tansy24
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My son Oliver was born July 19th 2011 at 21 weeks. He was with us for a little over an hour before he passed away. I've had 2 early miscarriages before him, so once we got to 12 weeks, and then to 20 weeks, we really felt like everything was going to be ok. However on July 18th I was woken up out of sleep by severe cramping. When I went to go to the bathroom, at first I thought I might have wet myself since I was leaking. Once I got there I realized it was probably my water breaking. I timed the cramps I was having as my husband drove me to the hospital and they were coming up 5-7 minutes apart.
Once we got to the hospital they checked and said my water had NOT broken (oh how I wish i had known those strips can be wrong!) and sent me for an ultrasound. The ultrasound still showed plenty of water around Oliver, however my cervix was completely thinned and dilated. They checked again at that point and realized that my water had broken and that it was just a slow leak. They told me that because it was so early there was nothing they could do, and since my water had broken and the risk of infection was high, they wouldn't give me drugs to prevent contractions.
We spent the night in the hospital trying to come to terms with what was happening and the next morning Oliver was born. We held him and cried over him, he was bigger than they were expecting at 1lb 3 ounces. They had told us to expect no more than 15 minutes with him, but he was a fighter and stayed with us a little over an hour.
After about 20 minutes of holding him my placenta was refusing to come out and I was hemorrhaging so I had to leave my baby and husband and be taken for an emergency d&c. They also had to give me 3 pints of blood. By the time I came back he was gone, however they let us have the rest of the night with him to say goodbye.
I'm still in shock at how fast it all happened, and right afterwards I had every test under the sun done to try to find out what happened. I did have a very bad SCH around 8 weeks, however it had resolved by 12 weeks. There is still a chance it weakened his amniotic sack I was told. They don't believe I have an incompetent cervix, and while there were signs of infection in the testing they did on the placenta, they don't know if it came before or after my water broke. They also don't know if I went into labor first and my water broke, or if it broke and that put me into labor. I wish science could give us more answers, it seems like a lot of people who have gone through this get told by dr's that they aren't really sure exactly what went wrong.
After HSG's, genetic testing, and MRI's all came back okay, they gave us the go ahead to try again, with the promise of monitoring a future pregnancy much more closely.
Once we got to the hospital they checked and said my water had NOT broken (oh how I wish i had known those strips can be wrong!) and sent me for an ultrasound. The ultrasound still showed plenty of water around Oliver, however my cervix was completely thinned and dilated. They checked again at that point and realized that my water had broken and that it was just a slow leak. They told me that because it was so early there was nothing they could do, and since my water had broken and the risk of infection was high, they wouldn't give me drugs to prevent contractions.
We spent the night in the hospital trying to come to terms with what was happening and the next morning Oliver was born. We held him and cried over him, he was bigger than they were expecting at 1lb 3 ounces. They had told us to expect no more than 15 minutes with him, but he was a fighter and stayed with us a little over an hour.
After about 20 minutes of holding him my placenta was refusing to come out and I was hemorrhaging so I had to leave my baby and husband and be taken for an emergency d&c. They also had to give me 3 pints of blood. By the time I came back he was gone, however they let us have the rest of the night with him to say goodbye.
I'm still in shock at how fast it all happened, and right afterwards I had every test under the sun done to try to find out what happened. I did have a very bad SCH around 8 weeks, however it had resolved by 12 weeks. There is still a chance it weakened his amniotic sack I was told. They don't believe I have an incompetent cervix, and while there were signs of infection in the testing they did on the placenta, they don't know if it came before or after my water broke. They also don't know if I went into labor first and my water broke, or if it broke and that put me into labor. I wish science could give us more answers, it seems like a lot of people who have gone through this get told by dr's that they aren't really sure exactly what went wrong.
After HSG's, genetic testing, and MRI's all came back okay, they gave us the go ahead to try again, with the promise of monitoring a future pregnancy much more closely.