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Started by wendza64 , May 17 2012 10:33 PM

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#1 wendza64

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Posted 17 May 2012 - 10:33 PM

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share with you our good news that my daughter was 18 yesterday!! Both my husband and i are incomplete paraplegics, we met in lodgemoor hospital (Sheffield England) in 1990. We were told that we probably wouldn't have children, we went through a period of wondering and hoping, trips to the doctors with "samples" and even info on donors. Then realised we must just try and get on with our lives and stop worrying. Well not long after this i discovered that i was pregnant, it was such wonderful news, but we had to do about 5 tests to make sure!
Anyway we had a beautiful baby girl, born naturally, ( i was really worried about this i had read all the books on paraplegic pregnancies! causing my midwife to scream blue murder at me! and i also had my hospital bag packed by week 30 because according to the books most paraplegics have their babies 10 weeks early!) Well she has just turned 18, and we also have another beautiful daughter born 22 months after our first baby, she is now 16. Thanks for reading this... Wendi :)
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 11:27 PM

That's wondeful! :hug:

Small world, I was also hurt in 1990. Funny you should mention paras going into labor early....baby #2 was @ 31.5wks, but I never knew there were books specific to post SCI & pregnancy.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 11:59 PM

Aww, I remember well when both my kids finally grew up and got out of the house :), now I have wonderful grandkids to play with, and give them back! :) congrats!
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 12:52 AM

Yours is a lovely story. Thanks for posting. So many couples get pregnant once they stop worrying about it!

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 01:02 AM

Thank you for sharing your wonderful news with us. Congratulations!! :clap:

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 01:41 AM

congrats ........

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 01:47 AM

Congratulations, great to here a such a happy SCI story :)

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 02:40 AM

That's heart warming. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 03:45 AM

Happy Birthday to your daughter! Your children are so lucky to have such strong and involved parents, good job with everything and I hope all of her birthday wishes come true!

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:17 AM

Thanks for sharing!! I'm so excited you was blessed with 2 daughters!!!

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 09:56 AM

Daughters are great, I have one and just love her to bits.

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 10:43 AM

congrats and thanks for sharing

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 11:56 AM

Hi..... Thankyou for your lovely messages..... I am so proud of both my daughters, lauren the eldest is off to university in september to be a nurse, they are both lovely girls and over the years i used to worry about them having two disabled parents but they didn't care . thabks again. wendi :D
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 12:05 PM

Fantastic! Lovely to hear about your daughter's 18th! Always good to hear the happy stories on here. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I believe the body is more susceptible than we give it credit. Creating a relaxed mental state within does seem to lead to some great things.

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 01:06 PM

great minds think alike. i also have a 16 and 18 year old daughter and i'm a quad and carried both kids post injury.
hi fellow gimps! i'm a c 6/7 quad and have been injured since 1986. i was in a roll over hydroplane accident and it took hours for the paramedics to get me out of the car in the pouring rain. that definately wasn't my day. but alas life goes on!

#16 wendza64

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Posted 19 May 2012 - 08:02 AM

Hi... yeah.. we also had our accidents around the same time! i would love to chat sometime :)
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