Scare

Well as already mentioned I am in Pregnancy no 5 (6 if you count a miscarriage a while ago) and so far all has been well - except prolonged morning sickness but that is just part being pregnant. I am 20 weeks so half way and starting to get excited and pull out clothes to wash and work out what i do and don't need ...

Sunday night I woke up and couldn't breath. I got out of bed and went to the bathroom (not sure why) I ended up on the bathroom floor frantically praying to God to help me and wondering what on earth was going to happen to my 4 sleeping daughters if I was unable to breath again. I felt like I would never be able to get my breath. I don;t think I passed out but I think it came close before I could breath again. I went back to bed shaken and thankful to God and rested until morning. In the morning I rang Hubby who confirmed that I should go to the hospital. I rang the midwife to let her know what had happened and that I was coming in as soon as I had got a babysitter. (My mother and Auntie shared the babysitting).

My aunt arrived first in answer to my phone call and dropped me at the hospital. I was still feeling slightly dizzy and not like I could drive. I ended up spending most of the day at the hospital while they ran blood tests, a heart test and other tests but were unable to find anything wrong.

I have had this happen to me in all of the other pregnancies 2-3 times throughout each. It always happens when I am asleep or very relaxed - dozing on the couch. But each time I have regained my breath quickly and have felt no ill affects afterwards. It has always been later in each pregnancy (8-9months). Each time it has been mentioned to the doctors/midwives at my next appointment but they have had no explanation for it. It feels like something is blocking my throat (like choking). One doctor suggested that the hormones released during pregnancy to soften up the muscles were relaxing the wrong muscles and that was causing it. I have been booked in to see a specialist next week so hopefully he will have some answers.

The baby is fine - does not seem to have affected it at all thankfully. I am counting down the days until Peekers is back (3) I will be so pleased to have him back for a short time.

Both Zebra and Duckie had a lesson in what to do in an emergency and I now want to make up a small book to put near the phone with numbers of family to also call in an emergency. At least they know how to call 000 and what to say. Hopefully it does not come to that but better to be prepared.

I am so thankful that God did answer my prayer and that all is well with the baby. Once again I am reminded that we do not know how long we have and of the need to make our time with our children and family count.