sar35
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Well heres my birth story, it has a happy ending!
I was diagnosed with placenta previa at 20weeks but was told most of them move out of the way and dont cause a prob, had bleeding throughout my pg but very small bleeds! Rescanned at 34 weeks Placenta still covering os, was due to go back for a date for section at 36weeks.
On tues 30th Nov, my OH was coming home from work early cos of the snow although he was only 2hours away it took him over 6hours to get home.
I had been feeling sick all day so stayed on the sofa, he went upstairs to play on the playstation, about 15mins later I thought i'd wet myself so went upstairs to the toilet and felt wet again, got on the toilet and started to gush clots, some really big ones, shouted at OH to call ambulance, which he did I was screaming at this time as we were told if i bleed i could hemmorage within 10mins! So so scared, we dont have cordless phones so we were shouting through the doors(he was in bedroom) was told to come off the toilet so i layed on the bathroom floor, my sis in law came after my Oh sent my son over to get her, he went over in his socks in the snow bless him and got her! she got some pillows to out under my bum and looked in the toilet and thought it was the placenta. Ambulance too ages to come, they couldnt check if baby was ok.
There was no urgency for the ambulance, bleeding stopped, went to hospital, once there i was having contractions but then i was wetting myself with every big contraction then lost more blood, the consultant told the mw to watch and wait which no one was happy with!, then i sat on the comode and went to the wee again while they changed my bed, then the big bleed happened and this one wasnt stopping. Crash team were called.
Room filled with the whole hospital, (so it seemed) some bloke called Dave said 'im Dave, drink this'
someone getting me to sign forms and telling me i could have hysterectomy, about 5ppl talking to me at once, while mw was shaving me and holding baby monitor on me.
Got to theatre and was fading, i asked if they gave me the stuff to make me drowsy they said no, i was losing so much blood, i thought i was dying again!. They put in a catheter and put that stuff on my belly, that was the end of that!
woke up, baby was 5weeks early but weighed a whopping 6lb5oz! he needed help with his breathing and was sent to scbu, He is a boy and his name is Joe!
He is still there but doing well, we are just waiting for him to start feeding properly, they said that we have to bear in mind that although he is a good weight he is still premature, we hope to have him home by the end of the week. I had a blood transfusion and am anaemic, i lost nearly 2litres of blood!
He was born on Wed 1st Dec at 0304am.
wow that was a long story!
I was diagnosed with placenta previa at 20weeks but was told most of them move out of the way and dont cause a prob, had bleeding throughout my pg but very small bleeds! Rescanned at 34 weeks Placenta still covering os, was due to go back for a date for section at 36weeks.
On tues 30th Nov, my OH was coming home from work early cos of the snow although he was only 2hours away it took him over 6hours to get home.
I had been feeling sick all day so stayed on the sofa, he went upstairs to play on the playstation, about 15mins later I thought i'd wet myself so went upstairs to the toilet and felt wet again, got on the toilet and started to gush clots, some really big ones, shouted at OH to call ambulance, which he did I was screaming at this time as we were told if i bleed i could hemmorage within 10mins! So so scared, we dont have cordless phones so we were shouting through the doors(he was in bedroom) was told to come off the toilet so i layed on the bathroom floor, my sis in law came after my Oh sent my son over to get her, he went over in his socks in the snow bless him and got her! she got some pillows to out under my bum and looked in the toilet and thought it was the placenta. Ambulance too ages to come, they couldnt check if baby was ok.
There was no urgency for the ambulance, bleeding stopped, went to hospital, once there i was having contractions but then i was wetting myself with every big contraction then lost more blood, the consultant told the mw to watch and wait which no one was happy with!, then i sat on the comode and went to the wee again while they changed my bed, then the big bleed happened and this one wasnt stopping. Crash team were called.
Room filled with the whole hospital, (so it seemed) some bloke called Dave said 'im Dave, drink this'
someone getting me to sign forms and telling me i could have hysterectomy, about 5ppl talking to me at once, while mw was shaving me and holding baby monitor on me.Got to theatre and was fading, i asked if they gave me the stuff to make me drowsy they said no, i was losing so much blood, i thought i was dying again!. They put in a catheter and put that stuff on my belly, that was the end of that!
woke up, baby was 5weeks early but weighed a whopping 6lb5oz! he needed help with his breathing and was sent to scbu, He is a boy and his name is Joe!
He is still there but doing well, we are just waiting for him to start feeding properly, they said that we have to bear in mind that although he is a good weight he is still premature, we hope to have him home by the end of the week. I had a blood transfusion and am anaemic, i lost nearly 2litres of blood!
He was born on Wed 1st Dec at 0304am.
wow that was a long story!
to you both
:wave:hi hope you didn't mind me stalking your thread. I want to say Congratulations! I am so sorry about what you had went through. I read allot on this type of condition and the outcome is not as positive. I am very glad in your case you were able to come out with a success story and give hope to others out there that although it’s a small chance of survival it can happen.
