Placental Abruption

[~Kim~]

Hi all,

not really sure what I want the outcome of this post to be.....

After a bleed yesterday I ended up in maternity last night and was diagnosed with a partial placental abruption. I am on strict bedrest for at least the next week (and bored out of my brain already) and have a followup scan an doctor's appointment on Thursday.

I'm more than somewhat frightened at this diagnosis, as past experience with the condition has never been great.

Has anyone had this this early and had a successful pregnancy?

Please? Anyone?

I'm not ready to deliver, or lose this much wanted baby. If anything awful happens they will fly me out of this little town to Canberra or Melbourne where I have no support at all....

[catherinemoses]

Hi Kim.

How scary. I'm sorry I can't offer any advice but I wanted to send a hug your way. I hope everything is ok. You just do what they say and rest up.

[Trillian]

Oh hun, I hope everything settles down soon for you and bubba gets to stay put for a long time yet. Did they say that it might repair/heal itself?

[Arimeh]

Oh hun I have no advice but needed to drop off a to you. I know its boring, but please, rest up!!!!!

[~Kim~]

Thanks girls, really appreciate it.
They said they 'hope' it clears up....but pack a hospital bag today.

[Trillian]

I suppose the Big Plus (not that there is really a plus to something like this) is that they know about it now and you're at hospital and if it gets worse and Bubs needs to be born, they can do it immediately, which is a better outcome for the little one than if you were at home and it happened kwim?

[samantha411]

Hi there ladies,

I have been reading all the blogs and I feel at home. So many woman have walked in my shoes and that has brought me much comfort. This is my first posting.

Last month I lost my baby boy after the 25th week of pregnancy, diagnosed with Placental Abruption. I had so many complications and the symptoms just got worse and worse. After a difficult night, little Kathan was born on 4th Dec '08 morning. He had his daddies ears and fingers and his mummies hair. Unfortunately his little lungs could not cope with the air of our world and passed away with the most peaceful expression.

Words cannot describe the incredible emptiness and anguish of leaving the hospital without our precious baby in our arms. However even through the tears, we have felt a real sense of peace during this period. I remember on the morning after, as my husband and I lay in the hospital bed, the most soulful version of Silent Night bellowed through the hospital corridors. How wonderful that our angel found ways to communicate to us. Kathan?s life was complete at 25 weeks and we feel blessed to have been touched by this tiny soul. We know in time that our hearts will grow strong in this broken place.

To experience intense love and pain in a single moment is hard to capture in words. Strong faith and a wonderful marriage has brought me into the new year with renewed hope. Life is starting to feel 'normal' again and my uneasy state is diminishing.

It is with a sincere heart that I thank you all for sharing your stories with me.
Kim - best of luck and rest, rest, rest!

Sam...