Incompetent Cervix | Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope

April 2, 2012 By Jessica 5 Comments

Elyce

Madelyn Elizabeth born and passed away on November 16, 2011 at 22w3d

Liam James born and passed away on November 18, 2011 at 22w5d

Miamisburg, OH

After two and a half years of infertility and three cycles of Clomid/Ovidrel/IUI, my husband and I were overjoyed to find out we were expecting and were due in March 2012. At seven weeks, we found out we were expecting twins! Through the shock, we were beyond thrilled.

My pregnancy was incredibly uneventful until I got to 19 weeks. I noticed some dark brown spotting and went to the doctor. He couldn’t find a reason for the bleeding, so I was sent to my high risk doctor the next day for an ultrasound. When I had that done, we found out that we were definitely having a boy and a girl! I also learned that my cervix was measuring at 3.5 centimeters. The ultrasound tech and the doctor assured me that was a good measurement and there was no apparent cause for my bleeding. I was sent home with the instructions to take it easy for the rest of the weekend.

My anatomy scan was scheduled for the following Tuesday. By that time, the bleeding had stopped and I was feeling great. The ultrasound showed everything was as it was the previous week. My cervix was still measuring fine (though I didn’t get an exact measurement), and the babies were healthy and active. Since everything was looking good, my husband and I finally decided to create our registry (I had been putting it off because I was so paranoid something would go wrong). We had a blast going through the baby aisles of Target, daydreaming about using all this stuff with our son and daughter. About halfway through the registry, I started to feel some gas pain and pressure. I just assumed it was the typical pregnancy constipation. By the time we got home, the pressure was pretty intense, so I laid in bed the rest of the evening, drank water, and watched television. I kept going to the bathroom to try to relieve the pressure, but it didn’t really help. I eventually decided to go to bed early and hope that I felt better in the morning. When I went to the bathroom one last time before turning in, there was bright red blood on the toilet paper. I knew something was seriously wrong and rushed to the hospital.

February 18, 2012 By AmyL 2 Comments

Miranda

Mom to Jacob Michael Jones
Born March 8, 2009 at 9pm, and passed away March 8, 2009 at 9:03pm

and

Rylan Michael Jones
Born sleeping On September 19, 2011

Elk, Washington

Jacob’s Story

Life has been really tough on me and my fiancé the past four years. In February of 2009, we found out that we were indeed expecting a little boy. We were ecstatic! We picked out a name, Jacob Michael Jones (Michael was his father’s first name)

In March, I started bleeding on the 7th, and by the next morning I woke up to blood all over the bed, and down my legs. We made it to the hospital around noon finally (it was snowing pretty hard) and they rushed me to the ER, where they did a vaginal exam and said that my cervix was dilating and they could see the membranes pushing through. Neither of us really knew what to think, it was all so surreal, and I couldn’t think about anything else besides little Jacob suffering inside me. They took me to ultrasound and again confirmed that it was a little boy and we were 19 weeks and 2 days. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 19 weeks, 2009, 2011, 21 weeks, Incompetent Cervix, miscarriage, Stillbirth, Washington

February 11, 2012 By AmyL 1 Comment

Christina “Cricket”

Mom to Parker Saint

Born still November 26, 2004

Florida

So, I guess I need to start from when this all started. I was 17 and the doctor told me that he did not think I was going to have babies, that I had a lot going on. I was okay with that. I was only 17. I did not want kids. Then, at the age 23, I had just had my birthday and was still with my boyfriend of 6 years and my sister had her baby, and I now knew that I wanted a little baby also. I told my boyfriend, “You know, maybe we start talking about babies and having the wedding we have been talking about for so long. He told me to Google it and see how long it was going to take, did we need to see a doctor or what, so I did and it looked like if I was going to have one it was going to take a year or more. This was June 19, 2004, and we started trying for a baby! On Aug 4th I was going to go off with my friend the next day and do the shopping that we did every year. That night we stopped for a drink and it made me so sick to just look at it. Thinking that something was up I had to take a test and there it was, 2 lines! We were going to have a baby! So much for a year, right? [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2004, 23 weeks, Florida, Incompetent Cervix, Stillbirth

November 3, 2011 By Kristin 2 Comments

Tara

Mom to Aidan Thomas Finney

September 4th, 2011

Cabot, Arkansas

Aidan was born on September 4, 2011. He was born at 21 weeks and 1 day. He was born sleeping. He was born with his angel wings.
[Read more...]

Filed Under: 2011, 21 weeks, Arkansas, Incompetent Cervix, Stillbirth

October 10, 2011 By Debbie 2 Comments

Desiree Nelson

Mom to Samuel

Born Sleeping April 13th, 2010

and Natalee Rose

Born Too Early on June 11th, 2011

Pennsylvania

My story starts very typically and ends with such tragedy. I met the man I knew I would spend my life with and be a good dad to my son, we decided to start a family of our own. Right before Christmas 2009 we found out we were pregnant, I had a normal pregnancy with my son but he was born premature at 32 weeks. I can’t explain why but I had a feeling that things were very different this time. I hardly ever felt the baby move even after 16-17 weeks; I kind of blew it off because it was hard for me to remember 5 years ago what it was like. Plus I had an anterior placenta which the doctor told me would block a lot of his movement. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2010, 2011, 21 weeks, 23 weeks, Incompetent Cervix, Multiple loss, Pennsylvania, Stillbirth

August 12, 2011 By Carla 4 Comments

Alyssa Vargas

Mom to

Baby girl Abi

born at 17 weeks November 23, 2010

Baby boy Abel

born at 20 weeks July 25, 2011

Modesto ,California

My life as a mother started in 2007 when I was only 19 years old, blessed with a healthy little girl my daughter Aliana was born October 6, 2007. Aliana is now 3 years old and has had to say goodbye to a brother and a sister within a period of 8 months. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 17 weeks, 20 weeks, 2010, 2011, California, cervical incompetence, Incompetent Cervix, Multiple loss, Second trimester loss

July 11, 2011 By Carla 2 Comments

Rachel Deitz

Mom to Vala Faith June 2010

and

Jordan Alexander lost to pProm born May 14, 2011 and Passed May 15, 2011

Orange Park Florida

In the beginning of 2010 my husband and got a surprise when he took me to the doctor since my voice was gone. They did a pregnancy test before they gave me any medicine. She came back in and told us I was around 6 weeks along. I was so happy but scared too cause I was bleed pretty bad but they kept telling me as long as I was not passing any clots me and the baby would be fine. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 10 weeks, 20 weeks, 2011, Early Miscarriage, first trimester loss, first trimester miscarriage, Florida, Incompetent Cervix, pPROM, Second trimester loss

June 21, 2011 By Shaina 5 Comments

April Starkey

Lost our baby girl Annabelle Cherrea

June 6, 2011 at 20 weeks

Mansfield, OH

For all of my life, as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a mom. God blessed me with Isaac and let me become one on this earth and I will forever thank Him for that. However, another thing that some may even think I’m weird for, that I wanted to experience was being pregnant long enough to feel my baby move, to see their beautiful baby outline on the ultrasound machine and hear their precious heart beating. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 20 weeks, 2011, Incompetent Cervix, ohio, Preterm labor, recurrent miscarriage, Stillbirth

June 21, 2011 By Shaina Leave a Comment

Nicole

Mommy to Ava Joy

March 8th, 2011 -March 9th, 2011

Pennsylvania

On July 9th, 2010 I woke up much earlier than usual and for some reason decided while still half asleep that I would take a pregnancy test, it was still a day or two early to be testing but something in me said it couldn’t hurt. When I saw the two lines on that test I instantly screamed. After a year and a half of infertility treatment that included provera, clomid and follistim as well as countless blood work & ultrasounds we were finally pregnant. We soon found out that my HCG levels were not up to par and an early ultrasound showed a blighted ovum. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 20 weeks, 2011, blighted ovum, Incompetent Cervix, Infertility, Pennsylvania, Second trimester loss

June 17, 2011 By Shaina 1 Comment

Julie

Devin and Elizabeth

Born and died on January 15, 2004

Cicero, IN

It took us a while to get pregnant. I remember going through those days of infertility and how I couldn’t believe it was happening to me – to us. Then, after 4 years of trying, countless procedures, and ready to throw out the dream of carrying a child, we found out it worked – we were pregnant! What followed less than 2 weeks later was finding out we were having twins! What a miracle!! After years of trying, finally we had been blessed with not one but two babies! [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2004, 22 weeks, First children, Incompetent Cervix, Indiana, Infertility, Second trimester loss

June 14, 2011 By Shaina 2 Comments

Carmen

Mom to Ryan

Born and Died on April 22nd, 2002 at 26 weeks

Allan

Born and Died on January 19th, 2003 at 23 weeks

and Ethan

Born at 32 weeks on May 10th and Died May 12th due to a heart defect

I am the mother of 3 angels and my last angel died 2 weeks ago. My story starts 9 years ago when I had my first son Ryan. When we found out I was pregnant, I was 3 months along and told our family at a restaurant where we had lunch, everyone was ecstatic to hear our news. I can recall that it was a good pregnancy, no problems and all was going well until 18th April (Good Friday) evening at 11:50pm when I suddenly felt the urge to go to the toilet, which I did and to my horror, saw a thick mucus discharge with blood, my husband took me to the Medi-clinic emergency room immediately, where they admitted me as they suspected I was in labour, they put me on the monitor and had a look at my cervix which was not fully dilated yet. All was going okay during the night and when the OB/GYN came early Saturday morning, she discovered that I was 7 cm dilated and immediately put me on meds to prevent the cervix from dilating further.

May 12, 2011 By Debbie 4 Comments

Tia

Mother to two angels

Miscarried April 26th, 2010

and July 26th, 2010

and triplets Cadyn, Adalyn, and Mikayla

Born and lost January 7th, 2011

Burlington, Iowa

My husband and I were high school sweethearts who got married in June 2007 after five years of dating. In 2009, we made the decision to try to start a family. I knew that there may be some difficulties because I had extremely irregular menstrual cycles. I decided to set up a pre-conception visit with an OB-GYN so that I could find out what steps to take to ensure a healthy pregnancy. At the visit, we discussed my concerns about my cycles and I immediately received a referral to a reproductive endocrinologist.

April 23, 2011 By Debbie 3 Comments

Chantal

Mom to Chloe, Lost 24+ weeks in September 2005

Second Loss at 21 weeks in October 2007

Third Loss at 13 weeks in March 2008

Fourth Loss at 21 weeks in April 2009

Fifth Loss at 12/13 weeks in July 2010

Sixth Loss at 9 weeks in 2010

Seventh Loss at 9 weeks in January 2011

Cape Town, South Africa

I found out I was pregnant for the first time in June 2005. I was nervous about telling my mom, because I was raised “first get married and then babies” lol. After I told my mom MY good news, it took her a while to get over it. Didn’t take her very long though, because the next thing you know she starts buying baby clothes. Me too, I just couldn’t resist the cute little outfits. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 12 weeks, 13 weeks, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 21 weeks, 24 weeks, Incompetent Cervix, Late First Trimester Miscarriage, miscarriage, Multiple loss, recurrent miscarriage, Second trimester loss, South Africa

April 13, 2011 By Debbie 2 Comments

Kelly

Mom to Devon Christopher

June 29th, 2001

and Chloe Ann

September 26th, 2008

Hillsboro, Oregon

I was 7 months along with my son, Devon, I went in for an ultrasound, and just knew something was wrong, because he hadn’t kicked in a day, and I found he had passed away. [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2001, 2008, 7 months, Blood Clots, Incompetent Cervix, Oregon, Stillbirth

March 9, 2011 By Kristin 9 Comments

Jessica

Mother to Liam Ellis

Born and Died February 16th, 2011 at 7:35PM

Arlington, Virginia

Our story begins in October of 2010 when my fiance Jordan and I found out we were pregnant. We were excited, but also scared. This was our first pregnancy and we had no idea the amount of love we would experience for our baby. I had nausea a lot early in pregnancy and as we reached 15 weeks, my nausea subsided and I started to enjoy all aspects of my pregnancy. I felt so happy and full of life (literally). At around 16-17 weeks I started having some pain in my lower abdomen area but when I told my doctor and researched online, I was told it was round ligament pain and dismissed. It subsided slowly until it was gone.

March 9, 2011 By Kristin 2 Comments

Katie

Mom to Jason ‘JJ’ Garrick Dial, Jr

October 29th, 2009

Mesa, Arizona

I selected my OB based strictly on geography. When I asked my general doctor for a referral, she knew of only one doctor in the area near my work. I called the office and scheduled an appointment for infertility. We had been trying for a year and a half with no success and I was ready to talk to someone who might be able to help. Since I’m a teacher, I called at the beginning of my summer and they didn’t have any openings until the end of my summer. However, one week before my appointment I took a pregnancy test and found out I was pregnant. We were so excited, we’d been married almost five years and now we were going to be parents! I called the office and changed my infertility appointment to a pregnancy confirmation appointment.

February 23, 2011 By Kristin 1 Comment

Sherri

Mother to Kristen Eva

Born November 19th, 2010, Left that same evening

Bellevue, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

The Gift of Kristen Eva

[Read more...]

Filed Under: 2010, 22 weeks, Canada, Incompetent Cervix, Preterm labor

February 21, 2011 By Kristin 3 Comments

Nicole

Mom to Hunter Joe

January 31st, 2011

Laurel, Maryland

I can honestly say that the day that I lost Hunter was THE worst day I have ever had in my entire life! No exaggerations. I was mostly numb that day, due to pain meds and preparing for it for almost a week.

February 18, 2011 By Kristin 7 Comments

LaTasha

Mommy to Jayelle Hope and Leigh’El Faith

December 24th, 2010

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I was going for my anatomy appointment. I was soooo happy I was finding out what my babies were. I never thought in a million years they would say what they said. I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS. I was so upset that no one had ever told me this can happen.

January 27, 2011 By Kristin 4 Comments

Tabitha

Mother of Garrison Terrelle

Born Sleeping at 17 weeks 2 days

On December 26, 2010

St. Petersburg, Florida

I am Tabitha Shorter mother to Garrison Terrelle Shorter who was born sleeping December 26, 2010 with my nose and his father’s lips and mouth. Gary and I met the summer 2008 while I was teaching and coaching basketball in South Carolina and we talked a couple of times during the summer. Gary is professional photographer as well as a Networking Engineer so he always had a busy schedule. It was not until November 2008, that he just happened to call me as I was coming home from a basketball game which we had lost miserably. He had decided to end communication previously because we lived in two separate states. I lived in South Carolina and he lived in Georgia, but actually we were not that far away. So, when he called me he told me that he investigated the distance through Google maps and concluded that it was not that far.

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