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@2ndprizepopple of course! like i’ve said in other comments, my main goal here is spreading awareness for PPROM, especially Periviable PPROM, and that there are treatments for it. The reasoning for them offering to induce was because of the risk of infection for me, but i had absolutely no signs...

@2ndprizepopple thank you for your condolences. now, about the questions.. a baby cannot survive outside the womb at the stage i was at. i was not needlessly putting my son at risk, i was trying to save his life. the “option to induce labor” at the stage i was at was a guaranteed death...

@misswriter415 i’ve been trying to ignore this one for a while. please don’t tell parents who have experienced loss that their baby is “in a better place.” i’m catholic, so i know you mean as in Heaven, but the feeling still hits me of, how could a place be better than safe in my womb? or in my...

@scrawlor thank you for your condolences, however, unfortunately that is a big misconception. there are support boards of numerous moms whose water broke around the same gestation (some even earlier!) who went on to carry their babies to viability. the treatment is bed rest to slow the loss of...

@xianin thank you so much, i really appreciate it💙 i’m so sorry you have to be the friend that understands, though💔

@joyful1977 i hadn’t even thought to go that far, but i might just start doing that, because it’s so hard to find a MedMal attorney in Texas who will take an ER case

@jackson12 thank you so much. neither the ER nor L&D did transvaginal ultrasounds, only abdominal. they did do speculum exams, but that was it. L&D’s reasoning made sense, as they said the more they poked around the more likely they could introduce infection. ER had no reasoning and the tech was...

@egmiller that’s my main hope in posting this. there needs to be more awareness and research about PPROM so moms know when and how to advocate for themselves.

@scottkjohnson i appreciate that you wanted to try to comfort me with that, but (and, like you, i mean this in the nicest, most genuine trying-to-help way possible) please don’t say something like that if a patient comes to you with the same situation. it really is not helpful. with the...

@chris3 i’m so incredibly grateful for your guys’ help, i doubt i would have found them myself

@gandalfthewise thank you so so much, i’ll reach out to them!

@%ED%8F%B4%EB%9D%BC%EA%B9%80 i’m trying to, believe me. in my state, it’s just really hard to find someone who will take an ER case because they’re apparently harder to prove. if anyone knows any in Texas, that would be spectacular.

@ferdi that’s the main thing i try to hold onto. i sang to him, my parents and i held him, and my parents and sister and i all talked to him and told him just how loved he was (and still is) all in his short little life.

@kurlykova His name is Evren💙 it means “the cosmos/the universe” because he really was our whole universe🥹

Always listen to your gut, mamas. I went to the ER at 18w2d because I KNEW my water was leaking (woke up in a huge wet spot, had been up an hour or two before and hadn’t had to pee). I told them I was concerned because I had just had a UTI the week before, and from my time in nursing school, I...