By Jennifer Gardner, Simpsonville, SC US
PROM at 18 weeksDelivery at 18 weeks.
Story added: 2004-01-07

My name is Jennifer. I'm 17 years old and PRROM occurred for me in my 18th week. Every appointment that i had gone to they had said the pregnancy was going great. The babies heart rate was always steady and i had no worries. Well, one afternoon my mom left me at home and i happened to be sitting and watching TV just as i always did. Well I thought i was constipated all day long and i kept trying, but i was afraid to strain. Well, my nightmare came true i strained and the water gushed. I knew this wasn't normal so i called the doctor and they advised me to go to the hospital. The doctor seemed to have hope that maybe i would be able to go home and be restricted to strict bed rest until my 24th week. Well, the night before i was supposed to leave the hospital i started to register a fever, and that next morning i began to bleed. The doctor told me that their was nothing that i could do anymore and that it would be best to induce because no matter how hard i tried and even if i went home labor was coming. I gave birth to my first child on Saturday, January 3, 2004. It was a little boy and he was only 7 ounces. I will always wonder why. The doctor gave me no explantion and no cause. If any one had a cause will you please e-mail me. I've only been home for a few days now and i'm overcome with grief. I'm afraid that now that i lost our child the father will leave me. Has anyone that suffered from this horrible experience repeated in later pregnancies? I fear so much that this will happen again, and it's so scary i'm afraid to try. But i want a baby so much. i will never forget my son. Jakob Scott French R.I.P If anyone would like to talk please feel free i'm utterly alone and would like to confide and listen to someone that will understand. thank you all for listening