Hello,
On Thursday March 31st I dropped my one year old off at my parents and went in to the hospital for a scheduled labor induction due to problems with my blood pressure. After checking in, they got everything started with IVs and extras hormones in order to progress things at a steady pace. Unfortunately during contractions my baby was not making any progress and continued to have deceleration in her heart rate. After 24 hours of contractions and being little dilated they had to break my water manually in order to progress more. 5 more hours of pushing and turning off the epidural to create a bit more muscle use. Still no progress. They decided the baby was stuck and an emergent c-section was to be done due to the amount of time that had gone by without anything positive. The baby was finally born on April 2nd at 1:20am.
During the c-section I lost a great deal of blood and have been getting blood transfusions each morning since. As well as an iron infusion. Due to the loss of blood I have been able to get up out of bed, let alone pick up either of my children (then have to be handed to me). At this point it is unclear when I will be able to leave the hospital, thus extending my planned 4 weeks off of work to 8-12 because of all the complications.
Although I am a full time employee at our eye clinic in town, I don’t not have the option of paid leave. Again, causing another road block in being able to “afford” life. I have many bills to be paid such as rent, and all my utilities, plus food (once I am able to be mobile, and go get groceries) for the next couple of months, and I simply cannot supply/support myself and children at this time.
Any donation to help in this serious time of need is greatly appreciated! My pay pal link is: https://www.paypal.me/corrijane?locale.x=en_US