27+1.
We had an ultrasound yesterday and were able to see so many details.
The tech was able to show us that baby already has visible eyelashes. She said that normally she only sees this with cultures that are known to have long eyelashes and that this baby must have gorgeous eyes. How cute is that???
We also saw baby open it’s eyes, saw its lungs expanding as it practiced breathing, and saw the corpus colossum and evidence of neurological activity. In a proud mom moment, the tech took a picture of the brain activity to use for educational purposes as she said she rarely gets to see such great evidence of this (I’m beaming).
Immediately after the ultrasound I went to the bathroom. When I wiped, I noticed a small amount of mucusy discharge which looks alarmingly similar to the discharge I had when we lost our first child and was diagnosed with incompetent cervix.
We rushed to L&D where I began to have pretty intense BH contractions that were picked up on the monitor.
They removed my pessary and I was given a speculum exam to ensure waters hadn’t broken. Luckily, the test came back negative.
When they removed the speculum there was a lot of mucus streaked with some blood.
I freaked out, thinking it was bloody show, but was reassured that my cervix was closed and was stable, measuring the same length as it has been since 18 weeks. They repeated the digital test several hours later with no change.
I’m still feeling quite anxious. The digital exams were very rough. My regular OBs have been cautious about vaginal exams due to the precariousness of my situation.
When they reinserted my pessary, it was also not very gentle (my hospital doesn’t usually do pessaries for OB/IC patients, and my regular OB wasn’t available).
Since the ordeal, I have been feeling sharp tweaks in my cerclage and it feels irritated or dry down there. So worried that we aggravated the situation.
Baby is oblivious to all the trauma and is moving around like crazy.
27 weeks is so much better than with our first loss. I know we should feel lucky to have made it this far.
Still hoping for a healthy, happy, thriving, full-term baby!
