The stories where the baby survived are marked with green,
the stories where the babies did not make it are marked with blue.
Black means it was a pregnancy with multiples
with different outcome for the babies, or that the outcome is unknown.
| Name (Year) |
PROM week | Delivery week | PROM Days | Beth (1997) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beth´s son born oct 13 1992 at 16 weeks My water gushed out while I was in bed watching T.V. We had just gotten back fom a week long vacation.had just been to the doctor a we... Read more » | Snowy (1999) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 |
| I wanted to share my story with you in hopes that I may comfort another who has gone through the same thing. It all began Christmas eve 1996. I was 16 weeks pregnant an... Read more » | Tamara (2000) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 | Multiples |
| After 13 years of marriage my husband and I decided to go through In-vitro fertilization. (required due to lack of fallopian tubes) Our first attempt was unsuccessful -- our sec... Read more » | Randy (2000) |
16 weeks | 27 weeks. | 77 | Multiples |
| I hope that this story, although it is lengthy ,will incourage someone who is losing hope. My wife and I after trying to get pregnant for almost two years were told we would hav... Read more » | Susan (1999) |
16 weeks | 34 weeks. | 126 |
| I am 26 years old, I found out i was pregnant may 19, 1998. With my first child. I had an AFP blood test done resulting in high protien levels, was refered to a perintologist on... Read more » | Jeannie (1999) |
16 weeks | 37 weeks. | 147 |
| My water broke at 16 weeks. At the hospital, my Dr. told me that the prognosis was not good and I would lose the baby. Since I was in a catholic hospital they would not terminat... Read more » | Barb (2000) |
16 weeks | 32 weeks. | 112 |
| (PROM at 16-19 weeks) Well, I\'m going to see if I can recall it all... We weren\'t trying to conceive but when we found out I was pg. we were overjoyed! At the time my D... Read more » | Jodi (2001) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 | Multiples |
| I am now 35 years old. I have two beautiful boys 6 1/2 and 2 1/2. I have had prom twice, one a beautiful girl at 21 weeks who is an angel in heaven and the other prom at 21 we... Read more » | Sheri (2001) |
16 weeks | 18 weeks & 4 days. | 18 |
| After trying to concieve for 3 years, including one m/c @ 6 weeks and months of fertility drugs, we finally got pg in April 2001. It seemed everything was going well. I had an u... Read more » | Michelle (2001) |
16 weeks | 19 weeks & 6 days. | 27 |
| I became pregnant almost exactly 2 years following my husband's vasectomy reversal. We have two older children and after the second was born we had decided to have the vas... Read more » | Sabrina (2002) |
16 weeks | 29 weeks. | 91 |
| This is the story of our second child's PROM and his birth 13 weeks later. "Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonde... Read more » | Melissa (2002) |
16 weeks | 29 weeks. | 91 |
| At 16 weeks of pregnancy my water broke. I was told that my baby had less than a 1% chance at survival at this point. I would probably go into labor soon and miscarry. At 16 w... Read more » | Debbie (2002) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 | Multiples |
| After five years of infertility and one miscarriage at 8 weeks my husband Jeff and I finally concieved on our first try of IVF we found out at 7 weeks on my birthday that we wer... Read more » | Peggy (2003) |
16 weeks | 27 weeks & 6 days. | 83 |
| I became pregnant right after my husband and I got married in June of 2002. I figured that it would be a wonderful pregnancy just like all my family and friends have had. Neve... Read more » | Heather (2003) |
16 weeks | 18 weeks & 3 days. | 17 |
| Emmanuel was my second baby, and I had gotten pregnant 3 months after my first son was born. I was having a very uneventful pregnancy when I started cramping at 15 weeks. I wen... Read more » | Colette (2003) |
16 weeks | 27 weeks & 2 days. | 79 |
| i had a very difficult and stressful pregnancy my waters broke at about 16- 18 weeks. We were told there was no chance of any outcome other than a very poor one, meaning our baby... Read more » | Jean (2003) |
16 weeks | 39 weeks & 2 days. | 163 |
| I got pregnant after suffering two miscarriages, and 3 IVF's. I had an amnio done at 16 weeks, and it went very smoothly, no problems at all. I stayed off my feet for 24 hours... Read more » | Caroline (2003) |
16 weeks | 20 weeks. | 28 |
| My first pregnancy ended in a D&C after 8 weeks when the heart beat was not found on the U/S. After that I lost my job and subsequently my insurance. I then had 4 more miscarr... Read more » | Shelley (2004) |
16 weeks | 29 weeks. | 91 |
| 38 years old is not old anymore to become pregnant. However it does present different risks. I was automatically in a category – High Risk. When I finally became pregnant f... Read more » | Eva (2004) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks & 3 days. | 3 |
| I had achevied my pregnancy on my first IVF ICSI. We were thrilled at having gotten pregnant after ttc for 2 years and being infertile. At week 9 I started spotting and went to ... Read more » | Tara (2004) |
16 weeks | 18 weeks. | 14 |
| I have read so many stories of inspiration. I just wanted to share my not so inspirational story because I needed to hear a story like mine when I was resting with my complicat... Read more » | Gina (2004) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 1 |
| I hope this is helpfull to someone. I was pregnant with #2, under extreme stress with a very active 2 yr old - a husband who really at the time was busy and not very under... Read more » | Kimberly (2004) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks & 5 days. | 5 | Multiples |
| Here is my story. We conceived in March of 04 and found out in May that we were expecting twins. We were not only surprised, but just so happy beyond belief. We never even ... Read more » | Donna (2004) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 |
| At 16 weeks pregnant and feeling great, my water broke. I was in the faculty bathroom and I thought that I lost control of my bladder. The school nurse urged me to get to my ... Read more » | Amy (2005) |
16 weeks | 20 weeks. | 28 |
| I hope that by telling my story, it will help others who have gone through pPROM. I had a normal pregnancy all throughout my first trimester. I was very nauseated and had the... Read more » | Lesley (2005) |
16 weeks | 17 weeks & 6 days. | 13 |
| It all began at 15 weeks with a thrush like discharge which changed colour daily from white to peach and then brown and finally a thick green discharge, by this time i was extre... Read more » | Ersula (2005) |
16 weeks | 31 weeks. | 105 |
| Well , at 16 weeks to the day ,april 23, after IVF,were coming back from dinner and my wife felt a gush. We both thought it was just the baby pushing on her bladder. WE called t... Read more » | Heidi (2005) |
16 weeks | 26 weeks & 6 days. | 76 |
| We tried to get pregnant by IVF, implanted three embryos, and were successful the first time. Embryo C implanted but never showed viability. Embryo A had a heartbeat for two w... Read more » | Heather (2005) |
16 weeks | 29 weeks & 4 days. | 95 |
| This is the story....I continually leaked fluid from from 16 wks to 29wks. I would reacumulate and leak just about all day every day. It just got to be in bigger quantities ... Read more » | Ashly (2005) |
16 weeks | 28 weeks & 2 days. | 86 |
| My name is Ashly and here’s my
story: One night around 16 weeks I woke up thinking that I had wet myself in bed, so, I went to the bathroom and realized that it was... Read more » | Sarah (2006) |
16 weeks | 24 weeks & 6 days. | 62 |
| It happened at 16 weeks. I went to the hospital and had ultra sounds done. There was still some fluid left so i was sent home on bed rest. a week or so later i gushed fluid again an... Read more » | Kristi (2006) |
16 weeks | 34 weeks & 6 days. | 132 |
| My pregnancy was going great. My husband and I were shocked to find out we were pregnant again since we had 1 year old twins but it was a blessing none the less. At 16 weeks, ... Read more » | Julie (2007) |
16 weeks | 26 weeks & 5 days. | 75 | Multiples |
| This is the story of Miracle Maggie and Terrific Tom. Maggie's amniotic sack had ruptured around week 16/17. She was leaking most of her fluid. Without it, she has no lun... Read more » | Katrina (2007) |
16 weeks | 31 weeks & 5 days. | 110 |
| I was 22 years old and it was my first pregnancy. Perfectly healthy and hadn't had any problems with my pregnancy. I was out one night when I felt a gush of water and really be... Read more » | Christina (2007) |
16 weeks | 23 weeks. | 49 |
| My pregnancy with Benjamin was our 12th pregnancy. We have 10 living children (all healthy pregnancies, except one due to listeria food poisoning) and one early miscarriage. W... Read more » | Stephanie (2007) |
16 weeks | 24 weeks & 2 days. | 58 |
| A friend I barely knew gave me the link to this website because she had gone through a similar thing herself. It gave me so much hope and gave me the determination to go as long as... Read more » | Sophia (2009) |
16 weeks | 18 weeks. | 14 |
| Hello, 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 st... Read more » | Melanie (2009) |
16 weeks | 32 weeks & 3 days. | 115 |
| I spontaneously ruptured at 16 weeks, though we didn’t discovered the rupture until our regular ultrasound at 19 weeks. I had occasional leaking, which we and our doctors assu... Read more » | Samantha (2010) |
16 weeks | 32 weeks & 2 days. | 114 | Multiples |
| After years of trying to get pregnant on our own my husband and I turned to IVF. On our first round we implanted two embryos and were so excited to find out that they both ... Read more » | Rachel (2010) |
16 weeks | 38 weeks. | 154 |
| To anyone who reads my story, please remember miricals do happen. Well here is my story, and I am so pleased I'm able to write this as a happy ending. I unexpectantly fell pre... Read more » | Hannah (2017) |
16 weeks | 34 weeks & 3 days. | 129 | Multiples |
| In November 2015 after trying to conceive for only 3 weeks myself and my partner found out we were expecting twins. Along with our 4 year old daughter, we were over the moon. At our 1... Read more » | Ripu Daman (2018) |
16 weeks | 17 weeks. | 7 |
| The Smallest Coffins Are The Heaviest Her name could have been Arya. I could have been her mother. I had already had two-and-a-half years of practice with Izna. My first-born. But... Read more » | Gina (2005) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks. | 0 |
| Here is my second story of PROM: On what would have been my first baby's due date, we got the official word that I was definitely pregnant again. Just five months after los... Read more » | Danete (2010) |
16 weeks | 16 weeks & 3 days. | 2 |
| My husband and I had dome IVF for male factor infertility five times. Each ended in an early miscarriage. We finally decided we needed to do donor sperm. I was so sick from all ... Read more » | MICHELLE (2010) |
16 weeks | 33 weeks & 4 days. | 122 | Multiples |
| So this was my first pregnancy. At 15 weeks I had an ultrasound and learned that I was having fraternal twin boys. Everything was going well at that point. At the time I exper... Read more » | Maribelle (2000) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 37 weeks & 2 days. | 147 |
| I didn\'t know about PROM until after I exprienced my PROM on January 29, 2000. I was only 16.2 weeks at the time of the rupture. I felt intermittant leaking during that afterno... Read more » | Laura (2003) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 28 weeks & 2 days. | 84 |
| I was so excited to be pregnant! We had tried for almost a year, so when we saw that we were pregnant we were ecstatic. At 12 weeks, I woke up bleeding. Terrified, we went to... Read more » | Blair (2005) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 36 weeks & 4 days. | 142 | Multiples |
| After years of infertility treatment and what I previously thought had been a complicated pregnancy with my daughter, we became pregnant with twins in Feb. 2004 after another IV... Read more » | Ali (2006) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 27 weeks & 5 days. | 80 |
| After 14 years of happy marriage and no children, we suspected I would never conceive. Lo and behold I got pregnant naturally at the ripe old age of 39. My periods had always been h... Read more » | Janet (2006) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 23 weeks. | 48 |
| It was January 23- My boyfriend and I had been at a friend's house for the evening. All of a sudden i started feeling hott- then I fainted. My boyfriend bought me outside for ai... Read more » | Elizabeth (2009) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 28 weeks & 4 days. | 86 |
| My husband and I always had trouble conceiving, so we were thrilled when we got pregnant so quickly the third time. I started having trouble immediately, though. I started b... Read more » | Alisha (2009) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 28 weeks & 5 days. | 87 |
| When I was pregnant on bedrest I would always read thses stories and wonder how mine would go. Well first, I am a mother of 2 little girls 5 & 3. My husband and I got married No... Read more » | Laura (2010) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 20 weeks & 4 days. | 30 |
| I woke up on a Thursday morning (15 wks + 6) everything felt normal but when I went to the bathroom I found I'd had a heavy bleed this seemed to have stopped but then about an h... Read more » | Inna (2011) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 26 weeks & 4 days. | 72 |
| My story is successful one!! This was my third pregnancy. First two were absolutely normal with term vaginal deliveries. Third pregnancy started with a lot of complications from the b... Read more » | Katie (2014) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 29 weeks & 5 days. | 94 |
| I was 16 weeks pregnant, laid in bed when i felt a popping sensation inside me and a gush of water. I immediately panicked and rushed to the toilet expecting to see blood. My night clot... Read more » | Katy (2014) |
16 weeks & 2 days | 33 weeks & 2 days. | 119 |
| In July 2013 I was 16 weeks pregnant when my waters broke. I was admitted to hospital and sat in bed for two days waiting for an inevitable miscarriage. When, after 48 hours, I had not ... Read more » | Stephanie (2004) |
16 weeks & 3 days | 16 weeks & 4 days. | 1 |
| The night before my water broke i had a little pain, but i figured it was normal since they said everything else was normal(pressure in pelvic area, weird pains(not growing ones... Read more » | Molly (2006) |
16 weeks & 3 days | 38 weeks & 5 days. | 156 |
| I wish I could say my pregnancy was uneventful from the very beginning, but it was actually quite the contrary. I found out I was pregnant on August 16, 2005 (I was only 3 weeks, 3... Read more » | Nicole (2006) |
16 weeks & 3 days | 24 weeks & 6 days. | 59 |
| I wondered for 8.5 weeks about how my story would appear here. Would I be one of the miracle lucky ones or would I join the ranks of all the mamas who lost their angels? I praye... Read more » | Amanda (2009) |
16 weeks & 3 days | 16 weeks & 4 days. | 1 |
| With my first pregnancy everything seemed to be going fine I had alot of cramping and pressure went in to see the drs and they said it was my uterus strecthing and it was normal... Read more » | Sandra (2002) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 29 weeks & 6 days. | 93 | Multiples |
| I was pregnant with triplets. My water broke at 16 1/2 weeks on one of my triplets (a high baby not the one presenting near the cervix). I never resealed and leaked amniotic fl... Read more » | LAURA (2003) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 30 weeks & 4 days. | 98 |
| IT HAS TAKEN ME A WHILE TO WRITE MY PROM STORY. I WORRY BECAUSE I DON'T WANT ZOE'S STORY TO DICOURAGE ANYONE IN TRYING THEIR HARDEST FOR THEIR BABY. OUR BABY DID NOT MAKE IT WIT... Read more » | Peita (2006) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 31 weeks & 5 days. | 106 |
| My first pregnancy was textbook perfect followed by a full term, healthy baby. This pregnancy proved to be different… starting at 8 weeks when I began to spot blood for unknow... Read more » | Lilly (2006) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 37 weeks & 4 days. | 147 |
| ERICA’S STORY The first day of the sixteenth week of my pregnancy my membrane ruptured. It was December 25, 2005 we, my husband and I and our 1½ year old son, were at my p... Read more » | Pavlina (2007) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 20 weeks & 4 days. | 28 |
| Like many of you, I also found comfort and hope in this site, and looked forward to posting a green story, and as a week and two passed I started feeling positive and really believe... Read more » | Inger-Anne (2012) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 23 weeks & 5 days. | 50 |
| This pregnancy had been a nightmare from start to finish. First my hcg levels didn´t increase as they should. We had been through that before, and were prepared to miscarry already the... Read more » | Mayme (2013) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 29 weeks. | 87 | Multiples |
| I was pregnant with di/di twins. I had a very normal pregnancy with no complaints until at 16w4d I started leaking amniotic fluid with no other symptoms. I had an ultrasound that day ... Read more » | Laura (2015) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 40 weeks. | 164 |
| My pregnancy story One year after giving birth to my daughter we decided trying again. We could hardly believe when the pregnancy test was positive already in the first cycle. Fr... Read more » | Trine (2015) |
16 weeks & 4 days | 26 weeks. | 66 | Multiples |
| Our story is unfortunately not a survival story but it is a story of a boy who made it all the way to viability and a little beyond and who didn\'t actually die because of bad lungs eve... Read more » | Laura (1999) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 28 weeks & 4 days. | 83 |
| I ruptured at 16.5 weeks into my first pregnancy. When I orginally searched this site I could not find any encouraging info about early ruptures. Nor did my doctors seem too enc... Read more » | Jen (2000) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 36 weeks. | 135 |
| I had PROM at 16.5 weeks and was given about 1% chance of keeping the pregnancy. I had periodic bleeding and even lost a clot. I was able to keep the pregnancy and the perinat... Read more » | Lucille (2002) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 17 weeks & 2 days. | 4 |
| After days of worrisome discharges that no one seemed to be able to explain -- lots of mucusy stuff, some tissue blobs, some tissue with blood -- my water broke on a Monday. I f... Read more » | Angelique (2004) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 29 weeks & 3 days. | 89 |
| In memory of our beloved Caleb Joshua Bennett. Our story begins like many others detailed here. My wife and I were very excited to learn that we were pregnant. However at 11 wee... Read more » | Amy (2004) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 35 weeks & 5 days. | 133 |
| My water broke at 16 weeks for no reason. I went to the ER after experiencing a large gush of fluid. Tests confirmed PROM. After reviewing the options I was sent home to take... Read more » | Genoa (2009) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 30 weeks & 4 days. | 97 |
| My water broke at 16 weeks, our son was born at 30 weeks. Such a long story, but we are thrilled with a happy ending. Our son is now almost 4 months old and PERFECT. Please note... Read more » | Liz (2009) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 23 weeks & 3 days. | 47 | Multiples |
| After 2 years of trying to conceive, we decided to try the IVF route. Our first try was successful, so successful, that were were elated to learn we were expecting twins. For ... Read more » | Carmell (2009) |
16 weeks & 5 days | 26 weeks & 5 days. | 70 | Multiples |
| I came on this website when i pprom'd, i was realy hoping my story would be marked in green and even with the odds against it, i realy thought that everything would be ok. i was... Read more » | Erica (2005) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 17 weeks. | 1 |
| Tuesday 15th March I came home from water aerobics and decided to do a HPT, it was a faint positive. So I went to a doctor the next day but it came up negative. Come Friday... Read more » | Lori (2006) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 28 weeks & 3 days. | 81 |
| After years of infertility, due to endo and blocked tubes 8/05 I got pregnant 1st round of ivf with Isaiah , what a feeling to be pregnant!!! Everything was going well, until... Read more » | Ozi (2007) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 35 weeks & 2 days. | 129 | Multiples |
| PROM at 16.6 weeks on Baby B. Then kept on bed rest with bathroom access and one quick shower a day. My doctors were very surprised at how well we did. No issues with Baby A, no... Read more » | Sophia (2008) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 17 weeks & 2 days. | 3 |
| January 10 I had down syndrome ultrasound done, measuring of the skin in back of neck. They were excited how perfect the baby lay and asked me if I would let a technician do a ... Read more » | Liz (2008) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 26 weeks & 6 days. | 70 | Multiples |
| Hello everyone. My water broke at 16w6d weeks on my twin a from an amnio. I started leaking fluid that night and it totally broke the next morning. I never regained fluid. ... Read more » | Amanda (2009) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 17 weeks. | 1 |
| My husband and I were so excited when we found out we were having a baby. He had two children from a previous marriage and I had one, our blended family was going to be complete... Read more » | Brandy (2010) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 30 weeks. | 92 |
| I spent 3 months to the day on bedrest and I hoped and prayed as I read through these stories that I would have a good outcome. But, I read the stories with good outcomes and t... Read more » | Aesha (2012) |
16 weeks & 6 days | 17 weeks. | 1 | Multiples |
| My husba nd and I are IVF patients we concieved on our first try . We were super excited. I started spotting around 10wks and9 days then it went away. And everything was/f... Read more » | ||||