"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 7/2/2014 8:04 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> I nearly died in childbirth. I had gone into pre-eclampsia a day before
>> my due date. BP went sky high during the birthing. And I had a high
>> risk pregnancy due to my age and gestational diabetes. So that's why I
>> only ever had one.
>
> Being pregnant is scary and hazardous to your health. Nobody could fault
> you for having only one child. Our first was pretty easy. The second was a
> little harder. The third was the killer. That would have made any couple
> stop having kids. Funny how it all turns out.

After what I went through I don't see how anyone could have more than one.
My mom always said that you forget. I didn't forget. But... She may well
have been given drugs that I wasn't. Not sure what all she had but she is
big into taking drugs. I do know that. I refused any and all drugs but...
Towards the end they insisted that I take something in my IV. I think it
was Demerol. I had just grown too weak to push any more. I also had to
have Magnesium Sulfate due to the really high BP and that made me feel very
ill.