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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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odd silver ball falling out of me prior to childbirth!

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Mishee · 24/02/2009 17:47

No one has been able to tell me what happened here - I'd been having contractions for hours but only had a 'dimple'. Then I had a huge contraction and thought I'd messed myself, but when I eventually looked down a round silver/grey ball of liquid was laying between my legs! I called the midwife, who called the doc. Midewife said to the doc she'd never seen anything like it before! The doc said she had & whisked it away. She then measured me & I'd gone from 0-8cm in approx 10 minutes! DD was born very soon after with no tears (as in rips, not boo hoo), as if the 'ball' stretched everything in preparation. Has anyone heard of this before, but moreover, does anyone know what the silver ball was? (I know it sounds a bit Dr Who & alien like, but it's true!).

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me23 · 28/02/2009 22:08

people google amniotic sac they do look like silver balls!

pinkmagic1 · 28/02/2009 22:19

Very, very strange. I would have guessed at an undeveloped twin but like someone else said, there was no placenta.

Jacksmama · 01/03/2009 02:15

But if the amniotic sac was expelled, how could it have been expelled without the placenta? They are all attached together. Surely mishee would have noticed if there were a placenta and cord attached - especially since this would mean that her baby would have had no oxygen supply if her "house" came out before she did! I don't see how it could have been the amniotic sac.

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Mishee · 01/03/2009 09:43

DD is now 2! I just think of it ever-so-often and wonder what it was. I don't know if my notes would even be in existance now, would they?

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Nighbynight · 01/03/2009 10:36

yes they would, when I had my second baby, I got to see teh notes from the first one (same hospital)

morningpaper · 01/03/2009 11:21

it sounds like you laid an egg

how bizarre

LucyEllensmummy · 01/03/2009 11:21

Mishee - i haven't a clue what it was but i would advise against finding out tbh. If you find out it was an undeveloped twin, wont it play on your mind? If it already was playing on your mind and that is why you posted then ask to see your notes, or speak to your GP about it.

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Mishee · 01/03/2009 15:12

Oh it was like I'd laid an egg. I remember it just easing out - I called for the midwife & said (I remember the exact words!) 'I'm terribly sorry but I've soiled myself' (I don't normally talk like that!). She was gone ages & I thought I'd better clear it up myself as I couldn't move incase the poo spread about, and that was when I looked down and saw it! I then rang the buzzer again & a different midwife came through, looked & called the dr on duty. It just kind of rolled out & I'm sure that's why I didn't tear when I had DD, cos the ball had stretched me gently. I don't remember if they had to cut it away from the cord or anything like that cos it all then happened so quickly; as I said earlier with going from 0-8cm in 10 minutes it was all a bit rush-rush, with hubby, who'd just been sent home, being called back.

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quickdrawmcgraw · 05/03/2009 15:59

Mishee- I'm still on tenterhooks here!! Did you get your notes yet?

frazzledoldbag · 05/03/2009 22:08

Please tell us, what was it????????

MARGOsBeenPlayingWithMyNooNoo · 05/03/2009 22:10

FrazzledFairyFay · 05/03/2009 22:12

did you find out?

Mummyfor3 · 06/03/2009 21:45

Mishee, any answers for all us desperate to know people?
I have not posted before on this thread but have been watching it from the start. Am absolutely fascinated. Sounds like something from the X Files.

doulabev · 06/03/2009 21:57

Sounds like this could be a hydatidiform mole...?

info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydatidiform_mole

Sawyer64 · 06/03/2009 22:08

I'll try a link for you HERE

AnybodyHomeMcFly · 06/03/2009 22:18

Wow do let us know when you find out!

BalloonSlayer · 07/03/2009 08:03

But if it was a hydatidiform mole then she would have needed some treatment.

The Dr would not have just strolled off with it, surely?

keels26 · 07/03/2009 08:43

My sister had a hydatidiform mole and after she had it removed it was tested, from what we have learned afterwards it looks like it was tested for cancer. She had to have regular blood tests to check her hormone levels which took quite a while to settle down. Im sure that if it was that then Mishee should have been offered some sort of after care, although if she did just have a baby anyway maybe her hormone levels would be high anyway. I really dont know, its a mystery!

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Mishee · 10/03/2009 18:33

Oh my goodness, I feel such a fraud. Have read back in my diary and searched my memory and the ball was a creamy colour, not silver as I said earlier. Everything else was exactly as I described. Don't know where I got the silver bit from. Perhaps that will make it all clearer?... Really sorry if I've made it all sound more exciting than it really was, although I think that doesn't make it any less odd.

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peasoup · 11/03/2009 14:36

Have you asked for your notes , Mishee? You can get them even several years down the line. I think you really need to get to the bottom of this as there are loads of Mumsnetters out here going mad with curiosity! Help us, please !

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Mishee · 11/03/2009 15:37

OK, I'll do it! I'll write to the hospital at the weekend and ask them. But has anyone got any advice on this one ... DD (2 1/2 ish) has taken a great interest when I'm putting in tampons! I've just seen her trying to do an inappropriate thing with my memory stick... I asked her who she'd seen doing this (in case she was about to make an abuse declaration) and she said 'Mama.' Am trying to explain about holes and why mummies sometimes put things (ie tampons, not memory sticks in my case) up their bottom, but hainv limited success... Argh!

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Horton · 11/03/2009 16:52

My DD (also 2 1/2ish) is very keen to put a tampon in. I have just told her they are only for grown ups and I will buy her some of her own when she is big enough. It did help a bit. She's never tried with a memory stick, though. That sounds potentially painful.

peasoup · 11/03/2009 16:52

Hilarious! A mum I met with a DS my son's age (3) told me she regularly gets him to pass her tampons when she's sitting on the toilet! . And he regularly asks her if she needs him to get her a tampon when she's in the loo! I think I'd quite like to keep that little activity private personally! Though obviously its hard to get ANY privacy with little folks around.
My DS came up with a brilliant explanation the other day as to how my friends baby had got out of her stomach- he kept asking me what hole it came out of! When I said "I don't know we'll have to ask her next time we see her" (delaying tactics, hoping he'd forget all about it!) he then piped up "I know! She squeezed her Willie and PUSHED it out." Bloody good guess, eh?!

louii · 11/03/2009 16:57

How strange, i would have to find out what it was if it was me.

mears · 13/03/2009 09:10

Sounds to me as if you passed the mucus plus in the cervix (operculum) all in one go. Especially since you dilated so rapidly. I have seen it a few times in my midwifery career.Usually it comes out mixed with blood and is what makes up 'show'

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