pPROM: 21 weeks pregnant and my waters have broken

I was admitted to hospital today. My waters broke. I will probably go into labour or get an infection and have to be induced. At 21 weeks they will be unable to help the baby. I am still in hospital but might be allowed home to wait with monitoring and rest.

Anomaly scan

Consultant appointment today. But first the anomaly scan. I was worried but all was well. Really good. At one point I had to go walk around as they couldn't see everything but when they scanned me again he had moved.

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I saw the consultant after she was happy all was well. I asked about the area of haemorrhage and she said it was unlikely I will bleed again.

Yay!

I can officially start telling people the good news.

First consultant appointment

Today was my first Consultant appointment. With my previous pregnancy my son had to be induced at 37 weeks and 6 days because scans showed he had stopped growing at about 35 weeks, he wasn't moving much, I was lucky to feel one movement a day and he had low fluid around him.

I have a bicornuate uterus. This means it is heart shaped, normally they are pear shaped, possibly my son stopped growing because of the bicornuate uterus. Or it might have been a coincidence and it was placental insufficiency.

Anyway this was why I was referred to a consultant. I didn't actually get to see the consultant today but instead saw a Senior Registrar. He wasn't worried, reckoned there are unlikely to be further problems and suggested they do growth scans at 28 weeks and every four weeks after that. He also quickly scanned me and all looked well. I mentioned that I had a lot of discharge and he let me do a swab which will be sent off for testing.

I go back for an anomaly scan in a week.

Heard a heartbeat for the first time

Today was the day I got to hear a heartbeat for the first time. I had a routine 16 weeks midwife appointment. And they checked to see if they could find a heartbeat with a Doppler - they did. Yay, was convinced things would have gone wrong.

And no more bleeding since about 8 or 9 weeks.

Booking in appointment

I had my booking in appointment last week. The midwife tried to reassure me that it is very common for women to have bleeding in the first trimester and said these women rarely ever miscarry. She offered to get me a scan but I would have to say I had pain etc. and I haven't, this is because they do not scan just because of maternal concern. I decided I couldn't exaggerate the situation. It is only 4 weeks until the next midwife appointment where they will listen to the heartbeat...

More bleeding and due date confirmed

Had my scan. My official due date is 9th September. Baby is fine. I had more heavy bleeding before the scan. The sonographer said she would expect the other half of my uterus to be doing something, although she did go off to confer with a colleague about it. Bleeding is very common in bicornuate uteruses apparently. I said I had not had it in my previous pregnancy but she didn't have an answer to that. She said to expect more bleeding and that the area of haemorrhage was fairly large.

Did I say that at my appointment before this one the midwife / doctor I spoke to gave me a 50% chance of miscarrying?

Second week of bleeding

More bleeding again this week. It was very heavy this time. I was convinced this time it was a miscarriage. So off I went to the EP Clinic again. They scanned me and found a heartbeat. They also found an area of haemorrhage in the other side of my uterus. I go back in a week for another scan. The bleeding stopped after a few days.