Danielle,
I have recently read your post dated 24th June and was interested in what you had to say as I lost my baby in June this year. I had been having a perfect pregnancy with no problems and all scans had been fine. On the 3rd June I had a painless labour (had no idea I was even in labour) and my little girl was born at 24 weeks 5 days. We named her Isabella and she was so beautiful, just so so tiny. She lived for 2 days and then could'nt hold on any longer. Her kidneys and lungs weren't working properly. My husband and I are devastated. This was our first baby and we just can't understand what went wrong. My ob said I had painless dilation of the cervix. Apparently my cervix shortened and by the time we knew this it was too late to stop the labour. I was reading your post which indicated that you had a scan to determine whether you had a short cervix. Is this correct? I'm doing lots of research to see what will happen next time. My ob has said we can monitor it, by having scans fortnightly to keep an eye on the length of the cervix or he has said we can put a stitch in at 14 weeks. It is all very confusing. Can you offer any suggestions?
Thanks
Anike