By kadie, st.paul.mn usa
PROM at 27 weeks + 6 days. Delivery at 28 weeks.
Story added: 2002-06-05

Hi my name is kadie and i was pregnent at 27 weeks with my daughter and i was playing cards with a bunch of friends and it ws summer at the time i was wearing gray shorts and my friend had reach over and told me your leaking i was like what that was because i was sitting indian sytle and so then i got up and went to the rest room and when i seen it was this pinkisk guwwy stuff but i didnt think it was any thing so then i took a warm bath . then i went back to play cards agian with my friends i was sitting indian sytle agian i ws really feeling compfortable so then i just dicided to go to sleep and takes some tynale. i went to sleep about 7:45pm and i woke up at 4:00am in the morning having bad contractions (this was my first preg.) so then i had told one of my roommates to take me to the hos. and we had been living in a small town at the time so the hos. ride ws like 45 min away . when i got there they told me that my membrance had rupture and that i was i 4cm dilated and sense i was only 27 weeks and they didnt have a nicu team there they had to send a hilocopter to come and get me. the doctor had said that i will take them about 45 mins to get me .during that time i was haveing bad contractions and the doctor had said that there could be chances of my daugter dieing . so then i got dilated to 8cm during that 45min. the docters there had dicided that we should just let her deliver and by that time they should be here to help with baby but they had got there like 2 mins. after and they hurried up and got me to a hos.in the city in 30 mins they took me to my room and put me on a monitor they had examined and seen that i went back down to 4cm so they decided to watch me on a monitor and gave me iv fluids .an hour later i was feeling nausated so they siad they would give medicines to let me rest.while i was resting the nurse had seen that my daughters heart beat was going down so they induced me and all night i was going in and out of labor the next day a 4:44 pm i had went to the delivrie room and had a 2ibs 14oz baby girl good set of lungs and had only been in the nicu for 8 weeks the problam she had was apnea but they brought her home on a monitor and after that she didnt have any problams got off the monitor in three weeks. but i still dont know why i had rupture menbrances .please help



ps.she is now 21 months old and very healthy abcept that we just found out she has epilipsy. and now i found out that i have incompenteant cervix.could have that cause please help