What was the scariest moment of your pregnancy?

I know this sounds silly but when I went for my 12 week scan, I was actually scared there would be no baby there & that all the tests I'd done were false positives. I was so relieved when we saw a baby on the monitor

With my first pregnancy I had two major scares, well three. The first was when I was getting ready to take a shower and looked down and saw the floor covered in blood (found out the next morning in the hospital I had a complete previa that was 100% with no chance of moving). Which meant I was on complete bedrest cause just standing up could cause my placenta to tear and kill me and the baby within minutes. The next was when I had I had to get a transfusion cause I had started bleeding (yeah, I got up and walked to the bathroom). I was on my second unit and my son's heart rate went up so high they couldn't keep track of it. They called my husband and told him what was happening but not to rush cause there was nothing he could do and it would be over by time he got here. They were ready to do an emergency C-section when his heart rate came down as quickly as it went up. The last scare he gave me for a few years was when he was delivered. He was very small and it took a few seconds (the very longest) for him to start breathing. Sixteen + years later and I'm still jumpy with that kids health LOL.

I think the scariest moment of all my pregnancies was the last few moments of #4's delivery. It had been a difficult delivery already and I spent 25 solid minutes pushing with nothing happening...I had felt the very strong urge to push while lying on my side which is why they put me on my back in the normal position to deliver...then the heart monitor dropped really low (20-30 bpm) and the doctor yelled that he was stuck and nneded to come out NOW! While she hooked up the vacuum I watched the monitor dip as low as 11bpm. The first attempt failed and I heard her mumble to the nurse to get ready to move me to the surgical room. The second attempt didn't get him out but got his head unstuck so I was able to push him out on my own from there. He was perfectly fine though. (he had his body and head pointed toward my hip and his face turned to the side, so while I was on my left side he dropped down to the right position to push but when they moved me to my back he got stuckand his head couldn't get past my pelvic bone with his face turned like it was.)

Mine would be the first time I undergone ultrasound on my 6 week of pregnancy. THe test shows positive and even the doctor confirmed it and when I was on the ultrasound the doctor said my baby doesn't move nor her heart was not beating. SHe even repeat the test for some minutes and I was staring the monitor and saw the baby don't move. I was about to cry when finally she shows heart beat. Even my doctor told me that she got scared by that.

scary moment? when i was 4 months pregnant and non stop vomitting. i thought i die i did not have lots of power to stand up but i am glad my baby is very healthy!and i colapsed after that situation.

My scariest moment was when I was about 5 months along. I was admitted to the hospital with a severe case of the flu complicated with terrible morning, day and night sickness. I was severely dehydrated and couldn't stop vomiting. It reached the point where the doctors said I might miscarry. I had been so sick for so long I just felt awful. I remember crying and telling the doctor if I miscarried fine, I just didn't want to be sick anymore. Now of course I regret ever having that thought. My son, at the age of 27 now, is all a mom could ever want in a child. And if I had lost him I wouldn't have the two beautiful grandaughters I have now.

Any pregnancy would be totally scary for me since my husand is "ixed" so my getting pregnant would be virtually impossible for me to explain to him. hahahahahahahahahaha

The moment during my pregnancy that terrified me the most was when I was pregnant with my son and they did blood work which showed that I am a carrier for cystic fibrosis. My daughter had some problems already and we werent sure what it was from. They had wanted to do a test on her to check for cystic fibrosis but I hadent gotten them done yet so when I got the results from my blood work that I was a carrier for cystic fibrosis I was terrified! I was a nervous wreck! My husband has to have his blood work done to check snd see if he is a carrier which we found out he is not! Thank god! So we do not have to ever worry about our children having cystic fibrosis as it is recessive so our children will never have it! But when they did my sons newborn screening panel they found that he is a carrier for cystic fibrosis as well so I pray the women he meets someday and decides to marry isnt a carrier as well or they will have to worry about their children being born with cystic fibrosis.

hello.I know exactly what you went through the same thing would happen to me.It does not help that I am a worry wart either! When my baby wasnt moving for a period of time,I would get very nervous as well, sometimes I would change posiitions to get her to move.I was probebly very annoying to her come to think about it!Unfortunately for me (and my husband!)I have anxieties and sometimes I worry about everything!

Hi Beautyqueen, Yes I guess that iceskatin had worn her out bless and there you were trying to wake her up again LOL. I guess we all have moments like that when we are pregnant. I can't remember a really scary one though for me in that way, but us mums have all sorts of fears and emotions at that time and I can remember proding my tummy myself to wake them up if I had felt them move for a while just to make sure. Ellie :D

beautyqueen- my son was a little jumper as well. He could push the remote control for the tv right off of me if I set it on my prego body. He would roll to one side and stay there, so I had the same misshapen body as you. I tried to push him back into the middle, but he was very stubborn. This boy was a continous dynamo of never ending power. Then, one day he stopped moving. He didn't move all day or the next day. I went in for the sonogram and he was asleep! The nurse gave me apple juice to stimulate him, but he kept right on sleeping. I never found out if the baby was a he or a she. Sometimes babies quiet down right before their birth. I don't know, maybe they rest up. Anyhow, compared to other mom's stories, my scare wasn't nearly as bad as others. Moms are a tough bunch of women, that's for sure!

Well in my eighth month of pregnancy i had gone for a check up the doctor said that he was not getting the heart beat of the baby i was so tensed and he said i must go and get my ultrasound done..i reached the radiology department to realise there was no power supply..i sat waiting but the tension kept growing and finally i bursted out crying my husband also had tears in his eyes..finally we found out that all was well and the baby had curled and was sleeping..so he did give us a jolt and we shook badly..he is naughty from the womb..

We are all concern about the baby in the womb when we are pragnant. Our mind tend to focus more on the baby. Are we taking the right food? Will it hurt the baby if we fell? Is the baby comfortable? and so forth. However we tend to forget on ourselves as the 'carrier' of the baby inside the womb. I think we should focus more on our wellbeing. If the mother is healthy, so is the baby. If the mum is sick the baby will get the effect. If we care for ourselves, our safety, our food, our emotion, things will be alright with the baby. So, worry ourselves first and the wellbeing of the baby in the womb will taken care of. The baby you carrying is active and healthy and is looking forward to see his beautiful and caring mother! Happy delivary, dear...

Yea, at about 7 months I did not feel my son move allday. I called my doctor freaking out. But babies are human too, they up and down days, he just felt like being lazy that day. now i have a perfect 3 month old baby boy.

Well during the preg of my third child there were a few scarey moments...being hospitalized, massive bleeding episodes, the pain etc etc..but the ULTIMATE scariest thing was going into labour at six months and everything that came with delivering him that night..

The scarriest part of either of my pregnancies was when I found out I was pregnant again after having miscarried. I was scared that it would happen again. It didn't and everything was fine. But that feeling of dread was horrible, worse than the miscarriage.

She probably took time out to take some sustenance, or as you were calmly sitting, perhaps she felt calm too and just took a rest. I'm going back a long time now to my first pregnancy and there was one bad incidence which had me worried. He too was very active, but one day, I tripped up the step to the back door of the house, and landed, tummy down on the top step. He stopped moving with the shock, and I too was very worried that I may have harmed him. But, he was born a bouncing 9lb 5oz baby, and really healthy! Brightest Blessings.

For me, the scariest moment would have been when I was about 5 1/2 months pregnant and I had to drive my (now ex-)husband's van--one of those 9 or 15 passenger monstrosities. To make it worse, it was a 4x4 with huge tires! I had loaded all of my laundry into the van (no easy feat...4 heavy baskets carried down from the third floor and over to the van), so I was tired a bit when I set out. I got to my parents, and struggled to get out of the van backwards (I was quite large at this point). It being March, the ground was a bit sloppy, with the remaining snow melting. I lost my footing, slipped and lost my grip on the steering wheel, tumbling out backwards onto the stone driveway (big rocks!) on my back! I was all cold and wet and muddy, so when I went to the front door, I was hysterically sobbing and my mom thought it was just my hormones. When she put her arms around me for a hug, she noticed her hands were wet and muddy and demanded to know what happened...when she heard, she was hysterical (nearly as bad as me!) Fortunately, nothing serious was wrong (with me or the baby) , although my parents put their foot down and insisted that my husband be the only one to drive the van (he had my car, which had about 8" of clearance). If I had to do it all over again, there'd be too many changes to be listed here!

Hello beautyqueen26, My son was quite active too when he was inside. He kept moving non-stop. One day, I realized that he didn't move at all. I was scared when I thought about it. I told my husband and he told me, maybe the baby was sleeping that time. He even made a joke by telling me that he could hear the baby snoring... Late that evening, I decided to go to the nearest clinic and did a medical check up. I was relieved to hear that he's alright. That was the scariest moment in my life.

With my eldest, the whole nine months was scary..I didn't know that I was pregnant til I was already 2 months on the way..I had a very irregular period when i was single, so I thought that it was just the same thing. But then, when i tested positive, I began to be scared.. Every time my ex and i have a spat, i bleed. There was so much pressure in the relationship and the sadness that i felt inside, i know my baby felt it. But he held on, even after a heavy bleeding. He held on for his dear life because he wanted to be with me. I asked God to bless me with a child, and He gave him to me..And my baby seemed to know that too. He knows that I need him most specially with the rate my life was going through at that time.. Then came my seventh month, where I learned that he has hydrocephalus. I got scared again because I don't even know how he will look like when he comes out. Since knowing that he has a congenital abnormality, I always check him out. If I feel no movement for the most is 3 hours, i went to the doctor..Later on, I bought my own heartbeat monitor, so I can check anytime I want to...The most scared part was when I was being readied for CS..Scared that he might not make it. But, God promised him to me, so I just prayed and prayed that he will be safe...