Hospital wants to send me home after PPROM. I don’t want to go. Help.

[CatsEye99]

Posting for traffic. My waters broke at home and were bright red, and I was 26 weeks with DCDA twins. I called an ambulance and was rushed to hospital where I had a huge gush of red fluid. I was counselled about preterm birth and given steroid injections. I saw a neonatal doctor who stated the most important thing was to deliver at a hospital with NICU cots.

Despite severe agonising pain, a week has passed and I haven’t given birth. Twins aren’t distressed and my observations are fine.

However I feel incredibly unwell. I keep burning hot and turning red but my temp is not raised. I feel like I have the flu or another illness. I have no energy and can barely move due to pain. Codeine won’t touch it. A midwife told me to have a hot bath which I am sure is contraindicated.

The staff want to send me home. I have stated I do not want to go home due to me living an hour from the hospital and the risk of infection, cord compression, preterm delivery and stillbirth. I do not want to lose my babies. I want to remain in the unit with NICU like the doctor advised.

Can anyone give me any advice? I can’t find any info on this anywhere and feel like the staff are fobbing me off.

Congratulations on the birth of your twins. You are a fantastic mother, you listened to your body and got your babies help. Well done lovely. They're lovely weights and im keeping everything crossed for you and both of your gorgeous babies.

Congratulations, if anything like their mum those babies will be very strong.

I was watching this during the night so glad they finally listened to you catseye. Congratulations and keeping everything crossed for your little ones xx

Thinking of you all

Hope you are all okay

I wish you and your family well and hope you and twin 2 are doing better now. You have had a really rough ride.

The hospital managers need to do a serious case review for this whole event from start to finish. Imagine if you had not stayed strong and stuck up for your (and your babies) rights? Does not bear thinking about so pleased you've have a positive outcome

Just read the thread. Congratulations on the birth of your twins. They are very lucky to have a strong mum like you. Good luck or the future. Sending love to you all.

Just read the whole thread, what shocking - shocking care you have received.

Congratulations on the birth of your twins, sending love and strength to your family now.

Best of luck going forward.

Thanks catseyesmum. Sending hugs, strength and prayers for improvement and recovery for mum and babies. Hope you all manage to get some rest xx

I was offline yesterday but I’m so glad you had the support of lovely mn throughout the night.

Massive congratulations and love and hugs for all of you

Congratulations on your babies. I hope they both do well and you recover your energy you have had such a difficult time

Congratulations OP - just goes to show you know your body and you knew that it was right to stay in. Sorry about how dramatic everything became and pleased to hear your babies are stabilised xx hope everything going well - your updates were terrifying

Congratulations Catseyes!!!!! So glad to hear the babies are ok. Please get some sleep as you have had such an emotional & physically exhausting week. The twins need you rested. Get your mum & partner to make notes on everything that went wrong so that you have all the information to make an official complaint at a later date. Don’t forget the names of the staff. Wishing you & the family lots of love. 😘

Thank you. Selfishly I am glad that the pregnancy is over as the last two days I had an overwhelming feeling that the babies needed to come out and was feeling more and more ill. I wish I could've held on longer but there was no way I could've in that scenario.

I had a sense of dread that if they stayed in something awful would happen.

Congrats catseye! You are so so strong - you've been such a phenomenal advocate for your babies, under exceptionally difficult circumstances, at your most vulnerable and weakest. Your babies are so lucky to have you as their mother. Wishing you and your family all the best - praying for you

Congratulations and thank you for updating. Will be continuing to think of you and your babies - best wishes for the coming days and the ups and downs that are inevitable at this age.

congratulations on the birth of your twins, hope you all get home quickly

Update. Twin 2 very sick and has been given a 50/50 chance.

I don't pray, @CatsEye99 but my thoughts are with you and your dh and all your family, and hoping that Twin 2 will be ok and pull through this safely.

Oh no. I am sorry. Will be saying a prayer and sending good wishes.

I wish I could've held on longer

It was completely outside your control. There was no way on this earth you could have done anything about it. You really did so well. The journey through the Nicu might feel like it will never end when you're in the middle of it but you will get to the other side. Please be kind to yourself because you have really been through an ordeal and you may find in the months to come that you may need some outside help to come to terms with it. This is not a failing. Nobody would make it through something like this without being affected.

For now though take each day as it comes and don't do more than you feel you are capable of. Keep on listening to yourself and your instincts. Your babies will be getting the best of care so don't feel guilty about taking some time to rest and recover and let other people take the load. You are important too. Take every offer of help available. Lean on the people around you.

I've been exactly where you are and come out the other side. If you need a sympathetic ear feel free to pm me.

My thoughts are with you and your family especially twin 2. Wishing you all the strength in the world

Sending positive vibes to twin 2