Updates on me...

Hello!!

Well, Im now 4 weeks pregnant!

I want to thank you guys for the nice messages when I first lost Amelia. And now I need more.....please send me lots of sticky baby vibes and pray for a normal and boring pregnancy!

Thanks!

Hey girls! I'm glad to see everyone is doing so well! I wanted to update everyone with what went wrong with me and Amelia...

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Yesterday afternoon I met with my MW to discuss my hospital records and kind of go over everything that did and didn't happen.

Good news:

I kept my uterus and avoided a classical c-section...barely.

The most obvious cause of my pProm was the complete previa. Theory is that my rupture was low (makes sense as it was a huge gush and left me with an AFI of 0) and along the placenta (makes sense as the previa can cause PROM with blood flow irritating the membrains). So, assuming the next pregnancy is sans complete previa I ought to be in the clear.

MW has never had a pProm recurrence. OB either. I've looked at some other research and it seems that all pProm studies, of which there are about 3, have other factors like GBS, PTL, IC. I had neither PTL or IC. We agreed that the 30% recurrence study is flawed (too few women and there being that there's few ways to pin point what caused the pProm who knows what was really recurring beyond the pProm'ing)

Many peri's believe pProm isn't what's recurring as much as whatever caused the pProm. Again, IC, PTL, untreated BV or GBS.

P17 shots are an option the next time around.

My infection does seem to be AFTER the rupture and it was massive. Knowing that the infection was so bad makes me calm in not trying to bedrest it out. My WBC count only went down slightly after 24 hours of round-the-clock antibiotics.

Bad News:

My records aren't complete. I'm missing my labor notes, PP notes and some other stuff. It'll take 30 days to get that part.

The UAV ObGyn didn't culture me so who knows if I was GBS + at the time.

The UAV ObGyn thought I was going to bleed out and did want to section me as much as it seemed like he did at the time. IMO, he was also ready to remove my uterus as well. UAV.

I'm going to be scared to death, I assume, until I hit 24 weeks and know that I'd likley have a live baby if I did pProm again.

So, tomorrow I see my OB, not a UAV, and get cultured for anything and everything. Assuming it's - then perhaps I can rest easy with the previa explaination. Assuming it's + then perhaps I can rest easy after some anti-biotics.

MW is so so amazing. Of course I was a mess the whole visit. I think I used up an entire box of tissue. The birthcenter is being remodeled and she says
"You'll get to use the new rooms when you're pregnant again!" Oh gosh, the idea made me feel so good. I feel way less scared and maybe even excited about ttc. I didn't know what I'd do the next pregnancy....if I'd go highrisk or lowrisk or what. I know now that I can just do both....as high risk as I want during pregnancy and have whatever birth I want.

I really, really want to be pregnant.