Hey,
I am reflecting on my labour and how it may effect future ones.
About a week before I gave birth (37+6) I started to get intense waves of back pain. Went on a CTG and it didn't pick up any contractions, I was only 1cm dilated, and baby was fine. They sent me home with some pain relief. The pain stopped that evening.
In the week I lost my mucus plug.
A week later (38+6) I woke up with blood soaked underwear. Put on CTG and baby was reading as compleltly normal and I had the same back contractions. They said as I was passing small clots of blood that they may need to keep me in and potentially hurry things along. I was checked and I was 4cm dilated. I continued to bleed like a heavy period, and due to being in active labour no intervention was needed.
No one told me what was happening in terms of bleeding - they just said baby was happy and ignore the blood. I gave birth that day and it was a fairly easy labour otherwise. They checked babies heart beat on and off and she was never in distress.
Now 6 weeks later, I am starting to question why I was bleeding and my mind is going to placental abruption. I understand that this may increase my chances of having one in following pregnancy if it were and I'm terrified.
Does anyone have any insight or reassurence? Could this have been an abruption and if so, do I need to be worried in future?
I lost my firstborn son at 33 weeks (TFMR) due to his brain being severly malformed. If I were to have another baby I will struggle with anxiety in pregnancy.