Re: Re: Advice needed on when to start TTC: UU/BU/SU (child ment)

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Gabi

Thank you for being so generous with your response.

The photos are fabulous - your son looks georgeous.

You are very lucky.

Best wishes

Amber

--- Gabi gabi151@...> wrote:

> hi amber

>

> > 1) You said your boy was born at 33 weeks. That

> must

> > have been difficult. How is he now?

> we've been VERY lucky and our son is doing great -

> he stayed in the

> NICU (neonatal ICU) for 2 weeks and then in the peds

> floor for 6

> days - it was hard because it was completely

> unexpected and because

> i don't think you can never really prepare to be

> 'thrown' into

> parenthood that way - but we were fortunate that he

> never had any

> big issues and delays - we love him as we've never

> loved anyone

> before and we treasure him because his entry to this

> world was so

> hard - i think though that he doesn't remember

> anything about those

> 1st weeks and he's a happy guy.

> Then: http://www.gabimike.com/Jul162001/4.jpg

> Now (just turned 4):

> http://www.gabimike.com/Jul062005/64.jpg

>

>

> > 2) My RE (high risk specialist) says the median

> term

> > for a uterus like mine is 31 weeks (I don't know

> if he

> > means a UU, BU or SU - but on my medical

> > advice/summary letters he calls it a UU and

> sometimes

> > at BU). He has recommended a cervical stitch and

> > finishing work at 29 weeks. If you had your time

> > again, would you have had a stitch or gone onto

> > bedrest to avoid pre-term labour?

> my pg was completely uneventful and normal up to the

> morning of the

> day my son was born so i didn't have the time to

> make a decision -

> i woke up with a funny menstrual-like feeling in my

> lower back and

> started bleeding - my problem was not incompetent

> cervix and i don't

> think the stitch (i think it's called a cerclage)

> would have worked

> anyway - besides i think IC is not a problem related

> to SUs and even

> though i didn't know it at the time, I was SU, not

> BU. the problem i

> had was a placental abruption and i read somewhere

> that it happens

> sometimes to SUs (it can also happen randomly i

> think at the time

> i've seen like a 1/200 statistics about it but i'm

> not 100% sure).

>

> as for bedrest i got to the hospital at 11am and

> they put me on a

> bed and monitored me there for hours to see if the

> bleeding would

> stop but it didn't so i guess bed rest was not for

> me either under

> those circumstances - my son's heart rate dropped at

> 3pm or so and

> drs decided it was safer to take him out so i had a

> c/sec at 4:09pm

>

> last year a friend of mine had a placental abruption

> too but she was

> monit

> ored and put on bed rest for a few weeks - luckily

> for her the

> bleeding subsided and she made it to 40 weeks and

> had a healthy boy -

>

> i know it's no fun to have a preemie but even if you

> made it only to

> 31 weeks that's good enough - a good friend of my

> son was born the

> same day just 30 mins before him at 30 weeks - she

> had to stay at

> the hospital a little longer but she just celebrated

> her 4th b-day

> and is doing great.

>

>

> if i had the chance to choose anyway i'd give up

> work and be on

> bedrest anytime for whatever time it would take just

> to make it to

> 36 or 37 weeks (full term) - and even if i couldn't

> make it that far

> EVERY DAY counts so i wouldn't mind being in bed -

> bored and scared

> to death as i would be - if that meant a little more

> development

> and 'readiness' for the little tenant inside

>

> good luck ! and pls keep us posted

> gabi

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