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 wasn't dilated at all. The next morning came and the doctor 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 couldn't 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 couldn't 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 alot better and is now 3 pounds 6 oz! I couldn't 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.

i had my daughter at 29 weeks pregnancy i was already a high risk pregnancy i was already in the hospital on a sunday evening i told the nurse i was having a contraction she said it was not showing so later on within the next two hours my water bag broke in the bed no family was there they had just left they was moving from one side to the other to have the baby we did not have time i was fully dialted and she was breach foot first we delivered her and she was dead when she came out but nicu nurses took her away and my daughter weighed 2 lb6 oz and was 18 and 3 fourths long she stayed in there two months and had to have shots during the winter season for her first two years a nurse would come out my experience with nicu was scary and i had to take a cpr class before leaving the hospital and before you get to leave with her you will meet with her team and discuss the discharge plans an appointments they set up for the baby mean while they release you to a room for one night to observe you with the baby and after that they set you up with kid team which follows the baby to make sure evreything is developing normal. my daughter left nicu when she was 4lbs 7 ozs she is currently22 month 25 lbs and 3 feet and she is a well adjusted toddler

Mummy and daddies, Ever had a premature baby?