(I was being watched by a speciality
doctor because of possible incompetent
cervix (IC). My PPROM was not due to
IC though.) It all started with
Braxton Hicks (BH) contractions on a
Wednesday that became worse over a
couple of days. By Friday I wernt in
to get checked out about it because I
was feeling pressure with the BH. I
went in to L & D and saw a resident.
He gave me a full pelvic and was kind
of rough. He had me come in the next
day on Saturday to check my cervix
again - and to give me another
pelvic. I was only fingertip to
closed, but I cramped for the next
three days because of the exam. I
spotted only the day after the exam.
The entire next week I just felt bad.
I was tired and something didn't
feel "right." Then on Wednesday (6
days after the first exam) I had
brown/red smearing in my panties. A
decent amount, but when I called the
nurse she said to talk to my doctor
about it that day at an appt I already
had. My doctor said it was probably
from the exam. On Saturday I woke up
and thought I peed myself. Well, I
continued to "pee" myself for another
5 hours. After having to change my
undies a second time I finally went to
L & D. They ran tests on me and said
it was not my amnoitic fluid, that the
baby was lying on my bladder causing
me to uncontrollably pee myself.
(Keep in mind, I felt no pressure on
my bladder and the "urine" would
continue to dribble even when I would
try to "hold it.") So they sent me
home. The next day, Sunday, it almost
went completely away, so I figured
they must have been right. On Monday
it picked up again later in the day.
I had enough at this point and went
back in to L & D. I ran into my
doctor on the way up and he met me at
the L & D. I told him what was going
on and that I did not think I had been
peeing myself for 3 days. Thank God
he believed me. The tests came up
negative as it beiing amnoitic fluid.
But he trusted me so he did an
ultrasound and thought my fluid looked
low. WE went down to his office at
the OB/GYN clinic and he measured my
fluid with the ultrasound machine and
compared it to the utlrasound I just
had 3 weeks before. I had lost 50% of
my fluid. He told me to take my son
home, and come right back to the
hospital. I went back and was
admitted to await a dye test in the
morning. My doula met me there at the
hospital. I went to use the bathroom
once in my room and I had a little
bloody show. My doula told me to tell
my doctor when he came in to check on
me. Within a half an hour I started
having contractions with rectal
pressure. The dr came in and I told
him what was going on - back to L & D
we went. My water had completely
ruptured at this point. My
contractions picked up and were 5
minutes apart with growing intensity
for 2 hours - and then they stopped.
My dr wanted to get steriods in me for
the babies lungs and to try to hold
off labor until I was 34 weeks. If I
went into labor prior to the round of
steriods were over, they would give me
magnesium to stop the labor.
Otherwise, they would just let me go,
or induce me at 34 weeks. At 5:30 am
on Thursday (4 days later) I was woke
up by contractions, but they would not
register on the monitor. My nurse
thought they were bladder spasms.
Another nurse came in to check on me
and agreed with me they were
contractions not bladder spasms.
After having contractions for 12+
hours the nurse that agreed with me
managed to slide me into L & D behind
the doctors back. I was dialated to 4
and 50% effaced. (Some bladder
spasms, heh) They put me in a
birthing room but my labor was stalled
and infection had set in. There was
no telling how long it had been
stalled, but they had to give me
pitocin because my fever spiked up to
101.7 and the baby's heart rate was
skyrocketting 220+. If the pitocin
didn't work, we'd have to do an
emergency c-section. Finally at 1244
am on Friday, after 19 hours of labor,
I gave natural birth to my 4lb 10
ounce and 18 inch little boy. That
was on 15 Oct 04. He is still in the
NICU as of today, 1 Nov 04, but will
hopefully leave by 6 Nov 04. He was
born with no health issues other than
needing antibiotics because the
infection entered his bloodstream. He
is just hanging out at the NICU until
he has a hang of eating. I am blessed
that everything went as well as it
did, it could have gone the seriously
wrong way. Honestly, a story I read
on this website is what caused me to
go in. I'm glad I listened to what
she said.
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