Incompetent Cervix - stitch/cerclage - threatened labour

[sweetbuthyper]

sorry to hear you are in labour wunderful will they try to stop it? fx all goes well x

 

[TLM21]

wunderful even though you are in labor now, your past 28 weeks so that is great. stay positive, baby and you will be fine. can't wait to read all about it when you get out.
sending a big hug and positive vibes.

 

[ShelbyLC]

Thinking of you, wunderful.

 

[Tink_0123]

Wunderful, sorry to hear you're in labor. Hopefully they're able to stop it, but in any case you're past 28 weeks hun and baby will do just fine. Sending you lots of luck, please keep us posted when you can

 

[Tink_0123]

Twinkle,15 weeks is kind of early to feel the baby move, especially often. From what the ladies have posted on here before, the stitch generally tends to bring on bh contractions. Typically these do not cause cervical changes, but doctors advise that if you're have more than 4 tightenings per hour to call in just in case. Also, bh are not regular, so keep that in mind as well.

If you are only feeling strange when you sit, it might be the baby moving, but at this stage since they're so small it feels like bubbles in your tummy not actual movements.

In the meantime, drink water and lay on your left side to see if they stop.

Perhaps the other ladies will chime in and have a better response for your question. Hope you feel better

 

[ShelbyLC]

Twinkle,15 weeks is kind of early to feel the baby move, especially often. From what the ladies have posted on here before, the stitch generally tends to bring on bh contractions. Typically these do not cause cervical changes, but doctors advise that if you're have more than 4 tightenings per hour to call in just in case. Also, bh are not regular, so keep that in mind as well.

If you are only feeling strange when you sit, it might be the baby moving, but at this stage since they're so small it feels like bubbles in your tummy not actual movements.

In the meantime, drink water and lay on your left side to see if they stop.

Perhaps the other ladies will chime in and have a better response for your question. Hope you feel better

I agree. I started contracting (though I didn't know it at the time) around 16/17 weeks. I thought I was feeling the babies/a baby curl up in a ball. Thinking back now, I really should have thought about how small they were at the time! I did start feeling them move at 14 weeks though, so you can understand my confusion.

 

[baby_maybe]

I also started with the BH at around 17 weeks and I didn't really start feeling him move until after 20 weeks properly, mainly due to the position of my placenta. I did feel odd movements here and then before that but nothing that I would have said were regular. When I started with the BH I seriously thought I was going into labour as it was only a couple of weeks after the stitch placement, however 21 weeks on and a load of BH later and I'm still here with no baby yet! I'm one of the ladies that seem to get a lot of BH, can be upwards of 20-30 a day and I get them at night too, but they have never lade any difference to my cervix and hopefully they won't to yours either. Tink said before that if you get a lot of them it is better to get checked out and I agree, but it doesn't necessarily mean that anything untoward is happening as has been priced in my case

Wunderful - I'm sorry to hear you're in labour so soon, but you are over 28 weeks which from a prematurity point of view is great. I hope they are able to stop it and give baby a few more weeks baking before he/she makes an appearance. Keep us posted

 

[Agiboma]

@Wunderful sorry about the labour like the others said past 28 weeks have good outcomes.

@ tink almost off bedrest YEAHH!!!
As for me i had my ob appointment today and the little fatty is weighing in @ 6 pounds, says she is a big baby. When i first got pregnant i asked g-d for a "term" "10 pounder" I hope i get my wish

 

[Hope2302]

@ wunderful, thinking of you and sending prayers your way,x

 

[Tink_0123]

Agi, you're almost there too!! yay.. Wow 6 lbs, thats a nice chunky baby you got there, def gonna be 10 lbs by the time u have ur c/s lol

 

[lch28]

wunderful thinking of u

 

[wunderful78]

They have pumped me full of nifedipine gtn patch and endone , looks like its worked so far I'm now in a ward and need rest so badly

 

[Prayerfulmom2]

Wunderful breathe easy Hun. Baby is cooked just needs to fatten up. He/she can do that in or outside of you Hun. Job well done and hopefully they can slow the arrival down. Praying for you!
Hope wow time is flying girl!
Agiboma don't know what you're eating but keep it coming! Baby's weight is great!
Tink hang in there. You have to make it term for the both of us! Lol
Twinkle hope all goes/is well
Ich? How's the little big guy?
Shelby, I know your loving those girls. Never knew how people managed with 2!!!
Afm missy is great. 3 pounds 10.5 ounces. Doing well. She's 33 weeks and technically 1 month old Thursday hope she's home soon!

 

[baby_maybe]

Hope you manage to get some rest now Wunderful

Agi - that's a great weight for that gestation, my LO was estimated at 4lb 4oz at just over 32 weeks so I reckon you've definitely got a term 9-10lber on the way there

 

[Prayerfulmom2]

Ummmm how soon after you guys delivered did your monthly return? I'm upset... I think it's back already! Uggg missy is barely a month old!!!

 

[ShelbyLC]

Ummmm how soon after you guys delivered did your monthly return? I'm upset... I think it's back already! Uggg missy is barely a month old!!!

Got my first exactly one month postpartum.

 

[lizziedripping]

Thank you lizzie for the advice

I'm really worrying lately about whether my stitch will get me to term. Im 15weeks at the minute, a week after the stitch. I feel like I'm at such a crucial stage because if I go into labour now nothing will be done and the baby is so far away from viability. I'm praying I make it to atleast 24weeks, which is my first aim... Then second aim is to make it to 29 weeks and IF I do I will be so happy and relaxed. Every pain or ache I get lately I panic that's it's the onset of something such as labour or my stitch coming out. I keep getting aches and pains in my back and stomach but nothing constant. It's mainly at night or when I'm sat down so I think it might be the position I sit/lay in.... But I'm scared it's labour and I'm not recognising the signs (I know I'm paranoid lol) I just really hope I can come out of this with a healthy live baby as this pregnancy is my last attempt. I really can't go through another loss I just keep trying to think positive.

I'm also looking for anyway possible to keep this baby in as long as possible, so if any of you have any tips, I'm open to ideas. Such as iv heard live yogurt is good as it keeps your "lady bits" free from infection. Iv also heard folic acid prevents preterm birth aswel when taken every day.

I am a bit confused on how much phsyical activity i can safely do aswel, I havnt been told to rest or been given any restrictions on what I can and can't do. Im trying to rest as much as possible and I don't go out much as I daren't walk a lot. What activity can I safely do? I daren't even put a load of washing in the washer as I feel achey after iv done housework... Think I'm paranoid again lol x

Oh God Twinkle, I remember this terror so well, its vile I was particularly bad at around 15wks too. The stitch was in but I felt sooo crampy and lay each night on the settee crying to myself that I'd never make it. If someone had said at that point I'd still be waiting for their arrival at 38wks plus I'd never have believed it! 28wks seemed a goal impossibly far away so 38wks was a ridiculous fantasy I dreamt about from time to time.

Sweetie, listen good to this. At 13wks with twins and before the stitch, I believe I was a few weeks away from miscarrying them. I had begun to lose bits of mucus plug, had constant tightenings, and had period cramps similar to the beginnings of labour. I was already measuring the same as a singleton lady of 18wks and my cervix was quite literally giving way! The boys were huge and by 21wks my uterus was already carrying the equivalent of a 32wk singleton. My scan at that stage revealed a cervix which was firmly closed and 'long enough' however. At 25wks it had funneled to the stitch but remained that way for another 13wks all the way to term. I could barely believe it when I made 36wks with no sign of labour, it was a dream come true.

My advice - listen to your body, if housework triggers cramps then don't do it sweetie. Its likely that you ache more and have an irritable uterus purely because the stitch is there. In the majority of women this doesn't lead to ptl, nor does the stitch fail, but why take that chance? Move around, but don't do anything remotely vigorous. When you feel a strain lie down for as long as it takes for that feeling to pass and then some. I could have been more active, but with twins chose not to chance it - we'll never know if that's what made the difference but I'm relieved now that I did it.

You will feel a whole host of aches, pains and tightenings - some of which are normal for everyone, some of which are made worse by the presence of the stitch. You must feel confident that the stitch will do its job, but take sensible precautions to give it a helping hand. I have said so many times to hundreds of women here that it is totally possible to make term, and the majority have done so, much to their amazement. Every one of them has been where you are, and each one has come back and said they can't believe they're now waiting for baby to come at at 36, 37, and 38wks and beyond. That WILL be you in a few months time honey, so keep the faith and tick each week off with cautious optimism as you go

 

[lizziedripping]

Prayer hun, got mine 6mths after Evie (but expressed for that long), and about 4mths after the twins, again about a mth after I stopped expressing xxx

 

[lizziedripping]

TLM - funneling all the way to the stitch is absolutely normal and to be expected with IC my lovely. It is scary but please be reassured that it's why the stitch was placed and not particularly alarming at all in ladies with a weak cervix. Some docs are a bit stressed by it, but those experienced in IC know it is to be expected and in a bizarre way are reassured that they did the right thing in stitching in the first place - does that make sense?

My doc was very blaze when she discovered funneling at 25wks and that was with two very large twins if that helps at all

 

[lizziedripping]

Thoughts and prayers with you Wunder, hope you're holding up ok