By Pamela, Salt Lake city, UT usaThis is my PPROM update. Although I still mourn the loss of my first son, Luca, I am so proud to now be the mother of two beautiful PAP sons. My first pregnancy after PROM was a very non-eventful pregnancy. I was watched constantly for I/C but nothing was ever found during that pregnany that gave any indication as to why I prommed with Luca. My beautiful son Gabriel was born in Sept. of 2003 at 36 weeks. He was delivered early by scheduled c-section because my PROM pregnancy resulted in an emergency c- section and I was not able to have a VBAC.
. Delivery at 36 weeks + 1 days.
Story added: 2006-06-25
I became pregnant again in June of 2005 and was thrilled as my husband and I had not really planned on having another child. After losing Luca and then subsequently being blessed with a healthy child, we felt that maybe we should be thankful for what we had. We are both in our early 40's so there was a factor of age that also was to be considered. Finding out that we were pregnant however, made us think that maybe God had a different plan for us! I really didn't want to believe it and felt that somehow we would end up losing the baby but we had another pretty normal pregnancy and were blessed once again with a beautiful healthy boy who is named Anthony.
I still don't know the reasons why I prommed with Luca. It bothered me in the beginning when doctors would say it was just a fluke. We all know that there must have been a reason but we will most likely never know why. I do know that if Luca had survived, my little Anthony would not be here today and I can't imagine my world without him. For reasons I cannot explain here,I sometimes feel that he is our little Luca who has returned to us.
For all of us PROM queens, being PAP is a very scarey thing. There was a time when I really thought that I wasn't meant to have children - now I know that I wasn't meant to have a life without them.
For those looking for strength and a message of hope - this is it. It can happen.
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