Freckles & Bones

“Trauma Life in the ER” or “A Baby Story”

// March 24th, 2010 // Friends

I love “reality” shows even the stressful ones like Trauma and A Baby Story. But tonight I think my friends could’ve been on both these shows!

I have truly amazing life long friends. I am one of those lucky women that has a few very close friends and many acquainatences. My dearest friends and I have been close since we were ten, which is around 21 years.

Through this time you learn alot about yourself, your friends, their strengths and their weaknesses. This week I have seen the strength in two of these women and I just wanted to blog a little about their journey and send my prayers.

My friend S has been my best friend since the day we met. We just clicked. We are complete opposites but we work well together. S had major trauma, involving postpartum psychosis, the first time she gave birth and was very nervous this time around. I am happy to report that all is well and she is doing wonderful with breastfeeding and being mommy to another gorgeous boy!

My other friend, whom we will call C,  has been my friend since the fourth grade, same time I met S. I still remember I wanted to be her friend so badly because she seemed so smart and funny. And she really is a hilarious genius! I even asked if I could spend the night at her house because she explained her secret tunnel and I just had to see it for myself. I was a pushy little girl! Anyways, C decided on doing a homebirth and was in back labor for over 30 hours before going in for a c-section. Today I get a text message from her that she is back in the hospital. She said there was a problem with her incision and while breastfeeding her baby boy her large intestine started to come out of her body. Needless to say this strong woman is doing well in the hospital still breastfeeding her baby boy and trying to recover. I don’t know all the details on her story but she trumps EVERY birth story I have ever heard at least for the first 72 hours!

Please keep my dearest friends in your thoughts and prayers. May God bless and heal their bodies and help them to be successful in their breastfeeding endeavors.

-Freckles (aka: Andrea Maciula Peters)