ok, i’m typing this while lying on my side in a hospital bed with an iv in my left hand so pardon the errors. i’m also still in a really fragile state and can only deal with it by being kind of clinical. i apologize if the toneseems cold, trust me i’m just trying to keep my sanity.
thurs.morning, i got up to pee, then when i went to get back in bed, i noticed a wet spot on the blanket. i went back to the bathroom and checked with the light on and was leaking pink fluid. we called the ob and she asked us to meet her at l&d. apparently, what i had taken for just the weight and pressure of the twins had been contractions and my water had broken that morning.
i was admitted at 8:30 and hooked up to an iv forfluid and peniciilan and a contraction monitor. both babies looked good on the first sono, and my cervix was still thick, but felt “soft abd buttery.” in five hours, i only had one ctx, so they took me off the monitor.
i saw the peri last night for another sono. apparently the boy’s sack is the one that ruptured, but he still had sufficient fluid. because the sack is ruptured, there isn’t much they can do but keep me on fluids and prevent infection. if i go into labor before 23 ww (i’m 22w2d today) they will allow the babies to deliver vaginally, make sure they are comfortable and let us hold they until the end. At 23w, they have a 50% chance of survival, but 90% of those have massive health issues. every day we get past 23w, survival rate goes up 2%. we meet with the neonatologist this afternoon to get out orders written in to my chart for every situation. anyway, I’m here in bed with bathroom privs and a 5 minute shower everyday until the babies are born. hopefully, i’ll be here long enough to go completely carzy and get to go home with 2 babies because the alternative is more than i can bear to face.
Oh honey! Hang in there. It’s going to be okay. It just has to be. I want to hear lots and lots of posts about how sick you are of bed rest. Many many many weeks of them.
I thinking about you and your little ones. Sending prayers your way.
-Faith
A close friend of mine had her daughter at 24+0 in June 06 and she is doing just fine. Hang in there, don’t despair
xx
Hang in there. Be strong. I know this is daunting and hard, but you can do this. Have faith.
I have every expectation that you’ll be writing about how dreadful bed rest is for at least 15 more weeks. Anything else is too unfair to contemplate.
Oh my G-d, A. This is so scary, but I am sending good thoughts and making many wishes. This has to be okay because as you said, the alternative is not an option.
Continue to think positively. I went on bedrest at 23 weeks and was there until I delivered at 30w5d. Every day I spent on bedrest I visualized my babies getting bigger and stronger and imagined loud, lusty cries when they were born. Talk to your babies. Do whatever you can to keep your mind calm – whether it’s praying or meditating. Don’t worry about all that is left undone. Once those babies are born all they need is you and their daddy. All the stuff will come later. Be kind to your nurses and they will move the world for you. Best of luck to you.
You’ll be in my thoughts and prayers. I survived a 6 week hospital stay and left with two healthy babies. It’s so hard but every day is worth it. Hang in there!
Coming over from lost and found. I can’t begin to imagine how scared you are but hang in there and I hope that those little ones decide to hang out for at least a few more weeks. I will send prayers your way that that happens.
how scary. i’m so sorry this is happening. sending much good energy and positive thoughts your way.
strength and faith to you in this incredibly challenging time. lots of prayers too. hang in there. ~luna
I am holding you and your children in my thoughts, sending powerful suggestions of staying put for several more weeks.
{{{AMS}}}
Sending love and prayers and hopes that they stay inside for quite a bit longer.
And huge hugs.
Here is hoping for weeks of bedrest and 2 healthy babies!! I know all too well the trials of bedrest in the hospital and you’ll get through it! I ended up going to 31w3days after steps away from being prepped for a C-sec at 26 weeks. Lots of positive thoughts coming your way!
Candice
I have my fingers and toes crossed for those babes to keep cooking, and for your bedrest to be very long and boring. Hang in there, sweets!
Oh you poor dear – I am thinking of you!
Oh god, I am sure you are just terrified. Keep breathing and visualizing 18 weeks of bed rest. I will be thinking of you.
I’m also here from the lost and found. How scary this must be. I will be praying for you and your babies.
Hi there,
3 weeks hospital followed by 5 weeks bedrest at home.
If you have some time on your hands you can go back and read my blog. I went in last January…or feel free to read the last 2 years
Hang in there. The internet saved my sanity. Also have people bring DVDs to watch on the computer. Oh, and it was MUCH easier being on bedrest in the hospital than at home…easier on my husband anyway. He had to work 40 hours a week AND wait on me hand and foot.
Just another internet groupie wishing much love and praying on yours and the babies’ behalfs.
I am so sorry you’re dealing with this. I first had PTL at 20.5 weeks, was hospitalized for 7, went home on a terb pump and made it all the way to 35 weeks exactly. My boys are happy and healthy. Nobody thought we’d make it past 28 weeks with my short cervix, but we did. Sending lots of love and prayers your way – I’ll check in to see how you’re doing. I remember lying in that bed thinking the world was going to end, and it really did turn out OK. I hope the same for you, and think a good outcome is still very possible.
Hi,
I volunteer for an organization called Sidelines. I think you may be interested in this group. It’s for women who are experiencing high-risk pregnancies, multiples, bed-rest and the like. You can get matched up with a mom who has been there done that and can support you over the next few months via email/phone whatever you need. It’s an awesome organization! http://www.sidelines.org is the address if you are interested.
Jennifer
How terrifying. I’m sorry you’re going through this and hope everything works out ok.
One of my colleagues was hospitalized at 20ish weeks for PROM, and her twins are 10 now and fabulous. Hospital bedrest is no picnic, to be sure, but you CAN do this.
Not sure if you’re ready for resources yet, but I know some folks who have gotten really good support from Sidelines.org – a bedrest support organization.
WOW I will pray for you right now and those little babies. HUGS!
Hi! I have kinda been where you are (not quite as early though). I was put on complete bedrest at 23 1/2 weeks at home and then at 24 weeks was sent to a hospital 2 hours from home. My water broke at 27 weeks. I too laid on my left side (so much that the only place I got stretch marks was on my left hip). I also drank as much water as I could handle (it slowed my contractions down). I was allowed nothing to stop contractions after my water broke. To make a long story short I made it to 33 weeks, 5 days. I have two blogs. One I am recalling my experience. It’s called :
echoesoftheircries.blogspot.com
Sending prayers your way! Please email me if I can be of any support.
I did hospitalized bedrest for a month before my twins were born. I went into preterm at 26wks3day, got a nifty helicopter ride to a hospital with a level 3 NICU and hooked up to all kinds of awful drugs to make labor stop. I didn’t have PROM and I didn’t start preterm at 22wks, but I DO know how hard bedrest is. I DO know how you look forward to that 5 mins you are allowed to shower. A nurse once questioned if I should be allowed to shower by myself or not. I thought I was going to have a break down right there. I needed that shower for my sanity. My boys were born despite bedrest at 30 weeks, spent 6 weeks in the NICU, those were very trying times. I say this not to make you feel worse but to let you know you are not alone. There are those of use who know how you feel and how scared you are and how worried you are about your babies. I will be thinking and praying for you to have the most successful ,but i’m sure horrible time on bedrest.
I’m so sorry this is happening and I am sending bundles of good energy and positive thoughts your way. You will be in my thoughts and prayers from today until you walk out that door carrying your little ones in your arms. I have twins 17 months old.
I wanted to send you P&PT’s. I was put on bedrest at 16w4d when they found my cervix to be non-existant. At 22 weeks, despite a cerclage, it shortened again with contractions and my fluid was low. I was put on hospital bedrest at exactly 23w5d, and given steroid shots at exactly midnight on my 24th week, and again 24 hours later. I had the social worker, my doctors, anestheseologist, and neonatologists all come through and talk to me about 24 weekers.
What followed was not birth, but 4 weeks of hospital bedrest where I stayed stable, then they sent me back home for bedrest. I made it to 31 weeks and my twin girls are doing fabulously today.
Hang in there. Bedrest is SO, SO very hard, especially hospital bedrest. I have been there and I strongly encourage you to join Sidelines. In the end, the bedrest memories fade and you will have your hands full with your little ones. The only thing harder than the 15 weeks I spent on bedrest was seeing my babies in the NICU, and I’d spend another 15 or more for that not to have happened. But on the other hand I do realize fully that I was not in control of that destiny and I just thank God that they made it as far as they did when at 16 weeks my peri gave my cerclage a 50% chance of working.
Our babies came after 3.5 years of trying, procedures, surgery, and finally a successful IVF cycle.
Hi,
So sorry for what’s happened – but I’d like to give you some hope!
I pPROM’d with my twins at 22w4d – and delivered via c/s at 28w3d (due to the non-pPROM’d twin’s placenta failing).
SO…I did the whole hospital bedrest, doomsday neos and all that as well. Try to stay calm – and feel free to visit our website – the story of our girls is there. Feel free to contact me anytime at all!
Big hugs – and if you haven’t already, check out kanalen.org.
Nancy
Just hang in there. I had twins and I was able to last unti the 35th week…I was as big as a mini cooper and broke a couple of dining room chairs in the process but I did it. You can too. You are not alone. There are other who have been there and made it through. I will check back on your pregnancy and link you up to my twin blog…Hopefully I can get more support your way
BTW–my twin blog is http://sideoftwins.wordpress.com