FWIW my earthy-crunchy midwife recommended them, and said they're just the same progesterone your body should make be making naturally. Definitely talk to your doctor, but for me taking shots of a hormone during my...
Congratulations! I second the thought that all her days be good days from now on. What an introduction to parenthood! I hope things get easier and she's home and thriving before you know it.
Totally talk with the doctor. The official ACOG guideline is "progesterone supplementation for the prevention of recurrent preterm birth should be offered to women with a singleton pregnancy and a prior spontaneous preterm birth...
HA! I kept using PubMed to bring my midwife (and my doula, and the labor nurses....) relevant articles. I'm sure you'll do fine. Just look into those shots, there's a lot of good evidence behind them. :)
I worked with a midwife practice that I love for both pregnancies. They're not homebirth midwives-- that route has never been for me-- but they're an awesome midwife practice that delivers at the local hospital. I couldn't...
Can you help her family get a nursery set up? We hadn't gotten one ready before our baby came and that was a big thing for me-- it really added to the chaos of being in the hospital before I was expecting to be. Even if you...
I had a full term pregnancy after PPROM at 34 weeks, yes! Like you my water broke out of the blue, no warning signs, and they never figured out why. For my second (and last) pregnancy I did the progesterone shots...
If it helps at all, I think every one of us who delivered preterm has felt the same guilt. I know I did and it was wracking at first, especially in the days after birth when my hormones were all over the place and I wasn't...
