Hi everyone, just thought we should get this little thread going again.
I'm 9 weeks 3 days today & have been dealing with a subchorionic bleed for almost two weeks now. I've been on full bedrest for a week & today have been given permission to be on light duties, ie no lifting, washing, heavy housework or sex. We' have four BHCG tests & two ultrasounds already & a third ultrasound booked in for next week. At this stage, because the bleed was small, the OB is hopeful that it will have resolved by next week when I have the next ultrasound. I'm not convinced because I am still getting quite significant cramping, the spotting has stopped but cramping continues...
It's all so different to my first two pregnancies but in a way it's a good thing because we lost a pregnancy last year so having the extra monitoring is keeping the anxiety at bay, well mostly.
I'm thinking of hiring a doppler for a few weeks until the bub starts moving, just so I can be sure everything is alright.
Oh & I think we've decided that this is it for us, DH doesn't want me to go through the stress again & I don't want to put my family through this. It hasn't been going on long, but it's all too much.
Last edited by {sarah}; August 16th, 2011 at 03:53 PM.
Oh yay. Thanks Sarah.
Me. I'm 12w2d. This is my (gulp) 7th pregnancy. I had a split in my uterus last pregnancy as a result of my first c section. Apparently that makes you an automatically special case. I've also had HELLP, and PE in different pregnancies, and hypothyroidism last time (but not Hashis overall ). My kidneys and my liver don't really like being pregnant either and have routinely taken a nosedive in both pregnancies.
I've been told I'm fine to do everything. But I've been seeing the specialist Ob at the hospital since 8 weeks. I've also been bleeding and today had a bit of cramping. I lost my second baby at 12w1d and found out the next, so I'm super paranoid today.
I also got my cramping today after doing a (very modified to low impact) step class. Now I'm scared.
I really want to keep being active but every time I do it there is a bit more bleeding. None of my scans can identify why.
Just going to take it easy for the next few days I think. Bit hard when DH lives hundreds of kms away but I'm trying.
ETA I'm feeling the same about it being the last. I just can't do this stress again.
Great idea! I didn't even know this thread existed.. Hi Kim & Sarah
I think a few people know me around here but I will introduce myself anyway..
I have a congenital heart condition, so when I fell pregnant with my twins in 2008 I was immediately labelled as high risk.. My heart however was the least of my problems
In 2008 my beautiful 1st born twin sons were born at 24wks. I had an emergency cervical stitch placed after my 19wk scan showed my cervix had opened and was funnelling. Unfortunately though I still went into labour at 23wks, holding on til 24 when the boys were born. They both had brain hemorrhages at 8days old, and we made the heartbreaking decision to turn off their life support at 12 days old
Fast forward to now.. Pregnant after 2yrs of trying, this bub was conceived with clomid. I had a stitch placed at 14wks. Scan showed at 16wks everything was good, stitch in place and cervix still long and closed. Yesterday I had my 19wk scan and my cervix has opened BUT only to the stitch, so at this stage the stitch is doing it's job.. I didn't have an OB appointment yesterday, but the registrar I saw quickly, advised bed rest until I see the OB on Monday.. I have also been on progesterone pessaries since 16wks, but also been having mild braxton hicks contractions since then as well..
So, I am terrified. I am so scared of having another prem, but even more than that, so scared of losing this baby. I am trying not to get ahead of myself, but at this stage it does look like I will have a pre term bub. I also have placenta previa. It's completely covering the cervix..
Oh BAL I was hoping you'd come in too. Feel honoured to share a pregnancy with you. You and your little guys changed my life. Even if you'll never really know.
I can only imagine how scared you are.
I have no idea about stitches. It's what's holding everything together is that right? Oh sweetie
Wow, reading back in here is hard
this pergnancy is classed as high risk for obvious reasons, and will be medically managed agian.
for this reason ive so far not gone to my GP and havent been reffered to the hospital yet, but i will in a few weeks.
bub will be induced at 36 weeks, not going a day over, id be a ball of stress if i did.
I didn't know that this thread existed either! A little late for me I suppose as baby will be here in 2 and a half weeks.
All of my pregnancies have been high risk, as most of you know, DD1 has a rare chromosome abnormality and was also frank breech until birth, for these 2 reasons we chose a CS at the last minute and I am so glad we did, she required alot of help at birth the team were in the room ready, she stayed in NICU/SCN for 3 months and underwent jaw surgery to enable her to breath unassited.
DD2 has a congenital heart condition severe 'coarctation of the aorta' and a VSD (hole in the heart) she was also born by CS as I was unable to be induced due to my previous CS and they wanted the cardiac team ready for her, she was lucky to be born healthier than expected however she still required open heart surgery at 6 days old.
I am currently 36+1 weeks pregnant with DD3 and she also has a congenital heart condition 'coarctation of the aorta' although hers is classified as mild. She will be arriving by CS in 2.5 weeks, I have chosen not to attempt a VBA2C as the hospital I will be birthing at is 2 hours drive and I do not feel comfortable with this. DD3 has been given a 50/50 chance of requiring surgery at birth, it is great news but scary at the same time. On one hand if she had surgery, we would know that everything has been 'fixed' where as instead they are going to monitor her in SCN for 7 days and she if she manages alone, if they are happy they will send her home, which would be wonderful! but I am a little scared that we will be constantly looking for signs of her heart condition.
Kim, this is my 7th too xx
Skye, although my situation is different to yours, I avoided alot of my appoinments this time, I just didn't wanted to think that I could have another sick baby.
I am still undecided if this will be my last pregnancy, I know that most people think it should be but I can't help but want to have just one more...
Sarah, not amazing, just have that desperate yearning that most of us have. I'm glad you're here.
Skybie, I ummed and ahhed about posting in here for weeks. Totally understandable about you wanting to be induced at 36weeks.
2 and a half weeks DD! Yay! 50/50 is pretty good odds with a coarct. for her. Whatever other people think is irrelevant. What's in your heart matter the most.
BAL I'm glad you have lots of support and are sitting on your bottom. I spent lots of time on bedrest last go. It sucks. I have been taking it easy...well easier than normal, since DH lives away and I just have to manage on my own. Have stopped going to the gym much to my dismay but the cramping is not something I feel like dealing with ATM.
Saw the Ob today. What a lovely drive to hospital it was with gastro lol. But she understood my anxiety about this week and got the student to have a play with the u/s machine. Nice little heart beat, moving a lot. And turns out those little movements I thought were wind are actually me feeling bub, which is kinda cool. She congratulated DS on how lucky he was to be alive after she read my notes lol. Not so reassuring after I was trying to downplay the whole scenario in my head.
She's going to start having my scar scanned at the morphology scan.
I suffer from a chronic illness which was diagnosed when i was 18 so 8yrs ago now, it can make pregnancy more complicated then it should be.
I've been very lucky that my Illness has stayed in remission since we found out & fx it stays in remission.
Our may concern is that medication i'm on is sucking all the calcium out of me & my Vit D levels keep dropping even with extra vitamins i'm taking, My iron & Hb levels are also dropping fast which means i'll need an iron/blood transfusion just before birth or right after birth.
On the positive everything with Bambi is looking good, no cleft was seen at our u/s & she is ahead for dates so i'm really happy the medication didn't have any effect on her.
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). My kidneys and my liver don't really like being pregnant either and have routinely taken a nosedive in both pregnancies.
for her. Whatever other people think is irrelevant. What's in your heart matter the most.
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