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frightened

Hi,

I am having a very difficult pregnancy having been on bed rest for the past 8 weeks and heavily bleeding for the past 6 weeks, so much so that i have recently had to have a 3 pint blood transfusion. I am now 18 weeks pregnant and we went for a scan on Monday and have found out that there is no amneotic fluid surrounding the baby. We were told we are having a baby girl but she has blood in her bowel. if she does not die naturally, then the doctors will terminate the pregnancy in two weeks providing there is still no more amneotic fluid. I am completely devastated. I was wondering if anyone knew about the labour at this stage in pregnany and what to expect? will i produce milk after she is born?
Any advice would be deeply appreciated, Suzie x x x

Suzie

sad time

10wks pregnant & started to get pain & bleed, when the bleeding became heaver we went to hospital, where i was told, my urine test showed negitive, but i had done 3 tests all positive. They told me i must have lost baby up to 2 weeks ago, & the bleeding was just the end of the loss. We went home feeling numb, the next day my bleeding became stronger & clots, i was in alot of pain, for days after, after phoning my doctor this is normal i am told, still does not help with the way we are feeling, we were given no information, just left to deal with it alone.

jo

my miss carrige

I was five mouths pregnet when i lost my baby girl my plasent ripped from my utus i woke up one morning and noticed i was bleeding . so my husband toke me to the er and they rust me up to the ob room the toke diffrent test and then my docter came in and told me i was having my baby he told me the baby would not make it he said i would be luck to make it because i was bleeding out my plassnta ripped from my utrus they had to give me 2units of blood and a emargence sea secson and the docter never told me why my plasenta ripped from my uturs he said i would proble never no but if anyone no why please let me no becouse it about dives me crazy not noing why.

amy

will i ever be a mum

iam on my fifth miscarriage so you can imagine how iam feeling they always happen between five and six weeks and iam always in terrible pain right from the begining i have had all the tests and they have come back fine but can any one explain to me why iam in so much pain and why do i always have a miscarriage at the same time, i have no problem getting pregnant thats the good part but from then on i worry constantly will this be ok,why iam in pain, some days are ok but some days all i see is pregnant women and new born babies and i feel why is it so unfair, iam 37 this year so time is not really on my side , everybody says it will happen one day but that does not make me feel any better as you can imagine i would love to hear of other unfortunates like myself who wonder will it ever happen and is their any hope for us, it would make me feel a bit less lonely and desperate i could be pregnant again now so the worrying has started all ready every minute its on my mind and trying to switch of from it is so hard and all i worry is that i will have another miscarriage and be back to square one again and subsequently think why do i put myself through this pain and heartache every time and will their be a light at the end of the tunnel for me, when i was growing up i never realised that trying for a family would be so hard when you see other families growing every year, are we being punished for something we did or are we just very very unlucky and destined to be childless (sorry for the doom and gloom) hope to hear of any body who is in the same boat.

jo

Always Love You Makayla

My pregnancy went by smoothly with no problems. It was a huge surprise when we found out that our baby had died. I was 37 weeks and 5 days along in my pregnancy, when we found out that something was seriously wrong. It was a Friday morning May 16 08. I went to my doctors appointment as usual. I wasn't really that concerned that there hadn't been much movement from the baby the night before. I just thought she must have been sleeping or something.
The doctor was having a hard time trying to find the heartbeat. She sent me to the hospital right away for an ultrasound. They told me "We are so sorry to tell you this, but there is not even a faint heartbeat, she's gone."
I felt like I was in a dream I couldn't believe what they were telling me. I curled up in a ball and sobbed my heart out.
A little later they took me back to the maternity ward. The Nurses and Doctors where going through all the different scenarios as to what could have happened with the baby. They also gave me different choices as to what we wanted to do. I decided to go home for the night and to come back the next day to induce labor.
I had our sweet little girl May 17 2008, she was beautiful. We named her Makayla Joy Gray she was 6lbs 5oz. Makayla had such dainty little hands. We knew right away what the problem had been. Her umbilical cord had a knot in it and it had tightened enough to block of the blood and oxygen flow. We took pictures of her and a clipping of her hair the nurses made hand a feet stamps for us too.
We stayed at the hospital with her til the next day which was Sunday.
It broke our hearts to leave her behind at the hospital, and go home without her. We where so close to the end of the pregnancy.
We want another baby soon but I don't know if I am ready. I have had a miscarriage since the stillbirth, this all makes me wonder what will happen next. We do have a 5 year old son, he needs a little brother or sister some day soon.
We will always miss you and love you Makayla.

Kim