MISCARRIAGE AT 16 WKS-PROM RELATED TO STREP-B?

[HOPE-KIMBERLY]

I JUST MISCARRIED A BABY GIRL AT 16 WEEKS. THEY SAID IT WAS DUE TO PROM-ALL THE FLUID LEAKED OUT OF THE SAC AND SHE PASSED AWAY. I STARTED SPOTTING BROWN/PINK LIGHT DISCHARGE AND HAD A FEVER OF ABOUT 101 AT ABOUT 13 1/2 WEEKS. THEY DID AND U/S AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE. MY OB PUT ME ON ANTIBIOTICS AND TOLD ME TO REST, I PROBABLY HAD AN INFECTION. SO I DID, AND IT SEEMED TO SLOW DOWN. THEN, A FEW DAYS AFTER THE ANTIBIOTICS WERE FINISHED, IT SEEMED TO PICK UP AGAIN, HEAVIER AND DARKER. I WENT TO OB, HAD AN U/S AND THEY FOUND NO HEARTBEAT AND ALL FLUID FROM SAC WAS GONE! AFTER THE DNC, I STARTED DOING RESEARCH AND READING INFO ABOUT THE RELATION OF STREP-B TO PROM.  YOU SEE, I HAVE A 5 YR OLD AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH STREP-B WITH HER WHEN THEY TEST YOU FOR IT AT AROUND 6 MONTHS. THEY PUMPED ME FULL OF ANTIBIOTICS DURING DELIVERY AND SHE WAS FINE. COULD THIS HAVE BEEN THE REASON MY WATER BROKE AND SHE PASSED? I NEED TO KNOW. WE TRIED FOR HER FOR 4 YRS AND I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN, TO MYSELF OR ANYONE! PLEASE, PLEASE GIVE ME AS MUCH INFO AS YOU CAN! I ALSO HAVE AN INCOMPETENT CERVIX, BUT IT WAS TOTALLY CLOSED. ALSO, THE PATHOLOGIST SAID THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BABY! THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!

[nanakay]

sometimes weird things just happen. i know that doesn't make you feel any better but it is true. high leaks (though not that common that early) do happen, and unfortunatly if they are real high and small you can leak out all your fluid without ever even realizing it happened.
i am very sorry this has happened to you and you will be in my prayers that God gives you another baby soon.
i have actually never heard of step-b causing any complications except in labor, so as far as that goes i have no advice.
just to say i am sorry

~nanci

[nurse12hr]

nanakay is exactly right.

In addition, if group B strep did in fact cause some sort of infection contributing to or as the result of the PROM, there would have been signs of chronic or acute infection that the pathologist would have picked up on during the examination of placental and fetal tissues.

I am so sorry for your loss.

[HOPE-KIMBERLY]

thanks so much for responding. hope-kimberly is the name i decided to give our baby girl. she was and is our hope. i really felt so alone until i found this website! i run a support group for stay-at -home moms and alot of my friends have newborns or are pregnant. i can't face anyone! did anyone feel this way? i know i only lost her last monday, but the pain is so intense! it gives me so much "hope" to hear of all the women jumping right back into trying for another baby! I think in a month or two, I will also be ready! Congrats to all of those who have miscarried and have gotten pregnant again. having a baby is truly the greatest privaledge we could ever have.

[kath401]

im about to have frozen embryo tranfsfer and just tested positive for strep b ! ive been reading a load of stuff on here and im so worried ..any advice ???? kath

[lozzy62]

Hi Hope Kimberely, my pregnancy was a dream no morning sickness what so ever then on a sunday two weeks ago i woke up freezing and could not get warm and started vomiting i was also bleeding but a week prior to that i had a ultrasound and saw my 12week old baby looking quite healthy and comfortable inside me i was rushed to emergency  feeling like i was dying to be admitted on that day and had a cervical swab which found the infection strep b had actually spread into my blood and was pumping all around me thats why i felt like i wanted to die. they put me on the iv antiobiotics and by tuesday i felt good only to wake up wednesday morning needing to go to the toliet then felt my baby just fall out of me like that seeing it in my underpants, its all gone down hill from there as they didnt do a dc straight away till  friday morning after i was like in labour pushing out blood clots in pain again and lost one and a half litres of blood before the surgeon said i need to go staright to surgery the baby blood was full of strep b and with me being so sick and having a fever thats how she or he died i know im not  to blame but you feel as a mother you need to protect your baby and i couldnt even do that now being at home i feel a part of me is missing and to make it worst my best friend is pregnant and we would of been due on the same date 13 of december 2009, i know i need to move on but now its so painfull and im not ready to let go i feel everyone else world is moving on and im still standing still im so scared to let go of what happened i feel if i do i will lose this baby forever even thoe i know he or she will be in my heart forever and i will never forget i was their mother. it was good reading other comments to know that what im feeling im not alone.if a girl her name would of been Brihanna Alexandra Maxwell or boy Hayden Gregory Maxwell.i read a comment the bear of hope opened his book of life wrote your baby due date as he closed his book whispered softly to beautiful for this life.i hope my story has brought some comfort to those mums loosing their baby you are not alone in anything you are feeling you just need to nurse your broken heart till your ready to make the next move xxxx xxxx god bless. my email is ***@**** if anyone needs to talk.