A cerclage is essentially when they put a few stitches in your cervix to prevent the baby from coming out. Yeah, doesn't sound like fun does it?
They scheduled me for an emergency cerclage the next day at
3:30. I was not allowed to eat anything 8 hours prior to the surgery so that
morning I woke up at 6:30am and ate since I knew I would be starving. I arrived
at the hospital 2 hours prior and just waited and waited. They started my IV
and hooked me up to a BP machine. The alarm kept going off because my BP is so
low..has been running around 84/50. They finally turned the alarm off because
they were sick of having to come in.
I was very nervous for this surgery.
1. Because they are sewing my cervix closed. I
mean, come on, that doesn’t sound like fun at all, does it?
2. I never had a spinal before.
I walked down the long hallway(while trying to keep the back
of my gown closed) and into the operating room. They had me sit on the side of
the bed and hug a pillow while I got the numbing medication for the spinal.
They said that was the worst part and that it felt like a bee sting. It did
feel like a lot of stinging. I was then given the spinal and slowly (very
slowly) I was starting to go numb from the waste down.
The anesthesiologist would take an alcohol wipe, wipe my
forehead to show me it was cold and wet and then would wipe my upper thigh to
keep check to see how much I could feel. I kept telling them I could still feel
everything. There was no way in hell I was going to let them do this surgery if
I could still feel something..lol. Then one side started getting numb but the
other side wasn’t so they titled the whole operating table and let the medicine
run to that side of my body for a few minutes. I was finally fully numb and
they began the procedure.
The doctor first did an ultrasound to check my cervix..turns
out it was down to 17mm (1.7cm) so it was good I decided to have this
procedure. I could feel pressure and pulling but I didn’t feel any pain. The
surgery and spinal wasn’t bad but I HATED being awake during the procedure and
hearing them talk to each other about what was going on..plus I was spread
eagle on the table so that was a little weird. Luckily the anesthesiologist kept
talking with me to try to get my mind off everything that was going on. The
procedure went fine but I kept shaking the whole time..the anesthesiologist
said that was normal so I wasn’t too concerned about it. The whole procedure
(once they finally began when I was numb) only took about 20 minutes. I was
wheeled back into the recovery room.
During recovery I started to feel some cramping and possibly
contractions. I told the nurse and they hooked me up to a monitor and to
observe. Turns out I was having contractions every 2-3 minutes. At that point I
thought for sure I was going to be delivering a 23 weeker that day. I was given
Indocin for the cramps and contractions and luckily that stopped them. I was
given a script for Indocin every 6 hours as needed for cramping. When I got
home..I took the Indocin round the clock, every 6 hours for the next 2 days
because I was so scared I was going to go into labor.
I had a follow up a few days later and they did an
ultrasound to check the cervical length…my cervix went back to 37mm(3.7cm)
which was awesome. So far, so good..no more contractions/cramping and I am not
on bedrest. I have a follow up this Thursday to check cervix length..hopefully
I didn’t just jinx myself saying that everything is going good J
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