Very sadly, our darling baby Ethan was
born after a long fight with PROM.
I was on a bunsines trip in the US and
for the whole week I thought that I
was getting really wet pants but never
being pregnant before, I thought that
it was ok.
Just before I was to check out and go
to get my flight home, I had a bath
and while in there I thought that I
would just check out my cervex (for
some reason, must have been to do with
the leaking). To my horror, I felt
that there was something that felt
like a large blister where my cervex
should be.
I dialled 911 and got taken to the
nearest hospital where at 20 weeks and
6 days they said that I was 2cm
dialated and that the waters were
bulging through the cervex.
This was such a shock - I had been
merrily buying pregnancy clothes and
clothes for the baby as well a few
hours before hand.
I had never heard of this happening
before and never thought that anything
like this would happen to me. The
hospital managed to push the bag of
water back and sew up my cervex but
said that because the bag of water had
been exposed to the air that it could
rupture at any time.
I managed to fly home after this and
get bed rest for 10 days until my
waters broke.
This was terrifying and what I had
been dreading what would happen, I
couldn't stop crying and didn't know
what to do.
When we turned up at the hospital I
thought that we were treated very
coldly and that the doctor was annoyed
with us getting her out of bed! I
cannot believe that people can be so
callous. It's an outrage. It may be
a day job for some people but to
people that are loosing a precious
baby - it's a whole different
thing.
Very sadly, on 12th June, after an
infection developed in my womb, our
darling baby was born and lived just a
short while before dying in our
arms.
I still cannot believe what has
happened but have tried to go back to
work to get back to some normaility
and try not to just stare at the wall
all day long.
It's nice to see that there is a web-
site where people recognise the fact
that PROM happens - as I don't think
it is very well know - especially in
England.
My heart goes out to all the people
that are reading this, because I guess
that you too have lost a precious baby
or have had a very traumatic time -
just remember that you cannot judge a
book by the amount of pages it has but
what those pages have in them and that
some of the greatest symphonies are
those which are unfinished.
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