no longer a miscarriage????

[HanCh]

Just wondered if anyone knows when the hospital starts to try and save a pregnancy rather than say that there is nothing that can be done (which happend to me in the first trimester when I was bleeding). I am starting to get a little paranoid that there is still nothing that can be done if things start to go wrong as I am only 16 weeks......

[cwsmum]

I think...and I'm not 100% sure on this...but I think around 25 weeks they will try and save a baby if it is born...I'm sure there are other things they can do to stop a baby being born that early, or earlier.
Sorry I couldn't help more, I'm sure someone will know :)

[Eternity]

I know this is a little of the topic but I am so sick of hospitals wanting nothing to do with you until you are 20 weeks. I have had quite a few health problems and rather than help me out they just blow me off cause when I rang them I was under 20 weeks. Its like they dont even acknowledge you are pregnant.

[mrsbutterflygirl]

I know this is a little of the topic but I am so sick of hospitals wanting nothing to do with you until you are 20 weeks. I have had quite a few health problems and rather than help me out they just blow me off cause when I rang them I was under 20 weeks. Its like they dont even acknowledge you are pregnant.


wow... i had the complete opposite when i had a really bad migrane.. i rang and they said come straight in... then i was pushed infront of everyone else cause i was 18.5 weeks pregnant... i became top priority for them... kinda made me feel good... might depend on what hospital you go too.

[MummyCharmzy]

it varies hospital from hospital.

At 21.5 weeks I was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, my bp was very unstable and I was told in no uncertain terms that if things got worse they would not be trying to save the babies life, they would save mine.

This is at monash medical centre in vic... the doctors there told me they will only start to think about saving the baby after 22/23 weeks and depending on the situation at hand. :S

Its a HORRIBLE thing to deal with.

At 15 weeks I had a big bleed and was in hospital as well and they didnt even check on the baby because there was nothing that could be done if baby wasnt okay anyway... it was HORRIBLE not knowing for the 4 days before I could get in for an ultrasound to see if the baby was alive or not :S

[littlepickle]

I read that when the baby is 24 weeks it is viable and has a chance of survival. From this point on, they will try to save it but before this I am not sure

[MummyCharmzy]

bubs can survive at 21 and 22 weeks.. I don't know any 20 weekers but definitely 21 and 22 weekers can survive, the chances are slim but they can.

the chances of survival also depend on the hospital you deliver at because of the staff and what they have available to help keep bub alive.

every week longer you are pregnant it greatly increases and then by 28 weeks the survival rate is almost matching fullterm babies but the longterm outcomes arent as perfect.

By 32 weeks they basically match fullterm bubs in relation to survival rate and also long term outcomes - its amazing!

[onabreak]

My sister lost her baby at 19 weeks because there was nothing they could do. Her waters were already broken and the tiny little baby was on his way out. They just had to let my sister lie there and wait for the baby to die before they made her deliver him. I thought that was so cruel, well they beleive at baby at this gestation has no chance of survival. The said if she made it to 21 weeks or more he would of been viable to try and save. My sister is now 17 weeks pregnant and I hope she gets past the 21 week stage so this baby has a chance of survival. I don't think she could cope losing a third baby.

[mbrbbt]

I think it all depends on your doctor and the hospital. With my 1st child I had a seious bleed at 13 weeks. I was admitted into the maternity ward in a private room where I was kept for a week on bed rest and being constantly monitored - mt gynea visited up to 3 times a day. I was sent for an ultrasound and each day the nurses who were so fantastic put the heartbeat doppler on just so I could hear the heartbeat and be reasurred. That was Campbelltown hospital who most people think really has a bad name but in each of my very high risk and complicated pregnancies they have been fantastic.

My son who I spoke about above is now almost 11!

Good luck

[~beckkles~]

A subject very close to my heart.
At 16 weeks they played the "just wait and see" game My waters had broken but bub was still fine, I delievered her by myself on the ward as I was going to take up room in labour and delievery.
At 20 weeks they were alittle more productive, after my waters breaking again I was given the best chance I could to get a few more weeks to be seen as viable. Unfortunatly I delievered a week later and as someone else said....left to watch my daughter die in her dads arms. It is all a science and apparently it is unethetical in the eyes of the doctor to waste medical resourses on a baby that is not ready for the world. :mad:
So to answer your question ummm depending on the doctor and situation if it is something that can be controlled and the baby isnt going to deliever anytime from about 18 weeks if it is a "structual" problem for the baby not before 23 weeks
Bec

[Kirstlea]

From personal experience I lost my little girl at 19 weeks last year and they told me flat out that they would not do anything until atl east 24 weeks.

That was because they don't have the equipment or skills available to save a baby that young here. They will fly us to Townsville if there is a risk.

So it does depend on what is available in your area.

[Fairyfloss]

I read that when the baby is 24 weeks it is viable and has a chance of survival. From this point on, they will try to save it but before this I am not sure

I have read the same thing a 22week bub (24 week pg) has a chance of suvival outside utrus, given intensive care, (level 3 care) before that the baby does not have enough internal organs functioning to make it, even with machines hooked up.

[Kaileysmum]

Im pretty sure it is after 22weeks, as the baby has a chance to live is born. Anytime before the baby wouldnt survive as its not big or strong enough. My step mum had her baby at 25 weeks, and she survived, she is now a healthy 18mth old.

[Lunar]

Unfortunately it is true, they won't do anything to stop labour before 24 wks gestation.
The baby is just not strong enough to live. And they don't have the equipment to help the baby. If a baby was to survive at a younger age the chances of it having brain damage and various disabilities are very high.

With my last m/c I presented to Campbelltown hospital with bad cramping and bleeding, I was nearly 9 weeks. They made me wait for more than 3 hrs in the waiting room and seen some one with a sore toe over me!!!!
The nurse said to me and I quote..."You really should be laying down but we don't really have any beds. It isn't good. Your probably know what it is, just go sit in the waiting room."
I ended up going to see the after hours GP they had there and when I went to see my GP the next day he sent me straight to Liverpool hospital who were great. And my GP made a complaint to the hospital on my behalf about the way I was treated.

Also with KAilah I had a few complications and was admitted a few times. And if a hospital doesn't have the facilities to deliver a baby under 35 wks (Campbelltown doesn't) they will transfer you to one that does.
If anyone has something go wrong for them don't let them make you wait.
It is also hospital policy that anyone that needs a wheelchair to get into the hospital the have to see you right away, so if anything goes wrong, get the person who takes you to hospital to ask them for a wheelchair, they HAVE to take you in straight away!

Just my 2 bob worth.

[littlepickle]

I Just wanted to say, my heart goes out to everyone here who has gone through the experience of having a baby too young, and had the hosptal tell them that they can't or wont do anyhing. :hugs: :hugs: I just think it shouldnt be a question of resourses or money that stops Dr's from trying..