. I’m going to count to three and I want you to push as hard as you can.” I then looked at Marcus with fear.…
I believe that my personal background, and my success despite the adversity that I have faced is an essential part of who I am. The first of my struggles came from being born to two teenage parents without at least a high school education, and although my mother went on to get a GED and to college my father did not. Many people in my family had issues with substance abuse and addictions including my father. Although, I was raised by my mother and grandmother, my father’s actions and behaviors negatively impacted my life. My father was verbally and mentally abusive to the people around him, especially when he used alcohol.…
I kindly accepted that those people were my siblings. They were all part of my family, but I felt an immense distance. Whitney had her own mother standing by her. My eldest sister and brother shared the same mother, whom I never saw before.…
It was a Saturday morning March 17, 1996 I was eight months in my mother’s tummy and my due date was in mid April. Uncle Benito had the crazy idea of going to the snow all because my mother had never seen the snow. My mother told me of a hill she sled down from, a great slope that didn’t leave her feeling to good “No me siento muy bien.” My uncle rushed her to Granada Hills Hospital on the morning of March 19, 1996; I was born seven pounds at eight minutes until eight.…
The doctor also told me, my water never broke and would have to do that now, before moving me to a delivery room. Next thing I knew the bed I was in was being rushed down the hall. I was finally put into a delivery room, but started to realize that no one was with me. My husband was at work, but I had texted him before I went to the hospital. He was supposed to be meeting me there, but he should have arrived by now.…
While Proffitt was on the heart monitor to monitor the baby’s heart rate, the two nurses noticed at 1:07 a.m. November 14, 2009 that the baby’s heart rate drastically dropped from 150 beats per minute (a normal heart rate of a baby) to 60 beats per minute. The two nurses failed to report the change to the doctor. At 1:20 a.m. Proffitt’s doctor, Dr. Amy Cadieux, ob-gyn came to check on her progress and the baby’s heart rate had changed.…
The doctor said it was hard to see because the baby was hiding its genital area. She then said “I’m going to try to get the baby to move and see if we can find out”, and as soon as she said that, her ultrasound machine froze up…
The Day I Grew Up Walking down the road to my first job was the day I realized my life had changed. My first real responsibilities were beginning and accountability was starting to crawl its way into my life. I would have to sacrifice countless hours of free time, hanging out with friends, and sleep in order to work. I relate to Schoonover because like her on the weekends, I would go to the lake with my friends and out to lunch with them. Also, since I acquired the job, I would need to start paying for necessities and extracurricular activities on my own.…
My Life Story The purpose of this paper is to describe my life up to this point. I will discuss key life events and changes, while providing some context of my and racial and class background. To do this, I will divide my life into three sections; birth and early childhood, adolescence, and my transition into adulthood. Throughout this text I will reflect upon my life for future analysis.…
The Nurses rushed to my attention and I was lifted by those strong arms to the delivery room and placed on the bed. My baby was not wasting any more time. He was ready to see the real world. He was ready to leave that cozy enclosed space that he was accustomed to seeing over the past nine months. One of the Nurses exclaimed that the baby’s head was visible.…