Despite every pregnancy experience being unique, many moms imagine their pregnancy will look something like how it’s portrayed in the movies and television, which is why one expecting mom didn’t even realize it at first when her water broke.
Australian mom Sami had a pretty difficult and painful pregnancy, which is why she couldn’t wait for her baby’s due date to arrive but she showed no signs of labor as the due date came and went. Three days later, however, she noticed a small wet patch on her pajamas and at first thought she had peed herself.
“I went to the loo to investigate and it stunk. It wasn’t wee, so I thought, ‘This is it!’ this is my waters breaking. I was a bit surprised that it was a little patch and I wasn’t gushing like it does in the movies, but off my mum and I went, back to hospital to get this show on the road,” Sami said.
However, when the 41-week pregnant mom went to the hospital, they sent her home after examining her and determining that her water hadn’t broken, but she had peed herself. Yet before she left, the doctor decided to schedule an induction seven days later since Sami was already overdue.
“So a week later I waddle in,” said Sami, who started feeling her first contractions at about 4 am. For hours, Sami watched her baby’s heartbeat on the monitor, but suddenly it started dropping during each contraction until her baby’s heartbeat finally stopped.
“Within three minutes I was prepped and being run down to surgery, and just seven minutes later they were pulling her out of my belly. She was blue – this baby that I had felt inside me and loved so much already was blue,” Sami remembers. Baby Lily wasn’t breathing, but then she miraculously let out a cry as she took her first breath.
Doctors couldn’t figure out what had happened, but then they saw the amniotic sac, which was hard as leather, and realized that Sami’s water had actually broken a week before. “So as the story goes, my waters had broken the week before – I just didn’t have much fluid in there, so for a week, she had been cooking in an air oven. Because there was no fluid at all – not one drop, there was nothing to cushion her from the contractions, so when my uterus contracted – it squished the umbilical cord and she didn’t get any oxygen for the length of the contraction,” said Sami.
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Miracle Baby Survives A Week In The Womb After Mom’s Water Breaks is an article from: LifeDaily