Merri's Birth


I had a very unique pregnancy and the birth of my daughter has changed my life. I am not a very good story teller but I will try to relay the information as best I can.

My daughter Merri was born Dec25,1993 at 11:07pm with the aid of forceps. I carried her for only 29 weeks and I did not know until I was in labour that I was even pregnant. The reason why she is my miracle is that I was on birth control, had major knee surgery when I was 3 months along, and if that was not bad enough I did everything that you are not to do when you are expecting.

I had a regular mentral cycle right up until I gave birth. I smoked, drank ect. and the miracle is that I had this child that was born with no serious birth defects. She has an umbilacle hernia, strawberry marks and that is it.

She weighed 4lbs 2oz at birth but went down to 3lbs 6oz, which is as low as she went. I was in active labour for 52hrs before I went into the hospital so I was unable to make any choices as to the type of delivery. But she is know 2 and a half and the pride and joy of my life. the only regret is that I wish I had known I was pregnant so that I could have given her the best start in life instead of the one she got. But the funny thing is that when I went to the hospital even they did not believe that I was pregnant because I had not gained any weight and did not show except for a very hard stomach.

I don't know if this is what you are looking for but I'll send it anyway. Obviously there's alot missing to this but if you are interested I'll go into more detail.

Thank you