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Shortening cervix and progesterone 200mg pessaries

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my previous baby was born at 33weeks and my current pregnancy I am 28 weeks I had an ultrasound due to my previous premature baby and I was told my cervix is funnelling  in a v shape and the closed part is 1cm I have had two steroid shots for baby's lungs and been prescribed progesterone 200mg pessaries to  take twice a day I wanted to know if this helps how it benifted you I don't now and haven't been told if it'll stop baby from coming early or at least how early what it'll do to help my cervix I would like to know how long others could hold they're baby's anything and everything in your experience and information on this
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I had a miscarriage, and 2 premature babies, one passed, this pregnancy I get the makena progesterone shots every week. So far so good. It also depends on the person if it works.
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Are you on modified bed rest of some sort? Due to incompetent cervix I had 2 preemies at 24 and 25 weeks. I'm pregnant again and will be getting a cerclage around August. Do you know if you qualify for p17?
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