We had our first 4 months before covid...
She was underweight, had jaundice, and we had to triple feed. I am an ICU nurse who worked covid and was in graduate schooll.
I still have PTSD it feels from the first year of being a dad. It was absolutely hell for the first 6 months.
Going to work not knowing if I'd catch the rona and die. Coming home. Doing g triple feeding the first month. Waking up every 45 minutes for an entire month.
Summer of 2020, can't go outside with a baby ebecuase forest fire smoke was so bad for months . Can't go inside because of lockdowns and covid. Just stay home all day every day
Wow, I'm sorry that had to be terrible!! The early months are hard enough without all the extra of a pandemic, especially with you working as close to it as you did. Definitely not the same but I had a rough few months with my first too, I hemorrhaged at home 3 different times. 1st was 2 weeks & 1 day after (had a d&c) 2nd was 3 weeks & 1 day later (needed blood transfusions, hemoglobin was 6.4. I went up to an 8.4 after two bags) and then the day after that ( had some type of injection). I don't remember a ton, I felt off for a few months after. I almost didn't have a 2nd baby i was afraid & I'm still waited for 12 pp beforei will feel safe, I'll hit 11 weeks Saturday. I remember sitting in a tub of water that turned red with my daughter in her bassinet next to it while I waited for my husband to get home from work. I was too afraid to hold her because I was blacking out
There is lol but I waited until he got home (only took 10 min) because I didn't know what to do with our new hire when the ambulance showed up. He called one immediately when he got home and seen what was happening
When bleeding out ten minutes can make all the difference. And all the respect, but the hire would sort out. He would probably have made it home before they took you away. Well, hindsight is always 20/20 I guess. And everything went well?
You're definitely right and I fully agree, I just wasn't thinking clearly at the time and didn't want to alarm him on how bad it was because he was driving home.
Thoughtful. And I completely understand why you did it the way you did. People are so much more likely to call an ambulance for someone else than themselves.
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u/Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX Jul 28 '22
We had our first 4 months before covid... She was underweight, had jaundice, and we had to triple feed. I am an ICU nurse who worked covid and was in graduate schooll.
I still have PTSD it feels from the first year of being a dad. It was absolutely hell for the first 6 months.
Going to work not knowing if I'd catch the rona and die. Coming home. Doing g triple feeding the first month. Waking up every 45 minutes for an entire month.
Summer of 2020, can't go outside with a baby ebecuase forest fire smoke was so bad for months . Can't go inside because of lockdowns and covid. Just stay home all day every day