By Sarah, Dudley England
PROM at 30 weeksDelivery at 32 weeks + 2 days.
Story added: 2008-12-18

My waters went on Christmas Day 2004 i was 30 weeks and a few days pregnanct with our first child. I thought i'd wet myself but phoned the labour ward telling them I was going in, we expected that I had a UTI and i'd be home in a few hours with antibiotics.

We arrived at the hospital and were examined immediatly and informed that my waters had gone and that I was going to have to stay in as in in patient as i'd almost certainly go in to labour within 48 hours. The hospital started ringing round as their SCBU only took babies over 32 weeks but as the only bed was 200 miles away we decided to wait and see what was happening.

I spend 10 days on the post natal ward on 4 hourly obs, twice daily CTG monitoring and antibiotics incase of infection, I also had the steroids. I leaked fluid continually.

At 32+2 i started feeling crampy and was feeling a lot of pressure I also had a show. I called my Midwife who took me to the delivery suite where i was examined and found to be 4 cm dilated. My labour progressed completly normally and my beautiful Daughter Grace was born after 4 and a half hours, she cried immediatly and was bigger then expected at 4lb8oz. Her apgar scores were 10, 10 and 10 which was fantastic for a term baby, miraculous for a prem.

She spent a month in SCBU to establish feeding and because she had pretty bad Jaundice, we didnt have any other problems related to her prematurity.

She's 4 in a few weeks and you'd never know she was premature, infact i'd say after about 6 months no-one would have guessed she ever had been.


I am currently on my 2nd PPROM pregnancy so there is truth in you being more likely to go though it again if you have once already. I am 26 weeks after my waters going at 22, i'll add the story when we know how its going to go. My PPROMS are caused by an incompetant cervix which in turn was caused by repeated cervical pre cancer treatments (Lletz).

Best wishes to you all, its a terrifying time but there are good outcomes.