Talk me though your really premature birth.

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

I am currently 24+5 with a baby who's likely to be born soon due to pprom. He's currently breech and the consultants said if i go in to about before 28 weeks i'll be able to have a vaginal breech birth which i am happy with, if he doesn't turn after 28 weeks then i'll have to have a section and i am fine with that too.

I am just wondering how really prem labours work.. i know thats probably a stupid question but do they take as long, are they as painfull and will i be able to move around etc etc.. will i even have to push ?

My daughter was born at 32 weeks and my labour was as i imagine a term labour to be, i couldnt move around due to monitoring but everything else was the same. it took 4 hours, she was 4lb8oz and i went though all the stages and it really bloody hurt. This baby is likely to arrive long before then so i excect it to be different but dont really know what to expect.

Another worry is that if i need pain relief then i dont know what to have, i had meptid and gas & air with dd but i was so off my head for a lot of the labour i dont really remember it. I need to be able to remember this one as our baby's likely to be very ill or be born asleep so i want to be able to remember it, not feel completly spangled, I am going to need my memories.

Would it be worth considering an epidural so i dont feel anything which is likely to alter my perception or is it likely to happen so fast i wont need anything ?

x sarah

[lizzytee]

Worszel, are you still cooking? hugs to you and bubba. IIRC you should now be 26 weeks?

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Still here

26+3 now, cant believe it really !

Fingers crossed for 27 weeks although i am starting to feel a bit sketchy on and off and thats how it started with DD so i am not sure how much further i am going to get.

How are you ?

[Swedes]

Worzel. I'm so pleased your son is hanging on in there. I think you are really well on your way to being out of the woods. I wouldn't worry about not feeling much movement - some babies are quieter than others. I felt the same in my last two pregnancies and both times the babies were absolutely fine.

I lost a son (DS3) at 22.6 weeks on Christmas eve due to PPROM after what they think was an incompetent cervix - perhaps caused by mid cavity forceps delivery of DS2 who was 9lb 9oz and a VBAC. He lived for a very short time and later tests showed nothing wrong with him or me - just my cervix opening prematurely for whatever reason. I have since gone on to have a further two children (a DD and another DS) thanks to cervical sutures at the end of the first trimester in both pregnancies - removed at a planned c-section on both occasions.

Try to enjoy Christmas and really try and rest as much as you can.

[JacksFirstChristmasMama]

26+3!! Wow!
["keep the cork in" emoticon] [frgin]
Love, love, love and hugs for you and BabyW!

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Sorry for your loss Swedes, this must be a difficult time for you

My pprom is IC related too although i have been told that next time ( which is NEVER ) i'd have to have a high abdominal stitch put in my lapaoscopy before we ever try.

Hopefully i wont need to go though this again though, i am not sure Dfs nerves, or mine could take it.

Jacksmama.. i'm completly amazed at being 26+ weeks too, especially as i now look massive and very obviously pregnant. I keep admiring myself in the french doors pondering how lucky i am to still look so enormous and stretched . Cant imagine its going to go on for much longer though i have had my quota of luck i think. I'm willing for forfit anymore stretchedness for a lovely pair lungs !

Scan tomorrow and i am going to request a scbu tour and a meeting with the peadiatric/neonatal team so we know where we stand and whats likely to happen also if our prognosis is still as poor as it was or if incresed gestationl age = incresed chanced of survival given the lung development situation.

Fingers crossed for lovely, pink and working lungs sometime after 28 weeks !

[Swedes]

Good luck with the scan tomorrow. It is so exhausting worrying constantly. Try not to. Put your feet up and enjoy Christmas and have a few days off from worrying. It's an order.

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Thanks I am being waited on hand and foot, its very tiring doing nothing though.

Have a lovely Christmas x

[lizzytee]

Great news Worszel. Doubt very much that extra gestation can hurt, there is a world of difference between 24 weeks and 26+.

We're fine, am a bit achey around the pelvic area which I guess is just my elderly multiparous body giving out a a bit! Had a negative fetal fibronectin test late last week on the dot of 23 weeks. Docs cautious due to my history and short cervical length (19mm) before placing of a suture but saying they expect me to go to 30 weeks. So in a weird way rejoicing that this time I might get really big.......

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Its nice having a bump, it's like watching a little miracle

I so hope things work out well for both of us !

[JacksFirstChristmasMama]

[intense concentration emoticon]
Visualizing lovely pink healthy lungs... lovely pink healthy lungs... lovely pink healthy lungs...
[eyes screwed up in concentration emoticon]
(((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))

[JumpingJellyfish]

Just wanted to say thinking of you and your little man lots- really hoping you make it to 27 weeks (and beyond if possible!)- nearly there... Good luck and lots of hugs xx

[stitch]

lots of positive thoughts for you.
from what i know, at this stage of gestation, every day the babymanages to stay inside, increases his chances. so, one day a ttime.
positive vibes foryou.

[JacksFirstChristmasMama]

Just popping in for your daily ((((HUG)))) from Canada

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Well i'll give you my update from today

I had a scan this morning, no measurable pools and he's still breech with his bum in my pelvis so i'd hazard a guess that whatever he's weeing out is coming straight out of me and down the loo .. obviously a boy, only a boy could be so blimmin awkward. He's 2lb though which seems massive !

We had a tour of the NICU and they were lovely. it all seems very good and the good news is they take babies over 26 weeks so provided they have a cot we wont need to be transfered out which will make our lives easier. We also had a chat with somne kinf of half Dr, i dont know what she was maybe a Nurse Specialist but she knew her stuff. She said the prognosis wasnt as bad as we were told, babies do do a lot better if they have fluid but we know that already and there is nothing i can do about the fact ours doesnt have any. She said its not all doom and gloom and babies can do fine so we're clinging on to that !

Had the bloods, my pulse is still high but they don't seem bothered by it really.

Went home and started looking forward to a mince pie, becks alcohol free beer and present wraping session and the phone rings - it's my MW, Great! CRP whatever that is is raised so i have an infection somewhere and need to go in, talk on the phone of delivering me .. panic stations .

Get to hosp for the 2nd time today and do a urine sample which is full of nastyness so its a UTI which is good i think, started trimethroprim and have to go back in tomorrow for repeat bloods and if the anti'bs are not improving it then baby's
gonna have his eviction notice served and will be delivered tomorrow or Christmas Day presumably by c section if not [fpray] then its back to waiting. If i have an infection in my womb then he's better out than in.. i am ready now, mentally prepared so to speak but another couple of weeks would be nice.

busy, busy day.. i am nackered now !

I hope your all prepared for the big day and your little ones are not driving you barmy.. mine is !

((((hugs))))

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Well i'll give you my update from today

I had a scan this morning, no measurable pools and he's still breech with his bum in my pelvis so i'd hazard a guess that whatever he's weeing out is coming straight out of me and down the loo .. obviously a boy, only a boy could be so blimmin awkward. He's 2lb though which seems massive !

We had a tour of the NICU and they were lovely. it all seems very good and the good news is they take babies over 26 weeks so provided they have a cot we wont need to be transfered out which will make our lives easier. We also had a chat with somne kinf of half Dr, i dont know what she was maybe a Nurse Specialist but she knew her stuff. She said the prognosis wasnt as bad as we were told, babies do do a lot better if they have fluid but we know that already and there is nothing i can do about the fact ours doesnt have any. She said its not all doom and gloom and babies can do fine so we're clinging on to that !

Had the bloods, my pulse is still high but they don't seem bothered by it really.

Went home and started looking forward to a mince pie, becks alcohol free beer and present wraping session and the phone rings - it's my MW, Great! CRP whatever that is is raised so i have an infection somewhere and need to go in, talk on the phone of delivering me .. panic stations .

Get to hosp for the 2nd time today and do a urine sample which is full of nastyness so its a UTI which is good i think, started trimethroprim and have to go back in tomorrow for repeat bloods and if the anti'bs are not improving it then baby's
gonna have his eviction notice served and will be delivered tomorrow or Christmas Day presumably by c section if not [fpray] then its back to waiting. If i have an infection in my womb then he's better out than in.. i am ready now, mentally prepared so to speak but another couple of weeks would be nice.

busy, busy day.. i am nackered now !

I hope your all prepared for the big day and your little ones are not driving you barmy.. mine is !

((((hugs))))

[JacksFirstChristmasMama]

Hoooooo-boy... you've had a day, haven't you. ((((Warm hug.))))
I'm so happy to hear that the prognosis isn't as bad as previously. And 2 whole pounds - what a bruiser!! Lovely!
Will pray that the antibiotics start working right away.
I know this is a ridiculous request but I'll ask anyway because so many of us are watching your thread with bated breath - if, by any chance, it does happen that he has to be delivered at Christmas, do you think any of your girlfriends or someone could log on here for you and update us occasionally? [feeling stupid and insensitive emoticon] I would just really like to know how you and Baby W are doing.
[feeling stupid because getting teary emoticon]
But of course we're all hoping that Baby W can stay put safely a little longer!!!
Love from me, my mum, my girlfriends who emailed in response to your thread, and Jackbaby who waves at Baby W and says hi-be-safe-stay-put-if-you-can!!! (Bababababababa is what he really said but I know that's what he meant!)

[WorzselMincepieYummage]

Oh bless you

When baby W decides its his time to meet his Mummy i'll get Df to pop on and update you all immediatly.. infact i coud probably do it myself from my hospital bed as df's got one of these new fangled phones which does the internet.

Its nice to know you care !

[babyjamas]

hi Worzel - just popped on to see if you had an update. 2lbs is a fab weight at 26 weeks! wishing you much luck over the next few days and hoping that your Christmas is the very best it can be.

[WugLetItSnow]

Hi

Been lurking on this thread from the start - didn't have much to add as although DD was prem we did get to 33 weeks.

Just wanted to add to the best wishes flying your way.

Hope everything goes well for you.

[geordieminx]

Thinking of you all, hope that baby decides to stay put, and make christmas 2009 his first one!

[lizzytee]

You were not kidding about the drama W, fingers crossed the abs do their stuff and buy you and babyworszel a little longer.

((((hugs)))

for the good wishes in our direction - yup, the bigger the better!

[JacksFirstChristmasMama]

Thanks!! That would be great... but what we really want to see is "ab's working, baby's fine and still in there"...

[LiegeAndLief]

Best of luck Worzel, really hope your baby stays put over Christmas - although if he has to come out, 2lb sounds like an absolutely fantastic weight for 26 weeks! Your placenta must be doing a very good job

[mediocrebronze]

You say youre feeling niggly. I was at about the same gestation as you when I started feeling like that. Shes fantastic now. Keep hanging on in there.

Tink stay well too. thats an order

[KashaSarrasin]

Fingers crossed the ABs are doing their job and your little one stays put a while longer. 2lbs seems like a good weight for 26 weeks