By Sarah, Ft Drum NY USA
PROM at 20 weeks + 3 days. Delivery at 30 weeks + 4 days.
Story added: 2001-11-11

I had a perfectly normal pregnancy with my son and went to go get my ultrasound at 19 weeks and was called back from the doctor and told that I had low fluid or oligohydramnios and since I live in a small town was referred to a perinatoligist in a bigger town and was diagnosed with severe oligohydramnios and had a AFI number of 6.8 and was advised since my hubbys sister had defects to have an amniocentises and so I did have it and then 6 dys later I heard a pop and gush and then it was blood went to the emergency room and nothing...it stopped before I got there and then they sent me home and then I was put on bedrest of course and when I went back to the doctors at the perinatal center the next day I had an AFI of 3.1 then was at home and I woke up on Wensday September 12th bleeding bad and had gone to the emergency room and stayed there until 5 am when they let me go to go to the perinatolists for a normal appointment and when i got there i had an AFI of 1.6 and so the doctor decided to send me to the hospital for 10 days to see what was going on and they figured out that my water had broken because the bleeding episodes that I had slowly turned from bright red blood to pink tinged and after the 10 days he let me go home and on strict bedrest...then 2 weeks later I woke up again bleeding bad only this time alot worse so we set off again in the middle of the night to the hospital... I was kept there until I was stable enough to be transported to the bigger hospital and at the bigger hospital I stayed until one morning I woke up in bad pain and started having contractions and so they took me upstairs to have the c-section my little girl was breech.. and Kaitlyn Marie was born at 30 weeks 4 dys weighing 3 lbs 11 oz and breathing on her own...that was the greatest thing considering I was told IF she HAD lungs she had a 70% survival rate... she of course tuckered out and spent 2 dys on the occilator and 3 days on ventilator and then 3 dys on CPAP but now is on oxygen and weighs 4 lbs 3 ounces and will be coming home soon...Please listen to your hearts and if someone tells you to terminate and you don't feel right about it that despite my daugter having low and no fluid for all of her life in me she came out doing great... Update on Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn came home at 35 wks weighing 4lbs 9oz on oxygen.3weeks later she came of oxygen and has been off since she is now 5months old and doing everything she should for her corrected age. She now weighs 14lbs 11oz and is doing great. She has no ill effects from the pregnancy or her prematurity.