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Today's Friend of the show is

Fearless Pregnancy

Wisdom and Reassurance from

a Doctor, a Midwife and a Mom

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Today's featured birth story is actually an "unbirth" story.  

This is Terry's story of her Ectopic pregnancy

Terry's Story:

           After trying for almost a year, my husband and I found ourselves pregnant.  We did a home pregnancy test but it was not a "for sure" positive result.

          About three weeks after I did the test, I was home alone and started having some back pains.  This wasn't something unusual for me; I had a lot of back pain since my first C-section.  They started early, about 8:00 a.m. and steadily got worse.  By about 10:30 a.m. it became a stabbing pain, I didn't even think about it being something serious.  I took some Tylenol and tried to lie down.  Suddenly I started to feel even worse; the pain was almost unbearable.  My husband was gone out of town for the day, and I had no way of getting a hold of him.  At about 11:00 a.m.; I started to spot.  I decided that I was probably having a miscarriage.  Since I couldn't get a hold of anyone, I decided to drive myself to the hospital.

          On my way in the car, I started to vomit violently.  The pain was still getting worse, and I realized that I couldn't drive.  Lisa (my friend) got my message and she took me to the hospital.  I vomited a few more times on the way, and the pain didn't stop at all.  I was crying and so scared.

          We got to the hospital and the pain was still bad but shortly after it stopped.  I mean it just suddenly stopped.  After a long wait, a doctor came in and examined me; he didn't come back for quite a while.  When he did return, he told me he was sure that this was an ectopic pregnancy and I would have to have surgery right away.  He wanted me to have an ultrasound immediately, so I went to do that.

          Later, my husband got there and the doctor confirmed that it was indeed an ectopic pregnancy and he had already called in a surgeon for me.  I was bleeding internally and I had to go to surgery immediately.  I was just stunned.

          I had to be put to sleep for the surgery, but it was over fast.  What a rotten day this had been.  I woke up with mild back pains, and by late afternoon, I was coming out of surgery.

          While they were inside for the surgery, they noticed that I had large amounts of adhesions from my C-section and were able to cut those away.  They told me later that those might very well have been the cause of my back pains since they started after I had the C-section.

          It was fairly nonintrusive surgery, so I wasn't in a lot of pain and it didn't take long to recover.  I was back to work in two days later.  After trying so long to get pregnant, this was a tragic loss, but we were determined not to let this experience get us down.  Happily, we were able to conceive after a few months.