By Sam, Boulder Creek, CA USA24 weeks pregnant with my second son, I was sitting at home, enjoying a sip of red wine with friends on a Friday night, I felt a leak, went to the bathroom and figured I was just a little wet, but it happened twice more, and then I called my husband into the bathroom and as I leant over water started gushing down my legs.
PROM at 24 weeks + 5 days. Delivery at 32 weeks + 1 days.
Story added: 2002-12-09
We called the OB who asked us to go straight to the ER. Once we reached the ER they checked a fully soaked pad and confirmed it was amniotic fluid, put an IV in me with antibiotics, gave me a betamethasone shot and arranged emergency transport to Stanford.
To cut a long story short, we never figured out why I PROM'd, but I was on bedrest at Stanford for 7.5 weeks (great staff in the ante-partum ward) and delivered Bailey with apgars of 9 and 9 after a c-section at 32 weeks due to his low heartrate drops during and between contractions (we now know he has a weird arrythmia not related to PROM or prematurity.
He weighed 2lb 13oz at birth (his growth curve in utero was going down and a cord flow study also showed my placenta was not delivering nutrients/oxygen the way it needed to) and he was pulled out literally screaming.
Bailey required no oxygen during his hospital stay, was in the NICU and ICN for 6 weeks, and is now home, fully breastfed, but with horrible reflux. He required some physical therapy for stiff legs which was due to being squashed in me without fluid for so long, but that has now resolved. He also has a VSD (hole in the heart) but we're hoping it will close on its own.
Now at 9 weeks old, Bailey weighs over 6 1/2 pounds and has already grown out of some of his preemie clothes!