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.

I've been watching this thread from the beginning. Wow. You are amazing. I hope both babies get well soon. Well done you, and those 'care givers' should be bloody ashamed of themselves.

What a journey you've been on. Congratulations on the birth of your babies. So sorry it's been such a traumatic experience but I hope you recover well very quickly. Also hope your babies do brilliantly x

I'd be seriously concerned about the Dr that examined you, said "The cervix is closed so it isn't active bleeding"
when you soaked 5 pads of fresh red blood, it genuinely beggars belief.. you can get concealed abruption (which it sounds like what you had, partially, though the fact you were having fresh red heavy loss I wouldnt exactly call that concealed)

Really, I'm concerned for their future practice..

So glad to see the outcome of this and that both babies were delivered safely in the end. Congratulations. Thank god you listened to your instinct that something was seriously wrong.

Evening, everyone. Just letting you know that we've had an awful lot of reports on this thread and we've spent some time on it today, looking behind the scenes.

While we have no reason to think the OP is making any of this up, and we wish her and her new family all the best, she does seem to be a poster who was previously banned. We're going to close the thread to new posts now as we've closed the OP's account again, but we're going to leave it up so she can refer back to the advice and support she was given.

Thank you to everyone who spent time replying. We're sure it was appreciated.