By Jade, United Kingdom
PROM at 18 weeks + 5 days. Delivery at 25 weeks.
Story added: 2016-09-13

In November 2015 my first son Tommy was born at exactly 25 weeks weighing 1lb 10oz due to me suffering from pprom a 18+5 from the moment my waters broke until I reached 21 weeks I was advised to terminate as it was extreme unlikely I would reach viability or that my son would survive birth. Tommy was born on the 30th of November 2015 at Oldham Royal hospital where I had been transferred a few days earlier I was given steroids at the right time which helped Tommy survive labour 4 minutes into life he took hi first breath he continued to fight for 4 and a half months unfortunately he passed away in April 2016 my beautiful boy I had raised for the last four months grew his wings in front of me he died in my arms and I have never experienced pain like it. Around the time of Tommys' funeral I suffered from an extremely heavy bleed and a lot of abdominal pain I was convinced that I must have been in the early stages of a second pregnancy and had began to miscarriage due to stress . I made an appointment with the early pregnancy unit who gave an internal scan the nurse told me that i was around 15weeks pregnant but that she couldn't be sure of my exact gestation as the scan wasn't the right type for how far I was I was incredibly shocked and absolutely distraught about being pregnant again it was all too soon and I felt I couldn't concentrate on my second child having just lost my first I decided to continue with the pregnancy I bled almost all the way through just like I had wth Tommy this obviously caused terrible anxiety and doubt throughout it was impossible to enjoy this new little life inside At 23 weeks I went up to the labor ward with pains to be told my waters had broke once again June 13th 2016 Billy was born sleeping 1lb 7oz My head just couldn't get around the fact I had lost both of my children in the space of three months Now in September the want of another child is unbearable but the fear of trying again is immense Just before I conceived Tommy my mother saw a medium who told her I was about to have "two boys not necessarily the same" that sentence has haunted me since Tommy was born but the fact that nothing else was mentioned gives me a little hope that I will be able to have a child in the future has anybody ever experienced pprom on more than one occasion and then gone on to have a successful pregnancy ? Is it possible for this to happen every time I get pregnant ?