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Laurie's PROM Story   by Laurie, Morgan Hill,CA USA PROM at 20 + 3 weeks, delivery at 22 + 3 weeks Story added 2004-05-26

 

Early on in my pregnancy I had a corpus leuteal cyst that seemed to diminish in size properly. I also had intermittant spotting during the first trimester. The doctor put me on a no exercise order for the remainder of the first trimester. Around 20 weeks 3 days I had a small gush of water in the middle of the night. At 5pm the following day I had a small gush of blood (more than spotting) and went to the doctor right away. (I had forgotten about the middle of the night water until then since it was the middle of the night) At 20 weeks 3 days, and I was put on bed-rest for the rest of the pregnancy and classified as high-risk. The prognosis was not good, the doctors gave only a 5% chance that everything would work out ok and abortion was reported as an option. It was an easy decision to make for us to make to do everything we could to give her a chance. The doctors also said that premature rupturing happens in about 2% of pregnancies and there is nothing to predict why or how and there is nothing we did to cause it. The hardest part is still believing it. We had 16 days of bed-rest at home. The doctors didn't want to admit me until 23 weeks 6 days when she would be a viable fetus. Two days before the miscarriage I woke up at 4am with horrible abdominal cramping and constipation, sweating and lightheadedness. We called the on- call doctor and were advised to go in. The baby's heartrate was ok (to me it seemed high at 167) but no problem was detected and it was thought that I was just constipated. They told me labor pains started in your back and would hold for longer than a minute. On day 16 of bedrest I had terrible abdominal cramping again for 4 hours. I thought it was the same problem as 2 days prior. My baby was a still-birth at home. The placenta didn't detach for hours later. They said later that there was inflamation at the placenta or the beginning signs of an infection. We got to hold her and name her. She was perfect. Born early at 22 weeks 3 days. I'll never regret seeing her and holding her.

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