My baby boy was in a hurry to come to
this world. I started bleeding at 26
weeks. I thought i was loosing the
baby, since i did not remember feeling
movement that morning. I drove myself
to the hospital with tears flowing so i
could hardly see the road. The midwife
found strong heartbeat and i was so
reliefed. The doktor asked to see how
much i was bleeding, and said this was
not much. It looked a lot to me, but i
was comparing to normal menstuation,
this was a little bit more than normal
period.
I stayed in the hospital for two days,
and when i left the doctor told me this
was an innocent bleeding, since all
tissue get more rich with blood during
pregnancy. I was allowed to go back to
normal activity and told not to worry.
At 28 weeks bleeding started again with
some pain coming and going. I thougth
it was again innocent bleeding and just
called the hospital and was told not to
come in since it was not more than my
normal period. I had maternity
appointment 5 days later, and was still
bleeding a little bit and with quite som
pain in my right side. The midwife put
her hand on my stomack while i told her
what had happend. I am sure she
understood by the regularity of the
hardening of my belly, that something
was wrong. She called in doctor, who
after checking told me i was fully
effaced and dialated 1 cm. He told me
it looked like i was in active labor and
they wanted to keep me in the hospital
for observation. When the monitor
showed regular contracts every 3
minutes, i was taken to laber department
and told to prepare for early delivery.
I was given iv fluids with some medicin
to stop the contractions. Thank God, it
worked immediately. I was on complete
bedrest until i reached 34 weeks, then i
was allowed to go home, and continue
with bedrest there. Only go to toilet,
shower, breakfast and lunch myself, my
husband was cooking, cleaning and taking
care of me after he came home from work.
When i reached 36 weeks, doctors told
me i could move around more, but still
take it easy. At 36w3d i went to a
birthday party of my friend, a quiet
gathering of 5 people. After two hours
i stood up to leave the party since i
was not used to sit upright so long.
Then i felt some strange feeling in my
stomack and my trousers got weat
compleatly. It was way to much to be
urin, so i thought it was the placenta
rupturing and i thougth it was blood.
Went to the bathroom and saw it was
clear water. I called ambulance since
by baby was breech and i knew it was
possible the cord could fall out with
the water. After examination the doctor
told me all water was gone, and i would
have to stay in a rest-room in the
laber/delivery department. After my
stay in the hospital, i got to know many
woman and many different stories about
pregnancy difficultis. So i knew water
sometimes renew it self and pregnancy
can go on for many weeks after. I was
told to relax and i would get sleeping
pill so i could sleep. But contraction
started agin just after midnight.
Remember the water broke at 22:30. I
was checked for dialation at 23:30 and
it was still 1 cm, the same as i was at
28 weeks. I was concidered not in laber
and told to go to sleep. Just before
midnight the contractions started again.
Same durance and strength as the
contractions had been since they stopped
me on medication at 34 weeks. 10
minutes later contractions lasted 50
seconds and were 10 sec apart. 0:20
midwife cheked me (because i was
screaming loudly and pushing with each
contraction) and found the bottom of my
son moving down the birth canal. I went
from 1 cm dialation to fully 10 in only
30 minutes. The midwife pushed the
emergengy alarm and 2 nurses rushed in.
Breech delivery is a risk delivery, an
ob doctor should be present. They ran
with me in the bed across the hall
towards the delivery room. The doctor
just made it in time to withness the
birth of a tiny 2.450g, 48cm boy. It
was 3 hours after my membraces ruptured
and after only 35 minutes of active
labor. My premature labor and prom was
concidered to be the result of a weak
cervix, but i had an operation due to
early signs of possible cancer in the
cervix. My boy is a healthy 6 years old
starting school today, his homepage can
be found at:
Thanks for sharing, it helped me a lot
to read other women's experience, when I
got pregnant the second time and this
time I was better prepared and had more
knowledge of what could go wrong.
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