Being a Teen Mom

My due date was scheduled for June 21, 2011. I started having complications June 2nd and went into the hospital. At the hospital they took many tests to try and determine what was wrong. It turned out that I had developed preeclampsia. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001900/ They decided I would stay at the hospital and be induced Saturday, June 4th if nothing happened before then. Labor was the worst 12 hours of my life. I have never felt anything as painful as contractions. When I was finally dilated enough to get an epidural, the pain was eased and I could finally sleep. Soon after baby Madalynne was born. Everything seemed to be fine at first but then they had to rush her to the nursery to examine her more closely. She appeared to be having trouble breathing. I wasn't able to go to the nursery the first night to see Madalynne because my blood pressure was still too high and I needed to stay on magnesium. During her time in the nursery they had taken chest x-rays and discovered that Madalynne had a small pneumothorax. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001151/ Hearing that was the scariest thing ever. She had to stay in the incubator on oxygen, continue to have chest x-rays daily for the first 10 tens of her life. Finally the pneumothorax had resolved all on by itself and she was able to breathe in room level oxygen. Now I could actually take her home with me and enjoy the beginning stage of motherhood.