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15-5-2009 - A massive Scare after Tanner was born

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I CUT AND PASTED THIS FROM MY BIRTH STORY WITH TANNER.... MY 30 MONTH MOMMAS HAVE READ IT ALREADY... I JUST WANTED TO WARN THE NEW MOMMAS.....

Tuesday morning we just had rushed back to the hospital at about 9 am. Good ol Braeden being a fantastic big brother came to me saying that there was an “emergency” and that I had to come fast! I told him to use that word if he really needed me for anything re: baby. Just cause I tend to tell him 5min…(haha) never again!

When I got to the bassinett… it was full of blood. I’ve never seen so much blood on a baby and it was all over his face, nose, mouth, ears and his white blanket was covered with blood and clots. It was the worse thing to see. It made it worse because of the huge bruise on his forehead and a blood abrasion on the side of his head so when I saw all the blood all I could think of was some pressure on his brain of worse. It was coming out his nose and mouth and the clots on the back of his head like omg….. I can’t get this picture out of my head. So I phoned the maternity floor and thankfully my doc was there. They didn’t notice any gashes (we didn’t either) and figured it came out his mouth (puked) so they pumped his tummy and it had blood in it (old and new).

Then they asked me to look at my boobs. Can you believe that my cracked nipples and a popped blood vessel caused him to swallow soooo much blood that he puked it up? There were clots on the blankey…. I am so fucked up that that was the reason! I am not going to put him down again. All I can think now is that he could have swallowed it! Gesh! I’d rather be at work (jk)…I wish that someone would have warned me about that at prenatal class. Even my doc said that she had to learn it during her residency...!

6 Comments on A massive Scare after Tanner was born

cblooflat - Friday, 15 May
OH MY GOSH! how do you keep this from happening??? i had no idea it could even happen it sounds like something out of a horror movie!!!!

Gigantor - Friday, 15 May
It must have been so scary! I'm glad it all turned out to be okay and appreciate your sharing this story with us.

gabbygabs20 - Friday, 15 May
OMG I feel for you I really do. This happened to my son 3 years ago. I only managed to breastfeed for 3 days because of it. He swallowed blood and pooped it out. They couldn't find the cause so were about to take him for tests when I mentioned my bbs were sore. I had severe mastitis and cracked nipples. My right nipple had all but fallen off. I so hope it doesn't happen a second time. Hope your baby is ok and feeling better. Take Care xoxox

Legacy of the Trinity - Friday, 15 May
thank you so much for sharing that story. i'm glad everything turned out to be ok after all was finished.

Baby Jaidalynn - Friday, 15 May
OMG how scary. I didn't even know you had the baby. Congrats to you. And I am so glad to see that everything is okay after that. I couldn't imagine what you had to endure.

mizzkeisha - Friday, 15 May
Oh wow, that is my first time ever hearing something like that. I'm glad everything turned out ok with Tanner and Braeden was being a good big brother. I'm so glad you decided to repost this because I'm pretty sure alot of other people who are going to breastfeed never heard of this either.

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