Incompetent Cervix - stitch/cerclage - threatened labour

[HelenGee]

Day! hurray!! Enjoy your own bed xxx

Faibel- i absolutely agree, keep quiet about the progesterone until you get your stitch at least. Good luck xx

Tink- I've been following your progress too, well done for making it so far. Enjoy the nesting, you're in a beautiful place for it, LOVE Miami, hubby and I got married there x

 

[Mommy's Angel]

Helen,

I wondered how your job went. I know it was really starting with all the stress when we were in here together. I'd imagine that while you took a pay cut it's a heck of a lot better than where you were.

Totally understand missing the kiddo's though. They are getting big from the looks of the pic. I just LOVE it. Time goes so swiftly though and I'm trying to soak it all in. She's a ball of energy and she's a little social butterfly. We're trying to teach her NOW that she has to ask before engaging strangers. While it's cute, society has made it pretty hard to allow your child to just engage a stranger. We recently had a woman who adopted a little girl from china die at knife point after her and her daughter were coming out of gymnastics practice. The mother is dead and the 10 year old girl was badly beaten and raped. The public is in outrage and already the jail he was put in, the inmates beat him and broke his nose. He was transferred to solitary until trial but the little girl was an orphan not once but now twice as the mothers only family was HER mother who is in assisted living.

Needless to say, I've been rethinking Amelia's social butterfly play with people. You NEVER know who is a sexual abuser and I'm just more aware after all this. So sad.

Okay now that I've been a debbie downer.

Love and hugs to everyone!

 

[sweetbuthyper]

OK so I've been in hospital since 1:30 yesterday so not caught up as on my phone, I starred contracting at 11:30am, have been transfered to sheffield where they are better equiped contractions have stopped hoping they stay that way but stitch had to be removed I was dialating in just under 2cm and my mebanes were bulging past the stitch, steriods are now on board and its just a waiting game now x hope everyone else is well

 

[Agiboma]

@sweet hang in there mommy, its good you got the steroids on board. Hoping LO stays baking!!!!

 

[wunderful78]

Thinking of you sweetbuthyper

 

[Twinkle 3]

sweet good luck. hopefully you can keep your little one in bit longer. atleast you have steroids and babies viable. your also more or less 26 weeks aswel i know its not ideal givibg birth this early but your baby will be well looked after at sheffield. keep us all updated. thinking of you x

 

[Twinkle 3]

also is it just me or is bed rest painful? i feel more achey and in pain on bed rest x

 

[TLM21]

oh sweet, keep being strong, glad steroids are going in, sending positive vibes and prayers your way

 

[TLM21]

oh twinkle I find bed rest very interesting to say the least, almost 10 weeks by now, I have body.parts achy I never even knew existed. oh and you would.think I sleep more bring on bed.rest, unfortunately.no, it's 5am for me now
counting my days to be off bed rest...
I think I'm going to have to get a new bed after this since I feel I've made a hole on this one...lol
anyway hugs to everyone

 

[karenh24]

Thinking of you sweet hope you can keep that baby in a bit longer x

 

[Twinkle 3]

tlm i had mild back pain and pressure so i was put on bed rest i now have, headache, neck ache, shoulder ache, even worse back ache, stomach ache leg ache and hip ache lol

but i dont have any pressure yey

 

[Agiboma]

@ tlm look at you going yeah for 29 weeks, after 30 weeks it flew by for me as i knew the odds where good at that point.

 

[Craigswife]

Sweet, hang on in there, every day that passes now is beneficial and your baby will be that bit stronger. My friend had her little girl at 26wks, she's just turned 5 now and is doing great with no long term problrms. Keep your chin up xxx
Twinkle, I know what you mean about aches and pains, I was on bed rest with my first pregnancy and felt worse than I did before, hips, bum, shoulders, all of what your describing, but it's great you've got no pressure!!!
I was put on bed rest at 23wks as I was funnelling, they measured my cervix too and thought it had dramatically shortened but it turned out it hadn't, there was a discrepancy in the scan. But I was on bed rest with no stitch and no progesterone and that alone bought me 5 more weeks before my gorgeous boy arrived.

 

[HelenGee]

Hi Sweet,

Thinking of you, take heart from the fact that you are being taken seriously, you have the steroids on board, and that the contractions can be held off for a long while yet. Sending you love x

We had to get a new bed when I started bed rest, and post bed rest, this one is knackered too lol! I can hear it doi-ng when I roll over. Bed rest made me ache everywhere!

Karen - are you at new cross? Didn't realise you were so close as I've been keeping updated with the email updates. Let me know if I can help at all xxx

 

[Tink_0123]

Sweet, hang in there hun! You'll be in my thoughts. Wishing u loads of luck

 

[HelenGee]

MA- I never fail to be devastated by the cruelty of some people. I think that's why I find my job so tough, I'm always hearing about awful treatment of children and it plays on mind. That is such horrendous news. I read the news on my phone whilst I'm settling the kids of to sleep and I've had to stop- every other story is child abuse. Makes me want to rescue them all and (sorry!) hang the evil perpetrators.
Both my children are social butterflies, it is so very sweet, but I do worry. I hate taking little Miss without her pushchair cos even with reins on, she slips the net, she's like lightening! Oliver's learning not to approach strangers, and it's been through his advanced reading level- he's been able to read the news as we've been walking past newspaper stands etc. I don't watch the news when he's awake, but we were waiting in a doctor's waiting room, and he was reading the news reel at the bottom of the screen. I didn't realise he could read it quite so well until he asked me what "exploitation" means. So now we are very careful indeed, not to scare him, but to be cautious.

As the toddler 2's advance, Bella's become a bit more stroppy, she'll some times cry at strangers, sometimes smile. I prefer the former to be honest lol! Amelia sounds perfect, and you sound like the perfect mummy x

 

[Tink_0123]

Twinkle, bed rest makes u hurt in places u never thought could hurt as Tlm said lol. I still have aches and don't even lay down as long. I find that my back and ribs ache a lot from laying on my sides. Bed rest kinda sucks tbh but in the end its worth it, somehow it allowed me to get to 38 weeks so im very thankful I rested for as long as I did (13 weeks). Once you have ur baby, ur probably gonna wish u had more rest lol. Just try to switch sides as much as u can when laying bed, it helps.

Helen, thats awesome u got married in Miami! Where at? If you dont mind me asking. Your babies are beautiful. Glad things are settling a bit for u and ur father has been cleared from the cancer. All the best to u hun

Tlm, your doing so great. Bed rest will soon be a distant thought

Afm, after all this time trying to keep Audrey in, now I feel she doesn't want to come out grrrr lol. Im super anxious to meet her and hold her and give her all my love. I hope she waits till Monday tho, they're having 4 events at the beach where the hospital is plus construction in some areas. Mind you there are only 2-3 bridges to get there so traffic is horrible! Been having a couple of symptoms that lead me to believe something will happen soon, clear outs (sorry tmi), losing bits of plug, nesting, very faint cramps that come at different times n not everyday but haven't experienced them throughout pregnancy. Thats about it hehe.

I hope u ladies have a lovely day.

 

[karenh24]

Hey Helen yes im at new cross x

 

[sweetbuthyper]

I'm doing OK dehydrated apparently cervix hasn't changed despite contractions so that's good just fx for extra days now oh and we are snowed into the hospital so that's fun lol

 

[Twinkle 3]

sweet have they said why you have started with contractions? its so good that your doing well. im praying for you

tink its so strange how you spent all your time keeping little audrey in and now shes too comfy to come out you have done so well

even though bed rest is slightly uncomfortable im hoping it can get me to atleast 24 weeks. im praying it will

nice to see all of you ladies are doing well