Incompetent Cervix - stitch/cerclage - threatened labour

[jessiemum]

My baby gets to come home tomorrow!!!

yay how exciting for you. Please keep is update with everything x x

 

[sunnylove]

Sunny I was .7 since week 19 with twins I made it to week 37

I remember you saying that! Congrats on your babes, btw. Did you have other symptoms too, like funneling and internal/external dilation?

I too have heard stories of women who completely beat the odds and delivered after 40 weeks. And the docs have said that they really have no way of saying when I will deliver. It's just that today the doctor told me that considering how stable I've been, he wouldn't have been completely surprised if I made it to 35 weeks. But then he said now that he sees the internal cervix opening up to much, he's just hoping for one more week! Eeek!

 

[DAYDAY24]

I believe I was funneled because baby A was so low .

 

[faibel]

Day - very happy to hear Trent is coming home, enjoy them both x

Sunny - Drs always give you the worst case senario in my experience, covering their backs! I'm so happy to hear your still cooking, with no contractions and bleeding etc I bet your still sat here at 40 wks! Keep doing what your doing!

Hope everyone else is ok, its quiet on here so hoping thats a good sign! I'm fine, got
my CL scan next week and if things are looking dodgy, then steroids. I'm praying we are good but I know I'll prob be funnelled to stitch, I just hope its not worse than that!

 

[Twinkle 3]

Hi ladies
Twinkle, they said I wasn't dilated, so obviously the stitch is strong old stuff! I had been labouring really for about 24hrs without knowing so the stitch held good.

My little lady is doing really well today, she might be coming out of the incubator and into a cot soon, another exciting milestone! She's still breathing on her own, her milk volume has increased again and all is generally well!
I had a check by the midwife, she's happy with my recovery.

Your tickers are moving on well girls!

The stitch does sound strong! It's quite strange how it didn't budge, I never expected them to hold with contractions but it's quite comforting to know that the stitches are so strong

Hope little annabelle is doing well still and hopefully will be home as soon as possible with your and your family I bet you can't wait.

As for me ladies, 31 weeks today so nice to make it this far i never thought i would,just wish I knew how much further I will get, the Braxton hicks keep coming everyday all day long, some of them crampy and still tricking me into thinking labour is near.. the spd is killing me! Night time is worse I am in so much pain turning over or getting up for the toilet so I really don't get much sleep,Heartburn is a nightmare and now I can't bend because of the size of my bump lol!

I'm feeling so happy but so frustrated lately, I'm happy because my little boy is still cooking and getting bigger and hopefully healthier by the day but I'm so frustrated because I want him here now so I know he's safe, I'm scared of getting to the end and somthing going wrong. Touch wood it dosnt, I really don't want him prematurely I just wish I could fast forward until his due date lol.

How is everyone else?

 

[katyb1982]

Geordie Mammy
Are you at the RVI? They only have one specialist sonographer who dose cervical scans so as far as I know you can only get them done on a Wednesday at prem prevention clinic. Mine are every 3 weeks. I paniced a bit and rang the consultant who said if I was ever worried to give them a ring and they would do a speculum examination (yuck#) and scan me if nesecary.

Faibel we are like a week apart it's such a coincidence. I have my CL scan to see if I need steriods a week on Wed!

Kx

 

[geordiemammy]

I'm at the qe and they are terrible if I'm honest but its just round the corner and I won't change as I don't think ill make it to the rvi if I go into labour as ds4 came within 20 minutes and had I not have been there for a check up I would of had him at home :/ x

 

[lizziedripping]

Hey Sunny - in an ideal world it is always better to have atleast some length of closed cervix between baby and the outside, not least because its indicative of a cervix which is being maintained enough by the stitch to get you to term or thereabouts. That said, While ever the stitch is in place and remains such with no dilation through it, then theoretically it's working and I have seen many women with zero cervix and a stitch stagger on like that to term.

The main issue you have is not a mechanical one (the stitch is taking care of that), but rather a physiological one in that significant dilation does increase your chance of going into labour early purely because cervical changes are thought to play some part in triggering labour. Again tho, some women just don't labour even with a hugely dilated and short cervix so there really is no way of knowing - this can work in your favour and means effectively that all hope is not lost. Because you arent experiencing bleeding or contractions I would say there is a chance you are one of those women who just might surprise everyone and make it weeks longer with no cervix and effectively the stitch holding baby in.

There was a woman a few yrs back who had no cervix at all, a stitch alone keeping it together and she worked shifts in a bar (8hrs a day on her feet), right up until 39wks! She had to work because she was a single mum with a 2yr old to support. She was proof that the stitch can work honey so please don't assume that this is over just yet (Jees if I had a pound for every time I've said that then seen women like you make it to term ) Lots of love, thoughts with you xxx

 

[lizziedripping]

Yey for Trent You managing twins ok Day? Xxx

 

[lizziedripping]

GeordieM - I agree that 6wks is a long time if you're worried, but given the current length it looks as though your cervix is holding up well so don't fret too much if they won't oblige. I know well how awkward the NhS can be about scanning/monitoring frequently! Makes me sooo angry xx

 

[katyb1982]

Geordie Mammy- You must live just round the corner from me as I live really near the QE too! We transfered from their to the RVI when we found out we were having twins as we would have had to have had a lot of our scans their anyway.

Are you under Dr Walker at the QE?

 

[geordiemammy]

Geordie Mammy- You must live just round the corner from me as I live really near the QE too! We transfered from their to the RVI when we found out we were having twins as we would have had to have had a lot of our scans their anyway.

Are you under Dr Walker at the QE?

Yeah I live right next to it and mr walker is a great doc but the team ain't great in my opinion the communication is shocking x

 

[katyb1982]

i really liked Dr Walker, if we were having a singleton I would have stayed there. I agree though, I had to be a bit pushy with them especially after my follow up last time. Keep at them though!

I live just off Beacon Lough Road.. Small world!

 

[geordiemammy]

I used to live up that way I'm in windy nook now I lived just off carnforth gardens

 

[monro84]

Finally saw dr yesteday. He was very happy with the measurements. He said I need to make it 2 more wks (34 wks) and then we can both quit worrying and I will be off restrictions. He said I will have my stitch out at 37 wks. He also said that was my last cervical scan.

 

[jadey_fae]

Twinkle, 31 weeks! Wow such good news

Day, so glad your little one is coming home!

Sunny, I eouldn't be suprised if you had a few more weeks in you yet. You have got this far! Keep doing what your doing

Monroe,your nearly there!

Me,I'm still fretting about my boys size. Amelie was small too but he he is smaller hope he's ok in there

 

[sweetbuthyper]

hey all we are home we got let out yesterday

Zach is now 8 weeks old, 36+4 weeks corrected, weighing 4lb 7 oz and settling in well pic from this morning is here

 

[sunnylove]

Hey Sunny - in an ideal world it is always better to have atleast some length of closed cervix between baby and the outside, not least because its indicative of a cervix which is being maintained enough by the stitch to get you to term or thereabouts. That said, While ever the stitch is in place and remains such with no dilation through it, then theoretically it's working and I have seen many women with zero cervix and a stitch stagger on like that to term.

The main issue you have is not a mechanical one (the stitch is taking care of that), but rather a physiological one in that significant dilation does increase your chance of going into labour early purely because cervical changes are thought to play some part in triggering labour. Again tho, some women just don't labour even with a hugely dilated and short cervix so there really is no way of knowing - this can work in your favour and means effectively that all hope is not lost. Because you arent experiencing bleeding or contractions I would say there is a chance you are one of those women who just might surprise everyone and make it weeks longer with no cervix and effectively the stitch holding baby in.

There was a woman a few yrs back who had no cervix at all, a stitch alone keeping it together and she worked shifts in a bar (8hrs a day on her feet), right up until 39wks! She had to work because she was a single mum with a 2yr old to support. She was proof that the stitch can work honey so please don't assume that this is over just yet (Jees if I had a pound for every time I've said that then seen women like you make it to term ) Lots of love, thoughts with you xxx

Thanks Lizzie! Yes, I have never been in labor (for a couple weeks after I got my stitch my uterus was really irritable and I was having BHs, but I honestly think that was due to surgery because it totally stopped after a couple weeks) and so I am holding onto that and hoping it's a good sign! And I am being monitored for contractions everyday and they haven't seen any in the last 2+ weeks.

Doc says that's a good and bad thing, because obviously my cervix is super incompetent, but hey, I've made it this far. Lots of women lose their babies around 18-20 weeks so I know I am blessed in that regard. Really worried about the funneling though, and am hoping it doesn't get big enough where baby can get it's head/body down on top of my cervix. But am hoping the fact that I haven't further dilated externally in the past 6 weeks is a good sign?

 

[Twinkle 3]

Sweet its so nice to hear that your little one is home hes done so well. i bet your right happy hes finally home with you now. he looks so cute in his little tigger outfit x

 

[sweetbuthyper]

We are glad hes home very proud of him hes come so far, and is settling in really well was a bit of a shock as monday we were told we had to wait til friday to come home but they decided yesterday morning we could go , his slight brain bleed has been re absorbed and he passed his hearing and sight tests so all is good, have another eye test in a fortnight and they are going to monitor him til hes around 4 but all is good and hes home.