Bedrest after a Cerclage Placement (?)
annealyce - 04:51pm Mar 30, 2008 ESTHello,
I am 12 weeks pregnant with my 3rd baby. We lost our 1ST, our 2ND was born at 29 weeks after a rescue cerclage at 20 weeks. She survived. This time my OB and Peri are trying to do things early. I just had my CP done on Thursday at 12 weeks. I will begin Progesterone shots at 16 weeks. My water broke prematurely both times before and my doctors are hoping that this will hopefully prevent it from happening a 3rd time. My question is now that the cerclage is in will I be on full bed rest until I am to term or is there any chance I can avoid it by just taking it easy? Also has anyone had success with the shots and avoiding their water breaking?
ginger77
- Apr 2, 2008 1:00 pm
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bedrest after cerclage
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
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canita1
- Apr 30, 2008 11:42 am
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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)
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