MY BIRTH STORIES

Working toward the perfect birth

Parker, 2014

She will always hold a very special place in my heart as she was the one who made me a mother. She is my most spunky, sassy, and always tries to push the limits. She truly will test me to the end of the day, making sure I am always on my toes…but she wasn’t always like that! She was once what I called, “my ninja”!

Finding out I was pregnant – at 32 weeks

My then boyfriend and I had only been dating, well, about 10 months at that point. I had put on some weight, but not much…maybe 15 pounds. For me, that was barely even noticeable since I’m almost 6′ tall. It was just before Valentine’s Day 2014 and I was starting to feel uncomfortable in my regular jeans. Yes, I was still buttoning my regular skinny jeans at 32 weeks! To this day it is unbelievable to even me!

One morning when I was getting ready to go to my studio, my mom mentioned to me that the outfit I was wearing, I looked “disgusting.” Literally, she said I looked disgusting. I was wearing regular black leggings with a regular fitted t-shirt. I was planning to put something over top, but hadn’t gotten around to it. Quickly, I responded my disapproval to the comment and decided to immediately head to the pharmacy. I had one of two options: I was either pregnant or heading to the gym THAT NIGHT! I stopped by CVS and got a 3 pack pregnancy test and drove straight to my studio. Without hesitation I went to the restroom.

I took the test and immediately came back positive. I took another one and same thing. I saved the third for the following morning , but felt pretty darn confident that it would also be positive. I had no idea what to do. I had been on birth control for about nine moths previously and prior to that I was not sexually active. The very first thing I knew was: take a SELFIE!

What’s crazy is I totally looked pregnant there, but I was completely pushing out my stomach as far as I possibly could. When I actually held my abs at a normal place, I looked the farthest from pregnant. I texted a friend the crazy news and she was ecstatic. I proceeded to call a couple OBs to see what the next step was. At the time, before Obamacare, I had no health insurance and I had a really hard time finding a practice that would take me without insurance and being pregnant. I was sent to the Akron “women’s center”.

I made an appointment for two days later which was Valentines Day! After I found out how far along I was, that’s when I decided to tell everyone. My appointment was first ting in the morning. They measured my belly and it was THIRTY! I was floored! Because I was so far along and had no care prior, I was immediately sent upstairs where they did a full ultrasound, including anatomy, and deemed high risk. At the ultrasound, even crazier things happened. Based on the size of the baby, i was put at THIRTY-TWO weeks pregnant instead!

Step 3

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Step 4

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