This was my first pregnancy and it was
fabulous. I had no problems aside from
having pneumonia early on. I did
everything right and had never even
thought that I may be a candidate for
preterm labor. At our 20 week U/S they
couldn't get a picture of Cooper's
lumbar spine. So we went for a second
(we were so happy to get to see him
again) two weeks later on January
30,2008. Everything looked great, as
it had the last time. The next day, I
was leaking fluid all day long. I
thought it was leakage from the
medicine that I had been given for my
yeast infection the night before. But
when I passed two small blood clots, I
went right to the doctor. She told me
that my water had broken and sent me
directly to the hospital. I was
admitted and told that I was not
contracting or dilating. I lasted
until the next morning before the
contractions began. That was the worst
feeling in my life...not the pain but
the fear of what was about to happen
to us and to our little boy. They put
me on a morphine drip hoping to stop
my contractions, as my cervix was
still not at all dilated, it was,
however, thinning out. As the
contractions got worse throughout the
morning, I developed a fever and had
to be INDUCED. That afternoon was
spent in tears and sadness. I wanted
it to be over with and I just wanted
him to come, but I will never forget
the doctor's words when she checked my
cervix after I told them I was feeling
something, even though I had had an
epidural. She said, "You can push". I
wanted nothing more than to reverse
time and go back to my fabulous
pregnancy of the morning before.
Cooper was delivered easily after
three pushes. He was always so good to
me...never made me sick, never caused
me any problems, and he never kicked
too hard. I know he was little, but he
was, of course, the perfect baby. He
lived for a few minutes...each of
those minutes were spent in my arms
being loved.
The doctors have no explanation as to
why I pPROMed. They are calling it a
fluke, but will take precautions the
next time, and have quoted me the 30%
repeat statistic. It makes little
sense that it is a fluke when they can
give you stats on a repeat.
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