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threegees:
Hi moms,
Went to the clinic today, having made complains earlier.
I was asked to do a widal test (guess that's what it's called) because she suspected malaria.
Test done. This is the result. Please who can help me analyse?
@whyworryPH @FloraEC @spixytinxy
Other sabi moms, please help me out.
Though, I was asked to come early tomorrow morning for treatment which includes IV drips and injections.

Sorry for what you are going through mama. I really I'm not good with medical terms.
But I noticed your PCV level is at 32% and needs to be optimized. You may be given blood capsule or they will increase your fesolate dosage.
But you can do it naturally with vegetables especially garden egg leaves.
All the best!

4realwoman:
FINAL ROLL CALL FOR TEAM JUNE 2020 AND HANDING OVER
HAPPY NEW MONTH.

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Thank you sweet Cappo for being a wonderful leader. It was nice being in your team. God bless you and everyone of us.

Team July and other mamas, you shall all have your babies with ease in Jesus name, amen.

Pearl05:
Sorry dear for the stress you are passing through. Anytime baby is sleeping try as much as possible to sleep. You can bath baby in the afternoon once daily. The weather is cold now while changing him just use towel and clean his body and change cloth for him. Baby will be fine. Concentrate on getting your self back for now. Thank God hubby and elder sis helps in other regards.

Quick recovery to you dear.

Thank you sweetheart. This was really helpful

4realwoman:
1st bolded that is the story of my life right now

2nd bolded pls you are not hijacking any tin oo as we are all in this together and soon it will be a thing of the passed

I cried yesterday because my son is a foodie master n he wants more of BM dan formula. My sister is here and my girl too but I still need MIL because during the time of my first son I was in enjoyment mood all thanks to her just thinking of her coming next week is giving me serious joy inside

I'm so happy you will finally get to rest dear. Please enjoy and get pampared Wella cos you deserve it.

FloraEC:
Breathe in, breathe out dear. You can bathe baby in the morning and clean his body at night(meanwhile weather is always cold in the night). Hubby can dispose the water and clean up, explain to him.
Feed baby formula immediately after bathing cos it will make him sleep then put him to suckle.
Hand over your son to your elder sis, I pray she understands and sleep immediately baby is sleeping.

HTH and E-hugs

Thanks dear. I'm just all emotional and wish things were like my first. Hubby is willing to even bathe me with my big size but there is still little he can do. I appreciate your concern. Thanks a lot.

miraclebaby:
Congrats once again ma. Thanks to God for sending his Angel doctor over. Some nurses with I don’t care attitude. It is well. It must be stressful for you without mil assistance. May God see you through.

God indeed sent his angels to me o. It's been really stressful without my mil but God will see us through. Thank you so much.

4realwoman:
that is why I keep praying that God should not allow us to come across evil nurses and Dr's on the day of our delivery.
I am so happy for you and it's indeed a great testimony. God will always send helper our way in time of need.
Once again congrats and I rejoice with you teamie, continue to rest as all times.
Take care and regards to your wonderful family

Yes Cappo, God heard the prayer and sent help my way. Thank you so much.

4realwoman:
both of us are positive. The whole thing started 3days after he was born, they discovered the jaundice and he was put under the light and after few day we were discharged and ask to come back 2days later for follow up test which we did and it went back up to 16 and he was placed under the light again before we were discharge again and ask to come back for another follow up it then went back from 9 to 11but the private hospital felt it was nothing to worry about but people around us keep saying it's not go to circumcise him when the jaundice is still in his body which made us to carry out jaundice test to check the level so that we can circumcise him only for the result to come back 18 you needed to see me that as I was just crying, someone directed us to one general hospital on Abraham Adesunya Maternity and Child center, that was how we rushed to the place and they had to redo the test which came back 11. N his PCV was 31 and the Dr gave us antibiotics to use for one week and see them again in a week time.
I went back on Tuesday to see the Dr and the same test was carried out but according to the Dr's the jaundice is nothing to worry about as he has passed the danger stage and it will clear with time but their major concern is his blood level for his again is low which made them to admit us that Tuesday to give him blood and we were discharged yesterday.
His ward was on the 3rd floor and I kept on going up and down now as I am typing now all my body is seriously paining me and yet my breast milk is not flowing the way I want it to flow and I have used everything usable like cookies, palm wine, breast milk granola that am yet to use still nothing.
It making me feel bad as if I am seriously failing my son.
Missing my MIL badly, can't wait for her to come and pamper me.

I can understand Cappo. I know the reason my pain keeps looking like it's the same is cos I'm the one bathing and doing everything for baby when we ought to be resting for quick recovery. My breast is also not flowing like it did during my son's birth.

Sorry if it looks like I'm hijacking your comment and including myself, but sometimes I feel like crying due to the pain and no rest I'm getting. Wish my mum in law was here too. But my husband and elder sister has been more than helpful in other aspects.
Please stay strong. This too shall pass and we shall count it all joy.

katchycouture:
Nne congrats and we really give God the glory for the birth story

Thank you mama.

sunbestie:
Congrats mama... God is too faithful to fail HIS children... Quick recovery dear..
Don't mind some nurses with their mouth.. Am happy that u and baby are alive ooo that cord matter have killed so many babies.

I'm telling you Mama. Cord has really taken a lot of babies, but God had mercy and saved me and my baby. Thank you very much.

blex444:
Congratulations mama
Glory be to God
Amen Amen to your prayers
Quick Recovery

Thank you Mama. God bless

Duduke:
Wow! Such a touching story to read, although I can’t feel your pain but I can imagine the physical and emotional pain you went through! May God always drive away negative nurses and doctors on our delivery day o! Congratulations Mama! The Lord will strengthen you through this new phase, God bless you and your LO

Thank you very much mama. And amen to your prayer.

BS BS
Long post alert!

I want to first of all thank Almighty God for granting me safe delivery. I say a big thank you Jesus!
I was placed on BP drugs because I developed HPB 7 months after giving birth to my son in Nov 2018. Some days in this pregnancy, the BP will be very high even while I was still on medication. But it later normalised to the point that I was getting readings of 110/70 and the rest on consistent basis.

I also had coexisting fibroids which I had always had with my previous pregnancies. Well, we managed and pulled through until I got to about 37 weeks then I became sick. I treated malaria no way. Went to the hospital and they gave me another dose, yet I wasn't myself. Couldn't breathe well and was always tired.

That was when village people decided to manipulate my digital BP monitor to work against me. It would give me 160/110 but when I rush to the hospital, the hospital manual and digital will give me normal reading.

Anyway, at 38 wks appointment, I complained of the headache I was having to the Obs/Gyn consultant and he said we should go for CS at 39 weeks. That the headache at that stage wasn't a good sign. And that baby was too big coupled with the fibroids. We agreed and picked a date.

Our HMO was contacted and code for payment was sent. But as the date approached, I thought of how to cope after CS with no one to help but hubby. My sweet mother-in-law has been sick and in another state. And I already have a 19 months toddler to handle. I told hubby I would like to wait till 40 weeks since my boy's labour started exactly when I turned 40wks.

I ran scan to check baby's weight and it was 3.6kg at 39 weeks plus. The fibroids were still little and same as when I had my boy vaginally. And so with no headache and HBP, I made up my mind to wait till 40 weeks.

Exactly on 16th, which was the real date my LMP gave me as due date (40wks), my water broke. This was around 6:30pm. I got up from the chair and noticed that I was dripping fluid. After about 30 minutes, cramps set in. It was coming in quick succession but nothing unbearable. But since the water had broken, I thought the labour might not take time so we concluded that it would be safer to head straight to the hospital.

I got there, was checked and I was only 3cm. After about 3 hours, I was at 4cm. Then the main pain started creeping in. The doc on duty told me that I could try vaginal delivery since I had given birth before. But that the consultant said I wasn't to be induced cos of my condition.

That was how I laboured and yet I wasn't progressing. They later took me to the labour room around 4am. The pains were now more intense yet, I was stuck. Then at about 10 am, I got to 6-7cm. By then, the contraction was crazy. It was like the baby wanted to push both my anus and abdomen out at the same time. I was writhing in pain. My BP was just going up and down.

They called the consultant again and he told them to add oxytocin in a certain quantity to the drip to augment the contraction. I started having back to back hellish contraction with baby stuck at 8cm. I was screaming down the hospital and asking for CS, but those midwives and nurses were busy pointing out that I ran away when I was supposed to come for the CS, and that having gotten to 8cm, they wouldn't let me go for it again.

My sisters, I was already dying, they would choke hand to check and I would still be at 8cm. They would say that baby was definitely more than that 3.6kg scan gave me and must be the reason baby was no longer descending.

The matron even said I should push at that 8cm that they could reach my baby's head just that it's a little high. I stupidly started pushing but for where. Thinking of it now, that was a stupid and costly thing she asked me to do cos I could have torn my uterus which would have been a more serious case. They just didn't want me to go through CS after the long hours of labour.

I was crying and begging them to call the gynea to come and do the CS, and they kept urging me to wait. I called for my husband but they wouldn't let him in. God then sent another doc in who is familiar with me and he was the one that mentioned that it was risky asking me to push at the stage since baby's head wasn't where it ought to be before I could be asked to push. He called it one medical term like that.

Before he came in, the MD of the hospital had already come in to ask if everything was alright cos I was really screaming. They wanted to dismiss him by telling him that there was no problem. But I called out to him and asked him to pls call the doc for CS. He then started making arrangement for another doc to come and do it since the consultant they usually use said he was in a meeting.

So after my friendly doc came and admonished the midwives, about 20 minutes later, the team for the CS landed.
The guy administering the anesthetic was very proactive. He gave me the first shot at my back but the thing didn't enter. They were already rushing to cut me to get baby out but I felt the pain which was why they repeated the shot. My abdomen down to my legs then became numb. The other doc then cut me and brought out the baby. I was numbed, but I was still feeling the pains kind of.

I was feeling what they were doing to the point that I grabbed the hands of the doc and his assistant to yank off but they stopped me. Mehn, CS no easy at all!
I was screaming in a tired voice: "So this is how CS is". I was asking them to stop that I was dying. They brought oxygen and fixed to my nose. I overheard the doc carrying out the surgery telling the other guy that he removed a fibroid.

At that point, the guy that administered the anesthetics was calling for blood and they brought one which he quickly warmed up and gave me through the line he had already set up. That guy was so proactive and knew his job. It was like he knew what he was doing more than the main guy that carried out the CS sef.

After everything, they stitched me up and wheeled me to the recovery room. And guess what? Baby's weight was really 3.6kg. I was told that serious cord held the baby which was probably why she wasn't descending beyond 8cm. That she was already turning blue when she was brought out. Had I wasted another minute pushing, the story would have been different. God forbid!

The nurses now started coming back to shine teeth after they almost allowed me to die just because according to them, I ran away from CS by not coming when I was booked initially.

Me, I gave it to them o. You don't know my reason for waiting till 40 weeks. My mother in law who is usually my backbone after delivery has been sick. If not that I have an exceptional husband, who else would have helped me after the CS?

My elder sister is good with cooking and stuffing me with food, but she is so fearful of new born babies and can't bathe them ( I was the one that handled hers for her).

If I was running away like the nurses said, I wouldn't have come back to the same hospital nah. I wouldn't have given our HMO the go ahead to approve payment ahead of the planned CS. If baby had descended to 10cm I would have pushed her out. Highest I will end up with tear.

And when you call the nurses to help you clean or feed baby formula, the young ones among them will be pointing out how it wasn't their job to do so. Being dependent on ppl is one other major reason ppl like me run away from CS.

I was told the CS procedure was a little above 3 hours.

Anyway, in everything, I give God all the glory and I have more respect for women whether you gave birth vaginally or through CS. None is easy having gone through both, and my prayer is that at the end of the day, all of you will be rewarded with carrying your 9 months package with no loss recorded.

To our GTC mothers, you are next in line for a miracle.
May the journey be easier for the rest of the pushing mamas. Forgive me for the long post.

BS submitted!
Cc: 4realwoman

4realwoman:
Just checking up on you all my team June mama's.

@whyworryPH, hope you no longer feel the pains and you are recovering well? Kiss princess for my and regards to the family.

As for me I'm good just jaundice that we have been battling since n just yesterday Dr said his Pcv was low.
I have really been stressedup lately but in everything I give God the glory.

Team June you all are in my prayers.

Take care n stay safe.

So nice of you to check on us Cappo even with the stress you are going through. Don't worry, all these shall pass and baby will recover completely.

I'm recovering small small by God's grace. I can't wait to be totally pain-free or least 90% pain-free. My take-home pain medication (ibupro...) finished this night. I'm praying that the pain remains manageable henceforth until it fades out. May God continue to strengthen you and yours in Jesus name, amen.

Reelstar:
Dear mamas, is there anyone that have successfully had both cs and fibroid removal in one surgery. Kindly share ur experience. Is it advisable to have both done in one surgery?

It can be done, but it can be risky. Initially, the gynea/Ob that was supposed to carry out my CS said he wasn't going to touch the fibroid to avoid complicating things.
The doc that finally carried out the CS during the emergency removed one out of my 3 fibroids (the fibroids are usually small).

Anyway, pls be sure that there is enough blood readily available if you must go through with it. And also be sure of the doc's antecedent in previous CS and fibroid operation.

miraclebaby:
Congrats ma. So my prince got a birthday mate

Yes o. They are precious

4realwoman:
No problem ma'am, waiting for your BS.

As for the CS pain, the best is just to continue with your pain medication and try not to lift anything heavy then your baby n less I forget please rest as much as you can, even me I still feel pain once in awhile but before you know it the whole pains will just disappear. Take care and regards to the family.

Thanks Cappo. I'll rest Wella. Regards to yours too.

miraclebaby:
Congrats dear, welcome to your princess and quick recovery to you

Thank you Mama. How are you and lo doing?

katchycouture:
Congratulations once again,
For the pain you need a lot of rest, rest rest rest. Continue with your meds for pain and you will feel better real soon

Thanks mama. Will try to rest more

omavicky:
Congrats my Ph mama, sorry about the pain, i can totally relate..why u are in much pain on the fourth day is because all the pain relieve that they have been loading you is wearing off....2018 when i had my CS before i left on the fourth day i was given that pain drug u put in the anus, its what i waa using, but at a point i stopped and endured the pain, u will be fine if u can endure it, or ask ur doc what u can be using.

Thank you sweetheart. I later complained of the pain and they gave me the anus insert which made a huge difference.
I have been discharged today and I told them that they should pack that anus insert drug and give me. The doc laughed and said that they wouldn't want my body to be addicted to it. That I will only be placed on paracetamol.
So far, I haven't taken the anus insert I was given today and the pain is manageable. Let me see how far I can go Sha.

Thank you so much my lovely mamas for the congratulations. This is the first time I'm coming online since 17th I gave birth.

My Cappo @4realwoman, pls forgive me for not mentioning you when I announced my BA. I used last strength to type that thing. I will post my BS shortly.

In the meantime, pls 4realwoman and other mamas with experience with CS, how do I cope with the pains? Especially when I get up from the bed. Funny thing is that by the second day, I was much stronger and could climb the staircase leading to my room. I was even getting up to go change my pad and even fed baby formula without calling the nurses.

Now on the 4th day, I'm experiencing more pains especially in my abdomen when I try getting up. But I can still move around without bending and still get things done.

Pls, is this how the pain will be and for how long will it last? I know I should be resting, and I'm getting plenty rest, but is there anything I can do to feel better faster cos this baby eats a lot and wants to always breastfeed. Thanks and sorry for the long post.

BA

To the glory of God our princess has arrived through ECS.

BS later!

Gistme12:
BA BA BA

To the Glory of God my baby arrived on 3/6 through CS. Safe delivery to our other mamas.

Congrats mama

ojantelle:
Oh death where is thy sting? Oh grave where is thy victory? My mom passed on yesterday evening. How do I continue? Where do I start from? Pls some people should talk to me. This is the most difficult/painful part of my life.

So sorry for your loss, mama. The Lord will strengthen you and give you the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss. Please try and be strong no matter how hard.

Limahgirl:
Ha! Thank you so much for this ma. Poor me still dey drink cold drinks including cold water up and down. Will start drinking hot water. Wish us smooth and swift delivery soon.

You are welcome mama. And amen to your prayer

Limahgirl:
Abeg mama, does warm water bath help labour ni? Make I try using it and even start to drink warm water. I yamm so tired also biko!

Yes, for some women, drinking and bathing hot water can bring about labour. That's why pregnant women are usually advised to avoid hot drinks and food in early pregnancy.
2 of my sisters use it when they are due and it works for them. But me, for where. I'm officially tired

Lisa001:
Mothers pls is this right?I gave birth to him don't I have a say over him?is it true too much of breast will spoil the child as she claims?pls I need your advice

Chineke. Please leave that place as soon as you can. Chai, ignorance on her part should not make you deprive your baby of the highly nutritious content of breast milk. I don't want to express how angry I am at that woman, but mama pls, for your sake and that of your baby, please leave there.
You can manage the rest with hubby abeg. Don't jeopardize your baby's health and well-being cos of what ppl will say. Just get your hubby's approval by showing him all the responses from this your post.

4realwoman:
Prayer Monday


Thank you Father for answering our prayers in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen and amen!

4realwoman:
TEAM JUNE 2020 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT.


The remaining June mama fear not for the Lord is with you all and he will make the way smooth n easy for you all.
You all are in my prayers for easy n fast delivery with mother alive, baby alive n father rejoicing and so shall it be in Jesus might name, Amen.

Pls stay safe.


Team June for no loss
Team June for supernatural and easy delivery
Team June for painless & fast labor
Team June for mother alive, baby alive and father alive with plenty money.
Team June for Healthy pregnancy
Team June for Sexy bumps.
Team June for sharp, sharp delivery

Thanks Cappo. God is in control. Hope you are much stronger now? Kisses to baby

miraclebaby:
Seems so. When I walk I’ll feel like he’s coming down but once I get home and relax he start kicking me on my chest. The thing tire me. Let me see how this week goes anyway. I’m 39weeks today

My sister, I just tire. Checked my LMP I recorded with my old phone and it turns out baby is due tomorrow. Scan gave me Thursday. I even had one scan that gave me 10th. This baby will officially surpass 40 weeks by Thursday.

Unripe pawpaw and pineapple core are doing nothing to help. I now bathe very hot water and pour enough on my belly. No matter what I do, it seems baby has her own plans.

I have found that it seems like my body no dey fall for all these. I remember making my pepper soup with uda, uziza and the rest in the early pregnancy and nothing happened (I'm thankful for that though, but I won't advise others to do so).

As it stands, I will have to resort to using my manual treadmill at home to workout as climbing staircase isn't sounding inviting anymore. I pray baby comes so that I can enter the next stage without having to carry her in my Tommy.

On a side note sha, I went to the bank today to make a transfer and with the hundreds of ppl ahead of me, I carry my big belle just dey oppress
I worry until they took me up to be attended to. Pregnancy has its pros Sha, but I'm done biko

funmi4love:
BA! BA!! BA!!!
To God alone be all the glory our baby girl arrived yesterday DD 13/06 EDD20&21/06, 4kg without tears. wishing the remaining mama's safe delivery, BS later

Congrats teamie. I tap into this in Jesus name, amen.

miraclebaby:
You tried for the 1hour walk. I can’t even exceed 30mins. May God help us all. I’ve been waiting for labour like forever. It’s well

My sister, I was walking with the hope of getting baby out by force. Turns out the walking seemed to make her relax more