Anyone had Preterm/Premature Rupture of Fetal Membranes in 2nd Trimester??

[Tess]

Honie
I am sorry to hear of your loss and sorry to hear that your health professional will not treat you as a high risk case. I think you should get a second opinion about that as I lost Thomas at 24wks and my second pregnancy was monitored on a fortnightly basis until I reached 30wks. I am amazed they are treating you as though this is a 'normal' pregnancy especially with your thyroid problem too.

Go get some other advice especially as you are concerned. I am sure all will be fine and that the reason they say high risk after two losses is because most woman only experience one loss. But I am sure that does not help your concerns.

Good luck honey, I am sure everything will be okay but it doesn't hurt to get an extra scan or two. It is nice to see bubs growing too!!
Tess.

[flet]

I am so sorry for your loss.

I have not had to go through what you have been through but my sister in law lost her little girl at 21 weeks due to a premature rupture of membranes (she had a slow leak from about 15 weeks).

She fell pregnant 6 months later and went on to have a perfect pregnancy with no complications. Since then she has also had another pregnancy with no complications and now has 2 healthy daughters.

I wish you the best of luck and again, I am so sorry for your loss.

[stanas]

I am so sorry about your loss and unfortunately know what your going through. We lost our baby girl Ava at 18 weeks 4 days due to PPROM.

I had bleeding for 5 weeks before the waters ruptured and cramps and clotting the week prior. I was in hospital when I noticed I was leaking at about 17 weeks. After a scan they sent us home to wait and go into labour, which didn't happen till 11 days later with some help.

I have an appointment in a few weeks with ob/gyn to hopefully get some answers. We are still waiting on tissue test results. (It has only been 3 1/2 weeks since we lost her.)
I have read though that if it is incompetent cervix that they can put a stitch in between 10 and 14 weeks. Might be worth asking about.

You will be in my thoughts and I hope so much that all goes well with next pregnancy.

Stanas XXX

Ava Lesley, 18 weeks 4 days

[jesse's mum]

Just when you think you're the only one out there where this unfair thing happens to you... and you find this forum and see there's (unfortunately) many more like yourself. I lost my little boy Jesse on April 25th this year... He was 21 weeks and 5 days... I woke up after my husband and son Billy went to the Anzac Day dawn service and after going to the toilet a whole lotta blood appeared... By the time I got to the hospital I was in labour, and 3 hours later little Jesse was stillborn. He was perfectly healthy inside, for some reason i haemorrhaged and passed away in the birth canal. I may have a had a slow leak in the 5 days leading up to the birth (I thought it was just incontinence like what I got in my last pregnancy plus I'd only had my 20 week scan the week before and everything looked perfect). If this was the case it usually doesn't bring on any bleeding but the waters breaking. I'm going in for blood tests in a couple of weeks but I don't think they're gonna discover anything (I PRAY that they do). Apparently I had that strep B strain thing. After I gave birth I got infected and apparently that was due to the strep b invading me everywhere in my (now empty) uterus. Can anyone tell me much about strep b?

We don't know what happened or why but there's gotta be something wrong with me. Especially when my first born come at 25 weeks and 6 days pretty much in the same circumstance (early one morning after going to the toilet I haemorrhaged). Thankfully he's an energetic 6 year old now. My daughter Ava, who's now 19 months, come at 37/38 weeks and poor Jesse was just too early. I'd love to have another baby but not sure we can go through this again (especially the kids) since my stats so far are 1 in 3 going full term, not real good odds.

Big hugs to all of you out there who've lost their beautiful angels... This forum has been really helpful to see how other mum's that have gone through this have had successful pregnancies afterwards.