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🧵 A month ago, my son and daughter-in-law had my first grandchild. Little dude was wreaking havoc on his mother. She had gestational diabetes and then pre-eclampsia which landed her in the hospital a week before his birth. Both are now doing great! 1/
But, when he had to be delivered via emergency c-section, she was 33 weeks pregnant. Thankfully, he was viable and healthy at 3 lbs, 15 ozs. That c-section was performed to save her and him. When doctors did the surgery, they found the placenta was ripping. 2/
She would have bled to death in moments. She was in the 3rd trimester so my grandchild could survive, although in the NICU for a while. Had it happened earlier in the pregnancy, the baby may not have been able to survive but it would have been in order to save his mother. 3/
