I was on the phone with my Madison Drs Nurse to schedule a 4d ultrasound when the gushing began. She told me to get to the Dr immediately. I called my Portage Dr who said you are more than likely going to lose one if not both babies, go to Meriter. He also accepted my due date of 6/20, YAY we KNOW the day of conception, no questions asked. It is an answer to a prayer as that gives me 9 more days to our advantage for helping these babies. Got on the road to Madison, still gushing, get into OB TRIAGE due to adjusted due date!!! They do several swab tests; ferning for amniotic fluid comes back spotty.
Explaining this, when you rupture your bag of waters the swab when wiped on a microscope slide ferns, meaning it frosts over, well mine is only doing this in spots due to the blood mixed in, not the entire slide. The Dr's kept saying that urine can fern too, my response "you are taking the fluid off my cervix urine cannot be up there".
I am still gushing and filling chucks and pads. We do an ultrasound to check on the babies, finally, there they are wiggling away. Baby A' was just perfect, Baby B's fluid was low but still perfect. Heart beats are great no distress for them. Praise the LORD!!
They do another ferning slide; mind you this is not comfortable. They move me to a bigger triage room to wait to do yet another fern slide due to still being so spotty. Yay we get to order dinner, I am starving.
The Dr then comes in with the most dismal of news, he states that due to my previa (which I had the last visit 2 weeks ago) and the gushing of fluids that is looking like a rupture of membranes we might have to terminate the pregnancy for my safety and health.
You know me as soon as he walked out I asked the nurse can I tell him NO?? The babies looked fine on the ultrasound, both hearts beating, full of life. She said yes and they would have to keep me and just watch us closely.
Dr comes back and said due to the spotty ferning we are keeping you, and will test again, this is at 8:45 he had just done the last slide, I was still gushing and he even said as he was getting his sample off my cervix it is really pooling in here and I just don't understand. They also got my ultrasound results from Portage and my previa is GONE!! That means no more talk of terminating going on here wooohooo Glory to God!!!
I get into my room right about 10pm and guess what the gushing literally just stopped. I have had gauze pads there to catch any fluid since 9pm and nothing, they wanted to take the pads and squeeze them onto a slide and look again but I just could not perform heehee.
I know that Jesus healed the leak, by morning Baby B's fluid was greater than Baby A's God is GREAT and Greatly to be PRAISED!!!!
Baby A weighs200 grams or 7 ozs heart rate 150 fluid level in the pocket 2.5.
Baby B weighs 220 grams 8 ozs heart rate 140 fluid level 3.3 in the pocket.
My blood clot is a 3 x 2 from a front view however they really do not know how big it is behind the placenta. The blood clot is the reason for the placenta previa being gone, it has lifted the placenta off my cervix. It is insane how a problem resolved a different problem.
Since they could not get a clear ferning slide they are saying I did not rupture my bag of waters and that possibly it could be my blood clot liquefying and draining. However I know I was leaking fluid or their would not have been any ferning, as urine is not up on my cervix. It seems to me that if you are not 23 weeks 5 days they will excuse everything, tell you there is nothing they can do and send you home. It is sad that they do not try their hardest to save a baby's life.
Thank you for all your prayers I took a verbal beating from every Dr that walked in my room Friday night and Saturday morning telling me that until I hit 23 weeks 5 days, exactly 4 weeks from today (Sat) they will not help keep the babies alive. The Good news is that if I do loose the fluids again, they have a good chance for survival after then. Their lungs have had a chance to develop enough already PRAISE GOD!!
In 4 weeks if this happens again I am hospital bound until delivery or 34 weeks.
Keep us in your prayers we have 4 weeks to get to the first big milestone and then 10 weeks after that.
