Interview 35  

Interview 35

Age at Interview: 42
Sex: Female
Background: Children: 2, aged 2 and 5 weeks at time of interview. Occupations: Mother- teacher (head of science dept), Father- town planner. Marital status: married. Ethnic background: Black British.

Brief outline:After recurrent miscarriages, first baby born at 23 weeks and spent 5 months in intensive care. Next pregnancy closely supervised including 10 weeks as an inpatient. Baby born healthy at 37 weeks.


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In her most recent pregnancy she was afraid of going into labour early again. After an accident her cervix started to open and she spent several weeks resting in hospital.

 



I took it, I took it month by month, and the sort of hurdles that I would, I would aim to get over were the nine months, the thirteen months. So the nine weeks - sorry - the thirteen weeks, the seventeen weeks. When I got to twenty-two weeks I remember becoming very anxious. Not wanting to, not wanting to move, virtually. And just making sure that I wasn't, didn't feel stressed or, and nothing was causing me to, undue stress. That the hospital also was scanning on a sort of weekly basis around the twenty-two, twenty-three weeks. But then to compound it I had, had a car accident. Yeah, I had a car accident at almost twenty-three weeks.

Oh no.

And when they scanned the cervix had started to open above the suture and at that point they said, “Right you're going to be in hospital for thirty, for the ten weeks - a month - yeah, ten weeks. And I remember thinking, “Oh my God, ten weeks in the hospital just laying on the bed, what am I going to do?” And then I thought, “If that's the way it's got to be, that's the way it's got to be”. So they had me in hospital, permanent bed rest, monitoring, everything, blood pressure, blood analysis scanning, everything. And after ten, eleven weeks and everything was going well they said, you know, you can come out and do a few nights at home.

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