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***mrs.reem***

trilady2trilady2
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Hey there. I just read your post below about your ob/peri and wanted to let you know what my docs are doing with me.

It sounds like the two of us have very similar stories. My water broke when I was pg with my son and I delivered at 36w exactly. It broke with no contrax or anything, just gush and it broke. I had been on bedrest for three weeks prior to that, but that was for my son having IUGR - totally unrelated to any water issues. I saw a peri and an ob with his pg because it was a twin pg too, we lost his twin after seeing the heartbeat four times, at about 10.5 weeks.

So this time around, my ob/peri combo wanted to see me from the start. They put me on the p17 shots which aren't bad at all since they are only once a week. But those shots are most effective for people who go into preterm labor - shortening cervix, contrax, etc. which is not what happened to me at all. My docs are thinking the shots might help some, but know that they might not help with a spontaneous water break.

Also, they both told me that the assisted pg, the lost twin was most likely what put my son at so much risk for IUGR and preterm delivery. Since at least this time around I didn't lose a baby with the pg, they are hopeful that it will lessen the risk of both of those complications.

They haven't talked bed rest at all yet - it's too early. My peri will put me on bedrest if I develop a complication that he thinks is worthy of bedrest, but for now we're just going along assuming all is as well as it looks.

As far as the amount of monitoring, I was going in once a month for u/s at my peri and once a month at my ob - but after my 20 week u/s my peri decided he'd like me to come back in two weeks, just to be extra cautious since we "worked so hard to get pg" he didn't want anything slipping by.

I don't know what an FFN test is, what is that?

Anyway, I thought it might help you to have a basis of comparision from someone who seems to have had a very similar situation.

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  • Mrs.ReemMrs.Reem
    Thank you!!! That does help a lot. From what I understand, the ffn test will tell them if I'm likely to go into labor within two weeks. (or two days? can't remember.) The thing I think is most weird is that nobody can pinpoint why the water broke so I don't understand how it can possibly be prevented, ya know? Everything seems like an overprotective precaution without any guarantee I guess. Thank you again for mentioning this to me. It really helps to have someone in a similar situation.
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  • trilady2trilady2

    yea, they can't prevent your water from breaking. if it breaks, it breaks. my peri actually *knew* that would happen to me because we could see via u/s the membrane between the bag of waters and the gestational sac - it was pulling away. I guess it's pretty odd to actually see that, but since they could, he figured my water would break and it did. But I think like you - they can't stop it from breaking and it's only in the rarest of cases that they see the membrane and *know* it's likely to break - so it's not like they can move in with some treatment or other.

    Frankly, I after looking at ooodles of research, I am likely to think you won't have that same issue again, nor will I. It's just that after one "risky" pg you basically get the "high risk" lable slapped on you and then they want to see you every minute. ;) It's not that they can do a lot, they just like to give you "near constant monitoring" LOL

     

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  • Mrs.ReemMrs.Reem
    Exactly! We're definitely on the same page.  :)
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