Cervical suture and stronger cervix?

[*Beema*]

Thankyou for sharing your measurements crumpet, I can't imagine how scary it must have been for you It really shows how quickly things can change

My OB is concerned that I may have an IC as went into labour early and I progressed so quickly with DD, with minimal pain I was 7-8cm on arrival to hospital which was 45 minutes after my contractions started, waters had broken 45 min prior to ctx starting. She is concerned that I won't make it in time..... so it is just a bit of a waiting game for me, as we want to prolong the pregnancy as long as we can and she wants to do the suture between 12-16 weeks, but as I still have retained "product" from the loss of Flicker's Twin we are in limbo as we can do the suture if it is required while it is still there And on top of that I have a subseptate uterus which is known for premature births - gee got a lot going for me to get to term

[crumpet]

Thankyou for sharing your measurements crumpet, I can't imagine how scary it must have been for you It really shows how quickly things can change

My OB is concerned that I may have an IC as went into labour early and I progressed so quickly with DD, with minimal pain I was 7-8cm on arrival to hospital which was 45 minutes after my contractions started, waters had broken 45 min prior to ctx starting. She is concerned that I won't make it in time..... so it is just a bit of a waiting game for me, as we want to prolong the pregnancy as long as we can and she wants to do the suture between 12-16 weeks, but as I still have retained "product" from the loss of Flicker's Twin we are in limbo as we can do the suture if it is required while it is still there And on top of that I have a subseptate uterus which is known for premature births - gee got a lot going for me to get to term

no worries hun hope it helped slightly......

yeah things happened very quickly but full credit to my OB who did everything he could to prolong things......

oh wow its all very full on for u isnt it?!?!?! i hope they can sort something out for u!!
they cant get the retained product out can they?

[*Beema*]

Your response has helped emensely , I will be chatting with my OB about it more detail at our next appointment on the 19th, even if the cervix is closer to 3cm I am thinking of asking her it we just do the suture anyway...

Unfortuntaly with the retained product we have no other way of removal, it either has to come out as a bleed or be absorbed. It has been about 2 weeks since I have had a bleed, and the scan after that one showed quite a lot to go, had also shown that I had lost a lot, but the clots had dissolved more, which is a good thing and increases the chance that it could be reabsorbed.

It is a bit full on but I have the best OB I could have and she is brilliant and highly respected and made it to DD's birth which was a mircale in itself

[crumpet]

Your response has helped emensely , I will be chatting with my OB about it more detail at our next appointment on the 19th, even if the cervix is closer to 3cm I am thinking of asking her it we just do the suture anyway...

Unfortuntaly with the retained product we have no other way of removal, it either has to come out as a bleed or be absorbed. It has been about 2 weeks since I have had a bleed, and the scan after that one showed quite a lot to go, had also shown that I had lost a lot, but the clots had dissolved more, which is a good thing and increases the chance that it could be reabsorbed.

It is a bit full on but I have the best OB I could have and she is brilliant and highly respected and made it to DD's birth which was a mircale in itself

oh good! my OB has said i have no choice its stitch or no babies so ill be on the stitch band wagon for sure!!! lol..... i think its a good idea especially if they think its caused DD early arrival.....

hmmm thats a bugger bout the retained product.... will they do the stitch if there is still some there or wait till its dissolved more?

oh its good to have a fab OB hey?!?!?! where abouts are u?

[*Beema*]

No stitch until it is gone, it is too dangerous to "trap" it, could lead to infections etc... so it has to be dissolved or out, so I am hoping my scan next week shows it has been absorbed

It is definitely worth having a good OB in situations like ours, a friend in WA, was public and just couldn't get anyone to listen to her concerns after her last two bubs had been 35 and then 28 weeks, due to IC, by the time someone listened and she saw a high risk OB, they did a stitch at 23 weeks, her cervix was 22mm and funnelling and her DS was born at 25 weeks He is 37 weeks gestation now, but had a very long difficult journey in NICU. Her journey has also been on my mind and I feel so terribly that she had to fight so hard to get someone to listen and when they did it was to late for the stitch to make a real difference.

I am in SA, but have a lot of family on the Central Coast and Newcastle area

[crumpet]

No stitch until it is gone, it is too dangerous to "trap" it, could lead to infections etc... so it has to be dissolved or out, so I am hoping my scan next week shows it has been absorbed

It is definitely worth having a good OB in situations like ours, a friend in WA, was public and just couldn't get anyone to listen to her concerns after her last two bubs had been 35 and then 28 weeks, due to IC, by the time someone listened and she saw a high risk OB, they did a stitch at 23 weeks, her cervix was 22mm and funnelling and her DS was born at 25 weeks He is 37 weeks gestation now, but had a very long difficult journey in NICU. Her journey has also been on my mind and I feel so terribly that she had to fight so hard to get someone to listen and when they did it was to late for the stitch to make a real difference.

I am in SA, but have a lot of family on the Central Coast and Newcastle area

i thought u might say that about the retained product..... i developed a infection and thats why i ended up delivering, my OB was under the impression that if i didnt get the infection and i was in hospy with my butt eleveated on total bed rest i might have got through a bit longer......

oh wow ur poor friend...... after the stress of the pregnancy and then the thought of a NICU journey makes me so sad for her......

it makes me very glad im a private patient, coz ur friends story would be my greatest fear of having this problem and being a public patient.....

ooh ok, im in melb

[Deedles]

HI ladies,

It seems that IC is more common than I first thought. When I would talk to the midwives about it at my appointments they didn't really know anything about it.

When I had my 2nd DS and they put the stitch in it was at 22 weeks and highly risky as apparently after 23 weeks they would refuse to do it as there is a high risk of rupturing membranes and breaking your waters.
My cervix for DS2 measured 2.3 cm which was quite short and after they put the stitch in I was on complete bed rest and wasn't aloud to stand up for longer than 30mins at one time.

With my DS3 my cervix measured over 3 cm at each scan, so I am not sure what happened there??

Beema and crumpet I hope that you have both managed to understand your condition a bit better.
You both just have to make decisions that you are comfortable with and trust your ob.
Hope you find out what is happening soon Beema so you can get the stitch done and relax a bit more through the rest of your pregnancy, which is easier said than done. Being pregnant is amazing but it is also a bit of a worrying time.