By Pamela, Salt Lake City, UT USAI am one of the unfortunate ones who do not have a successful PROM story to share. However, i do believe that all information - good and bad - is helpful for those that are going thru this for the first time and i'd like to do my part in helping to educate anyone out there who can benefit from our loss.
PROM at 22 weeksDelivery at 24 weeks + 3 days.
Story added: 2003-07-16
My husband and I found out we were expecting two months after being married. We were not trying but because we were older, it was a welcome event. We were thrilled.
Our pregnancy was very uneventful - I had no problems at all medically. The only thing that I can now say was probably not normal, was that I had a lot of discomfort early in the pregnancy that probably is more closely associated with a 7 or 8 month pregnancy. Tailbone soreness, difficulty getting comfortable, pain in my rib cage, etc. Being that this was my first pregnancy, I didn't think it was all that unusual and I was never told by my OB that things were progressing abnormally. I don't know if this has any correlation to the PROM or not but it does seem abnormal to me now.
At 22wks,I felt a small pop and then a small gush of fluid. I called L&D at my hospital and they told me to come in and be checked out. They confirmed it was my water breaking and admitted me to the hospital, started me on i.v. antibiotics. They explained that our baby was on the cusp of viability and that our outcome was dependent upon how long we could go without going into labor. We lasted a little more than two weeks. Because the baby was breech, we decided to have a c-section to give him the best possible outcome. Unfortunately, our Luca - at 24.3wks of gestation - did not have the lung maturity to be able to survive. He lived for approximately 8 hours.
We do not know what caused our PROM and never will. We did have an amnio at around 16 1/2wks that may or may not have contributed to our PROM - we don't know.
We were never asked to terminate or son and I highly recommend anyone who is faced with this situation to not terminate unless your life is in danger. Too many doctors are quick to tell you that your baby's chances of survival are near zero when in fact, there are many, many women who remained hopeful and lasted several weeks/months and now have beautiful healthy babies. There is hope.
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