Passed a clot today

I spent this morning in hospital after passing a clot. Apart from that I felt fine. They tried their best to terrify me. The midwife spent 10 minutes failing to find the baby's heart beat on a ctg monitor, then failed to find it using a sonicaid. Then called a consultant who turned up with an ultrasound machine looking very concerned. She kept asking when I last felt the baby move. After 5 minutes she couldn't find the heartbeat and went off to find someone else to look. Eventually they found it, and monitored him on the ctg for 20 minutes and all was fine. They reckon the lack of fluid and lower powered ultrasound machine made it difficult to find the heartbeat. I reckon it's that consultants just don't do ultrasounds very often!

They reckon that there is about a 5% increased chance of a further bleed and the consultant advised me to stay overnight to be observed. But I didn't feel like they did anything last time this happened when I was in hospital so didn't stay. I'm not far from the hospital (10 minute walk and i would get S to drive so it would probably be quicker) and will call/ go there with the slightest concern. The midwife said she couldn't say for certain I would make it to the hospital in time but she said that would always be the case. My main concern was if something happened whilst I was asleep but the midwife reckoned I would wake up and anyway if I was in hospital I would have to sleep and nobody would check on me during the night.

So I'm just going to watch myself extremely carefully. Hope I made the right decision!

30 weeks pregnant & had a show

I had another hospital appointment today. I am 30 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Blood tests as normal. They did a trace on the baby, all ok. They also did a scan to check fluid levels. First the midwife did it and came up with the highest fluid level I've had since my waters broke. So I asked my consultant to recheck it as I didn't believe it and I was sadly right. The midwife had been measuring pockets of cord so still no fluid.

I asked the consultant whether I should be worried about cord compression because of the lack of fluid and she just said that the baby's lung development is still far more worrying. She discussed when I should deliver assuming nothing happens before and she seems to be thinking 37 weeks in the hope that some how a bit of extra time will help with lung development. But she also said that any concerns after 34 weeks no matter how small and they will deliver. She is going to discuss this with 2 of her colleagues and let me know.

I get the impression that the most likely outcome even if I get to 37 weeks which seems unlikely is that they still won't be able to help him when he's born. It's frightening, but they just can't tell how his lungs will be until he's here.

Reading this back it seems really depressing doesn't it? But I'm actually ok. I was much more scared when I woke up this morning. Loads of blood loss in the fluid and then what the consultant reckoned could be a mucous plug/show. And to make me more scared the baby decided to pick this morning to be really quiet and not move!

30 weeks pregnant after PPROM, more decelerations of the baby's heart rate

My hospital appointment went okay today. No real changes since Tuesday. But I am now 30 weeks pregnant and one day.

There is still no fluid around the baby, still transverse presentation. Blood and swab results were okay.

The heart rate trace on the baby was okay. Again there was a deceleration in the baby's heart rate but they told me the same as last Tuesday they said it's just because of cord compression and it's going to keep happening. I'll ask the consultant about it on Monday when I see her. But I think unless it stays low for a long time they will not do anything about it as it's better for the baby not to be delivered yet.