Mariana & Dean

• Mom Saves

• 11.10.20

“On March 2, 2018, as I was getting ready for work, I just had this feeling that I should stay home; so I called out of work to stay home and rest. I had lunch like usual and no movement felt. 

That night my husband and I bought Coco and wanted a movie night in, but I was feeling uneasy that I hadn’t gotten movement logged yet. I tried orange juice, which I knew he always moved for, but it didn’t work. At this point, my husband suggested we go to the hospital, but I kept brushing it off because I didn’t want to go in and suddenly feel him move and waste everyone’s time. We got checked in and settled in a little room as I was given pints of water, hooked to the machine and left alone for a bit. 

After a short while, a half a dozen nurses came rushing into our room. One asking for my insurance again, one putting an oxygen mask on me, another telling me I can’t get up from the bed anymore and putting a bed pan under me if I needed to pee, one preparing an IV fluid line for me, and two at the machine telling me that every time I had a contraction, Dean’s and my heart rate would drop and not come back up to the same number. 

I told them I didn’t even feel contractions happening even as they’re showing me on the machine that I had one. They told me Dean had to come out right now because his heart rate was dropping and he was smaller than average at 39 weeks. It seems that my placenta slightly detached from him and he wasn’t growing anymore.

Instead of our Friday movie night, I unexpectedly but happily met my little boy and I am forever grateful for the app. If I had waited all weekend until my appointment, I truly don’t know if the outcome would have been the same or worse. 

It saved Dean’s life and mine when I didn’t even think mine could be at risk.” -Mariana C., Dean’s Mom

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