Hello everyone,
This is my first time posting here. I just need support and advice as I am slowly losing hope in this pregnancy.
At 5 wk we learned that we are pregnant for the first time after being married for 3 years. We immediately made appointment with our OB and she just discuss all the things i need to know including the foods, meds/vitamins, skin care and warning signs I need to look out. After our appointment, i used the cr to pee and i saw a brown spotting in my underwear and immediately go back to our OB.
6wk - the spotting continues everyday but there is no pain. After so many TVS, blood test and IE to rule out ectopic pregnancy we found very early the heartbeat of the baby (this gives me relief at that point) but they found out that I have subchorionic hemmorhage and endocervical polyp which might be the cause of spotting.
6wk to 8wk - the spotting still continues with color ranging from brown to red. My OB just gave me and said that I should be on modified bed rest. She continuously observe if there is a progress but the amount of spotting did not stop/lessen. She is also hesitant to remove the polyp since it is dangerous for pregnant woman.
9wk - still with spotting. This time my anxiety grew bigger as I have spotting everyday with all the meds and bed rest not improving my symptoms. I am literally afraid everytime I standing up as I always feel the blooding coming out of me. Me and my husband then decided to go back in our province and live with my parents for the meantime since there is no definite timeline when will I improve and me being on bed rest need more support from our family. With this, I also changed my OB as I cannot go back and forth to the city.
10wk - I met my new OB and discussed my history. She immediately checked my cervix and found out that the polyp is now protruding outside the cervical opening and might be infected. She said that she can remove the polyp that protrude outside the cervix so we gave it a shot. The next day she remove my polyp within 7minutes but said that the stalk inside the cervix was not removed since it is more dangerous to remove it.
11wk - At this time my spotting stopped. And this is the first time I felt a relief. My follow up check up to my new OB, she discussed the finding of the biopsy of my polyp and said that it was not a polyp (compose of blood) but rather a necrtotic decidua (placenta) that sometimes caused by remains of placenta from previous pregnancy which does not make sense since this is the first time i get pregnant. But we did not bother so much of that since she said that the remaining stalk probably will not cause any bleeding/spotting anymore and the baby is doing fine like nothing happened. She reminded me to enjoy this pregnancy and would see me after 5weeks.
11wk-15wk - This is the time I started to feel okay. I started to come out in my bedroom and watch tv on our living room. I am not on strict bed rest but I am just resting all the time, no exercise, no lifting or anything. Just relax. And hey I pass the 1st trimester. But I have so many physical pains around 13wk. I thought it was just like round ligament pain and my uterus strecting as my groin always have pain and sometimes in my lower abdomen. The pain is tolerable and it just come and go. But around the 15week i experienced a constant dull ache in my lower right abdomen which is around 4-6/10 pain but very consistent in so many hours that I called my OB. She prescribed me meds and if it subside she would see me the next day.
15wk - the next day, I met my OB and she did do a transabdominal ultrasound and said I have placenta previa and it might be causing my pain. She is optimistic that the placenta will eventually go up but as of now no more prolonged sitting/walking since I mighy bleed due to placenta covering my cervix. Since I this time I am more optimistic and finally I can go normal throughout the pregnancy I started to discuss with my OB the possibility of going back to work. She said that it is okay for me to work as long as it is work from home, and she will give me medical certificate after two weeks (right after the end of my first medical certificate with 60days rest)
17wk - my husband just celebrated his birthday. We announced our pregnancy in fb as part of the greeting for my husband. No grand party and announcement, just simple lunch as we are still taking everything very light. I was so happy then.
2days after my follow up check up to my OB. I still discuss her my pains on my lower right abdomen and hips that come and goes almost everday. She first did a transabdominal ultrasound and she found that i have contraction. The she did Transvaginal ultrasound and there she found an amniotic sludge sitting above my cervix. My cervix is around 3.7cm around this time. It was clear now that it was a sludge and not placenta previa as the placenta already move up. She gasp when she found out that I have amniotic sludge and start discussing to me what it is She is discussing that the sludge is a great indication of infection and preterm birth. Right then she admit me in the hospital for 3days to receive antibiotic thru IV. We are devastated on our first night in the hospital me and my husband cannot stop crying just by thinking we may lose the baby this early. 3days after medication my OB checked me again and the sludge is still present. my cervix is 3.54cm around this time and closed. She discharged me and presribed antibiotic, nifedipine and progesterone.
18wk - My follow up check up, I am a bit optimistic this time. My abdominal pain subside buy sometimes i still feel pressure in my pelvic. Upon checking my cervix the sludge is still present, my cervix now have y funneling and the remaining length is only 1.83cm. My OB did not recommend cerclage at this point since I still have sludge and too late for cerclage (She said 14weeks). She discussed about pessary. She talked to a MFM and the action this time is prescribed me a new antibiotic and continue the nifedipine and progesterone. Me and my husband go home very heartbroken. We want to be hopeful but sometimes we need to face the reality as we are caught in guard. At this point we are losing hope. From 3.54cm to 1.83cm in just one week, a very rapid shortening of cervix.
After 4days (19wk) at my follow up check up my cervix still have funneling and is now 1.07cm only. I felt numb. From the previous days my husband and I always discussing our options and what will be our action whatever the result of our following check up. And we come up with the decision that no matter what we will definitely go for a cerclage / pessary whichever the MFM prescribed. So we did the pessary yesterday.
19weeks today. She inserted my pessary yesterday, which is a hodge pessary. After 30mins in the clinic i felt fine with the pessary, but when i got home as time goes by I felt so much pressure around my but that's why I called my MFM again and she said I should come back so that she can adjust. We came back and she adjusted felt fine again after 30mins but when we got home and after 2 hours I felt the pressure is increasing again in my butt. The pressure is increasing overtime. I just tolerate it until i fell asleep. The next morning (which is today) I felt less pain than what I experienced last night before i sleep but over the day the pressure increases. Is it indication that my cervix is further shortening and started dilating. I do not feel any cramps. I just felt continues pressure in my butt that i can't ignore. I already message my OB and waiting for her reply. For those who have hodge pessary inserted do you feel any pressure on butt, is this normal? Is there really a succes story using hodge pessary. With so much happening in me I just want to feel supported and find hope in my situation. 🥺🙏