There should be good advice as well as support (I found it very useful a few years ago when I had my PROM). Many will have experienced PROM, which you have not, and many, many have ''survivor'' stories. Your doctors will no doubt monitor you closely to determine that you have enough fluid for proper lung development antibiotics and steriods may also be necessary, as your doctors have said.Ī helpful website is you can read relevant medical articles as well as 200+ women's stories. You should also drink a lot of water this will also help restore fluid levels. This sad story does not have to happen to you I have read of many women who were able to carry their babies to term, or at least to decent viability, with full bedrest. I had a full rupture at 15 weeks, and even bedrest could not restore good fluid levels-in fact, I had *no* fluid after that-so I ended up terminating the pregnancy due to the possiblity of infection and the liklihood of no lung development. You want to avoid the premature rupture of the membranes (PROM-having your water break) that would mean the loss of *all* your amniotic fluid. Hang in there! You may have found more answers since your original post, but it sounds like what you have been told to do-go on full bedrest-is absolutely the best thing. Tell them you need their support in every possible way. And don't be shy in reaching out to friends and family. Otherwise do what you can to take care of yourself. They act as a kind of e-mail buddy, and the contact and understanding can get you through some hard days. They can match you up with someone with a similar history and who delivered a healthy child. Have you discovered ? It's a wonderful resource for women on bedrest, or simply with complicated pregnancies. I was on bedrest, too, (for a different reason) and it was so hard-so much time to lie there and worry. Thanks in advance for any advice, Hoping for info. I am of course very worried (while trying not to get too stressed for the baby's sake!) and just trying to get whatever information I can. Guess I'm hoping that someone out there who has either experienced this situation before, or knows someone who has, could offer any input. I'm being tested to make sure I don't have some sort of vaginal infection or urinary tract infection that could be causing the discharge. My doctor said that with every week though, the chances get better.Īnd there is still the hope that it might be something else. Apparently if this is amniotic fluid and something goes wrong there is also a very real chance of miscarriage, and at this early stage it is unlikely the baby would live. Depending on how things go, they will also consider antibiotics to lessen the chance of infection, and possibly steroids to help accelerate the baby's lung development. From what my doctor tells me and what I have read this past week, there is no real solution, but the hope is that with full bed rest I might replenish the fluid faster than it's leaking. That would be bad news at this early stage. The concern is that it might be amniotic fluid. I am on full bed rest because last week I started leaking (and have continued to leak) very small amounts of a thin, water-like fluid. I am 5-1/2 months pregnant and having a problem that I'm wondering if anyone on this e-mail newsletter has had before.
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