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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 683039" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Well, I was concieved and born in the US, and probably a good thing. My mother after multiple miscarriages and a pregancy spent on hormones that left me at risk for female cancers and abnormalities, suffered a prematurely detached placental when seven months gone with me.</p><p></p><p>No warning. Just blood all over the place all at once. She was rushed to a local hospital that had a NICU and I was delivered via emergeny c-section. Luckily, they also saved my mum with the help of lots of blood-bank blood.</p><p></p><p>Mom stood in the hospital for 5 weeks. I stook in NICU until I hit 5lbs and my lungs and brains had matured enough that I could breathe properly on my won and quit having random siezure.</p><p></p><p>The only longterm effects I have of all that are foot drop in my left foot due to a stroke I had in NICU, and damaged vision due to something called "retinopathy of prematurity". I'm very lucky that all it did was affect the number of rods and cones I have, making my color vision a bit weird, and my night vision awful. I am very lucky because in many cases ROP causes blindness even in this day an age.</p><p></p><p>In my case, a midwife wouldn't been disastrous. The hospital was only 3 blocks from our house and my dad drove. Waiting for a MW to be there and call for an ambulence might've killed me and certainly would've killed my mother, who lost better than half her blood volume during the delivery and time just before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 683039, member: 1963"] Well, I was concieved and born in the US, and probably a good thing. My mother after multiple miscarriages and a pregancy spent on hormones that left me at risk for female cancers and abnormalities, suffered a prematurely detached placental when seven months gone with me. No warning. Just blood all over the place all at once. She was rushed to a local hospital that had a NICU and I was delivered via emergeny c-section. Luckily, they also saved my mum with the help of lots of blood-bank blood. Mom stood in the hospital for 5 weeks. I stook in NICU until I hit 5lbs and my lungs and brains had matured enough that I could breathe properly on my won and quit having random siezure. The only longterm effects I have of all that are foot drop in my left foot due to a stroke I had in NICU, and damaged vision due to something called "retinopathy of prematurity". I'm very lucky that all it did was affect the number of rods and cones I have, making my color vision a bit weird, and my night vision awful. I am very lucky because in many cases ROP causes blindness even in this day an age. In my case, a midwife wouldn't been disastrous. The hospital was only 3 blocks from our house and my dad drove. Waiting for a MW to be there and call for an ambulence might've killed me and certainly would've killed my mother, who lost better than half her blood volume during the delivery and time just before. [/QUOTE]
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