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Originally Posted by Rikki  Yes, I was diabetic... though at the time they just thought I had gestational diabetes. I was misdiagnosed for a LONG time.
I just refused to let them take him away from me, until they *had* to take him for his bath, about 2 hours later. At that time, my ex and my mom went to the nursery with him and made sure that when they checked his bg, not allow them to give him glucose water or formula. I come from a long line of midwives and very "crunchy" people, so we have strong beliefs in natural parenting and such. Shoot, our 5 year-old and 3 year-old still end up in our bed, co-sleeping, every night! |
Oh ok, I was 19 when I had my first one, I thought that just was the right thing to do, at that point in my life I wouldn't of questioned doctors since I was a diabetic, and since it was scarey enough for me.....I didn't even think to fight them, I was just scared, because they made it sound like if they didn't hook him up to an IV very quickly he'd crash, or whatever, so I was like ok.....but funny thing is when i had my fourth one I kept him longer then an hour nursed him just craddled him got to enjoy it, the hospital i chose to have him in, were not big on delivering babies of diabetic mother's so i anyway I would nurse him then they'd check his bg but my milk was just not enough for him sometimes he'd drop under 40 which made the nurses pail as a ghost.....I was like ok well i have no milk coming out give him formula, they would wisk him away call dr, come back and say dr said give him formula test it omg it was crazy.....well that only happened once, I was not blessed with this over productive milk glands it sucks, I was ok with my third one, but the fourth one, it just didn't spurt out, tried water tons of it, tried this stuff god it sucked.....stimulation i don't know what was wrong with me with my fourth one, but i atleast did it till he was five months old, until they just fizzled out on me....so sad my boobs suck
Cheryl
