My husband and I have a 2 year old.
We decided to do IVF treatment again
as we did with our daughter. I found
out we were pregnant with twins in
June. The pregnancy was difficult
from the beginning. I started to
bleed at 8 weeks and continued until
12 weeks. The high risk doctors said
it was a blood pocket near Baby A
placenta. After my amnio at 17 weeks
the blood pocket was gone. They also
checked my cervix and everything
looked ok. I saw my OB/Gyn @ 1 week
after the amnio and again everything
was fine. We had a sigh of relief.
My amnio came back fine. I had a boy
(BabyA) and a girl(BabyB). I was 19
wks 5 dys, I had a cold and cough. I
took sudafed as advised from my Dr. I
went to sleep with my 2 year old. @
12:30am woke up feeling like I had to
go to the bathroom. Felt like gas
pains, but they would come and go.
After @ 15 minutes of these, I called
the DR. He sent me to the hospital to
be checked. Before I made it out the
door of my house, Baby A's water bag
was about to come out. We rushed to
the hopsital and they informed me it
was infact the water bag of BabyA and
that it was still in tact. The
outlook was grim. They finally
started me on Mag which made me vomit
and I broke BabyA's bag. Now that
there were ruptured membranes, the
outcome was worse. They informed me
that if I tried to save them, I could
get an infection which would cause
harm to me and my unborn children.
Obviously, I have a 2 year old at home
and couldn't let anything happen to
me. Also I started having
contractions and they couldn't get
them under control. They recommended
to deliver the twins. I wanted to try
to save my baby girl(BabyB) atleast
since Baby A didn't look like he was
going to make it. I asked why this
happened and my doctors think it was a
combination of things: surgery on my
cervix(1987), blood pocket, sickness
cold and a premature delivery at 36
wks with my daughter, besides pre-
eclampsia. I wondered why I wasn't
more closely monitored especially with
a twin pregnancy. I am still searching
for answers. I have been informed
that my incompetant cervix will get a
cerclage next time, hopefully that
will work, because I cannot handle
this again. I delivered my son, Jorge
Alexander, on Oct 22, 2004 at 2:50 pm
and my daughter followed right behind
him at 2:52 pm. They are Angels of
God now. I had them cremated and
buried. The best thing I ever did was
hold them and tell them I was sorry,
but that God needed them now and
hopefully I will get to meet them at
another time.
I told them that we loved them very
much and they will always be in our
hearts.
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