By Shazz, Melbourne Australia
PROM at 14 weeks + 5 days. Delivery at 16 weeks + 2 days.
Story added: 2006-11-12

On Friday 27th Jan I was taken to hospital by ambulance with major cramps that was thought to be a urinary track infection. I was lying there for 4 and a half hrs before a Dr came to see us. I was given meds and sent home with no ultrasound nothing. I rung my Obs who was pissed that they didn't do a Ultrasound, so he arranged one. On my way down I felt a pop and a gush of water and when I got out of the car it ran all down my legs. It was my waters breaking with no explanation at 14wks & 5 days.

They did the ultrasound and I had a leak, but there was still a heartbeat.
They rung my Obs who told us which way it could go but cause there was no pain and no blood I was to go on total bed rest for the weekend and I was to come in and see him on Mon and he would ring me over the weekend. My tummy had gone from 102.5 cm to 94 then over the weekend it had gone to 98 so we were hopefull that it may have sealed. The ultrasound today showed there was no amniotic fluid at all but bubs still had a heartbeat which had destroyed us both, to think our baby is perfectly fine except for the fluid. For the rest of the week we had a scan every second day to see what was happening and by the end of the week we knew we had to make a decission. I had trickles of water coming out of me all week. Her last ultra sound we remember looking at her and she had the hiccups.

We were given the options to keep going with the pg and speak to a team at a hospital about the effects of prom so early into a pg such as birth defects, but we couldnt' do it to her.

We were booked in to have labour bought on and I will deliever our 16 week old bub. My DH wanted to have a scan on the day or the day before just to make sure we were making the right choice but I just couldn't face to see our Angel with its heart still beating away and to know what I we were about to go through.

I delivered our Angel on Tues 7th Feb 2006 (16w 2d) and she was so beautiful, the nurses were fantastic. We spent over an hour with her and didnt want to let her go but knew we had to. They kept me in over night due to a high temp but I was glad as I felt like she was in the room with me.

To say it has ripped out our hearts, well its to late we are just so numb and cant believe how life can be so cruel. To take 4 yrs to get here and something that no one can control just happens and can happen at anytime. And the thought it may happen again scares me to no end!