Incompetent Cervix - stitch/cerclage - threatened labour

[karenh24]

Can't you opt for a c section CW ? With you already having one before? or do you have to listen to your Consultant? I'm sure whatever you choose you will be fine, Its the uncertainty of what will happen with a vaginal birth that is scary isn't it.

MA thankyou for the advice in c sections it sounds like your experience was a nice one, it's what I like to hear I have never been worried before about a vaginal birth but after such a bad experience last time I know I will be in a total panic if I Have a vaginal delivery.

Tink your daughter is so beautiful, she's amazing its nice to hear your recovering well from your section aswel

Shelby your girls are so cute, they always look so happy. Your truly blessed to have twins

Agi sorry to hear you have had a bit of trouble hope you recover soon

Wunderful and hope not long now until your babies are here your both so lucky

Karen I didn't have to stay overnight with my stitch placement, I was admitted to hospital at about 10am, went to theatre at 10 to 3 went to recovery then the ward, my consultant checked on me at 7 then discharged me, once you can wee and walk you can go home

also did you have a spinal?and does it hurt i've neva had any sort of surgery or hospital stay apart from when i lost my little boy and have very little experience of hospital

 

[Craigswife]

Karen, I had an over night stay with my stitch, but I think it was because they didn't take me down to theatre till 12noon, I was there at 8am just waiting but they kept getting emergencies in! I think I may have gone home the same day if it was done earlier. The whole process of doing the stitch only took about 15 mins, it took longer to prep me than actually do the procedure!!
I was nervous about the spinal but it was fine, a little uncomfortable when they put it in, but quick and then I went numb from the tummy down, so felt absolutely nothing. The spinal took about 5hrs to wear off, it gradually worked its way out down to my toes. As soon as it had just about gone, they got me up on my feet and walking. The next morning I was fine, had breakfast and then was discharged.

Twinkle, to be honest when my ob said about a vaginal delivery it was really early on, before my stitch and I couldn't really focus on that which seemed such a long way off at the time, i was more concerned about getting my stitch in. i suppose when I see her next I can discuss it with her.

 

[Twinkle 3]

Karen I was terrified about the stitch procedure I didn't know what to expect and the part I was looking least forward to was the spinal. I was given th Option of Being fully knocked out During the procedure but i chose the spinal After being told it was best for the baby, It's not half as bad as you think. I was amazed by how pain free the spinal actually was.

My stitch experience was ok to be honest, they put a cannular in my hand and put an injection in that, think that was to relax me (which to be honest didnt work lol) they hooked me up to the heart monitors, sprayed my back with freezing spray to numb it, then they told me to bend forward on to a pillow as far as I could to open the gaps in my spine, they inserted what I'm guessing was a needle which made me sort of jump but no pain was felt, I was waiting for a sting or something like that but it felt like someone just pushing there finger on my spine, when they finished doing it I was actually shocked and said is that all, I was waiting for another needle to be put in and hurt me!! Lol.

Then you have to lay down on the bed quickly and you can just feel all lower body tingle and go numb, I actually liked the feeling. I don't know about anyone else lol. It's such a strange feeling though as you can feel things but you can't if that makes sense, like you can feel them sliding a blanket on your legs but you can't feel it properly. I actually thought the procedure would be really embarrassing with my consultant between my legs staring at my lady bits for 15mins but it didn't feel embarrassing at all because it didn't feel like the bottom half of my body that they was touching.

Also the anaesthetist will talk to you throughout the procedure which takes your mind off things, there's a screen up so you won't see much either just your feet in the air but you can't feel them so that's pretty strange lol.

It will be done before you know it as its very quick and simple

Don't worry

 

[Twinkle 3]

Twinkle, to be honest when my ob said about a vaginal delivery it was really early on, before my stitch and I couldn't really focus on that which seemed such a long way off at the time, i was more concerned about getting my stitch in. i suppose when I see her next I can discuss it with her.

Oh right I get you I suppose labour is last thing on your mind really at the start of pregnancy. I don't like to talk about it now as I know nothing goes to plan lol, but since I'm coming closer and hopefully making viability It has suddenly occurred to me that one day iv got to get this baby out lol. I need to have a proper discussin with my consultant as I have never had a birth plan before and I need him to write c section in all my notes just in case I go into preterm labour... Hopefully I won't but having IC I just don't know

 

[ShelbyLC]

My stitch experience was ok to be honest, they put a cannular in my hand and put an injection in that, think that was to relax me (which to be honest didnt work lol) they hooked me up to the heart monitors, sprayed my back with freezing spray to numb it, then they told me to bend forward on to a pillow as far as I could to open the gaps in my spine, they inserted what I'm guessing was a needle which made me sort of jump but no pain was felt, I was waiting for a sting or something like that but it felt like someone just pushing there finger on my spine, when they finished doing it I was actually shocked and said is that all, I was waiting for another needle to be put in and hurt me!! Lol.

Then you have to lay down on the bed quickly and you can just feel all lower body tingle and go numb, I actually liked the feeling. I don't know about anyone else lol. It's such a strange feeling though as you can feel things but you can't if that makes sense, like you can feel them sliding a blanket on your legs but you can't feel it properly.

Oh, I LOVED my spinal with my c-section! I was terrified, freezing and shaking, and the spinal made me sooo warm, it was wonderful!

 

[Craigswife]

Twinkle and Shelby, did you get the ice cube?? After they put the spinal in a dr appeared with an ice cube, I was like what is he doing!! It seemed so random. He then said he was going to run the ice cube up the side of my body and to tell him when I could feel it! It made me laugh because it seemed a bit kinky, lol!! He was quite a good looking dr, so I might have been tempted, lol!!! ;-)
I quite enjoyed the spinal, Shelby you're right, its a warm feeling, i evdn asked if id wet myself, lol, its a strange feeling especially when they're swinging your legs about and you can't feel a thing!

 

[ShelbyLC]

CW - no ice cube that I know of! I think they tapped me with something though. Didn't feel a thing.

 

[HelenGee]

Karen - I stayed overnight after my stitch, the doc told me I would so they could monitor me after. I appreciated it because I was quite scared by that point. I think if it's done as a preventative stitch they may send you home the same day, however mine wasn't put in until the afternoon as emergencies kept on occupying the theatre.

I did end up on the maternity ward with all the newborns, I had my own room, but I was next door to crying new babies, which I found difficult to cope with given the precarious position my baby was in. I did "complain" about that before I was discharged, and was the midwife apologised , but said I was in the only available side room, which they thought I would prefer. She was right.

As for the stitch placement, I can barely remember it, I felt a bit daft with my bits on display, and hoped there were no former pupils of mine in the room lol. But apart from that it was the worry that it would work that bothered me and nothing else. I had a spinal and it was fab.
Hope that helps to allay your fears x

 

[Twinkle 3]

Shelby I'm glad I'm not the only one that loved thier spinal, I thought I was just strange lol

CW I didn't have the ice cube I had a women spray down my legs with freezing spray to test the numbness,so not quite as nice scenario as yours lol, she also told me to lift up my legs for her which I thought I could easy do but I couldn't obviously haha, it was so strange trying to move but couldn't. I don't think I'd mind another spinal to be honest I found it quite relaxing

 

[TLM21]

agi hope you are doing better and bp has stabilized by now
tink Audrey is so cute and healthy!
Shelby the girls are growing fast, they are beatiful, bet you are enjoying them
Karen you will be fine, the procedure is fast, after I was 6 hrs in recovery, then sent home
twinkle everyday you are getting closer to v day, then time will give a but faster.
cw you made laugh with the ice cube story, none of that for me, they probably just pinched my leg... lol
day I think about you when I feel my time is moving, it means yours is too! how are you feeling?
wunderful moving along, that is great!
hope anytime hun, great job keeping the baby baking!
hope everyone is doing well
hugs

 

[Twinkle 3]

Karen - I stayed overnight after my stitch, the doc told me I would so they could monitor me after. I appreciated it because I was quite scared by that point. I think if it's done as a preventative stitch they may send you home the same day, however mine wasn't put in until the afternoon as emergencies kept on occupying the theatre.

I did end up on the maternity ward with all the newborns, I had my own room, but I was next door to crying new babies, which I found difficult to cope with given the precarious position my baby was in. I did "complain" about that before I was discharged, and was the midwife apologised , but said I was in the only available side room, which they thought I would prefer. She was right.

As for the stitch placement, I can barely remember it, I felt a bit daft with my bits on display, and hoped there were no former pupils of mine in the room lol. But apart from that it was the worry that it would work that bothered me and nothing else. I had a spinal and it was fab.
Hope that helps to allay your fears x

Helen I can't belive they put you on the maternity ward, I was put on the gynaecology ward. It's too hard to be around babies I think when your battling to keep your baby alive. My midwife won't let me go to the maternity ward (I was going to be admitted a few weeks ago) she said it will be too hard to watch the mums with thier babies or a lady moaning she is overdue when I am in the position I'm in hopefully this little boy will stay put for atleast another 6 weeks though And I don't need to be around that

 

[DAYDAY24]

Just got back from ultrasound babies 3.1 & 3.2 . How are you ladies

 

[ShelbyLC]

I was in L&D for nearly 2 weeks leading up to my girls' birth. I heard so many babies born. It as quite emotional - I cried a few times. After they were born, I was on the regular post-delivery floor, so heard/saw many babies, including the ones being brought to their mothers from the nursery, while I had to be wheeled to the NICU. That was probably the hardest for me - seeing all the other mothers having their babies in their rooms, while I had to go see mine. It was sort of my fault, though, as I requested that floor (the same floor as the NICU). They offered to put me on the next floor up, the high risk OB floor, but I wanted to be closer to the girls.


Not the same as what you ladies went through, I know!

 

[Twinkle 3]

Shelby I understand completely how you felt. I had my little girl at 29weeks and she was in the special care baby unit and I had to go to the ward for the night, as it was about 3am by the time I had been transferred there from delivery suite. I was put next to 3 ladies and their babies, it was so hard watching them while my little girl was all on her own in an incubater

I also read back through pages and pages of this thread and I read what you went through to get your twins...the long hospital stay etc, You had a hard pregnancy and did amazing.

 

[Prayerfulmom2]

Agi so sorry! Feel better

 

[HelenGee]

Twinkle- it sounds as if your midwife has her head screwed on. I think it is just hospital policy where I was, to put any pregnant lady on the maternity ward. When I think back, there were so many times I should have been more assertive. I rather foolishly trusted the care I was given, and I felt too vulnerable to complain. If there were to be a 2nd time around, I wouldn't be so accepting. It took a private consultant to make me realise that I needed to be more insistent. By the time my stitch went in, I was in utter despair. I had spent 12 weeks knowing that something was wrong and being refused care. I found this thread while I was recovering in hospital from my stitch op, and it felt like the most pro-active 24 hours of the whole pregnancy! I had my plan sorted by the next morning, and all I wanted was to get out of hospital and be horizontal in front of my own tv! I feel like such an utter twit now, doctors don't get such an easy ride from me anymore!

Lizzie- home life is um...interesting at the moment! Hubby has driven me insane, has started decorating the dining room with a rather grand, effective, labour intensive yet cheap plan. He got to emulsion the walls after nagging me to choose a colour, then promptly dropped everything as he was offered a temporary job at our son's school. The house is a state. To top it off, he filled our garage with stuff that we need to sell at a car boot sale, but hasn't had time to do that either! It is driving me mad, and I know he is true to his word, he will sort it out, but it's all washing over me now! As long as we can eat and enjoy family time together, it's not important. He would like to train as a primary school teacher, I have done my best to dissuade, but he has applied for the course anyway. I'll let you know how it all goes.

I hope the brood are all better now, Oliver has just got over chicken pox, and we're just watching Bella now and waiting..A get together in the summer would be lovely, how exciting!

Agi- being re-admitted and poorly sucks, get well soon xxx

CW- your ice cube story made me chuckle. I was very glad that there were no handsome men in theatre when I had my stitch in and out! All I could think was "I wonder if I shaved my legs properly?"

 

[karenh24]

Thank you for all your experiences, im preparing to get my stitch next week

 

[shanny]

Karen

I have had 4 stitches and depedning on the time of day it was put in i went home or stayed in.................spinal great and they gave me something to 'take the edge off' I was away with the pixies each time which was great as i was really nervous - each time.....thye might offer this ..............I would take it as you are still aware but not worries or embarassed about being exposed!!! My consultant has a young fit student this time around too which is great, but each time they listen to the bay or examine my stomachI seem to have forgetten to shave the ahirs around my belly button.....LOL


Best wishes...............

 

[monro84]

Hello ladies I am new to this forum but I figured I would be here. I had a partial septate resection after my 4th mc I read up on it and realized that since I had a uterian birth defect it could involve my cervix not being strong enought also. On my 6th pregnancy since I made it this far I started cervix scans at 16 wks. It was 3.48 cm and at 19 wks it was 3.5 cm. Then at 21 wks it shortened to 3.2 cm. I had a scan yesterday at 23 1/2 wks and it was 2.5 cm with a little funneling. I had surgery this morning to get the stitch. So far so good had some bleeding it has tappered off now though to spotting. Still have cramping though am told that's normal I guess it does not help that he is head down right now. The dr at first said I would stay overnight however he now says I can probably go home this evening. The only oroblem beside the cramping is a constant urge to pee even after I went like a uti but my urien was clear of infection however they did do a culture also i have peed over 5times since i have been out.. I was put to sleep per request instead of an epidural and they said they did not use a cathiter.

 

[shanny]

when I had my last stitch in I had some cramping for about 12 hours and then it went........so I hope yours will be the same............ best of luck and take it easy for a few days.............i went back to work too soon and went a bit wafty after the spinal ..........