Bedrest after a Cerclage Placement (?)

I never had a problem with my water breaking so I am not sure how good of a comparison I am. My daughter was born at 25 weeks for unknown reasons. I went to the hospital when I started bleeding and found out I was both dilated and contracting. Because both things were happening they can't tell me which came first. When I got pregnant again, I was given a cerclage at 13 weeks and the 17P shots starting at 16 weeks. I carried my son with no issues until 38.5 weeks when I was induced because they thought he was getting too big. Kind of funny how things change huh? From tiny to too big...

Anyway, I believe the 17P shots helped me a ton. I am not sure how much the cerclage did for me - at 29 weeks I was funneling a bit but never funneled to the stitch. At 35.5 weeks I thought I was tearing my stitch and they removed it. (turned out the pain I was having was completely normal and just from my son's head pushing on my cervix ). I carried my son for 3 more weeks which my OB said would not be possible with true IC. So either the shots did their job or my daughter's early birth was a complete fluke. Either way, I am done with having kids and I am not taking the chance again.

I hope you have as much luck as I did! Oh, and I was not put on bedrest until I had my stitch removed at week 35.5 and they just did it as a precaution. So it will probably depend on your OB. If they know you have IC (which they weren't positive about with me) chances are you will be on bedrest for at least part of your pregnancy.

Good Luck,
Jackie

I am now 23+5 and nearly 3 weeks ago had my cervic stiched up and a cerclage fitted. I developed lower belly pains which got worse within 3 days so I went to check it out in a hospital. They discovered that the pains were contractions and my cervix was nearly completly open. Only 0.7mm kept our baby in.
4 days later they operated on me and by that time my cervix was completly open.
So far we have been very lucky that no infection and no further contractions have developed.
However I have been put on permanent bedrest and will stay in hospital for at least another 7wks when I reached 30wks. They said that despite the OP there is still a huge risk of premature labour.
I am glad that I have lisened to my inner instinct and went to check the pains out otherwise we most defenitally would have lost our baby. Its not over yet but I will stay positive. I already received the cortison injections for the babies lungs to develop so if it decides to come early it will have a chance of survival.

Bedrest is hard but I'd rather not risk it and stay put. We fought for this baby for to long and after our 1st attempt of IVF we fell pg so I am convidering us lucky.

All the best xx

I am now 23+5 and nearly 3 weeks ago had my cervic stiched up and a cerclage fitted. I developed lower belly pains which got worse within 3 days so I went to check it out in a hospital. They discovered that the pains were contractions and my cervix was nearly completly open. Only 0.7mm kept our baby in.
4 days later they operated on me and by that time my cervix was completly open.
So far we have been very lucky that no infection and no further contractions have developed.
However I have been put on permanent bedrest and will stay in hospital for at least another 7wks when I reached 30wks. They said that despite the OP there is still a huge risk of premature labour.
I am glad that I have lisened to my inner instinct and went to check the pains out otherwise we most defenitally would have lost our baby. Its not over yet but I will stay positive. I already received the cortison injections for the babies lungs to develop so if it decides to come early it will have a chance of survival.

Bedrest is hard but I'd rather not risk it and stay put. We fought for this baby for to long and after our 1st attempt of IVF we fell pg so I am convidering us lucky.

All the best xx

hello ginger,
I also am on bedrest and had cerclage placed at 22 weeks, my baby is also from ivf. I read your story and I'm courious as to how things are going for. hope everything is still holding up....

canita (22 wks)