{"id":187013,"date":"2017-08-03T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/pregnant-mother-is-live-vlogging-her-birth-via-facebook\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:04:33","slug":"pregnant-mother-is-live-vlogging-her-birth-via-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/pregnant-mother-is-live-vlogging-her-birth-via-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant mother is live vlogging her birth via Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Rebecca Meldrum, 28, has experienced problems throughout her pregnancy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>She had high blood pressure, extreme morning sickness and placenta problems<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Today the mother-of-two was induced at 36 weeks as a medical emergency<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Doctors made the decision out of fear of the baby&#8217;s small size and lack of growth<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Matthews For Mailonline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"follow-author\"><\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span><br \/>\n  11:19 EDT, 3 August 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span><br \/>\n  11:19 EDT, 3 August 2017<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"share-facebook\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-twitter\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-gplus\">\n      <span class=\"g-interactivepost\"><br \/>\n        <a><\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-email\">\n<p>                <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-icons\" id=\"shareLinkTop\">\n            <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"count-number\">           2<\/p>\n<p class=\"count-text\">View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A pregnant woman is live vlogging her birth  on Facebook to 26,000 strangers &#8211; despite being induced as a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Rebecca Meldrum, 28,\u00a0has experienced endless problems throughout her pregnancy &#8211; including a terrifying Zika-virus scare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She endured high blood pressure, extreme morning sickness and placenta problems and has had to have 19 scans instead of the usual two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This morning she was induced at 36 weeks as a medical emergency due to fears of her unborn daughter&#8217;s small size and lack of growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But the mother-of-two decided to share her &#8216;non-sugarcoated&#8217; birth to inspire women experiencing difficult pregnancies and births.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The first video to the ChannelMum.com Facebook page shows her being driven to hospital by husband Lee, 32, to be induced at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Scroll down for video\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-61ae24d99b1702df\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"703\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rebecca Meldrum, 28, has experienced endless problems throughout her pregnancy - including a terrifying Zika-virus scare\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-61ae24d99b1702df\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/03\/15\/42EEFE4700000578-0-image-a-58_1501770631940.jpg\" height=\"703\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rebecca Meldrum, 28, has experienced endless problems throughout her pregnancy - including a terrifying Zika-virus scare\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Rebecca Meldrum, 28, has experienced endless problems throughout her pregnancy &#8211; including a terrifying Zika-virus scare<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8918fe69edd312da\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"660\" width=\"634\" alt=\"She endured high blood pressure, extreme morning sickness and placenta problems and has had to have 19 scans instead of the usual two\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8918fe69edd312da\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/03\/15\/42EEFE3700000578-0-image-a-59_1501770637934.jpg\" height=\"660\" width=\"634\" alt=\"She endured high blood pressure, extreme morning sickness and placenta problems and has had to have 19 scans instead of the usual two\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">She endured high blood pressure, extreme morning sickness and placenta problems and has had to have 19 scans instead of the usual two<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Talking to the camera, she said: &#8216;I&#8217;m not one for getting nervous but goodness me I am feeling all the nerves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;m sweaty and I&#8217;m flushed and I&#8217;m freaking out just a little bit. We really don&#8217;t know how all this is going to pan out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We know we are having a baby. We&#8217;re not sure how her health is going to be. It&#8217;s all a completely new experience for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;m a very honest person and think it helps to share real life stories that aren&#8217;t sugarcoated &#8211; be it good or bad, sharing my life is what I do so I didn&#8217;t want to stop just because things got hard and difficult.&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>\n<p>  <span>Struggle with sensitive teeth? Scientists develop new&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Relatives were planning to kill the baby by throwing him&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <span>Mother miscarried after she piled on 3 STONE from a&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <span>Are women more likely to suffer from MOUTH ULCERS? How one&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold health-ccox mol-style-medium\">Nervous wreck\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She added: &#8216;We&#8217;ve had two healthy and beautiful children &#8211; a five-year-old and a two-year-old &#8211; with relatively straight forward pregnancies and relatively straight forward births.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;This is all very nervous and pretty nerve racking really to get my head around everything that is getting on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Doctors said there was &#8216;no point&#8217; in dragging the pregnancy on further and chancing luck, insisting it was &#8216;time to get the baby out&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ec0cca7e77346afe\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The mother-of-two decided to share her 'non-sugarcoated' birth to inspire other women experiencing difficult pregnancies and births (pictured with Safiyah, five, and Florence, two)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ec0cca7e77346afe\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/03\/15\/42EEFE2100000578-0-image-a-60_1501770646761.jpg\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The mother-of-two decided to share her 'non-sugarcoated' birth to inspire other women experiencing difficult pregnancies and births (pictured with Safiyah, five, and Florence, two)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The mother-of-two decided to share her &#8216;non-sugarcoated&#8217; birth to inspire other women experiencing difficult pregnancies and births (pictured with Safiyah, five, and Florence, two)<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2e86fc8f0731cc31\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"632\" width=\"634\" alt=\"This morning she was induced at 36 weeks as medical emergency due to fears of her unborn daughter's small size and lack of growth\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2e86fc8f0731cc31\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/03\/15\/42EEFE0800000578-0-image-a-61_1501770654301.jpg\" height=\"632\" width=\"634\" alt=\"This morning she was induced at 36 weeks as medical emergency due to fears of her unborn daughter's small size and lack of growth\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">This morning she was induced at 36 weeks as medical emergency due to fears of her unborn daughter&#8217;s small size and lack of growth<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They warned there was little growth from the baby in weeks, leading to their decision to induce her at 36 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A re-scan a couple of days ago said the baby had almost doubled in size, going from 3lbs 4oz to nearly 5lbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold health-ccox mol-style-medium\">Desperate to help others\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<h3 class=\"mol-factbox-title\">WHAT ARE INDUCED LABOURS?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An induced labour is one that is started artificially.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It&#8217;s fairly common for labour to be induced.\u00a0Every year, one in five labours are induced in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sometimes labour can be induced if your baby is overdue or if there is any sort of risk to you or your baby&#8217;s health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This risk could be if you have a health condition such as high blood pressure, for example, or if your baby is failing to grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Most women go into labour spontaneously by the time they are 42 weeks pregnant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">If your pregnancy lasts longer than 42 weeks and you decide not to have your labour induced, you should be offered increased monitoring to check your baby&#8217;s wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Induced labour is usually more painful than labour that starts on its own, and women who are induced are more likely to ask for an\u00a0epidural.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Source: NHS Choices<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Speaking from hospital, she said: &#8216;We&#8217;ll hopefully have a happy, healthy baby but we&#8217;ll face anything else as and when it arises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"> &#8216;The online community that surrounds mums is just incredible. I&#8217;ve been absolutely blown away by how amazing everyone has been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If I could help anyone who is going through something similar, that&#8217;s having a different out of their comport zone experience, pregnancy, labour or birth, then that&#8217;s what I wanted to do.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold health-ccox mol-style-medium\">When did the problems begin?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The couple already have two daughters, Safiyah, five, and Florence, two, and she became pregnant with their third girl earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She endured 16 weeks of extreme sickness before doctors picked up her head was smaller than expected at the 20 week scan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The baby was conceived weeks after a visit to Florida &#8211; a Zika-infected destination &#8211; prompting endless tests and checks for the disease.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Mrs Meldrum went on to suffer with high blood pressure and was admitted to hospital with dehydration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She also had to have steroid injections due to the baby&#8217;s delayed growth &#8211; a condition called intrauterine growth restriction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To watch the live blogs, visit: www.channelmum.com\/parenting\/pregnancy\/labour-and-birth\/live-labour-and-birth\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p>            <!-- ad: http:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v2\/us\/health\/none\/article\/other\/inread_player.html --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"social-links-title\">Share or comment on this article<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bigLinks sc-icns cleared\">\n<li class=\"share-facebook\">\n<p>                                    <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-icons\" id=\"shareLinkBottom\">\n<p>                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<li id=\"addCommentButton\" class=\"add-comment\">\n<p>                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels\">\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">  <span class=\"wocc bdrcc\">Tourist who teased a bear by dangling food in its jaws is&#8230;<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">  <span class=\"wocc bdrcc\">LICE-nce to drive! 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