Caring for Baby’s Belly Button

Question by Bella:
Mummy and daddies, Ever had a premature baby?
Hey Mummy and Daddies.

I just had premature baby, born 22nd May 2010. My gestation was 27 + 5 days. I had a gorgoues baby girl.

I got rushed into hospital weekend before with vaginal bleeding down below, they kept me in over night and checked up on me but i was not dilated at all. The next morning came and the physician came round and told me that i was fine and ready to go home my bleeding also had stopped and that i should get a scan booked to check everything is okay. However the scan never happened, unfortunatly.

I got sent home later that day feeling fit as a fiddle and knowing (well thought) my baby girl was great.

During the week i felt cramp in my abdomen but just mild cramp as if you were on your period, ladies. But didnt think anything of the sort.

Then the friday came and i was just sitting at the dining table and decided to feel my stomach and i touched my belly button and it was really sore to touch and very sensitive but then again thought nothing of it again…silly me. The following night early saturday morning was round about 4 am and i woke up with very strong period like cramp but turned over and went back to sleep ovbiously still in pain. Then about 9 am saturday morning i woke up with the same pain but worse so i decided to go to the toilet and see if the pain would go if i had a wee, but i was still in pain then boom came the contractions!

less than 3 minutes apart they kept on getting worse, then all of sudden blood gushed out..i was with my partner when this happened and i just started crying knowing i was in more danger than the weekend before!

I rang the ambulance and they came out took me straight to maternity but on the way there it was getting worse, it was unbelievable. I could not get out of the ambulance i had to be helped down onto a wheel chair and was rushed straight into delivery suite. As i got in i could not move, got rushed in onto the bed and got told i was fully dilated, they told me i needed an emergency cesarean.

Once i came round from the Operation i had a beautiful baby girl and i named her Summer she weighed 2 pounds 7 oz. She got transfered to special care baby unit in another hosptial, she has now been transfered back to the hospital she was born at.

Summer is now currently still in hosptial and is 1 month old today, shes getting a lot superior and is now 3 pounds 6 oz! I could not be any more proud, shes gorgoues.

I was just wanting to know if any of you mummy or daddies have ever had a premature baby and your experiences :-

Labour
How your baby is doing
How old they are now
How hard it was to go through times like this
What process they went through in hospital
and anymore you wanna add.

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