Comments on: Your Next Pregnancy

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:32:42 +0000

My 1st daughter was full term, my 2nd was 8wks premature. It was unclear whether I had an incompetent cervix or preterm labor or a combination of the 2 that caused my early delivery. My OB told me her plans for my next pregnancy when my 2nd was only about 6mo, lol. But I was grateful for the proactive approach regardless of what caused the premature delivery. My cervical length was closely monitored from about 14wks with my 3rd and I got the 17P shots as well but I showed evidence of funneling and contracting around 20wks. It seemed my issue was a combination and the contracting prevented a cerclage from being placed. It seemed all measures were taken to prevent another preemie, but 5 hospitalizations between 20 and 27wks, 3 rounds with mag and 2 rounds of steriods,home monitoring and a terb pump later my water broke and I had my 3rd 12.5 wks early. We were prepared yet it happened anyway. We will be even more so prepared next time. An automatic cerclage at 14 weeks to hopefully delay the start of contracting. But it will be a little while, my youngest is only 5mo old today and fortunately doing amazingly well.

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:19:47 +0000

With my first pregnancy I delivered early due to pre-eclampsia and was told by my doctor that the probability of having this complication again was only about 20% so we were optimistic. However shortly before getting pregnant for the second time I was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease which increased my chances for having pre-e again (and was probably the cause the first time). So when we got pregnant with our second we were hopeful that we would go full term but prepared to have another preemie. I’m so glad we did because when I delivered early again we were prepared for what to expect. However, if I had not been diagnosed with an auto-immune disease we probably would not have expected another preemie and been unprepared again.

By: Melissa Call

Melissa Call — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:34:38 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about this lately. Ever sence having preeclampsia I have been telling myself that it won’t happen again and everything will go completely normal with my next pregnancy, but just the last little while I have come to a realization that that might not happen. It was just interesting to read this post at the time I did because I have been thinking about this subject so much lately. Thanks for your advice!