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berolina's pregnancy rollercoaster continues

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berolina · 14/05/2007 22:18

At work late this afternoon I had some odd tightenings (possibly BH) and then felt something leaking out of me. Went to check and there was a biggish wet patch and some very odd brownish discharge, nothing like the stuff I've still been having since my last big bleed, which reminded me of a show. (sorry TMI) I did my very best to keep calm but I think I more or less had a panic attack - feeling sick, blood pressure rising, feeling I didn't have enough air to breathe. Got my colleague to call a doctor and, to cut a long story short, ended up in bl**dy hospital again, all the way there absolutely convinced I could feel my waters leaking out of me (I'm 22+3). Fortunately, as it emerged, the waters are still very much intact and everything is just fine, so they let me out and now here I am, exhausted but wakeful. I feel really stupid - but I really did have a physical sensation of waters leaking, and possibly because I was tired and since the last placenta praevia bleed I've been increasingly nervous and jumpy about the pregnancy, I think I went into some kind of shock or panic. I've been trying to hold all the different bits of my life together despite pg and pp and do it all justice, and it has become increasingly exhausting - possibly today was the culmination. The thing aout the job is I've only been in it for a month and they knew I was pg when they took me on. They're being very understanding but it is so hideously awkward for me, and I'm now worried they'll think I'm unstable or whatever as well. Fortunately I'm working at home the next couple of days. I'm so very glad the baby is OK but feel so tired and useless right now.

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berolina · 17/05/2007 17:19

thanks WB

ds's birthday tomorrow, but dh and ILs and godmother will be doing all the running around, that's for sure.

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WelshBoris · 17/05/2007 17:21

Yes make sure you do

FioFio · 17/05/2007 17:22

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berolina · 17/05/2007 17:24

They are scary at this point in pg, aren't they Fio? I do hope you're having a smoother ride than me.

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lulumama · 17/05/2007 17:26

Berolina..sounds like you have an interesting placenta, to say the least ! make sure you rest ! x

berolina · 17/05/2007 17:33

does it sound normal lulu? It says (this is translated from German) 'the placenta now looks more like a low-lying anterior-posterior placenta, without any visible placental bridge or vasa praevia in front of the inner cervix.'

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FioFio · 17/05/2007 17:35

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berolina · 17/05/2007 17:37

oh Fio I think these are really difficult weeks - I think of them as the 'so-near-but-yet-so-far' weeks - you know if you hang in there just for a few weeks the baby has a good chance even if it's prem, but if anything happens now... Sorry, this is doomy and gloomy, isn't it? I've been (obviously) very jumpy too.

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motherinferior · 17/05/2007 17:37

Fio, I got dreadful, painful BH all through my first pregnancy.

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lulumama · 17/05/2007 17:44

not really sure tbh, berolina....no vasa previa is good,not sure about placental bridge , and didn;t know placenta could be anterior and posterior!!

can you call consult for more info?

motherinferior · 17/05/2007 17:45

I didn't even know what mine were till around 30 weeks Just thought it was all part of the horror of the pregnancy I was supposed to be Blooming through.

berolina · 17/05/2007 19:33

belated (hug) back to you Fio!

lulu - I'll ask next Fri - when the pp was originally diagnosed there was a 'bridge' over the os between the main placenta and the other bit of it which was on the other side. First they said partially covering, then totally, then partially again, and now the 'bridge' appears to be gone [puzzled] I think what they are trying to say is that most of the placenta is at one place and there is a kind of 'satellite' placenta at the other??? I can't imagine where the bridge has gone, but I assume very strongly they would have let me know if it was dangerous.

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Skyler · 17/05/2007 19:42

Just saw this Berolina and wanted to send you my best wishes and tell you to REST UP and listen to everyone on here. Take care.

(P.S. FWIW my BH were much more painful with dd2, my Junie. They are horrid )

berolina · 17/05/2007 19:45

hi skyler

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Ellbell · 17/05/2007 19:58

Hello... Hijacked PhD thread, but have just seen this update.

Your placenta sounds weird... and coming from me, that's saying something! (I thought I had had the world's most interesting placenta ever...LOL!)

Is it possible that the 'bridge' has just (sorry) dropped out, leaving the majority of the placenta on one side of the os, and a little bit on the other? I have no idea if this is possible. I do know, though, that it's possible to lose a bit of placenta and to continue with the pg quite happily and without noticing anything wrong. (This happened to me at c. 28 weeks. Dd was born at 36 weeks. She was small-ish, but otherwise fine.)

Otherwise, I guess you just need to ask what they think has happened at the next appointment. Nothing across the os has got to be good news, though, hasn't it? You may yet avoid the c-section!

I've been thinking about you and wishing you well. I hope ds has a lovely birthday tomorrow.

Ellbell · 17/05/2007 20:01

The bit I lost was described by my consultant as 'a small lobe'. It looked like a big clot about the size of a golf-ball. At least, I assume that was it. At the time I just thought it yet more bleeding and ignored it. It was only afterwards, when they checked the placenta after dd was born, that they discovered a bit missing!

Skyler · 17/05/2007 20:01

and Happy Birthday to ds. He was determined not to be a Junie wasn't he .

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