due date:  April 1, 2001 

 

I had just turned 22 the summer I found out I was pregnant for the second time. My husband and I were excited hoping this time it would be a girl.I had a previous c-section with my son who is now 2 1/2 years old. I had my suspicions that I was pregnant and a home pregnancy confirmed it. The very next day I was rushed to the emergency room for bleeding.By the time I arrived, I had passed my first blood clot. The doctor in the emergency room wrote it up as a miscarriage. At this time I was only five weeks pregnant. I was sent home feeling miserable. Within the next week I noticed my symptoms of pregnancy were still there. I called a doctor and he told me that its possible to still feel pregnant for weeks after a miscarriage. Stupidly, I believed him. I was still feeling sick about a month later so I decided to have a second opinion. This doctor confirmed my pregnancy at 16 weeks. I was so happy. During my fourth month I started bleeding. After every bleed there was a clot soon to follow. The bleeding would happen every couple of weeks throughout my pregnancy. Finally I was put on bed rest.And with a two year old that was almost impossible. By my sixth month the bleeding was getting heavier and the blood clots were getting bigger.I was hospitalized 2 times. By my 7th month I was hospitalized until I delivered. I was on complete bed rest. My son and husband came to see me every day along with my mother. I hadnt even begun to work on the baby's room or wash its clothes. It was even harder to explain to my son why mommy was gone. It was hard at first to even sleep at night,nurses coming in and out,being woke up in the middle of the night to have my blood taken.I then realized how serious my condition was. Soon labor and delivery became my second home.I was constantly there so the nurses and I became good friends.My bleeding resulted in a blood transfusion.I was put on medication to stop contractions and was given steroid shots to mature my baby's lungs. Every time I was rushed over to L&D they always prepared me for an emergency C-section. This process was getting painful and annoying. My favorite nurse stayed with me during my first blood transfusion.She was the only one who could comfort me when I needed it the most. Finally my 31st week came and by now my contractions and my bleeding were uncontrollable. I went to L&D 6 times that week and had my second blood transfusion. finally my 32nd week came and my contractions were coming closer and medication wasnt helping. My doctor warned me the morning of my 32nd week that I was sitting on a ticking time bomb and you never know when it'll go off. Well it just so happens that it went off the next morning at 5:30am.I was alseep when it happened and woke to find that I had completely bled out. For the last time I was rushed back to L&D, put on oxygen, and started on my third blood transfusion. at 11:34 am my son Joseph Dylan Fazelyar was born weighing 3lbs 9oz. He spent 25 days in the NICU and was released with an apnea monitor. He is now 3 1/2 months old and so far we have had no problems. He is now off of the monitor and doing just fine.

Hi, I am 19 weeks pregnant.  On May 11th around noon, I was on the phone sitting on my futon with my 3 year old son.  I hung up the phone with my mother, and walked across the room.  About 3 feet across the room I felt a warm gushing feeling come out of my vagina.  I thought my water had broke and started to run to the bathroom to check it.  I looked down at my legs and saw blood running down to my feet and started screaming for my husband to wake up(who works nights) and had him call 911.  Apparently I was screaming so loud that my neighbors who were in their houses could hear me!  I laid down on my bed thinking I was going to lose my baby and thinking this house must be cursed (my mother had a miscarriage in this same building that left her unable to have children, which is why they adopted me!).  I was brought to the hospital (no pants socks or shoes, but luckily I remembered to shove a pair of pants in the blankets when we were leaving
the house) and was cared for by a man who didn't seem to care at all.  He wouldn't do an ultrasound and thought that I just had a threatened  miscarriage and sent me home even though I was still bleeding (and told me "well if you're having a miscarriage we can't do anything anyways").  The bleeding tapered off the next day (Saturday) and started again the next morning on Sunday but stopped the same day and I haven't had any bleeding since (so far, hopefully never again).  That Saturday after I called the Doc that was on call for my Doc and explained what had happened hoping he could give me any advice on what is going on.  Ha ha was I wrong!  He said to me "You mean you aren't getting any worse?  Then I don't even know why you are even calling me!"  I went to see MY Doc on my 24th birthday that following Thursday on the 17th and was diagnosed with marginal placenta previa.  I was told no sexual intercourse and take it easy, no heavy
lifting, and that fun stuff (my doctor said no sexual intercourse, but never explained exactly what I could and could not do, until I got on to
the internet today and found out that you aren't supposed to have orgasm either, an orgasm can cause pre-term labor and from pre-term labor can cause bleeding.  Thanks for telling me doc!!  Did any of your doctors clear that up for you?).  Well, now I am into my 19th week and have another doc appt. on Thursday for my 20th week exam. I hope that maybe somehow it could have moved up already so I can quit having to look at the toilet paper everytime I pee, and I can go back to taking a walk everyday with my son, so I can go places that are a little far away without being scared I am too far away from a hospital.  I can't imagine what it is like for you women who have this for your entire pregnancy if I am already going out of my mind now!!  Well I will post another after I go to the doctor on Thursday. Good luck to you all!

due date:  Aug 9th 1992 

 

Ok my story doesent have a happy ending like all the other stories ive read.  Although it makes me very happy to see that there are so many positive outcomes with placenta previa. I found out I was pregnant in December of 91. We were very happy with the wonderful news even though we had our hands full with a 2 year old and one that was 9 months old. I was 22 and very happy to have such a wonderful family and adding to it was great news. Ok here it goes. I was only six weeks along when we found out. It was when I was 10 weeks along that I started to bleed. My husband was in the marine corps and away at school. I panicked! So off to the doctor I went. Of course they told me that I might be getting ready to miscarry, my heart broke. Well I went a couple of weeks without any bleeding, then my whole life changed. At 16 weeks I started to bleed very heavy. I rushed back to the doctor and when I got there I wasent bleeding anymore. My doctor ordered a genetic ultrasound and we found out it was placenta previa, also a girl. I was told to go home and I was put on bed rest. Easier said then done. I had two toddlers and my husband was away at school. So my friend moved in with her two children since her husband was at school also. She 
did all of my running around and took care of my kids. She was great. Well then things went from bad to worse. At week 17 I couldent even get up in the morning to go to the bathroom without bleeding all over. They put me in the hospitle for a few days to monitor my bleeding and to run some tests. While I was in the hospitle I started to also pass huge blood clots. I was so scared I dident understand what was happening or why.They sent me home and said to stay off my feet as much as possible. So thats just what I did. Well about three days later I ended up back in the hospitle with more blood clots. They sent me home after two days. They told me there wasent anything they could do and just to be careful and to try and keep track of the size of the blood clots. I was horrified. But thats what I did. I always dreaded morning time when I had to rush to the bathroom so I wouldent bleed all over my pad. It was really bad when I had a full bladder. So for the next couple of weeks I just dealt with what was happening to my body and tried to keep my baby safe. On my next doctors appt I told my doctor it was to hard to take care of my kids and stay on bed rest. My friends husband was coming home and that was going to leave just me. So he called my husband home on a medical emergancy from school so he could help me. Well I was at 22 weeks at this point. My husband had been home for 4 days whan I woke up on April 9th 1992 and told him it felt like I was having contractions. I went downstairs to try and time them to make sure that was what I was feeling, yes they were contractions. I called my friend to take me to the hospitle so they could stop them. I had my husband stay home with the kids so that they could sleep. So I went up tp labor and delevary where they all knew me very well at this point but this time I came up in a wheelchair because my contractions were to strong to walk. So they got me hooked up to all of the monitors and called for an ultrasound. I was so scared. During the ultrasound I found out that my water had broken, I couldent imagine when, I never noticed it. I dident have a gush or even any leaking. So thats when I panicked. They called my husband and said that I was going to have this baby that day. I knew it was way to soon. Well after they told me all of this  I was trying to figure out everything they had just said because it all seemed like a dream, like it was happening to someone else and not me. All of a sudden I felt a huge gush and I told my nurse that I thought my body had, had a delayed reaction in realeasing my water. She looked at me really funny and lifted up the sheet. She then ran out of the room and came running back in with the doctor. I was hemoraging. So they then preped me for an emergancy c section. I was freaking out. They were rushing me down the hallway when my husband showed up and I got to tell him how sorry I was. Next thing I knew I was waking up and screaming for my baby. That's when they told me she dident make it. She only weighed 14 1/2 oz. My husband and the delivering doctor were the only two people who got to hold her while she was alive. She lived for 3 hours and at least got to feel the love her daddy had for her before she passed away. Well it was the worst thing that has ever happened to us and we were able to make it threw our most trying time. Not a day goes by that we dont think of her and on her birthday we take that day for ourselfs so we can remember how precious life is and how quickly it can be taken away. We had another baby in November of 93. She is very precious as well as our other daughter and our son. I wasn't going to have anymore children after we lost our precious little Shealee but God had other plans for us and I am very thankful for that. So for all of you who have PP or have been fortunate enough for it to mend itself listen to your doctors because this is very serious and very dangerous. Good luck and remember to enjoy every day of your pregnancy and  when your child is born remember everything you went threw to get them here. Good luck everyone.

Where to begin , I found out I was pregnant on november 2000 ,great joy my husband and I thought a brother or sister for our daughter.Because I was on the pill I was sent fot 2 dating scans at 8 weeks and 10 weeks which told us that our baby was due july 29 2001.We moved house to accomodate our growing family, and I even moved furniture (silly me) come January I went for my 20 week scan and lo and behold it was twins shock was not the word.  My pregnancy continued I worked but had to give up earlier than planned due to sheer size health wise I couldn't of been better . On June 12 2001 my husband went to work as usuall and I got my daughters brekfast,as we sat watching morning t v I felt a niggle then a gush ,thats it I thought my waters had broken as I looked my dressing gown turned scarlet, alone with my daughter who was 3 I felt paniced but i stayed calm as my daughter started crying at the sight of all the blood .I dailed 999 and got my daugter to look out of the window for the nena (ambulance)luckily I had started to prepare her for mummy having the babies so so knew sort of what was happening. So to the hospital I went with my sister in tow as my hubby arrived to look after our daughter as he is very squimish this was the plan.An hour later we arrived at hospital ,on examination parts of my placenta had come away and I was diagnosed with placacta previa after waiting 3 hours for a scan .I was told a section was on the cards but my babies wgere very young and would have to be airliffted to a city hospital,so they gave me steroids to mature their lungs and kept me on a monitor.The bleeding astopprd and I was told if it happened again I would go to theatre. My uterus was niggling eary contractions so they put a patch on my belly which started me bleeding slightly so thst was stopped. My husband arrived at 5.30 And stayed untill 7.00 And left with my sister as things had calmed down. So I settled in for the night.7.30 As my hubby and sister where half way home I bled again.That was it emergancy section with no one to hold my hand. My boys where born at 33 +2 days at 22.03 And 22.04 They weighed in at 4lb 12 oz and 5lb 7 oz ther apgar at 1 min was 9 they where perfect breathing on their own oxegyn sats 100% no need for nsbcubut they did spend 3 days in sbcuin the hospital I was in . A week later we were all home,8 weeks on they are fine and huge. Placenta previa was  something I knew about but because of all my scans didn't give it much though to busy worring about pre eclampsia. It happed though scary as it was the medical help was invaluable and if just if I have another baby I will be aware of what can happen .

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