I LOVE hearing birth stories, especially Black women's birth stories. Women are soooo incredible for bringing life forth into this world. I honor you for that today!
This is why we need black women in these fields. And there needs to be more research done on black women and black bodies and general, these things happen too often and the fact that we are constantly shrugged off is infuriating. Thank God you and your baby are here, congratulations on motherhood 💗💗💗
Yes I agree! But you have to think about the amount of debt that some of us don’t want to burden. And also not having a good balance between working full time and going to school with no help. And depending on your personality not everyone has the mental capacity to deal with patients problems. The work life balance is limited in healthcare as well otherwise there wouldn’t be all these nursing strikes. You’re expected to work on holidays unless you request pto that may get denied based on seniority. Plus, no nail polish, nails are allowed which can be tough for those of us who like to keep up with beauty. But I still encourage BW to pursue medical if they TRULY care about the wellbeing of patients
For sure! I developed diabetes in pregnancy but I was very strict with my diet and worked out daily, had my perfectly healthy baby natural in 12 hours 3 pushes. You can do this ladies, we gotta take care of ourselves bc the act of giving life can take life too it’s wild
More people need to sue these hospitals. It is so sad that Black women complain of being in pain when pregnant and the doctors brush it off until it's too late to do something about it. I say chnage didn't start happening for Black people until we made the other sides pockets hurt.
Went in to have my son and he was dead stillborn almost full term they kept sending me home telling me all is fine. Then went in to give birth and it was to late Ladies listen to your body if you feel something is wrong keep on at them. They don’t take black women’s concerns seriously 💔 love and blessings and congratulations on your princess and that you both made it safely ❤️❤️
Omg😢I am so sorry for your loss. It's horrible the way they treat Black women. It's 2024, and we are a minority but have the highest mortality rates when it comes to us having kids.
@@iameloho718of course love! I started following years ago, I feel like we grew up together and I can’t believe we’re mommies and wives now! ❤🎉🎉 I had my baby natural and no, there will not be any other kids for me ✌🏾 😂
I had the itching too. Non of my white doctor and nurses took me serious. They prescribed a cream. 😔 Long story short, I had a still birth two weeks prior due date. I’m glad someone took you serious. All the best to you and your family Eloho. Thanks for sharing
@@j.mouhamadou217 sorry for your loss, it’s one of the most traumatic experiences I don’t wish it on my worst enemy. Sending you love and healing and blessings ❤️
We need caring people. Just because they’re black doesn’t mean they will look at you any differently if they don’t care to begin with. Know this firsthand
@iameloho718 I am so happy. For you... I have been subscribed to you for yeeears. It has been such a blessing to see your journey. From the MAC vs Sephora to the storyline and now motherhood. God bless you & your family sis ❤️
Phew, that story is both scary and beautiful. When you talked about feeling like her hand was in you, i unconsciously did a kegel. I am so afraid of childbirth😅
It’s natural to be afraid BUT not everyone has the same experience and like I mentioned women out here doing it again and again and again. If it’s what you want pray ❤
It is so beautiful to follow you over the years and to see you as a mother now. I am an FM-OB and I deliver babies for a living, and I can tell you that giving birth can be a very scary life or death situation. Stay blessed and enjoy your new bundle of joy.
I live in the UK and I had the same issue around 6 months. But with me, the moment I mentioned itching to my white midwife, immediately she said lets do some blood tests, being a black woman in the USA is scary. So when it was confirmed cholestasis of pregnancy, I was in every week having blood done to monitor the situation. It soon cleared and I went the whole 40 weeks and 3 days, but I had to be induced as baby was chilling and we didn't want to take any risks. In the end, I had an emergency c-section. things can change very fast during labour it's scary. You did great, all the best in your mummy journey, babies grow too fast and before you know it, you will want another one so bad, and be willing to chance it even if you know the risks.
Congratulations on your little one ! I gave birth this year to my 2nd baby girl and yes much easier pregnancy and birth. My first I developed preeclampsia during the labor. I had an emergency C-section after 30+ hrs in labor . My second was a vaginal birth in less than 24 hrs. That pain though is no joke, nothing to be played with!!! 😤 women are truly admirable.
I know it wasn’t in your plan I’m so happy everyone made it safe. That’s all I could ask for because I wasn’t conscious during mine. My second pregnancy wasn’t easier. I gave birth in a coma at 26 weeks. When I woke they told me I had the baby and it was a boy. The whole time ultrasound told us it was a girl. I got to meet my baby on the 10th day. They let me change the diaper and It really was a boy! I was just happy everyone was alive and made it. That’s what was most important. He is now turning 7. Nothing but blessings to you and your new family.
2:15 Shoutout to the doctor that listened to you and did the bloodwork and shoutout to u ELoho for speaking up continuously. Thank God baby girl got her safe and sound and is doing well. God bless y'all
Tell em lol, My mom has already been telling us since we were kids not to use an epidural.... Haitian culture treats tolerating pain as a virtue. Also congratulations!
They need to do more testing and monitoring during pregnancy in addition to checking the baby’s heart beat. Thank God baby and mommy are doing great. Continued blessings 🙏🏾❤️✨
Congratulations on your pregnancy I’m sorry about our terrible healthcare system. This is why I’m pushing myself hard to finish school to become a doctor 👩🏽⚕️
First thing I thought of when I heard intense itching was a liver problem, and I'm not even a M D! Shame on those who heard you and didn;t hear you. So very glad you and our little neice are here and healthy. Praise God and nothing but praise for the black woman who finally acted!!
As happy as I am for you, Lo I'm thinking what could've happened if bw were not there to identify that there was in fact a problem number one and that the obgyn and midwife weren't black in that delivery room. BUT GOD, BABY, BUT GOD!!God protected you!!We definitely need more black ppl in the medical field. This could've gone left so quick. Congrats on the baby girl 🎉🎉!!
Congratulations to you for coming out a winner in this fight! Cause for soooo many Black women, it is a fight! Congratulations on having a beautiful, healthy baby girl👶🏾 I love it when we take care of us!
My cervix was closed even after 41 weeks and I had to be induced too. I was high risk due to fibroids I had no idea I had. My OB(white) was really great and she referred me to a specialist to monitor both baby and I right away. I am glad they caught the issue with the itchiness before it was too late. Congratulations on your bundle of joy. 🎉❤
Let me add this. Ill be 42 in a couple of weeks. And girl I been married 14 years, I asked my husband if he wanted kids. He always said no. NOW, I am 42 (no frozen eggs mind you) and NOW he has baby fever 😑 like NO SIR. You gonna have to go elsewhere for that. Not doing it. I asked SEVERAL TIMES and he said no. We not about to start now. Nope. And you just solidified that for me. Thank you! Lol
I love the way you relate your Birth Story. I am not a mother but my Mom gaved birth to Ten children in the 50s and 60s with the same midwife at home births.
Thank you for sharing this story. Childbirth is such a taboo topic for whatever reason, I really appreciate when women are vulnerable enough to share their story.
Had a similar experience, except it was preclampsia for me… had so many concerns and everyone said everything was normal. So glad your babygirl is healthy and happy
Miss you E: Omg your back! Congratulations on your beautiful baby girl glad you had extra help assistance. Your glowing thank you for sharing your experience. 🎀🩷🌹🍁🌻🙏🏽🥹
I have 3 kids, but my newest baby (who just turned 1 years old) was monitored like crazy because I was 41 so automatically a high risk pregnancy. The pregnancy actually went fairly well, besides the normal aches and pains, but I actually had to be hospitalized again two weeks after giving birth because I had developed postpartum preeclampsia 😭
I need you to post more sis. We need more common sense black women (and men) with a stable platform. You're literally a breath of fresh air. Hope you see this!
This has been the indicator light that I needed to go ahead and go what I thought about doing and become a doula. I'm glad you and the baby are doing well.
Congratulations 🎉🎊 on the birth of your daughter! What a beautiful and wonderful story. I am a single Mom of one who is now 21 and I knew the moment he came out that was it for me. I am blessed to have him and I thank God for him - but yeah, I am part of the one and done crew! 😂 I know what I can handle and take and that is just that. I was induced as well, but it was only a week prior to his original due date. My ob/gyn’s were not BW and I thought 💭 they were great until my birth! Let’s just say it didn’t go as well as it could have - but to God be all the Glory that we both made it through safe and sound. We need more BW in medicine. #LOVEANDLIGHT
I’m sorry for the long post in advance: My baby just turned one month yesterday. I wasn’t supposed to be able to ever get pregnant or carry to full term (I was diagnosed as infertile with an incompetent cervix in 2020 or 2021). This pregnancy I was a nervous wreck but every appointment went smoothly, my baby boy was ALWAYS doing great. Fast forward to the beginning of my third trimester, I was in pain every day. I was told it’s just a pregnancy thing. I started experiencing Braxton Hicks at 28 weeks. At 36 weeks, those “Braxton Hicks contractions” were stopping me in my tracks and getting stronger and closer together. I kept going to the hospital and being told I was in false labor because I was only 1cm dilated. After going in for the third time, they monitored my contractions and I was indeed having actual “true” labor contractions but I was still only 1cm dilated so they sent me home and said it was false labor. This lasted all the way until I was 39 weeks and 5 days. I went to my doctor and told him I couldn’t do the pain anymore. I had a birth plan where I wanted an all natural birth with as little intervention as possible but I also stressed to him that if my baby or I was in trouble to completely ignore that birth plan. He scheduled me an induction for midnight that day. I went in still swearing to follow my birth plan. They started trying to induce me but even though my body was having the true contractions I would not dilate past that 1cm. My doctor came in and broke my water hoping it would help me dilate. It didn’t, so they started me on Pitocin which they usually do once you reach 4cm or so. They had to keep upping how much they were giving me because 8 hours into my induction I still wasn’t dilated past 1.5cm. Well, my body decided it wanted to finally react to everything they did, and I ended up dilating from 1.5 to 4cm in less than 2 hours. Those contractions were non stop and I begged for the epidural during one of them. My nurse, God bless her, wanted to honor my birth plan because she knew how much I wanted to follow it unless we were in danger, refused to accept that i actually wanted an epidural. She waited until I told her that I couldn’t take the pain and needed an epidural while I wasn’t having a contraction. After my epidural, my nurses switch and this new nurse was God sent. I started puking and getting dizzy. She instantly knew something was wrong. She checked me and I had made it to 9cm dilated but I would not go past that. I was 9cm for 2 hours. My blood pressure ended up dropping which caused my baby’s heart rate to drop. My nurse told my mom and mother in law that she’s calling the doctor because the umbilical cord may be wrapped around my baby’s neck. That lady was on her Ps and Qs. Every time my blood pressure would dropped she flipped my bed backwards so I was hanging mostly upside down and it would help stabilize us. While doing that (and she did it for a while, she’s the reason they didn’t lose me or my baby because we were both dying at the point, I don’t even remember any of this because I was out of it) she was prepping me for a C-Section before my doctor even confirmed I needed one. When my doctor confirmed I needed the surgery, I was prepped and in the OR in less than 10 minutes because of her. They sedated me because of the severity of it. Turns out the umbilical wasn’t around his neck but was wrapped around his legs. When I started having labor contractions at 36 weeks my body was actually trying to go into labor naturally. The problem was my baby would drop but due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around his legs, he couldn’t fully enter the birth canal to cause me to dilate and he would spring back up like a bungee jump. That’s also why I was in so much pain. I would have had him naturally if it wasn’t for that but I kept getting sent home and told it was false labor instead of them checking him.
Awwww baby congratulations!! Chile, ever since I had my baby I’ve been an emotional wreck lol. Hearing birth stories (especially of new mommies) makes me cry the way I did when it was me. So happy your beautiful girl came out healthy, and that you’re here with us glowing and telling your story! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Would love to see more mommy content from you, and watching you grow and transform as a person. Love you and sending your princess love! 🥰❤️
We are blessed to see your journey. May you continue to be blessed on your journey through motherhood and personal growth. God bless your babygirl, today and always!
Wow wow Congrats Eloho, you are beaming 💕 I feel like my story is very similar tbh. I was soooooo itchy around 7 months. Like I would be tossing and turning all night. It was so miserable I would cry. I looked it up, got blood work at a hospital instead of my ob & all they did was give me a bunch of pills. I looked up all those pills half of them said to not take while pregnant… & one was for anxiety. Didn’t take not one of them. I really think I had what you mentioned but I figured if it didn’t come up in my blood work I was fine. But I wish I advocated for myself. Cause my baby came 3 weeks early. He was super healthy & a great weight. So no issues there but I did have to be induced by a pill. It was such a bad experience for me. Mind you I had to get my epidural while I had that wire with the saline you mentioned, inside me. I forced them to take it out. Cause how u telling me to stay still but I got contractions and I’m sitting on a wire… so grateful me and my baby were and are safe and happy. Cause girl it was traumatizing… very warming to see the similarities in our story made me not feel so alone.
That happened to me with my first pregnancy. They gave me too much epidural and admitted to giving me too much epidural. I was so weak I couldn’t push and I had to have a C-section. My second pregnancy I had twins and it was way more informed. I was not playing with them. I refuse for a C-section and I didn’t have to have one. By the grace of God I delivered my twins VBAC
I went through that itching with my son and I was told it was eczema, I was given prednisone pills and a cream called triamcinolone Acetonide it helped with the itching but caused my skin to thin so came the stretch marks deep ones deep thick purple ones then I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes so that was that a high risk pregnancy he weighted 8lbs he's healthy. Congratulations 🎊 on your little one praises to the most high
I work in a lab. We JUST started running bile acid test in house because cholestasis is becoming more frequent. Soon as you said pregnant & itching i knew. But ive never heard of It prior to us bringing It in house… glad you & baby are good.
ELOHO!!! Congratulations to you and your family!!! You’ve been missed but enjoy every moment of Motherhood, it’ll definitely show you sides of yourself you didn’t know existed.
Giiirrrllll hearing your birth story while I’m cleaning my place has me grabbing my uterus as if I can feel what you’re describing! Shout out to you momma Eloho. So happy to hear that you, your baby girl, and your husband all made it thru. I included your husband bc they really be going thru it seeing it in real time 😂
Hi Eloho! I have 3 children. I have a 28, 21 and 18 year old. All of my kids were C sections. When I went in to have my first, the nurse was checking my cervix and she yelled OOH!! (NEVER SAY THIS WITH YOUR HAND INSIDE OF SOMEONE!! 😂). The nurse told me my baby had turned around and wasn’t presenting correctly for a vaginal birth. I agreed to let them turn her and I decided with that experience that NEVER AGAIN would I agree to having a baby turned! It was EXCRUCIATING!!! I put myself through all of that and she turned BACK AROUND!!! lol. I wasn’t progressing past 4 centimeters and I had been there 24 hours already. They said I couldn’t have anything for the pain yet, because it could slow or even stall my progress. FINALLY, the next morning, my doctor came in and said we would have to do a cesarean section because she didn’t want me laboring much longer. At this point, she gave the go ahead for the epidural! 10:37 Praise be to God, I gave birth to a healthy 8lb 9oz stay puff marshmallow baby! lol. I believe our brains are AMAZING, intricate mysteries, because it has a way of compartmentalizing things that we experience during labor and delivery, that cause us to believe we can do it over and over! I swore I would NEVER have another kid and then did it two more times! lol.
Congratulations🎉🎉🎉. Welcome to the club. Most new moms say one and done... we will see. Maybe 2 and be through. I agree it's one of the hardest things but most beautiful.
I'm glad she said that. A lot of women make other women feel less than just because they chose to get pain medicine. A vaginally birth is still a natural birth. In my opinion.
@@MiscellaneousMeMe WHO CARES WHAT KIND OF BIRTH YOU HAVE IF YOUR KID IS ALIVE AND YOU ARE ALIVE AFTERWARDS? yall are so annoying and waiting for someone to hand out yall prizes for pushing kid out without medicine like are u alright in the head??
ahh congrats beautiful! 🥰 The way you told your story was so captivating and entertaining. The speaking in tongues 🤣 On a serious note, good thing that you were able to advocate for yourself. There is nothing like another woman having your back!
I’m so happy for you Eloho 🥹🤎🫶🏾
Ahhhhh Jackie hey ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Jackie! I’m so happy for you too 🥰😘
Ayeee Eloho congratulations on having a healthy beautiful baby! I love Black women supporting Black women. Love y’all both♥️
This is a perfect example of the "invisible Black woman". I am so glad someone finally listened to her.
I LOVE hearing birth stories, especially Black women's birth stories. Women are soooo incredible for bringing life forth into this world. I honor you for that today!
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This is why we need black women in these fields. And there needs to be more research done on black women and black bodies and general, these things happen too often and the fact that we are constantly shrugged off is infuriating. Thank God you and your baby are here, congratulations on motherhood 💗💗💗
Yes I agree! But you have to think about the amount of debt that some of us don’t want to burden. And also not having a good balance between working full time and going to school with no help. And depending on your personality not everyone has the mental capacity to deal with patients problems. The work life balance is limited in healthcare as well otherwise there wouldn’t be all these nursing strikes. You’re expected to work on holidays unless you request pto that may get denied based on seniority. Plus, no nail polish, nails are allowed which can be tough for those of us who like to keep up with beauty. But I still encourage BW to pursue medical if they TRULY care about the wellbeing of patients
We need good doctors who care about people. I was lucky to have medical people who cared. One Korean and one white. Both are females.
Exactly wth but thank God there’s been a high rise of black nurses in the medical field the past few years.
For sure! I developed diabetes in pregnancy but I was very strict with my diet and worked out daily, had my perfectly healthy baby natural in 12 hours 3 pushes. You can do this ladies, we gotta take care of ourselves bc the act of giving life can take life too it’s wild
@ omg facts❤️❤️
Im a PA student, and as soon as you said itchy, I blurted choleostasis! How did the gyno folks miss that?
Now I’m so aware of it but I’ve never heard of it before!!
I am applying PA then I’m going to go DO
@@iameloho718
Exactly as an L&D nurse that’s what came into mind once she said itching
@Tiaxxxxxooooo why? Just go DO. You're wasting time. PA credits doesn't transfer to DO, Np...not even to another PA school
More people need to sue these hospitals. It is so sad that Black women complain of being in pain when pregnant and the doctors brush it off until it's too late to do something about it. I say chnage didn't start happening for Black people until we made the other sides pockets hurt.
Went in to have my son and he was dead stillborn almost full term they kept sending me home telling me all is fine. Then went in to give birth and it was to late Ladies listen to your body if you feel something is wrong keep on at them. They don’t take black women’s concerns seriously 💔 love and blessings and congratulations on your princess and that you both made it safely ❤️❤️
Omg😢I am so sorry for your loss. It's horrible the way they treat Black women. It's 2024, and we are a minority but have the highest mortality rates when it comes to us having kids.
I’m so sorry, God bless you
I’m sorry you experienced that. May The Most High bless you. ❤
I’m soooooo sorry for your loss!! Sending you virtual hugs!
So heartbreaking. I’m so sorry ❤ sending love on your healing journey ❤
For those that don’t know MFM is maternal fetal speciality for high risk pregnancies
Yes thank you for clarifying!
@@iameloho718of course love! I started following years ago, I feel like we grew up together and I can’t believe we’re mommies and wives now! ❤🎉🎉
I had my baby natural and no, there will not be any other kids for me ✌🏾 😂
I had the itching too. Non of my white doctor and nurses took me serious. They prescribed a cream. 😔 Long story short, I had a still birth two weeks prior due date.
I’m glad someone took you serious. All the best to you and your family Eloho. Thanks for sharing
@@j.mouhamadou217 sorry for your loss, it’s one of the most traumatic experiences I don’t wish it on my worst enemy. Sending you love and healing and blessings ❤️
I'm so sorry for your loss. ❤
I’m so sorry for your loss. I pray God carries you through your healing journey sis 💐
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Wow I am so sorry
There are a solid amount of Black women in healthcare, but we still need more Black female doctors 🙏🏾
And Doulas. Yesss!
We need caring people. Just because they’re black doesn’t mean they will look at you any differently if they don’t care to begin with. Know this firsthand
@ I meant what I said from the depths of me lol
Girl when she reached over 10:16 I thought Eloho was getting ready to pick up the baby lol! Am I the only one who thought that??? 😂
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Same! 😂😂
@@creativelife9871 I'm glad I wasn't the only one
@iameloho718 I am so happy.
For you... I have been subscribed to you for yeeears. It has been such a blessing to see your journey. From the MAC vs Sephora to the storyline and now motherhood. God bless you & your family sis ❤️
“You made it your baby made it! THAT’S THE AWARD! ❤ So true ❤❤
Congratulations Eloho on your baby and your family!
Thank you!!
I have learned as black women we HAVE to advocate for ourselves, always!
Phew, that story is both scary and beautiful. When you talked about feeling like her hand was in you, i unconsciously did a kegel. I am so afraid of childbirth😅
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It’s natural to be afraid BUT not everyone has the same experience and like I mentioned women out here doing it again and again and again. If it’s what you want pray ❤
God was with you. Congratulations, Eloho!! We love you! ❤
Was He! 🙏🏿
Aww 🥰 congratulations Eloho. Motherhood looks good on you. 😊
Thank you love 🥹🥰
Eloho, you are a great storyteller! Congratulations and may God continue to bless and keep you
It is so beautiful to follow you over the years and to see you as a mother now. I am an FM-OB and I deliver babies for a living, and I can tell you that giving birth can be a very scary life or death situation. Stay blessed and enjoy your new bundle of joy.
I live in the UK and I had the same issue around 6 months. But with me, the moment I mentioned itching to my white midwife, immediately she said lets do some blood tests, being a black woman in the USA is scary. So when it was confirmed cholestasis of pregnancy, I was in every week having blood done to monitor the situation. It soon cleared and I went the whole 40 weeks and 3 days, but I had to be induced as baby was chilling and we didn't want to take any risks. In the end, I had an emergency c-section. things can change very fast during labour it's scary. You did great, all the best in your mummy journey, babies grow too fast and before you know it, you will want another one so bad, and be willing to chance it even if you know the risks.
Congratulations on your little one ! I gave birth this year to my 2nd baby girl and yes much easier pregnancy and birth. My first I developed preeclampsia during the labor. I had an emergency C-section after 30+ hrs in labor . My second was a vaginal birth in less than 24 hrs. That pain though is no joke, nothing to be played with!!! 😤 women are truly admirable.
Congratulations to you too mama! We made it out with healthy babies #therealaward 🥹💐
Black women are the most spiritually earthly beings connected to God. 🙌🏾❤️🔥🙏🏾Love you 💋
I know it wasn’t in your plan I’m so happy everyone made it safe. That’s all I could ask for because I wasn’t conscious during mine. My second pregnancy wasn’t easier. I gave birth in a coma at 26 weeks. When I woke they told me I had the baby and it was a boy. The whole time ultrasound told us it was a girl. I got to meet my baby on the 10th day. They let me change the diaper and It really was a boy! I was just happy everyone was alive and made it. That’s what was most important. He is now turning 7.
Nothing but blessings to you and your new family.
9:28 😂 I this reaction made my whole week 🤣 dope personality ❤
😂😂😂😂 praise Him
@ yes lord 🙏🏾😂
Lo the New York was JUMPING LEAPING out in this video 😂😂😂 miss your energy on my feed💅🏿🩷🩷🩷
2:15 Shoutout to the doctor that listened to you and did the bloodwork and shoutout to u ELoho for speaking up continuously. Thank God baby girl got her safe and sound and is doing well. God bless y'all
Tell em lol, My mom has already been telling us since we were kids not to use an epidural.... Haitian culture treats tolerating pain as a virtue. Also congratulations!
😩Sounds toxic AF. If I couldn’t have an epidural, I’d be a “1 and done.”
@@rainbeauxunicorn5237that's bc alot of them are toxic lol
#NoAwards 😂
Congratulations my Nigerian sister. I am so happy that you are well and the baby is well. May God continue to protect you and her.
They need to do more testing and monitoring during pregnancy in addition to checking the baby’s heart beat. Thank God baby and mommy are doing great. Continued blessings 🙏🏾❤️✨
Those girl pregnancies always seem to be the hardest! Congratulations and welcome to motherhood!
So I’ve heard 😫🥰
BEAUTIFUL STORYTELLING ‼️🖤🤎🖤
Congratulations on your pregnancy I’m sorry about our terrible healthcare system. This is why I’m pushing myself hard to finish school to become a doctor 👩🏽⚕️
This is exactly why I went into nursing! Thank you for sharing your story ❤ To God be the glory for healthy baby and mommy ❤
First thing I thought of when I heard intense itching was a liver problem, and I'm not even a M D! Shame on those who heard you and didn;t hear you. So very glad you and our little neice are here and healthy. Praise God and nothing but praise for the black woman who finally acted!!
As happy as I am for you, Lo I'm thinking what could've happened if bw were not there to identify that there was in fact a problem number one and that the obgyn and midwife weren't black in that delivery room. BUT GOD, BABY, BUT GOD!!God protected you!!We definitely need more black ppl in the medical field. This could've gone left so quick. Congrats on the baby girl 🎉🎉!!
Congratulations to you for coming out a winner in this fight! Cause for soooo many Black women, it is a fight! Congratulations on having a beautiful, healthy baby girl👶🏾 I love it when we take care of us!
Pregnancy will never not scare me and amaze me!!
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My cervix was closed even after 41 weeks and I had to be induced too. I was high risk due to fibroids I had no idea I had. My OB(white) was really great and she referred me to a specialist to monitor both baby and I right away. I am glad they caught the issue with the itchiness before it was too late. Congratulations on your bundle of joy. 🎉❤
What a testimony! Congratulations Eloho!!🤩
Let me add this. Ill be 42 in a couple of weeks. And girl I been married 14 years, I asked my husband if he wanted kids. He always said no. NOW, I am 42 (no frozen eggs mind you) and NOW he has baby fever 😑 like NO SIR. You gonna have to go elsewhere for that. Not doing it. I asked SEVERAL TIMES and he said no. We not about to start now. Nope. And you just solidified that for me. Thank you! Lol
He crazy! 😂 How old is he?
Literally, the funniest birthing story I’ve heard in forever honestly, mad New York 😭😭😭
You’re so good at storytelling, it had me hooked. Thankful that you and baby girl are safe. Congrats again Mamas 🤎
I love the way you relate your Birth Story. I am not a mother but my Mom gaved birth to Ten children in the 50s and 60s with the same midwife at home births.
💕💕💕 I am happy to see you in good health.
Thank you for sharing this story. Childbirth is such a taboo topic for whatever reason, I really appreciate when women are vulnerable enough to share their story.
Praise god that you and your family are going great!
Amen!
Had a similar experience, except it was preclampsia for me… had so many concerns and everyone said everything was normal. So glad your babygirl is healthy and happy
Miss you E: Omg your back! Congratulations on your beautiful baby girl glad you had extra help assistance. Your glowing thank you for sharing your experience.
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I'm so proud of you, Eloho❤
After all that you still looking good sis‼️🫶🏿🫶🏽 congratulations on a new baby girl into your whole family. Blessings.
Good Sunday Evening Eloho and everyone 🤗❤️ It's always good to see you in these UA-cam streets Eloho. Congratulations and welcome back 🎉❤ 🤱🏾
I have 3 kids, but my newest baby (who just turned 1 years old) was monitored like crazy because I was 41 so automatically a high risk pregnancy. The pregnancy actually went fairly well, besides the normal aches and pains, but I actually had to be hospitalized again two weeks after giving birth because I had developed postpartum preeclampsia 😭
congratssss to you and your husband blessings to you and your family
Hey girl! Congratulations on your precious baby girl 🩷🌸
I need you to post more sis. We need more common sense black women (and men) with a stable platform. You're literally a breath of fresh air. Hope you see this!
This has been the indicator light that I needed to go ahead and go what I thought about doing and become a doula. I'm glad you and the baby are doing well.
Wow! You are giving me strength with your words to think about motherhood! Idk if I’ll do it but my faith is restored!❤️
Glad to see you are back, healthy and happy! Congratulations on the birth of baby girl 🎉🎉 👏🏾👏🏾I kept checking wondering when you would upload next.
So grateful to God that everything went as smoothly as possible. It’s so nice hearing your voice in these UA-cam streets. You were missed ❤
Such a great story! Thanks for sharing!
AHHHHHH Lo posted!!!💗💗💗
Congratulations 🎉🎊 on the birth of your daughter! What a beautiful and wonderful story. I am a single Mom of one who is now 21 and I knew the moment he came out that was it for me. I am blessed to have him and I thank God for him - but yeah, I am part of the one and done crew! 😂 I know what I can handle and take and that is just that. I was induced as well, but it was only a week prior to his original due date. My ob/gyn’s were not BW and I thought 💭 they were great until my birth! Let’s just say it didn’t go as well as it could have - but to God be all the Glory that we both made it through safe and sound. We need more BW in medicine. #LOVEANDLIGHT
I’m sorry for the long post in advance:
My baby just turned one month yesterday. I wasn’t supposed to be able to ever get pregnant or carry to full term (I was diagnosed as infertile with an incompetent cervix in 2020 or 2021). This pregnancy I was a nervous wreck but every appointment went smoothly, my baby boy was ALWAYS doing great.
Fast forward to the beginning of my third trimester, I was in pain every day. I was told it’s just a pregnancy thing. I started experiencing Braxton Hicks at 28 weeks. At 36 weeks, those “Braxton Hicks contractions” were stopping me in my tracks and getting stronger and closer together. I kept going to the hospital and being told I was in false labor because I was only 1cm dilated. After going in for the third time, they monitored my contractions and I was indeed having actual “true” labor contractions but I was still only 1cm dilated so they sent me home and said it was false labor. This lasted all the way until I was 39 weeks and 5 days.
I went to my doctor and told him I couldn’t do the pain anymore. I had a birth plan where I wanted an all natural birth with as little intervention as possible but I also stressed to him that if my baby or I was in trouble to completely ignore that birth plan. He scheduled me an induction for midnight that day. I went in still swearing to follow my birth plan. They started trying to induce me but even though my body was having the true contractions I would not dilate past that 1cm. My doctor came in and broke my water hoping it would help me dilate. It didn’t, so they started me on Pitocin which they usually do once you reach 4cm or so. They had to keep upping how much they were giving me because 8 hours into my induction I still wasn’t dilated past 1.5cm.
Well, my body decided it wanted to finally react to everything they did, and I ended up dilating from 1.5 to 4cm in less than 2 hours. Those contractions were non stop and I begged for the epidural during one of them. My nurse, God bless her, wanted to honor my birth plan because she knew how much I wanted to follow it unless we were in danger, refused to accept that i actually wanted an epidural. She waited until I told her that I couldn’t take the pain and needed an epidural while I wasn’t having a contraction.
After my epidural, my nurses switch and this new nurse was God sent. I started puking and getting dizzy. She instantly knew something was wrong. She checked me and I had made it to 9cm dilated but I would not go past that. I was 9cm for 2 hours. My blood pressure ended up dropping which caused my baby’s heart rate to drop. My nurse told my mom and mother in law that she’s calling the doctor because the umbilical cord may be wrapped around my baby’s neck. That lady was on her Ps and Qs. Every time my blood pressure would dropped she flipped my bed backwards so I was hanging mostly upside down and it would help stabilize us. While doing that (and she did it for a while, she’s the reason they didn’t lose me or my baby because we were both dying at the point, I don’t even remember any of this because I was out of it) she was prepping me for a C-Section before my doctor even confirmed I needed one. When my doctor confirmed I needed the surgery, I was prepped and in the OR in less than 10 minutes because of her. They sedated me because of the severity of it.
Turns out the umbilical wasn’t around his neck but was wrapped around his legs. When I started having labor contractions at 36 weeks my body was actually trying to go into labor naturally. The problem was my baby would drop but due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around his legs, he couldn’t fully enter the birth canal to cause me to dilate and he would spring back up like a bungee jump. That’s also why I was in so much pain. I would have had him naturally if it wasn’t for that but I kept getting sent home and told it was false labor instead of them checking him.
Congrats, sis!! God is good!! One and done here!!!!!!
Awwww baby congratulations!! Chile, ever since I had my baby I’ve been an emotional wreck lol. Hearing birth stories (especially of new mommies) makes me cry the way I did when it was me. So happy your beautiful girl came out healthy, and that you’re here with us glowing and telling your story! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Would love to see more mommy content from you, and watching you grow and transform as a person. Love you and sending your princess love! 🥰❤️
We are blessed to see your journey. May you continue to be blessed on your journey through motherhood and personal growth. God bless your babygirl, today and always!
Wow wow Congrats Eloho, you are beaming 💕 I feel like my story is very similar tbh. I was soooooo itchy around 7 months. Like I would be tossing and turning all night. It was so miserable I would cry. I looked it up, got blood work at a hospital instead of my ob & all they did was give me a bunch of pills. I looked up all those pills half of them said to not take while pregnant… & one was for anxiety. Didn’t take not one of them. I really think I had what you mentioned but I figured if it didn’t come up in my blood work I was fine. But I wish I advocated for myself. Cause my baby came 3 weeks early. He was super healthy & a great weight. So no issues there but I did have to be induced by a pill. It was such a bad experience for me. Mind you I had to get my epidural while I had that wire with the saline you mentioned, inside me. I forced them to take it out. Cause how u telling me to stay still but I got contractions and I’m sitting on a wire… so grateful me and my baby were and are safe and happy. Cause girl it was traumatizing… very warming to see the similarities in our story made me not feel so alone.
We really have to go through so much to bring life into the word😫🙏🏿 women deserve all the blessings life has to offer!
Congratulations to you and your family, Eloho! Also, it’ll be nice to hear more mommy content. Of course, whenever you get a chance⭐️!
Thank you! Will do!
That happened to me with my first pregnancy. They gave me too much epidural and admitted to giving me too much epidural. I was so weak I couldn’t push and I had to have a C-section. My second pregnancy I had twins and it was way more informed. I was not playing with them. I refuse for a C-section and I didn’t have to have one. By the grace of God I delivered my twins VBAC
Wow congratulations on all your children!! I love hearing about Vbac deliveries 🥰
Congratulations to you too, it a blessing that you both are here safely ❤
Congratulations 🎊 enjoy this time ❤❤❤
I’m sooooo PROUD of you E!!! Sooo HAPPY for you!! ❤️❤️💕💕💕
Congratulations Eloho !! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Congratulation Eloho. God bless you and your family🙏🏾
Congratulations to you, Eloho, and your baby girl ❤🌻💐💫
Congratulations!!!❤❤❤
I went through that itching with my son and I was told it was eczema, I was given prednisone pills and a cream called triamcinolone Acetonide it helped with the itching but caused my skin to thin so came the stretch marks deep ones deep thick purple ones then I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes so that was that a high risk pregnancy he weighted 8lbs he's healthy. Congratulations 🎊 on your little one praises to the most high
Thank you for being open and honest about child birth.
Aww I ain’t realize just how much I missed you until I seen you. Your absence WAS felt but dang hey girl! 😂❤
Oh congratulation's on the baby #Eloho!! Wasn't aware that you were expecting, I've sorta fell off on UA-cam!! 💘
Congratulations young lady!🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
Lo! Thank you for sharing your story. This will help a lot of future mums advocate for themselves.
I work in a lab. We JUST started running bile acid test in house because cholestasis is becoming more frequent. Soon as you said pregnant & itching i knew. But ive never heard of It prior to us bringing It in house… glad you & baby are good.
ELOHO!!! Congratulations to you and your family!!! You’ve been missed but enjoy every moment of Motherhood, it’ll definitely show you sides of yourself you didn’t know existed.
Giiirrrllll hearing your birth story while I’m cleaning my place has me grabbing my uterus as if I can feel what you’re describing! Shout out to you momma Eloho. So happy to hear that you, your baby girl, and your husband all made it thru. I included your husband bc they really be going thru it seeing it in real time 😂
Hi Eloho! I have 3 children. I have a 28, 21 and 18 year old. All of my kids were C sections. When I went in to have my first, the nurse was checking my cervix and she yelled OOH!! (NEVER SAY THIS WITH YOUR HAND INSIDE OF SOMEONE!! 😂). The nurse told me my baby had turned around and wasn’t presenting correctly for a vaginal birth. I agreed to let them turn her and I decided with that experience that NEVER AGAIN would I agree to having a baby turned! It was EXCRUCIATING!!! I put myself through all of that and she turned BACK AROUND!!! lol. I wasn’t progressing past 4 centimeters and I had been there 24 hours already. They said I couldn’t have anything for the pain yet, because it could slow or even stall my progress. FINALLY, the next morning, my doctor came in and said we would have to do a cesarean section because she didn’t want me laboring much longer. At this point, she gave the go ahead for the epidural! 10:37 Praise be to God, I gave birth to a healthy 8lb 9oz stay puff marshmallow baby! lol. I believe our brains are AMAZING, intricate mysteries, because it has a way of compartmentalizing things that we experience during labor and delivery, that cause us to believe we can do it over and over! I swore I would NEVER have another kid and then did it two more times! lol.
Welcome back and Congratulations Eloho! May God bless you and your husband on this new journey.
I was debating clicking on this video, but I'm sooooo glad I did. Congrats and yesssss shout out to all the mothers out there!
Me too. I passes by it a few times before finally clicking.
She's baaack🥳🥳. Congratulations ❤❤ and yes we want more mommy stories ❤️ 💖
Miss and love how animated you are😂 Congratulations YOU A MOTHER🏆🏆
Congratulations on you and your baby's health!!! Wishing your family love and joy, Lo 💐🥰💫🤞🏾
Congratulations sweetie 🎉🎉. Glad all is well xx
Congratulations ❤❤❤❤❤
Congratulations🎉🎉🎉. Welcome to the club. Most new moms say one and done... we will see. Maybe 2 and be through. I agree it's one of the hardest things but most beautiful.
Congrats on ya new baby girl!
I'm glad she said that. A lot of women make other women feel less than just because they chose to get pain medicine. A vaginally birth is still a natural birth. In my opinion.
Do you mean a C-section birth is still a natural birth hun?
80% get pain meds lol I didn’t because I couldn’t lol but most people do
@@MiscellaneousMeMe WHO CARES WHAT KIND OF BIRTH YOU HAVE IF YOUR KID IS ALIVE AND YOU ARE ALIVE AFTERWARDS? yall are so annoying and waiting for someone to hand out yall prizes for pushing kid out without medicine like are u alright in the head??
Do c-sections count? because I get bashed for that😅.
@@nikola-sl8wb Wtf are you on? 👀
ahh congrats beautiful! 🥰 The way you told your story was so captivating and entertaining. The speaking in tongues 🤣 On a serious note, good thing that you were able to advocate for yourself. There is nothing like another woman having your back!
Thank God for keeping you and your baby girl ❤
Glad you're back on yt, you were missed!
U made me cry & smile in 12mins
Congratz babes😘
Congratulations Eloho❤
Congratulations Eloho 👸🏿 💗