Warning this has a sad ending :o(
I found out I was pregnant on June 5,
1998, I didn't know I was 14 weeks
pregnant at the time. I went to the dr
because I thought I was having
accidents on myself, but it turned out
my fluid sac ruptured. Any how the drs
didn't realize it until I was around 19
weeks. They gave me the choice to
terminate the baby or go through with
the pregnancy knowing that our baby had
a 50% chance of survival. I just
couldn't do it, soI went on with the
pregnancy.
On Aug. 17, 1998 I was put in the
hospital for strict bed rest until the
baby was mature enough to be born.
However our beautiful son, Isaiah
Jonathan Skidmore was born on Aug. 19
at 9:08 pm weighing 1lb 12oz and was
11.5 inches long. So tiny. The neonatal
dr came in to the recovery room and
told my boyfriend and I that he was
looking a lot better than they
expected. Well I was up all day with
contractions so I was so tired. We got
to see our baby before I went back up
to my room. It was around 11 o'clock so
they told my boyfriend he had to go. So
he left.
Around 4 I woke up to go see our son,
when I got there he wasn't doing so
well. I stayed with him for a while, I
should of stayed LONGER, but who
knew.....I went back up to my room and
around 6:40 the nurse came in and told
me that the NICU dr wanted to see me.
Right than I knew it wasn't good.
I got there and got to hold our child
for the last 20 minutes of his life. My
boyfriend wasn't even there in time to
say his good byes to our son. This has
been so hard to deal with. You can
visit his webpage at www.geocities.com/Welles
ley/Gazebo/8178.
It has the whole story and pictures of
me, Bo, and our son Isaiah. I would
like to know of some sucess stories
about subsequent pregnancies after
PROM. We are talking about trying
again, but I'm so afraid of PROM
happening again. I would also like to
know some chances of it happening
again.
Thank You.
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