After almost losing her baby, mom warns pregnant women to always trust their gut

When it comes to pregnancy, you can't take any chances

After almost losing her baby, mom warns pregnant women to always trust their gut

When it comes to pregnancy, you can't take any chances

What seemed like a normal day for mom-to-be Ayla Heller, quickly turned into a terrifying situation. Heller almost lost her baby girl named Maddy, and she has a very strong message for women: trust your gut because with pregnancy, you can never be too careful.Heller, 19, went to Facebook last month with her near-tragic story. "So the day I turned 38 weeks was obviously just a normal day, I got up and went to work like usual," the post with nearly 20,000 shares began. "Pretty early that morning I had already noticed Maddy wasn't kicking around very much but had assumed she was having a less active day. By noon, I felt her adjust her position which brought to my attention that she still hadn't kicked, but at least I had felt some kind of movement."Heller continued on to explain that by 7:00 p.m., after being asked by her boyfriend, she realized that Maddy hadn't moved all day. They heard the baby's heartbeat and knew that she had adjusted positions — she was alive, but was she in danger? When the Internet gave her conflicting answers, Heller turned to her mother for advice, who was "very persistent" in convincing her to call her midwife. This resulted in a trip to the hospital — and it's a good thing Heller checked in. "Upon my midwife's arrival, she wasted no time to inform me that things were not looking the way they wanted, and I was most likely going to have an emergency cesarian that night," Heller wrote. Born on August 30, Maddy "came out fine," but needed oxygen. After doctors examined Heller's placenta, they told her that it had, in fact, aged prematurely and was calcified, meaning that her placenta basically "gave up." She was also told there was nothing she could have done to prevent this outcome, but luckily, she did prevent a stillbirth. The calcified placenta "had caused Maddy to not be receiving as much oxygen or food as she needed," Heller wrote. "This was causing her to try to preserve her energy, which is why she had stopped moving. This also caused her to have low blood sugar upon arrival, so she needed to be hooked up to a glucose drip IV her first few days."Dr. Gerard M. DiLeo, a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, posted on babble that placental calcification can be identified as white specks in an ultrasound. Though serious, mothers shouldn't panic in most cases as "there can be considerable calcification before there's really any compromise to the baby." Heller stressed in her Facebook post that if pregnant women have doubts about whether or not you should get checked out, always. "My mother asked what would have happened had I not gone in when I did. 'She wouldn't be here' was the reply. She wouldn't have made it the rest of the night.""I think so many women are afraid to get checked out because they think they're overreacting or that they will look dumb if nothing is wrong," Heller said in an interview with TODAY. "But we need to push that fear aside. At the end of the day, wouldn't you rather look silly and get sent home than risk something being wrong and not getting the help you need?"Heller told GoodHousekeeping.com that though motherhood isn't always easy, "it's always amazing. It's hard, fun, testing, and rewarding all at once." And when it comes to Maddy, she says she "couldn't have asked for any better."

Heller, 19, went to last month with her near-tragic story. "So the day I turned 38 weeks was obviously just a normal day, I got up and went to work like usual," the post with nearly 20,000 shares began. "Pretty early that morning I had already noticed Maddy wasn't kicking around very much but had assumed she was having a less active day. By noon, I felt her adjust her position which brought to my attention that she still hadn't kicked, but at least I had felt some kind of movement."

Heller continued on to explain that by 7:00 p.m., after being asked by her boyfriend, she realized that Maddy hadn't moved all day. They heard the baby's heartbeat and knew that she had adjusted positions — she was alive, but was she in danger?

When the Internet gave her conflicting answers, Heller turned to her mother for advice, who was "very persistent" in convincing her to call her midwife. This resulted in a trip to the hospital — and it's a good thing Heller checked in.

"Upon my midwife's arrival, she wasted no time to inform me that things were not looking the way they wanted, and I was most likely going to have an emergency cesarian that night," Heller . Born on August 30, Maddy "came out fine," but needed oxygen.

After doctors examined Heller's placenta, they told her that it had, in fact, aged prematurely and was calcified, meaning that her placenta basically "gave up." She was also told there was nothing she could have done to prevent this outcome, but luckily, she did prevent a .

The calcified placenta "had caused Maddy to not be receiving as much oxygen or food as she needed," Heller wrote. "This was causing her to try to preserve her energy, which is why she had stopped moving. This also caused her to have low blood sugar upon arrival, so she needed to be hooked up to a glucose drip IV her first few days."

Dr. Gerard M. DiLeo, a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, that placental calcification can be identified as white specks in an ultrasound. Though serious, mothers shouldn't panic in most cases as "there can be considerable calcification before there's really any compromise to the baby."

Heller stressed in her Facebook post that if have doubts about whether or not you should get checked out, always. "My mother asked what would have happened had I not gone in when I did. 'She wouldn't be here' was the reply. She wouldn't have made it the rest of the night."

"I think so many women are afraid to get checked out because they think they're overreacting or that they will look dumb if nothing is wrong," Heller said in an interview with . "But we need to push that fear aside. At the end of the day, wouldn't you rather look silly and get sent home than risk something being wrong and not getting the help you need?"

told GoodHousekeeping.com that though motherhood isn't always easy, "it's always amazing. It's hard, fun, testing, and rewarding all at once." And when it comes to Maddy, she says she "couldn't have asked for any better."

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