By Molly Nier, Rochester, NY USA
PROM at 19 weeks + 4 days. Delivery at 20 weeks + 2 days.
Story added: 2002-01-16

This is hopefully the last of my PROM stories. After my first two PROM losses I again tried to get pregnant. This time it wasn't so easy. My husband and I were referred to a reproductive endocronologist. We went through all the tests and were diagnosed with unexplained infertility. Our first plan of action was clomid with inseminations. We tried the first time in Feb 01--didn't work. March we were unable to try because I had a cyst on my ovary and actually took birth control pills to get rid of it. My second insem was on Good Friday the 13th in April. 2 weeks later we found out we were pregnant. I was referred to a perinatologist for this pregnancy. He started at week 11 doing ultrasounds to check my cervix every 2 weeks. At week 17 my cervix was funneling and I was taken in for an emergency cerclage. The doctor told me my cervix was in pretty bad shape by then and could only close it at the bottom. I was put out on bedrest and just prayed that would do the trick. I definitely had an incompetent cervix. Well, 3 weeks later I ruptured again. I was taken to the hospital and stayed there for 3 days more and was sent home. I started having contractions the next day and went back to the hospital again. When they hooked me up to the monitors they could not pick up anything when I was feeling the contractions and thought that it may just be a bladder infection. My hopes were up again. They had to take the stitch out to avoid infection and when they did a speculum exam they saw the foot. It was happening again. This time I waited until I went into labor on my own. My whole family waited with me, my husband, my mother and my 5 sisters. About 15 minutes after my sisters left at 2:21 in the am on August 18, 2001 my son was born. We named him John Edward. When he was born he was breathing and when I held him, he wrapped his hand around my finger. That memory will be with me forever. He only lived about 20 minutes. Now I have 3 angels buried next to each other and the pain has not lessened. I still want so bad to have a baby and was willing to try again. I am 34 so I did not want to wait to see if we can do it on our own for months so I went right back to the RE and had an insem done on Dec 1. It worked and I am now 8 1/2 weeks pregnant. The plan this time is to do a cerclage at 12 weeks, before the funneling starts. I am hoping to be put on bedrest for the duration. I will do anything to get through this pregnancy with a live baby in my arms. Please say a prayer for me and my baby. I hope to be a successful story with this one.
PROM #1
PROM #2