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Feeling like a right plonker!!

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dejags · 24/05/2004 21:49

Hi all, I am 24+1 and todays events have left me feeling quite silly...

I went to work this morning and at about 11am I felt a distinct small gush of fluid. This is not the first time this has happened - happened at 16 weeks and I had to have speculum exam and vaginal swab which showed nothing abnormal (at 16 weeks I was seen in the antenatal clinic - not admitted)

Anyway back to why I feel like an idiot - I rather stupidly got myself into a bit a panic and phoned the labour ward. I calmly described what had happened and they were adamant that I should go in for some tests/monitoring. I phoned DH who also got very worried and rushed to the hospital from work.

The upshot of the whole long day was a speculum exam and swab (not nice at the best of times), a scan and then just as I was about to be discharged I felt another small gush. This caused more worry and I was ordered to lie flat and still for 2 hours only to have another speculum exam which showed nothing wrong!! The consultant puts it down to excess vaginal secretions (exceedingly embarrassed emoticon would do nicely).

I felt so foolish taking up their valueable time, getting my husband running round like mad and all for nought...

Please tell me I am not the only idiot who has done this...

What did come to light is that I am carrying a massive baby - he is so big that I have been booked for a scan at 28 and possibly 32 weeks to check that everything is ok (he is over the 95th centile...)

What a day...

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bbensley · 24/05/2004 21:54

Thats not foolish, thats sensible in my book. Much better to be safe than sorry and I'm sure you didn't waste anyone's time. The thing is you never know and its best to be cautious. Well thats how I felt. I'm glad it was all ok

ouch @ the 95th percentile

beansprout · 24/05/2004 22:09

Not silly at all! Something concerned you and you had it checked out- that's a wise woman in my book!! Glad everything is ok

babster · 24/05/2004 22:10

Don't feel like an idiot - you were trying to protect your baby and what can be more important than that? All the best xx

karen01 · 24/05/2004 22:32

you did the right thing so don't feel like an idiot.

but ouch on the 95th centile

coppertop · 24/05/2004 22:36

If a MN'er had posted with a similar problem you would have told her to get it checked out too. Not silly at all!

I second that "Ouch!"

maisystar · 24/05/2004 22:40

dejags, when i was about 21 weeks pregnant i noticed quite alot of (ahem) discharge. fool that i am, i decided it was the amniotic fluid leaking and went to the hospital. i was given an internal (yuck) and diagnosed with thrush!! felt rather silly to say the least.

.......and the internal made me bleed a bit, so off i went back to the hospital again!! (could have won awards for neuroticness in my pregnancy!)

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Jimjams · 25/05/2004 08:51

don't worry about the 95th centile stuff. Both my boys showed on the scans as being 98th + (ds2 was 99th) In both cases they had big heads (95th ds1, 98th ds2) but they weren't huge huge. Usually consultants get a better idea f size by feeling you.

Don;t worry about being embarrassed- alwasy best tro get it checked out.

SoupDragon · 25/05/2004 09:24

You weren't being silly - it's always better to be over cautious! Good to know everything's OK.

DS1 was 98th percentile at birth and yes - ouch! BUT he was a short round 98th percentile. With a fairly large head. My friend had a long thin over-the-top-of-the-percentiles baby with much less trouble. You really can't tell. If you do have the 32 week scan - don't look at the screen if you don't want to know the sex!

miranda2 · 25/05/2004 09:40

Not silly at all. My friend actually did have her waters break at 21 weeks, while we were all in the park last summer...dreadful few weeks ensued as we all had to wait for her to get to 25 weeks to be given a 50/50 chance of the baby surviving - and she had to stay at home, not go where she could catch any infection and remain within 15 mins drive of the hospital! (baby eventually born at 35 weeks, and now a whopping 17lb 5 month old, so happy ending thank God). So it can happen...always best to get these things checked out.

Marina · 25/05/2004 10:00

Dejags, as others have said, you did absolutely the right thing. Premature rupture of membranes can be terribly serious and you need someone professional to check it out.
Dd was "massive" too at her earlier scans, but came out a presentable 9lb. I am sure some babies do their big growth spurts at non-approved times in their nine months.
Glad all is well. Was this Queen Mary's?

karen01 · 25/05/2004 12:40

miranda2- you're friend was similar to me my waters broke 21/22wks I didn't deliver until 36 weeks, DD perfectly healthy 7.5 yr old now.

Twinkie · 25/05/2004 12:47

Honey anything that worries you is worth checking out, I went in with what I suspected to be a stroke with DD to be told I was having a migraine!!!

Hope you are feeling better now and maybe some rest is in order if not some nice panty liners!!

Thomcat · 25/05/2004 13:21

You were being a mum! not silly, wise and caring.

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dejags · 25/05/2004 14:25

Thanks all - I feel better now.

Marina - no it was the dreaded PRU (ex Farnborough). The ultrasound department was really on the ball and I was seen on time - can't say I was particularly impressed with the labour ward, it was impersonal and noisy (the rooms did have their own bathrooms and every type of gadget known to man though). I did see what looked remarkably like blood spatters on the walls at the foot end of the bed (lovely!). The midwives were nice but obviously rushed. The poor doctor I saw must have been exhausted - she had been in theatre all morning when I arrived and was still going strong when they booked me out at 9pm.

Twinkie... know what you mean about those panty liners.. (how mortifying!!!)

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kbaby · 25/05/2004 19:24

Hey you did the right thing. Better to be safe than sorry.
I thought the same when I was 24 weeks and the hospital told me to go in and take my knickers with me. Now this is the really embarrasing part, The midwife said that she would be able to tell if it was waters by smell and so proceeded to smell my knickers and tell me i was leaking urine ((((blush)))). I have never been no humiliated in my life, while DP sat besides me laughing. I went to the hospital on Friday thinking that they were leaking again only to be told I had heavy discharge. Im am now 40 weeks so sort of expecting it now though!.

bunny2 · 25/05/2004 19:36

dejags, that is what the hospital is there for. I hold the record for panic visits and yet I have never been made to feel like I am wasting their time. Every pregnant woman worries and needs ressurance sometimes. You did the right thing.

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