Incompetent Cervix - stitch/cerclage - threatened labour

[DMJ]

So ... Stitch removal time tomorrow eeekk!!
Go into the hospital at 3pm to have it removed, I'm really nervous. I doubt anything will happen labour wise afterwards but I have my hospital bags in the car ready just in case. Never thought I would get this far and just can't believe how quick the time in between has gone.
Will keep you all updated. Thankyou everyone for all your support

Xxx

Stitch removal time tomorrow for me as well... but at 2pm in Texas!

I am not to nervous about the actual removal, but I have been feeling a lot of pressure on my cervix the last couple of days and it just seems like it has changed a little down there (not sure how to explain), so I am curious how long it will take for me to go into labor once stitches are removed. I am going to take our hospital bags as well... you never know!

It does seem like time has moved by so quickly. Wishing you the best!

I think iv worried myself more by reading up on the bloody Internet about other peoples experiences :-/ silly me!! It's funny that because I have felt similar to what you've explained the last few days also, almost like a bulging feeling down below. I would love for things to progress straight away but not getting my hopes up lol!

Good luck to you to Hun

 

[chistiana]

Good luck DMJ and chovie for tomorrow!

 

[Alisa F]

So ... Stitch removal time tomorrow eeekk!!
Go into the hospital at 3pm to have it removed, I'm really nervous. I doubt anything will happen labour wise afterwards but I have my hospital bags in the car ready just in case. Never thought I would get this far and just can't believe how quick the time in between has gone.
Will keep you all updated. Thankyou everyone for all your support

Xxx

Best of luck hope all goes well and so happy for you making it this far xxx

 

[Alisa F]

So ... Stitch removal time tomorrow eeekk!!
Go into the hospital at 3pm to have it removed, I'm really nervous. I doubt anything will happen labour wise afterwards but I have my hospital bags in the car ready just in case. Never thought I would get this far and just can't believe how quick the time in between has gone.
Will keep you all updated. Thankyou everyone for all your support

Xxx

Stitch removal time tomorrow for me as well... but at 2pm in Texas!

I am not to nervous about the actual removal, but I have been feeling a lot of pressure on my cervix the last couple of days and it just seems like it has changed a little down there (not sure how to explain), so I am curious how long it will take for me to go into labor once stitches are removed. I am going to take our hospital bags as well... you never know!

It does seem like time has moved by so quickly. Wishing you the best!

wow, another stitch removal best of luck, you're so far along too what brilliant news x

 

[Jen1802]

Good luck for stitch removals!!! X

 

[baby_maybe]

Good luck to you as well chovie, wow 2 more stitch success stories

AFM - I'm still feeling pretty good, not feeling peanut move as much as I'd hoped to be by now, but have my doppler and can always find the hb so that puts my mind at ease. I'm starting to wonder if my placenta might be a the front this time, I've a scan in a weeks time so I guess I'll find out then. Either that or baby has all its limbs facing my back and that's why I can't feel anything at the front? Who knows?? I'm just now getting to the point in pregnancy that I dread, the four weeks from 20-24. Once you hit 24 it seems to go quicker and the hospital are much more willing to make plans for thing that can be done for you, so I'm hoping the next 4 and a bit weeks go by relatively fast now. Xmas is my target as I'll be 30 weeks by then and feel much more at ease. My consultant thinks I'll make it to term again this time and I hope he's right, it doesn't seem do-able until you're almost there though if you know I mean

 

[ChovieGirl]

Good luck to you as well chovie, wow 2 more stitch success stories

AFM - I'm still feeling pretty good, not feeling peanut move as much as I'd hoped to be by now, but have my doppler and can always find the hb so that puts my mind at ease. I'm starting to wonder if my placenta might be a the front this time, I've a scan in a weeks time so I guess I'll find out then. Either that or baby has all its limbs facing my back and that's why I can't feel anything at the front? Who knows?? I'm just now getting to the point in pregnancy that I dread, the four weeks from 20-24. Once you hit 24 it seems to go quicker and the hospital are much more willing to make plans for thing that can be done for you, so I'm hoping the next 4 and a bit weeks go by relatively fast now. Xmas is my target as I'll be 30 weeks by then and feel much more at ease. My consultant thinks I'll make it to term again this time and I hope he's right, it doesn't seem do-able until you're almost there though if you know I mean

Thanks!

I don't think that I felt my little man much until around 22 weeks and then I was always worried that he wasn't moving enough...actually I still worry about that sometimes. 20 - 24 weeks did seem long. I think I had a panic attack somewhere during that time because I worried myself so much. You will get there!

 

[ChovieGirl]

DMJ -

I am trying not to read anything that will scare me...I will convince myself that I have the same issue or that it will happen to me. Lol. I have seen some ladies say that the stitch removal hurt and others just say that they felt pressure and that's it. I guess it might depend on your pain threshold.

Do you feel like it burns down there at all? I think my cervix actually feels a little irritated. Note sure if it is because there is so much more weight on the stitches now or what. I feel pressure too and when I wipe, sorry tmi... it just seems softer or a little more open. I am trying not to mess with anything though, to avoid infection. I have also felt like I have more frequent discharge now too.

Weird thing and also tmi... I was on the Progesterone that you use vaginally and doctor had me stop almost 2 weeks ago, but some of the remnants of that stuff is still coming out when i wipe. That stuff stays in there like glue! Did you use this or did you have the shots?

Sorry, just wanted to see how similar we were as far as symptoms go. I really sometimes feel like if the stitches weren't there, he might just try to pop right out! Might just be me over thinking things though.

 

[DMJ]

DMJ -

I am trying not to read anything that will scare me...I will convince myself that I have the same issue or that it will happen to me. Lol. I have seen some ladies say that the stitch removal hurt and others just say that they felt pressure and that's it. I guess it might depend on your pain threshold.

Do you feel like it burns down there at all? I think my cervix actually feels a little irritated. Note sure if it is because there is so much more weight on the stitches now or what. I feel pressure too and when I wipe, sorry tmi... it just seems softer or a little more open. I am trying not to mess with anything though, to avoid infection. I have also felt like I have more frequent discharge now too.

Weird thing and also tmi... I was on the Progesterone that you use vaginally and doctor had me stop almost 2 weeks ago, but some of the remnants of that stuff is still coming out when i wipe. That stuff stays in there like glue! Did you use this or did you have the shots?

Sorry, just wanted to see how similar we were as far as symptoms go. I really sometimes feel like if the stitches weren't there, he might just try to pop right out! Might just be me over thinking things though.

Everything you have said there symptom wise I have felt exactly the same.. I sort of feel like a stingy pain down there and as for discharge I have had a lot more and I always get like what feels quite a wet feeling down below (tmi)
I was on the progesterone vaginally too, stopped that at 34 weeks although cant say I have noticed anything when I wipe. I was only saying earlier that when I stand up it feels bulgy down there if that makes sense

 

[lch28]

congrats on stitch removal!!!!!!

i had a scare last night. i got out of bed to pee and felt a gush of fluid. went to L&D. it was not my waters, it was just a whole lot of discharge because i have a yeast infection. i hate them but i was so relieved.

chovie i am on injections at the moment but was on vaginal suppositories until 14 weeks for low progesterone and i swear i was losing clumps of that stuff for a month after i stopped taking it

 

[ChovieGirl]

congrats on stitch removal!!!!!!

i had a scare last night. i got out of bed to pee and felt a gush of fluid. went to L&D. it was not my waters, it was just a whole lot of discharge because i have a yeast infection. i hate them but i was so relieved.

chovie i am on injections at the moment but was on vaginal suppositories until 14 weeks for low progesterone and i swear i was losing clumps of that stuff for a month after i stopped taking it

I am glad that it was not your waters! I went to L&D around 19 weeks thinking the same thing.

As far as the progesterone... what icky stuff, but it seems to work!

 

[angel229]

Congrats on all of the stitch removals. Good luck guys x x

 

[lizziedripping]

So ... Stitch removal time tomorrow eeekk!!
Go into the hospital at 3pm to have it removed, I'm really nervous. I doubt anything will happen labour wise afterwards but I have my hospital bags in the car ready just in case. Never thought I would get this far and just can't believe how quick the time in between has gone.
Will keep you all updated. Thankyou everyone for all your support

Xxx

Good luck for tomorrow dmj - I doubt very much that that you'll labour immediately hun xx

 

[lizziedripping]

Ich, Shelby what's the latest? This thread is moving so fast I feel as though I'm answering everyone a few days too late. Ich, the cramping down below is most likely nothing darlin, just pregnancy/stich stuff. What did your doc say? Xx

I'm still in the hospital. No release date in the near future. Having contractions on a semi-regular basis, but they aren't painful and they aren't dilating me or shortening my cervix any more. (Measured yesterday and still at 0.7cm, same as three days ago.) Found out last night I have a UTI, which is great news, because that could be why I'm having contractions. Being treated for that now, so hopefully in the next few days the contractions will die down at least a little.

Had the 48 hours of ibuprofen and then the magnesium. Yesterday my doctor put me back on the Procardia. 23 weeks today, which is what my hospital considers to be gestation for viability. Mostly I'm just chilling out and waiting.

Thanks you for asking!

Thanks for updating and so sorry I've been out of commission at a time when you needed most support Your cervix is short, but fingers crossed it can remain stable enough to support your pregnancy for several weeks to come. I have seen it happen, and sometimes there is no 'rhyme or reason' as to why one woman makes it with very little cervix, whilst another goes into ptl with a fully intact one.

Twins are unknown territory to a certain extent, and much less predictable BUT by the same token you can have all kinds of additional 'contractions' and symptoms with multiples which amount to nothing concrete as they might do in a singleton pregnancy. twins simply mimic ptl, cause irritability and threatened labour just because there are two and your body is expressing the additional strain. In many instances these 'phantom' symptoms don't become the real thing. For you I'm hoping that the worst has passed and that thhings remain the same at the very least. Hope that makes sense? It's late here and I'm waffling, but I know what I mean lol

 

[lch28]

hey lizzie. was wondering what you think about my situation and such. At 16 weeks i was 4 cm. at my 20 week scan (im having a boy!!) i was 2.7 cm. I came back a week later, and still 2.7 cm. For this reason the doctor (not mine, the fetal medicine doctor) said i do not need to come back to check my cervix until 28 weeks. I feel like this is a really long wait! I plan on talking to my doctor about it next week. Do you think that its an awful change, from 4 to 2.7? since it stayed stable over a week, do you think it will remain stable ? i know these are questions that may not be able to be answered lol. im juts totally nervous, im almost at the gestation that i lost sophia. ive also been having loads of watery cm. i was convinced i was leaking waters yesterday and went to L&D. they said it was not waters but i have a yeast infection. today i have even more cm. could this be all from the yeast infection? should i demand to get my cervical length checked sooner?

 

[WTBmyBFP]

I'm the poster child as far as multiples and ptl ending up as "nothing." And my girls are the poster children for false alarms. I've had more than five times of all out contractions/ptl that just stopped after eight or more hours. Started contracting with ic and a cerclage at about 23 and 2 days. I'm now scheduled for a c section at 34 weeks...that would be this coming Monday, provided the girls don't decide to show for earnest in the mean time. FX for holding them in as long as possible!!!

 

[WTBmyBFP]

Heh. Sorry Shelby, I failed to see it was your original post!!! You know all of that!!! FX still anywho!

 

[ShelbyLC]

It's all good. Someone will find it useful!

 

[lch28]

uugh! i still feel like im losing mucus plug! every few days i get little tiny amounts of snot discharge. and they continue to tell me its normal =[

 

[ShelbyLC]

uugh! i still feel like im losing mucus plug! every few days i get little tiny amounts of snot discharge. and they continue to tell me its normal =[

Maybe it's just odd CM from irritation caused by the stitch? I'm sure if the doctors aren't worried about it, then it isn't something to stress over.