into (preg loss ment.)

December 26, 2004

Hello everyone as you can guess I am new and I just wanted to post

an intro. Just from what I have read so far this is a great group

full of good info which is hard to come by from any other source.

My name is and I'm 35 years old and living in Australia. I'm

married with one child a boy who is 3 years old. I

had PROM at 24.4 weeks in Oct 2004. Labour couldn't be stopped and I

delivered my baby girl via emergency c-section. She had suffered a

lot of fetal distress and died a few hours after she was born.

During the c-section the dr found that I have a septum. This was the

first that any of us knew about it. My son was born at 36.4 weeks

healthy and without any problems. My pregnancy went well apart from

getting gestational diabetes. I knew that I may go into pre term

labour again but didn't think it would be that early. I am going in

for an HSG on Dec 30th to get a proper diagnosis so that we can

determine what sort of care I will need for subsequent pregnancies.

There has been no discussion on any surgery to resect the septum at

all which I am happy with at the moment. My husband and I would love

to be TTC again right now but due to having had a classical ceaser

we have been told to wait for a year. We are not happy to wait that

long due to my age and the fact that I also have endometriosis which

was discovered when we were about to try for our 2nd child.We will

wait for 6 months as it took 7 months and 12 months to get pregnant

before and I'm fairly sure that the next time we will be looking at

at least a few months of trying which will take us closer to the 12

months. My husband and I are both doing well depite the loss of our

baby. We have been very lucky to have had so much support. Some days

are still hard but I am more the sort of person to look to the

future rather than dwell in the past. Anyway I'm sure that I will

have lots of questions after my HSG.

December 26, 2004

Hi -

Welcome to the board. I am sorry you have discovered the need for it, but you

will find support and good info. here, I am sure. I am so sorry for the loss

of your daughter. Many women here, including myself, have had losses as well.

I lost my son in July at 37 weeks--perhaps due to a blood clot in his cord,

perhaps partially attributable to my large septum (while pregnant, I was

diagnosed as bicornuate, but after my loss we found out I had a large septum). I

had

my septum resected November 15th (not major surgery) and it was the best

choice for me, knowing that I have done all that I can to ensure a better

outcome

in the future. But it is different for everyone.

People have had such a range of experiences and there is no general rule or

typical outcome, although many people say that people with septums have a high

miscarriage rate (could you have taken a long time to become pregnant because

of your septum-- it can be hard for an embryo to implant on a septum due to

decreased blood flow)? One of many good questions to ask your doctors. I highly

recommend getting as full and as varied assessments of your situation as

possible, as uterine anomalies can be misdiagnosed and different docs may say

different things (re diagnosis and treatment). It helped me to get various

opinions, combined with the thoughtful and sage advice of the great women

here---to

come up with a picture I felt confident about--and then to move forward with

decision making. My age is also a factor--I am 36 and have no living children

yet.

, I wish you good luck on this journey as you move ahead---- I am happy

to answer anything I can--- I am not as expert as some here, but I have seen

many specialists and had many different tests, as well as having gone through

the resection surgery. Ask away--you will get tons of great answers, helpful

questions and plain old good support.

Take care---

, 36

SU with a " dip "

resected 11-15-04

In a message dated 12/26/04 5:31:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,

alas_lin@... writes:

> Hello everyone as you can guess I am new and I just wanted to post

> an intro. Just from what I have read so far this is a great group

> full of good info which is hard to come by from any other source.

>

> My name is and I'm 35 years old and living in Australia. I'm

> married with one child a boy who is 3 years old. I

> had PROM at 24.4 weeks in Oct 2004. Labour couldn't be stopped and I

> delivered my baby girl via emergency c-section. She had suffered a

> lot of fetal distress and died a few hours after she was born.

> During the c-section the dr found that I have a septum. This was the

> first that any of us knew about it. My son was born at 36.4 weeks

> healthy and without any problems. My pregnancy went well apart from

> getting gestational diabetes. I knew that I may go into pre term

> labour again but didn't think it would be that early. I am going in

> for an HSG on Dec 30th to get a proper diagnosis so that we can

> determine what sort of care I will need for subsequent pregnancies.

> There has been no discussion on any surgery to resect the septum at

> all which I am happy with at the moment. My husband and I would love

> to be TTC again right now but due to having had a classical ceaser

> we have been told to wait for a year. We are not happy to wait that

> long due to my age and the fact that I also have endometriosis which

> was discovered when we were about to try for our 2nd child.We will

> wait for 6 months as it took 7 months and 12 months to get pregnant

> before and I'm fairly sure that the next time we will be looking at

> at least a few months of trying which will take us closer to the 12

> months. My husband and I are both doing well depite the loss of our

> baby. We have been very lucky to have had so much support. Some days

> are still hard but I am more the sort of person to look to the

> future rather than dwell in the past. Anyway I'm sure that I will

> have lots of questions after my HSG.

>

December 26, 2004