Laureenjellybean wrote:I guess you have more of a positive attitude than I do when it comes to this stuff if you were convinced you guys would make it...but you guys pulled through...so you showed them!!
It must have been the drugs...jk jk...it was just..intuition. I was scared beyond end that we wouldn`t...but something inside told me it would be okay.
Laureenjellybean wrote:If there truly is something wrong with my baby girl it is going to make work VERY difficult over the next few months. We've had a string of drugged out moms that neglect their babies and use drugs during pregnancy. How can I take care of their perfect babies (aside from the brutal withdrawal) wondering how I can do things right and have a baby with problems? I think it would take everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, to maintain my composure and NOT tell someone off...severely.
I was thinking about those babies and parents when I was posting last about the parents who do everything right. I actually had the displeasure of being beside a crack baby. There was no one else in our section because we had just lost one to the intensive side who passed the next day, but I heard them, I heard the doctors...and when that baby was lost...I said something to them. I couldn`t help myself. I went outside, went for a few hour walk, and came back and they were moved. No one ever mentioned it. So I don`t know how you would have the strength to go to work and not. I`m so sorry that you have to go through this and work where you do right now. Perhaps you could take some time off?
Laureenjellybean wrote:The stupid thing about mental preparation is that I'm not 100% sure it even works. I feel like with a LOT of stuff, you can prepare yourself and run through all the possible scenarios, yet when it hits you, it still hits you.
That`s true, but I think staying pessimistic (I`m a fan can`t you tell) is that if you picture worst case, anything else is uphill
Laureenjellybean wrote:If she has problems, I'll deal with it as it comes, but for my baby's sake, I don't want her to be blind, I don't want her to have all the problems that could come out of it. I want the best quality of life possible. I've read cases where people have it and never know it, functioning AMAZINGLY (those are the rare isolated cases) But, then again, maybe since I have Poo for luck and tend to have the lower end of probability (ie...0.5% of a placenta previa)maybe we'll luck out with the rare, MINOR issue...if it is really there.
I`ll send many thoughts and many prayers in your direction. I really hope it is an isolated case.
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