From: Jordanbri@aol.com Subject: (homebirth) Question about Endometriosis and concern for a friend Date: 04 May 1999 14:42:54 EDT I have a friend that is currently about 20 weeks pregnant with her second pregnancy(first ended in a miscarriage). She has had problems with endometriosis since she was very young and has extensive scar tissue due to numerous surgeries. This current pregnancy has been very hard on her and she has had several scares that the thought for sure she was losing the baby. After finally getting over that 14 week hump, she relaxed and had a few weeks with no problems. Now it seems she is having problems again this time with her uterus not being able to support the baby. Her Dr has her at home now( this has all happened today) and there is talk of sewing (I guess) her cervix to keep the baby in as long as possible. I would like to know if any of you have had any experience with this kind of thing? Will she have to remain on bedrest the remainder of her pregnancy? She is actually my dh's boss, him being second in charge. I understand that she has a lot of scar tissue from those surgeries. I am assuming she will have a scheduled C section instead of risking further damage with a vaginal but I don't want to call and ask her a bunch of questions. Thanks in advance for your help. Angela Mommie to Jordan 7/2/96 Brianna 3/8/98 and "Bump" as Jordan calls it due late Aug - To unsubscribe to homebirth, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe homebirth" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "D.F.S." Subject: Re: (homebirth) Question about Endometriosis and concern for a friend Date: 04 May 1999 13:12:33 -0600 (MDT) > > I have a friend that is currently about 20 weeks pregnant with her second > pregnancy(first ended in a miscarriage). She has had problems with > endometriosis since she was very young and has extensive scar tissue due to > numerous surgeries. This current pregnancy has been very hard on her and she > has had several scares that the thought for sure she was losing the baby. > After finally getting over that 14 week hump, she relaxed and had a few weeks > with no problems. Now it seems she is having problems again this time with > her uterus not being able to support the baby. Her Dr has her at home now( > this has all happened today) and there is talk of sewing (I guess) her > cervix to keep the baby in as long as possible. > I would like to know if any of you have had any experience with this kind > of thing? Will she have to remain on bedrest the remainder of her pregnancy? > She is actually my dh's boss, him being second in charge. I understand that > she has a lot of scar tissue from those surgeries. I am assuming she will > have a scheduled C section instead of risking further damage with a vaginal > but I don't want to call and ask her a bunch of questions. > Sorry, this list was set up to replace another one that was unreliable and went down a lot. I was not the person running that list. Most people opten to wait-and-see if the other list would be fixed. In any event there are very few people here to give a good answer. being that this is more a medical pregnancy question the newsgroup Misc.kids.pregnancy would probably provide a quick answer in line with standard medical practices. From the people I know once they are put on bed rest they are usually kept there. This doesn't sound like something that would go away, like some things may and negate the original reason for calling for bed rest. There is an opinion in the midwife/homebirth community I have heard that "Cutellage" or "curretage" or whatever they call it and however it is spelled, IE. sewing the cervix shut is a waste of time and causes more harm than good. For what that's worth. Anyway, the newsgroup or stantons homebirth list if it is still running will probably provide a better answer. I would imagine the C-section would be dome as well. With all the wrong reasons and excuses they have for doing them this sounds like it may be a valid reason. Marc - To unsubscribe to homebirth, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe homebirth" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jordanbri@aol.com Subject: (homebirth) Question about Endometriosis and concern for a friend Date: 04 May 1999 14:42:54 EDT I have a friend that is currently about 20 weeks pregnant with her second pregnancy(first ended in a miscarriage). She has had problems with endometriosis since she was very young and has extensive scar tissue due to numerous surgeries. This current pregnancy has been very hard on her and she has had several scares that the thought for sure she was losing the baby. After finally getting over that 14 week hump, she relaxed and had a few weeks with no problems. Now it seems she is having problems again this time with her uterus not being able to support the baby. Her Dr has her at home now( this has all happened today) and there is talk of sewing (I guess) her cervix to keep the baby in as long as possible. I would like to know if any of you have had any experience with this kind of thing? Will she have to remain on bedrest the remainder of her pregnancy? She is actually my dh's boss, him being second in charge. I understand that she has a lot of scar tissue from those surgeries. I am assuming she will have a scheduled C section instead of risking further damage with a vaginal but I don't want to call and ask her a bunch of questions. Thanks in advance for your help. Angela Mommie to Jordan 7/2/96 Brianna 3/8/98 and "Bump" as Jordan calls it due late Aug - To unsubscribe to homebirth, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe homebirth" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.