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This was my 6th pregnancy, but 3 of
those were miscarriages, 2 were babies.
My 1st son was born at 34 weeks, after
PROM. My daughter was born at 30 weeks
after PROM. I got pregnant again in
July 2007, after trying for 2 years. I
was very excited, but nervous because of
my past problems with my pregnancies.
At 6 weeks I started spotting very
lightly, it lasted a couple weeks. I
had an ultrasound done and there was a
baby with a heartbeat in there. I felt
this pregnancy might go full term,
because I didn't bleed as much as I did
with the others. My doctor wanted me to
see a high risk specialist in Little
Rock once a month. They wanted to do an
ultrasound every 2 weeks to check the
cervical length. The first check it was
3 cm. The next check it was 2.5 cm. I
was only 21 weeks at this time, and a
normal cervix would be around 4 cm. I
was worried!. I started taking it easy,
staying off my feet as much as I could.
It was hard though because I had a 3
year old and a 6 year old, and two
step-sons and a husband to take care of.
Anyway, when I went back to Little Rock
for my next appointment, they sent me
over to the hospital to have a vaginal
ultrasound, because their machines were
down. Well, what they found devastated
me. They said that the amniotic sac was
bulging through my cervix. I was only
22 weeks, this could not be happening.
They wanted to admit me and do a rescue
cerclage the next day. Well, they
couldn't do the procedure until
thursday, two days later. When they
finally got me in, they gave me a spinal
block and looked inside me. The
resident doctor said to call the
attending physician down immediately.
30 minutes later (they didn't bother
covering me up or anything with 20 or so
students in there)the Dr. comes and
checks me, and says there isn't anything
they could do without breaking my water.
So they sent me back up to my room in a
decline position, head down, feet up,
until my water breaks. I was so
distraught. My husband came, and stayed
me, then had to leave cuz the kids were
home (it's a 3 hour drive). Anyway, my
water broke the next night. I started
getting an infection, with a fever on
saturday, then came the contractions. I
was in painful labor for 6 or so hours.
They finally decided for my health
reasons to induce me to get the baby
out. Elijah Everett was born at 12:26
am sunday morning. He weighed 470 gram,
and was so tiny. He lived for 1 1/2
hours in our arms with out taking a
single breath. That was the hardest
thing I have ever had to go through in
my life. This was 3 weeks ago, and my
heart still aches for my son. If anyone
has gone through this, and needs to
talk, cuz I do, please email me,
andrianhainey@yahoo.com thanks.
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