My son's fiancee was 18 weeks pregnant and went into labor Saturday afternoon. They went to the closest ER, not the one where she was going to deliver, an hour away. This ER said she was 4 cm dilated, that the bag of waters was protruding AND they could see the head. They broke her water, put her on a pit drip and sent her to L&D. When she got to L&D, they said she was only 1 cm dilated, and couldn't figure out why they broke her waterand stopped the pit drip. They then transferred her to the hospital she originally was supposed to be at.
To make a long story short, the baby God bless his little heart, lived inside her until 9 pm Sunday night, when we watched his little heart, which had been beating so strongly, always 130 or over, suddenly give out on the monitor. She delivered him at ten oh six.
Now a couple of questions:
1. How could she have been 4cm and half an hour later been 1cm? Is that really possible? Or is this ER, which is in a one horse town just full of idiots?
2. If they hadn't broken her water, could they have tried to stop the labor and do a cervical cerclage once she was stable, if she did stop laboring?
3. And they thought she was fine, out of danger, sent us home to sleep around 1 am Monday, she spiked a temp over 105, has a massive uterine infection, they sent her home last night anyway on many antibiotics, she is bleeding so hard she is wearing her peripad inside an adult diaper. How much chance is there this 18 year old girl will be able to have another baby, will this permanantly damage her uterus?
4. And finally, another family member has had a child in a huge children's hospital for several months, and said they saw a 17 week baby born, treated and go home after 5 months in the NICU. Is this really possible, or are they maybe hearing the baby was 17 weeks early instead of 17 weeks along????????????
Thanks for listening, and hopefully for answering.
