One very very large "oh heck"

[dizz]

So I appear to be pregnant again - we'd always decided not to prevent a second but anticipated a similar battle to before to concieve (I'm still not 100% it's a sticky - have a history of early miscarriages).

By dates it'll put me due a week after E's first birthday - obviously considering she came at 33 weeks with the horror story trainwreck birth and no real reason WHY labour happened early - I'm blooming terrified here (not least at the possibility that if things happen the same again I'll end up with two under one)!

I can eliminate SOME of the terror factor by pushing to at least go to the other hospital in the city - but the fear of NICU and another stay with feeding tubes and everything has me absolutely bricking it.

 

[AP]

it really is terrifying isnt it.
The odds are in your favour though - if theres no reason why it happened before then theres lots to do to prevent it happening again so you'll be well monitored for every possibility I guess.
Again like you I had 2 mc before Alex, and then with T I expected the very worse. But with no reason for it to have happened, there was no reason why it should happen again.

 

[emaritska]

Ooh Hun, you must be worried but we are all here!!! Fingers crossed for you and huge hugs xxxxxxx

 

[Srrme]

Congratulations. I fell pregnant shortly after having my first, who was born 11 weeks early (my boys are 12 months + 3 weeks apart). I was put on progesterone injections, bi-weekly cervical length checks, and watched very, very carefully. I made it to 35 weeks. I believe I would have made it farther had I been put on strict cervix rest, but 35 weeks was a lot farther than I made it with my first. We spent 3 weeks in the NICU, which beat spending 8 weeks in the NICU with my first. It's hard, but you'll manage somehow, whatever happens.