i am upset and frightened. i had consultant yesterday and cried the drive home after. my son was 10 lb and after birth my uterus didn't contract. uterine atony. This meant a had a PPH needing 4 units. I was given a drip and suppository and massage to get my womb to respond and contract.
I thought that this was unlikely to happen again as i had a combination of factors:
presentation was face first and looking up to left,
long ish delivery 19 hours 2 hours were active pushing,
ventouse assisted,
episiotomy,
managed first stage was rushed so umbilical cord broke off,
low lying placenta (only minimum 2cm away from opening)
I retained some placenta ( its been suggested the placenta must have had an extra lobe and nothing appeared missing from placenta despite retained piece being rather large, 2 weeks later I had another pph which needed 3 units and erpc)
So I thought i all this won't happen again. i would probably be ok this time.
But consultant says there is a 33% risk of uterine atony happening again and risk of shoulder getting stuck (I haven't googled this yet :()
She said nothing lowers risk not induction or section, spontaneous labour a vaginal delivery is the safest bet.
When i go into labour not to hang around just to go straight to hospital. I have a choice of 3 all about 40 minutes away.
I am scared which she said was normal as I had previous traumatic delivery.
Also when I MC in November I bled and didn't respond to two injections to stop bleeding and had to have ERPC.
I don't know how not to be petrified. I can't bare the thought of saying bye to my son and going to give birth not knowing how I will be after.
Ultimately I am frightened I will bleed to death. I don't know if i'm being hormonally crazy, but I'm struggling to rationalise and be positive,
Can I do anything to prevent uterine atrophy?
try to have a smaller baby by avoiding sugar?
Do baby spinning?
I am going to ask MW to arrange a birth planning meeting but don't know what else to do/ask?
I don't know how high the risk of death is? I don't want to be ill and go through all that again but I just want to be safe and go home with my baby and get to watch my family grow up.
Can anyone help/advise or reassure me?
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uterine atony I'm scared
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Yumpopbythesea · 09/07/2015 13:17
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