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damajuana,

Thank you! the c-section itself did not hurt because of the spinal but the recovery has been very painful for me. some people say that a c-section recovery is a piece of cake compared to the myomectomy recovery but in my case this recovery has hurt a lot worse so far.

i'm breast feeding but having a little bit of difficulty with it. my drs allowed me to leave the hospital 2 days after the surgery vs the regular 3 to 4. my milk did not come in til i got home so the baby had lost weight. anyway, his weight is slowly creeping back up now but my milk production is still low so it's been a challenge. i'm pumping and feeding regularly... any advice on how to increase my production so that he gets more milk and so that i can start pumping more? i'm just now starting to pump right`at 2 and a half ounces at a time but it takes several minutes just to get that little bit out. i would really rather not supplement with formula if i don't have to.

His birth weight was 8 pounds 6 ounces and 19 inches long.

kb

Hi KB! I completely understand you. The first days are tiresome but beatiful at the same time.

My baby also lost weight eventhough I had enough milk but then recoved splendidly. The problem was that I wounded my nippless when breast feeding her, due to my inexperience, and it hurted like hell to feed her. Maybe that is why c section hurted so little hahaha.

I have a tip, but only take it if your doctor recommends it. I was given the hormone oxytocin (it was a spray that I had to put into my nose) at the hospital to increase my milk level. But, the doctor has to recommend it and tell you what dose should you take. It also has a side effect and it is that it contracts your uterus and it hurts a little but its totally bereable. After two days of taking it I was full of milk. Ask your doctor if he recommends it.
If you already had oxytocin take into account that the first milk, the caloster, the yellow one is very concentrated so he might recover immediately.
I also stayed more days at hospital than you becuase I neeeded to learn how to breast nurse without getting wounded, but I ended almost running out of it due to the 100 visits I had per day. My hospital allows visitors to come in at any time and I had people at the room from 6 am to 10 pm a complete nightmare!. So enjoy your peaceful home and use this time to connect to your beatiful baby.

Hi KB! I remembered something. Another tip is to use the Avent Isis manual breast pumper. I had two breast pumpers an electric one from Evenflo and and the Avent Isis manual one, and believe me that with the Avent one pumped three times what I pumped with the electric one. If you only have the electric one try feeding your baby with one breast and pumping the other one at the same time with the electric pumper. If you have one spare hand hahaha take a glass of water, cause you loose almost all the water in your body (joke). Hope this helped.
Good luck!

Hello everyone. I am just getting a chance to post. Kb I am glad to know that everything went wellw ith your surgery. I delivered a 6 pound 13 ounce baby on last Wed. She is not breast feeding for some reason she has no interest whatsoever in my breast. However, I do pump and feed her. My milk has come in and I just pumped a 7 1/2 ounce bottle. Kb don't worry the milk will come in more. I was reading a post that says oatmeal works. I am not sure but it's worth a try.
My surgery experience was good and bad. It was good because it didn't hurt as much as the myomectomy... however it was terrible because the anesthesiologist had to do my epidural twice. The first time he hit a nerve and my leg twitched. I was so scared I almost cried. During the surgery I was so tired I fell asleep. Can you believe it I just wanted to hear her cry but almost didn't cause I was so tired.

God Bless you all and I will post later.

Hi everyone, I don't know what happened, because I posted first think when I returned from hospital on Sunday afternoon and I don't see my post. But anyway, I went to dr. office on Thursday (the day my c-section was originally scheduled, but it was postponed to Monday due to unsuccessful amnio) for stress test, coming to find out I was contracting every 2 minutes without me even realizing it. So I was sent straight to hospital (across the street) where the dr. that did my myomectomy performed c-section. So at 11:01 pm (after working all day) the love of my life came to this word. I gave birth to healthy a beautiful baby girl, her name is Misha, she weighted 7 pounds and 6 ounces and was 21 inches long. She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life. She is everything me and my husband dreamed of. She is so precious. Now we have her to leave for.
Misha is very good breast feeder, she dropped weight at the hospital, but we had already our first pediatrician appointment and she is back to her birth weight. She eats every 2-3 hours during the day and every 3-4 during the night. She barely cries, just to let me know she is hungry, she makes few noises and after feeding her she fells back to sleep. Some night my husband sleeps through all night, he doesn't even wake up that's how quite she is. WE ARE VERY LUCKY SO FAR. God bless her little soul.

To all girls who are in front of surgery I just wanted to let you know, that all the pains, worries and etc. we have to go throught ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WORTH it at the end. Mayomectomy was the best decision I made in my life. Without that I wouldn't hold today this little innocent, beautiful little person which gives now sense to my life. I lost my angel baby boy August 29th 2007 and my daughter was born August 27 2009.
There is no day I would go without thinking about him and how we miss him. It's a pain that will NEVER go AWAY and I know without surgery I would lose her as well. So do it with the fait and knowledge that you doing best you can and you are giving your future baby the best chance you can. I love you all and wish all of us God's blessings.

Dear Katarinak Congratulations for little Misha! I totally agree with you, and you are a very lucky mom!. To have a baby that sleeps so well is a bless. Mine woke up every three hours until the third month, then at the seventh month she started again, and it lasted til the tenth month (now). I had been sleeping eight hours with no interruption for three nights and I can believe it. Would love to see photos of all the new beatiful babies, is there any way we can exchange photos?. Congrats again to all the new moms in this forum, and lots of luck to the ones that are in the path of looking for a baby after myomectomy. I also think that it was the best decision to pass through myomectomy.

What an exciting time for this forum. All of these wonderful success stories. Congratulations to all of you new mommies.

I just went to my final after surgery appointment. The doctor gave me the go ahead to try. He said that my uterus looked great and "who's your doctor?" Ha ha doctor humor. Anyway, I had been charting for the past couple of months only to find that my temperature did not do what it was supposed to. So I showed my doctor and he prescribed clomid. He would like me to come in for IUI, but I live 4 hours a way. With that in mind we will try without it first. I am still scared that the surgery caused my tubes to be shut or something like that. I know I have got to start thinking more positively. We will see.

SJT23,

After my myomectomy I found that one of my tubes was closed and as soon as I found out, I had a procedure done to open it back up. So even though I'm sure that your tubes are just fine, know that there are procedures out there to open them back up if that's the case!

I was telling my husband just yesterday that we've been through this roller coaster of test after test after test and a couple of failed pregnancies and surgery and more test to the point to where my veins are almost all collapsed and gone away for the past 2 years and finally it happened for us.

Just keep the faith that it will happen for you!

Love you guys!
KB

Hello everyone, I am just so overjoyed. Whi knew motherhood was so hard yet so rewarding. God willing I know exactly what to do for my next pregnancy... enjoy it. Enjoy the sleep the time to yourself because when the baby comes all of that is out the window. LOL.... My mom is upstairs with the baby now so I can post and pump... still not accepting the breast but loves the milk go figure. How are you other mothers doing? How are the others feeling after their surgery while they are ttc. Don't give up ladies for those who haven't conceived your time is drawing near just praise the Lord and never give up hope. We didn't and as you can see God has made a way for us when we thought there was no way. I look into my daughters eyes and I get overjoyed because there was a time when I didn't know if I would every make it through especially after loosing my first daughter. Yo ladies have been so supportive in my time of need and I just want to say thank you.

Joker I want to send a special thank you for starting this site. You don't post anymore... especially like how you use to but don't give up the faith girl. I know your time is right around the corner. I know for a fact that God will Bless you with a child. God Bless to all.

KM,

I completely agree! It is VERY HARD and rewarding at the same time. How can you even think of another pregnancy so soon?!!!! :^0 My goodness I haven't gotten more than 1 and a half hours of sleep at one time since prior to my c-section on August 28th! I can't even imagine how much harder this would be with one more! Who knows though... I'm sure that once my baby boy gets a little bit older I will want 20 more! :-)

You're lucky to have your mom there to help. My mom works full time and lives a little bit too far away to come and help out. She stayed with me at the hospital so that DH could go home and sleep but after the hospital stay she went home. I'm just so exhausted!

The OB did the circumcision on my son and didn't tie it off tight enough so we've already had one visit to the pediatric ER and an extra drs visit to have it retied and monitored to prevent infection. A procedure that should have healed in a max of 8 days is taking twice as long to heal and causing my son extra days of pain and his mom extra anxiety!

I never imagined that from the jump I would already have my share of pediatric ER visits and extra drs visits and to litterally become a nurse overnight watching out for infections. I didn't even know how to take a baby's temperature or change a diaper just a couple of weeks ago! No matter how stressful when I look into my sons eyes (by the way he had dimples in both cheeks) and he gives me a quick smile which is only gas at this point :-) I can't help but to be thankful and know that my exhaustion and sleep deprivation is all worth it.

Even when he screams bloody murder in my ear every hour and a half if not sooner every day to get fed or to get a diaper change I can't help but to pick him up and give him tons of kisses. I will admit though... I look forward to the day that I can get at least 4 to 5 straight hours of sleep again!

KB

Hi ladies,

KM & KB - I'm very happy for you both that you are able to be enjoying your bundles of joy. What a blessing!

I thought I'd also take this moment to send an update about myself. You'll recall that I had my myomectomy in mid-June and was given the 'go-ahead' to TTC 6-weeks post-myomectomy. I am happy to say that I am now 5-weeks pregnant! My husband & I were blessed with a quick conception (on the first attempt). For that, I am truly blessed!

Just a recap of my history, for those new to the forum. I didn't know I had fibroids until I was having trouble in my first pregnancy and lost our daughter at 20wk 3days. The fibroid was 10x15 at the time and I had two others. Well, I was afraid to have a myo, so TTC'd anyway. I then had a very early miscarraige at just over 4-weeks, then another at 10½ weeks. Then, I decided to get the myomectomy - and am very relieved it went well.

So, here I am at the early stages of my 4th pregnancy. Please pray for me, that one will be successful.

AJ

CONGRATULATIONS AJ!!!

The best advice that I can give is to try your best not to worry throughout the pregnancy and just make every effort to enjoy and hold on to every minute of it. I was so worried throughout my entire pregnancy this time but somehow I was able to hold on to every moment and remember it from the beginning.

It seemed like the pregnancy lasted forever but now that I look back it really went by quickly and before you know it your baby is here! Please keep us up-to-date on your progress!!! YEAH!!! :0)
KB

Hello -

I am new to the thread but am so incredibly thankful to be able to hear all of your stories. I read through most of the posts from part 1 and 2 and you are all truly remarkable and brave women.

I am scheduled to have my myomectomy on Tuesday (2 days) and have been so nervous. Although I've never been pregnant I have battled with this fibroid for two years and have become anemic and have had so many complications and so much pain. My fibroid is 10cm and my Dr. thinks that because of the location I would never be able to get pregnant if I didn't have it removed.

Your stories have given me a lot of reassurance and I do believe everything will go well and that some day I will be able to have a child of my own. Thank you all for sharing! I will try to post when I get home from the hospital to share my story and advice.

jossssssslin-when I lost my beautiful son at 23 weeks and 4 day during my first pregnancy I had fibroid that was size of yours 10x9cm. I had it removed and was very scared not to be able to get pregnant, because the size of the incesion. But I did after 2 months of trying and just deliver my beautiful daughter two weeks ago with uncomplicated pregnancy and no fibroids in my uterus found during my c-section. So I truly realy belive you are making the best decision for your future and for your babies. God bless you and your dr, tomorrow. Baby dust to you. Love. Katarina

Hello I hope evryone is doing well. Joker where are you girl? Ms. Monet how are the twins? Hey ladies no one told me motherhood was so much work. I love my daughter... but she is a handfull. Sometimes I look at her when she is crying but right before I get excited I just look into her eyes and say thank you Lord for giving me this miracle and that helps me deal with her. Especially in the late nights. I hope the rest of you ladies are enjoying your bundles of joy. God Bless.

Hi ladies, its healing . . . . I don't come to this site like I used to, but I wanted you all to know that I am overjoyed reading about all the precious babies. I'm also glad that we've all come to the realization that having the myomectomy was the best decision for us - especially those of us who lost their babies. My lovely daughter Audrey is now 9 1/2 months, and WALKING!!! She's the light of my life, and I know you all feel the same about your little ones. Congratulations to all, and God Bless you and your families.