My waters went on Christmas Day 2004 i
was 30 weeks and a few days pregnanct
with our first child. I thought i'd
wet myself but phoned the labour ward
telling them I was going in, we
expected that I had a UTI and i'd be
home in a few hours with
antibiotics.
We arrived at the hospital and were
examined immediatly and informed that
my waters had gone and that I was
going to have to stay in as in in
patient as i'd almost certainly go in
to labour within 48 hours. The
hospital started ringing round as
their SCBU only took babies over 32
weeks but as the only bed was 200
miles away we decided to wait and see
what was happening.
I spend 10 days on the post natal ward
on 4 hourly obs, twice daily CTG
monitoring and antibiotics incase of
infection, I also had the steroids. I
leaked fluid continually.
At 32+2 i started feeling crampy and
was feeling a lot of pressure I also
had a show. I called my Midwife who
took me to the delivery suite where i
was examined and found to be 4 cm
dilated. My labour progressed
completly normally and my beautiful
Daughter Grace was born after 4 and a
half hours, she cried immediatly and
was bigger then expected at 4lb8oz.
Her apgar scores were 10, 10 and 10
which was fantastic for a term baby,
miraculous for a prem.
She spent a month in SCBU to establish
feeding and because she had pretty bad
Jaundice, we didnt have any other
problems related to her
prematurity.
She's 4 in a few weeks and you'd never
know she was premature, infact i'd say
after about 6 months no-one would have
guessed she ever had been.
I am currently on my 2nd PPROM
pregnancy so there is truth in you
being more likely to go though it
again if you have once already. I am
26 weeks after my waters going at 22,
i'll add the story when we know how
its going to go. My PPROMS are caused
by an incompetant cervix which in turn
was caused by repeated cervical pre
cancer treatments (Lletz).
Best wishes to you all, its a
terrifying time but there are good
outcomes.
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