Previous premature birth

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Hi , I guess I’m just looking for some positive stories. The internet is full of worse cases and what could happen and I’d love to hear some actual positive experiences I guess.
My last baby was born at 26 weeks, my first baby was born at term I’m now 12 weeks pregnant with my 3rd child and I’d just like to hear if anyone’s gone on to have a full term or close to full term baby after having such an early delivery last time. I went into spontaneous Labour at 26 weeks and they couldn’t stop it my DD is now 7 and doing fantastic. However at all my midwife appointments although they have been positive it’s etched with the sad face or telling me worse cases and I just really need to hear there’s a chance it might be ok. Or that it’s even possible because all I keep seeing atm is all the negative stuff and I’m struggling to enjoy my final pregnancy or even tell people I’m pregnant at this point!

Yes. My first wasn’t quite that early (35w) but second was 40+8. A close friend’s first was born at 27 weeks, second at 40 weeks to the day.
Good luck and I hope it all goes well for you.

Did they find any reason for the premature labour? Any infection? Problem with your cervix?
It sounds sensible to plan for a potential preterm delivery again but hopefully you can take it easy in your 2nd and 3rd trimester, have you had a pregnancy risk assessment at work?
All the best for you and your growing little one

Had my 1st at 30 wks 2nd at 38+2

My first was at born at 31 weeks. My second came at 33 weeks.

The first one was PPROM, caused by a fall. The second one we have no idea why she was early.

I was never given a cause. Since then Drs have guessed it was an infection due to my waters smelling odd when they went but no tests were ever run at the time.
I’m under a specialist pre term team and my consultant has been part of studies and worked globally and have been told he’s one of the best in his field so I’m hoping he can help me hang on. They’ve said I’ll have lots of scans and checks from 17 weeks onwards.
my experience of Drs and consultants is they are natural pessimists because they have to look at what could go wrong which I understand. But it’s just be nice to have some positive stories to hold onto to try and balance all the worries about what can go wrong.
work wise I haven't had a risk assessment yet, I think they are waiting until I have something more solid from the hospital as to plans going forward. I’m in limbo atm really.

My brother was born at 26 weeks
My mum had two full term babies after him, quite a change as well as he was obviously tiny about 1lb 7 and the next two were both 10lbs. All were fine.
I was young so can't remember exactly the reason but the placenta had stopped working at thats why he came early

The big 10lb babies were definitely not early but I was a child so don't remember exactly how many weeks my mum was when she had each of them.

My first was just under 32 weeks, probably placental abruption but they never really determined why.
I was under consultant care for my second, including an additional scan at 25 weeks to check placental blood flow.
I was signed off to midwife led care at 36 weeks, and eventually gave birth at 40+5 (induced due to obstetric cholestasis).

DD1 was 33 weeks. Never was really taken seriously as being at risk of early labour with the second - but was experiencing the same kind of tightenings and symptoms around the same point second time around - and they swabbed for FFN and as that was positive they did give me injections to hold off labour long enough for steroids to be given... she ended up hanging around with latent/threatened labour between 33 weeks until early 36 weeks.

Have concluded I just have a badly set oven timer.

1st 32 weeks 2nd 35 weeks 3rd a few days before due date they tried to get my to get a cervical stitch to stop another preterm labour we decided against it