I've probably mentioned this a thousand times on this board and my DDC so I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record, but for the sake of giving a good background:
I have had four unmedicated vaginal births - three in the hospital, the fourth at home. Aside from a few little glitches here and there (like my third baby aiming towards my hip instead of descending properly, so they had to break my water to help her zoom down into place when I was 8cm) but they were all normal, healthy pregnancies/labors/births/babies.
For my fifth, I planned a homebirth but when I was 33 weeks pregnant, I had a weird tightening sensation like a contraction but it didn't loosen up for about 10 minutes. I felt dizzy and nauseous. I lay down for a while and over the next 24 hours felt a few BH contractions. The following evening my water broken and it continued to gush for the rest of the night, getting bloodier and bloodier.After being monitored overnight in the hospital I ended up loosing way too much blood and had c-section early the next morning. My daughter was healthy for her gestational age but still had to spend a month in the NICU. The birth report said that a piece of the placenta had separated from the uterine wall, causing the PROM and bleeding, and they also found a large ovarian cyst (I don't know whether that played a part in the premature labor or not).
I was told to wait a year before conceiving again and found out that I was pregnant two weeks before my baby was one.
Throughout this pregnancy I've had fairly constant pain in the incision site, which I see is common from the boards and my MW says it's not something I should worry about. Now I am 25 weeks pregnant and starting to have a lot of BH contractions, which I usually have during pregnancy, but never with an incision scar from a c/s. It hurts. 
I have been sick lately with some kind of stomach thing and have gotten dizzy several times over the past few days...that, coupled with the cramping and pain in the incision site, are making me nervous. My MW requires one ultrasound at 18-22 weeks for her HBAC patients to make sure everything looks good, and everything did at the time, but I'm starting to wonder if I should get another to check out the placenta and baby since I'm having this pain lately. Is that reasonable or am I just being way too paranoid?
Sorry this was long for such a basic question.
I have had four unmedicated vaginal births - three in the hospital, the fourth at home. Aside from a few little glitches here and there (like my third baby aiming towards my hip instead of descending properly, so they had to break my water to help her zoom down into place when I was 8cm) but they were all normal, healthy pregnancies/labors/births/babies.
For my fifth, I planned a homebirth but when I was 33 weeks pregnant, I had a weird tightening sensation like a contraction but it didn't loosen up for about 10 minutes. I felt dizzy and nauseous. I lay down for a while and over the next 24 hours felt a few BH contractions. The following evening my water broken and it continued to gush for the rest of the night, getting bloodier and bloodier.After being monitored overnight in the hospital I ended up loosing way too much blood and had c-section early the next morning. My daughter was healthy for her gestational age but still had to spend a month in the NICU. The birth report said that a piece of the placenta had separated from the uterine wall, causing the PROM and bleeding, and they also found a large ovarian cyst (I don't know whether that played a part in the premature labor or not).
I was told to wait a year before conceiving again and found out that I was pregnant two weeks before my baby was one.
Throughout this pregnancy I've had fairly constant pain in the incision site, which I see is common from the boards and my MW says it's not something I should worry about. Now I am 25 weeks pregnant and starting to have a lot of BH contractions, which I usually have during pregnancy, but never with an incision scar from a c/s. It hurts. I have been sick lately with some kind of stomach thing and have gotten dizzy several times over the past few days...that, coupled with the cramping and pain in the incision site, are making me nervous. My MW requires one ultrasound at 18-22 weeks for her HBAC patients to make sure everything looks good, and everything did at the time, but I'm starting to wonder if I should get another to check out the placenta and baby since I'm having this pain lately. Is that reasonable or am I just being way too paranoid?Sorry this was long for such a basic question.
. Best of luck!
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