I was 20 wks pregnant with twin boys, i
had had a few problems in the early
stages of the pregnancy with bleeding
but everytime i went into hospital they
checked me over and all was fine. After
i passed the 12 wk stage i began to
relax a bit because i thought that was
pretty much past the danger stage for
misscarriage, i was due to have my 20 wk
scan on 22 feb 06, this was my first
pregnancy so i was really looking
forward to seeing a scan where the twins
actually looked like proper babies not
just blobs, on the 19th i had backache
and found it hard to sleep but figured
it was just cos i was so big due to it
being twins, the next day i was still
achy but everyone said it was just
growing pains, i went to my grandmas
house and we were looking at pushchairs
on the internet, i was still getting
lower backache but i was also getting
pains accross my belly that felt like
someone stretching an elastic babd
accross me then letting it go, they
werent really painfull, just annoying,
in the end my nan said call hospital
just to check, which i did and they said
come in, i wasnt worried at all though
because there was no blood and it hardly
hurt.
When we got to the hospital the nurse
checked my babies heartbeats (which were
fine), she measured my belly and took
urine samples to check 4 infection, all
came bk negative, i was still getting
the pains, i went to toilet and whilst
on toilet my membrane sac poppped out,
the nurses came to help, i was put on a
bed and a doctor scanned me and both my
babies were where they should be with
stong heartbeats.
I was elevated on the bed so my sac
could go bk in with the help of gravity,
i was left like that for 20 hrs, by the
time they came bk one of my tins had
gone into birth canal and i was told id
have to give birth, no one had offered
to stitch me up to try to prolong the
preganancy, or gave me the option to try
to deliver the first twin and attempt to
save the 2nd one.
On 21 feb 06 i went into labour, the
doctor had to break my first lot of
waters and had to manually deliver my
first son, he was breathing for 2 mins
after birth, my second son was lying
accross my belly very high up, his
waters were in tact and he had a
heartbeat, i asked the doctor to give me
time to see if my cervix would close bk
up, he said he would then he said he
wanted to do an examination to see where
everything was, instaed of scanning me
to see he did a manual exam, during
which he broke my other sac of waters
which meant i had no choice but to
deliver my 2nd son, it took an hr to
deliver him, during which time he died,
he was stillborn.
I believe that had the doctor left me
alone my son had a chance of survival,
it seems like the doctors just think
there is no point so lets just get on
with it.
I dont know if any one else has had this
problem but because my first son teshaan
was breathing, i had to get a birth
certificate and death certificate for
him, but because of the long time
between their deliverys my second son
lee died inside me so i was not allowed
to register him at all, i think this is
really unfair as they are twins.
I held my sons funeral on 8 march 06, it
was the worst day of my life.
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