By Sophia Apple, Sioux Falls, SD USAHello,
PROM at 16 weeksDelivery at 18 weeks.
Story added: 2009-05-17
This is just a follow-up, somewhre my story is posted February 2008. Lost my son to PROM at 16 weeks. I read the stories on the board a lot back then. I remember one story that shared "...I am very sad I lost my son to PROM but I now have a little daughter and if I had not had lost my son I would not have her...." This sentence somehow brought me hope. Three months after the loss I was pregnant again. So scared, pregnant after PROM. I did not want Ultrasounds, as I thought they had to do with my previous PROM. My doctor fired me as I did not trust her with anything. I ended up with the maternal fetal specialist team as my primary doctors. Every week from week 20 or so I got a progesterone shot, I took baby aspirin every day as my cardio lipin had been borderline high and every two weeks they did a vaginal ultrasound checking for cervical length. I was scared through the whole pregnancy. But there was not a single problem, perfect pregnancy and at almost 40 weeks, almost exactly to the day one year after I lost my son, my beautiful daughter was born. She is the most beautiful girl in the world:- ) I just wanted to share this to give hope to those who go through PROM. A perfect pregnancy after PROM is very possible. Oh, by the way, and by no means do I know if any of this had to do with my pregnancy outcome, I took throughout the pregnancy: extra calcium, magnesium, selenium in addition to prenatal vitamin, fishoil, Cholin, NAC (because of a study that said NAC might prevent infection in womb after PROM, so I thought it might be good keeping infection out of womb altogether) Vitamin C (1000mg every other day, also to prevent infection as my PROM had been caused by infection)... I will be 40 years old in August and this is my first child.