Incompetent Cervix - stitch/cerclage - threatened labour

[chistiana]

Due- i am so terribly sorry for your loss. Plus it must be so frustrating nit to know what caused it. I hope you can get some answers soon but even if it s unrelated it would be wise to have your dic check your cervical length regularly just in case. Good luck hun

 

[DueSeptember]

Due- i am so terribly sorry for your loss. Plus it must be so frustrating nit to know what caused it. I hope you can get some answers soon but even if it s unrelated it would be wise to have your dic check your cervical length regularly just in case. Good luck hun

Thank you...I am also switching Doctors my friend recommended me to and I am hoping she is better than the last one I had...I just thought my other Doctor didnt care much and just brushed it off like oh well try again like its that easy...

 

[nhood]

Due- i am so terribly sorry for your loss. Plus it must be so frustrating nit to know what caused it. I hope you can get some answers soon but even if it s unrelated it would be wise to have your dic check your cervical length regularly just in case. Good luck hun

Thank you...I am also switching Doctors my friend recommended me to and I am hoping she is better than the last one I had...I just thought my other Doctor didnt care much and just brushed it off like oh well try again like its that easy...

I am so sorry for your loss. My loss last year I probably could've been saved also. My last doctor never check my cervix. Never check my hormone levels. He kept saying after I delivered my babies prematurely that it was the babies and just move on, well my new doctor did a cerclage at 11.5 weeks in my current pregnancy and he mentioned my cervis was open. I know now it wasn't a baby problem and something with a good doc could've been saved.

 

[danielita]

hello ladies,

in the last days i felt a lot better: my cramps almost disappeared; sometimes i still have bh contractions but only now and then.
my husband bought a new firm mattress for bed and he also managed to elevated the bed in the trendelenburg positions with about 10 cm. i am wondering: could be this a reason for me feeling better regarding the bh contractions? those 10 cm could de-tense me pressure from my cervix (as one of my babies stays quite low, near my cervix)?
anyhow, i am 24 wks + 2 days and i really hope things to go in the right directions with my twin pregnancy.

lizzie, please tell me, do you remember when you have started to take steroids shots (betamethasone?) in your twin pregnancy? and in which amount, frequency? thanks :*

big.fish, please head up and try to stay optimistic. i do not think you have reasons to believe this time your pregnancy will not have an happy ending. yes, i know you are afraid after your terrible loss, but each pregnancy has its own chances :*

dueseptember - i am so sorry about your lost. i've been there, so i do know how much it can hurt!

 

[lizziedripping]

Hi Danielita. I didn't have steroid shots at all in the twin pregnancy. Here in the Uk they don't give them routinely unless there is an imminent risk of ptl.

Your bh contractions have likely settled down because your uterus has calmed after the surgery. Any cervical surgery can trigger irritability in the uterus, and it is to be expected after a stitch placement. Resting also helps of course x

Hi Due, an unexplained loss at 23wks is highly indicative of IC hun, tho it's impossible to say for certain. Even with infection present IC is likely because a slightly dilated cervix can allow infection to track from the vagina into the uterus and trigger labour.

Wishing you lots of luck in your next pregnancy, hopefully you'll get a more supportive, proactive clinician who'll support your wish for a stitch

 

[DueSeptember]

Thanks Ladies and I am so sorry for your Losses too...I am not sure if it is IC they never checked me internally I guess because it was my First pregnancy...Since I am High Risk now I am sure she will be checking me...I am so scared to get pregnant I know I am going to worry and worry and worry but I dont want to stress the Baby..I will just have to Pray and Hope all goes well the next time

 

[lizziedripping]

Pregnancy after loss is so frightening Due, and there is really no way around that It's only when you make a full term healthy pregnancy that you finally are able to begin the healing process. Just know that we have all been there chick and can sympathise ans support you on your next pregnancy journey.

I'd strongly recommend that you ask for a stitch this time around on the grounds that the stress of worrying about another loss would be too much to bear, and why not cover all bases? X

Kate - I'm guessing that maybe little one has put in an appearance? Or are you just so tired of waiting now that you're sitting at home feeling miserable ? Hope all is ok either way honey xxx

 

[kateqpr]

Hi Lizzie,

No, still here. Just so tired and grumpy!!

Am now three days overdue. I went for a sweep at 7.30am today, and was told me cervix was still tightly closed, and long, and like a woman's who had never had a baby. Bloody hell!

So she tried to manually encourage the cervix to open, which hurt like hell, but hopefully will push things in the right direction. It's interesting that when you have a stitch, your cervix can do this - fuse together and basically not want to open. Oh the irony of three months of bed rest! But last time in my last labour, they manually dilated me to about 3cm, then PING, instantly dilated to 10cm within about half an hour.

Its starting to look like that may well happen again this time too, based on how things are going so far. The midwife said to make sure i go to the hospital quickly this time if things do progress, just incase i dilate fast again. But i'm preparing myself for my cervix playing hardball, and me going way overdue and having to be induced again...

My hospital are being brilliant though, and i have another sweep and reflexology booked for next week to try and do things naturally. Also if it comes to induction, i've been there, done that, so not worried about that outcome really either, It will just be exhausting and frustrating to have been pregnant for 42 weeks, after all the worries and months of bed rest too. Pah.

I hope you're all okay.

Bookfish - so good that you've had the steroid infections. I had them too (painful little things they are too!) but i really did feel positive about them, that my baby now was more prepared just incase of an early delivery. But your cervix seems to behaving brilliantly, so i'm sure you have week of pregnancy left ahead of you.

Christiana - how are you lovely? So so close now! Are you allowed of bed rest at any point? I know i started to get out and about more once i reached your stage. So nice just to go out for a coffee for a change!

Hope everyone else is well.

Shall keep you posted if anything exciting happens....

XX

 

[book.fish2011]

Kate, didn't see any posts from you so I thought, maybe you've delivered. An surprised little bub is still in there.. Come out soon baby, momma is waiting for you.

I hope you are right, I have some more weeks to go...in fact, I need to go as far as I can because of insurance issues. But I really don't know what's in store for me.

Just came to know yesterday that I have another UTI . On augmentin now. Pink blood continues to threaten to appear now and then.

 

[lizziedripping]

Thanks for the update Kate Ironic indeed, but hugely reassuring to all the other ladies here to see for real that your scenario is so often the case..............now you're thinking, 'so so pleased my tired, aching body is of some comfort to everybody else Lizzie!! Grrrr!' lol.

Seriously tho, the great shame for you is that you didn't know how things would turn out and as a result, stressed your way through a pregnancy which would in the end go overdue. Must be so bittersweet. Also, the longer the waiting goes on, the more you worry about coping with a newborn again. It would be better now just to tackle it head on, instead of imagining how hard it might be. That's what I'd be doing, but when in reality I am able to get on and deal with things I'm fine, and all my worst imaginings never come true.

Hopefully the 'cervical meddling' will do the trick and you'll have you're bubs safe in arms soon Thinking of you xxx

 

[lizziedripping]

Bf, you're gonna be stunned honey when in fact you sail past 30wks and beyond

 

[chistiana]

Kate!!!just like the other ladies i was soooo so sure you had already had the baby! Wow, she s a stubborn little baby, wants to do her appearance her way!!!i have been thinking of you in the last couple of days, my doc said the day we take out the stitch i ll stay in and give birth cause apparently he s never seen i woman not deliver at that point...obviously i should introduce you!!!
Hang in there babe, sooner or later she cant be too long now! I cant say i know how you feel as i ve never been there but i can only imagine!lots of hugs hun for a speedy and healthy delivery very very soon!

 

[DueSeptember]

I heard a stitch can cause problems too...I will have the Doc watch me closely I had zero problems with my pregnancy...they did a colpo at 13 weeks and my water broke at 23 weeks...I just Hope it doesnt Happen again...I had LEEP surgery in Sept 2011 and wanted to wait at least a year to TTC again...Just going to Pray that all goes well next pregnancy and I will need LOTS of Support xo

 

[mum2rugrats]

Hi im back again just found out im expecting again im only about 5 weeks so still early days just wondered if it would be likely i will need a stitch again? Havent heard from midwife yet so just thought id ask here x

 

[chistiana]

Hey mum2rugrats! We havent talked before but congratulations on your pregnancy!!! I think i ve read before that once you have a stitch done once than every subsequent pregnancy will need a stitch placed!

 

[mum2rugrats]

Hiya thank you my last stitch was a emergency one at 20 weeks so its all new to me. Am i right in thinking this will be done after 12 weeks? xxx

 

[chistiana]

Yes, i think preventative stitches are placed between 12-14 weeks. I had mine closer to 18 weeks but that was due to unrelated bleeding that wouldnt allow for it to be placed earlier!

 

[mum2rugrats]

thank you for your help. I dont suppose anyone knows with it not been an emergency am i still ok to work? last time i was signed off sick but if they wont do it this time going to have to consider leaving. Sorry for silly questions but im just trying to think ahead x

 

[chistiana]

Unless there are other issues or complications involved and unless your cervix has already shortened or funneled i would assume that about a week of bed rest at the most should be ok and then you can go back to normal. There are a few ladies on here who recently had their stitches and they are already back to work (sunkiss??)

 

[DueSeptember]

Does the stitch Hurt?