Amy's wild story, bringing Roger into the world (PART 1)

I couldn’t write a better caption that Amy has to summarize her story, so here she is... *link I’m bio to listen to her episode* So grateful for her courage to share everything she has been through. Please share, subscribe, and send her some love. “My pregnancy, my birth experience, my son, they have one thing in common: they are rare. ⁣ ⁣ I had a high-risk pregnancy due to a large tear in my uterus followed by the discovery of my baby’s heart condition and abnormalities. My labour consisted of rare complications from the epidural, being dropped off the delivery table in the middle of a contraction (yep, you read that right), tearing that required over 80 stitches to what I now lovingly refer to as my “Frankengina”, and culminating in a beautiful, brief moment with my son before he was whisked to the Cardiac Care Unit at the children’s hospital. ⁣ ⁣ Almost 2 years after giving birth to my sweet son Roger I am only now starting to work through the events surrounding his birth. It’s been a whirlwind of an entrance into motherhood! After aggressive testing, therapies, and many more hospital visits, we’ve discovered my son has a rare, genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which - amazingly - may be the missing link to explain many of my own medical anomalies. ⁣ ⁣ Roger is now a happy, hilarious and mischievous toddler. We’ve got a great team managing his health, and after almost a year of physio, he recently started walking! As we’ve settled into a new normal I finally have the time (and emotional bandwidth) to revisit my own experience of him entering the world. Thankfully, my dramatic birth was a rare one… but it makes one heck of a wild story!” To find Amy and follow along with her journey go to her Insta @enig.mom