Successful Cerclage and Delivery 37W4D
Hi all , thank you so much for your posts and support throughout this pregnancy Journey.
Wife has successfully delivered the baby at 37Weeks and 4 days through a scheduled C section and the doctor removed the cerclage during the time of surgery as well. We were blessed with a baby girl weight 2.8 kgs. The baby girl was under observation for 1 night and has been slightly more sleepy compared to the other babies who are born full term . regardless she's 5 days old today and both the Mother and Baby are doing great and been discharged from the hospital.
My wife's pregnancy journey - Diagnosed with SCH and a shortening cervix measuring 3.2 cm at Week 10 of pregnancy. She was on strict bed rest Between weeeks 10-14 and undergone cerclage stitch after week 14 once the SCH cleared itself and NT scan results were good.
After 1 week of strict bed rest wife was able to move around much more freely and doctor was ok with her taking walks after meals and not remain under full bed rest. Second trimester was excellent and felt like a breeze with her just following doctors instructions and eating nutritious food and resting well. Unfortunately from week 28/29 onwards wife had more than normal white discharge and was diagnosed with UTI (klebsiella infection) and doctor was worried about preterm labor. She was on a lot of antibiotics and IV and finally the infection though stubborn cleared itself in 2-3 weeks. The growth scans were mostly fine but her AC was under 10% and since the doctor was also concerned about the potential re-growth of infection she advised that my wife was ready for birth anytime after 37 weeks. We followed doctor's advice and scheduled the C Section for 37 weeks and 4 days based on the auspicious time ( yes we are Hindus and Indians lol) .
Only other aspect that was difficult was wife had a lot of medication throughout her pregnancy journey including progesterone, ecospirin , Ecofloura , wysolone , heparin, klebsiella antibiotics , duvadlin and multivitamins etc.