What is Premature Birth
Premature birth (also known as preterm birth, or premie) is defined medically as childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation. Most pregnancies last about 40 w...
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sooo.... with drinking comes truth.
this is what i learned tonight from my mom. i always knew i was born premature. twelve weeks. i knew my chances of dying were better than my chances of living. i was the first born, my mom had me before her baby shower was even planned. after she had me, her best friend was afraid to hold a shower for her. she brought up, "what if megan dies? how can we have a shower for her if the baby's gonna die anyway?" this has often given me the strength to keep going. i beat the odds once... well, i've learned i was given multiple blood transfusions at the time when the aids epidemic was soaring (1986-87), when i had a very high chance of contracting the virus.... (was tested a few years back over an addict/cheater boyfriend, all results were negative) also, one more fun fact. they tubed me. i never knew this, my mom never told me for whatever reason. i was intubated for a month and a half. i couldn't even breathe on my own. all the doctors said if i survived i would most likely be brain damaged.... haha, look at me now mother fuckers!!! brain damage this!! lmao... just cracks me up in some kinda sick way... so, they thought i'd have serious brain damage. i grew up normal enough. cut the shit outta myself (bet a lot of you didnt know that) from twelve or thirteen until i was fifteen or sixteen. then i turned to drugs. was an addict from fifteen years old till about twenty. adderall, dexidrin, ritilin, coke, vicidon, valium, whatever uppers or downers i could get, hydrocodiene, morphiene suckers, alcohol... then i lived through abuse. physical, from my dad and other family members, boyfriends, that was physical, verbal from everyone else in life. and, eventually, rape... and they thought i wouldn't live through my first couple weeks... ha... i've showed them. today i payed off my bills and turned in the last of my paperwork for nursing school. spent over $500 on books for this semester, money that i busted my ass for. made my car payment, and my insurance, and my credit card, my cell phone bill... and they thought i wouldn't be able to ever breathe on my own, and that if i did, that i'd have to be taken care of forever.... hahaha.... fuck the odds. Posted on 08/01/09, 01:08 am |
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OMG!!! i can relate to that. i was born 3 in a half months early my twin died though. i was born 3 in a half months early and im perfectly fine. yea i talk in a whisper, sure i have cerebral palsy...but im no different than anybody else as far as im concerned. i have a beautiful little boy who is 8 weeks premature but is doing just fine. the doctors told my parents i would never be able to walk or talk and i can do both. i can even have kids...LOL!!! i like your thinking. add me as a friend??? i have a myspace page too if you have one add me if you would like to. 
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