placental abruption fortwin A, anyone has experience before?

Hello, I delivered my twins on Aug 12th (37wk3day). It started with a vaginally delivery but ended up with an emergecy C section. My OB noticed that twin A is stressed under conraction so that we move into C when I was still 2-3 dilation. They gave me a shot to control the contration and at the time, no one expect I have a placental abruption.

Anyway, long story short, when they took out Twin A, they noticed the placental abruption (I remembered that my OB mentioned it is partically in C sectin room, but I saw the report stated it is completely). My boy (twin A) did not breath by his own in first minute or so and then has to rely on external help to breath. He had a lot of blood in his stomach and some in his lung. He spent 4 days in NICU (with pressure O3, IV, etc and the last day in NICU without any external help) and discharged to us after that. He seems to be normal now. But I am not sure how serious this will mean to him in long term. Can anyone share some experience or direct me where I can look into? I am very much worry about brain damage. I heard the short of O2 in the cord may lead to a brain damage and other health concern.

My twins girl was perfect and I am fine now though I lost over 1000 CC blood over the delivery. I do not know how long the abruption has persistent. Hope it will not do too harm to my little sweet heart.

Thanks for your reading and sharing information.

 

I'll be praying for your little guy! And I pray that you will find the information you need. I'm sorry I don't know anything concerning what you are asking.

But I do want to say CONGRATS on the birth of your babies!!! I'm glad the Drs. were monitoring you and got you a c-section.

 

NO advice or experience, just sending you lots of prayers. :hug: :hug: Congratulations on your babies. :wub:

 

CONGRATULATIONS on the birth of your babies, sorry your little man had a hard time, sorry i do not have any experience or advice
Wishing you all the very best

 

congratulations! i'm glad you were in safe hands. just so you know not to worry, 1000 cc of blood loss is normal for a c-section, and even if you lost 1250, that's not that bad especially for twins.

 

I know another twin mom (not on here though) who had a similar problem with her twin delivery. The only difference was that she delivered the first vaginally...so the lag time to get the second one out was longer. They were very concerned over cerebral palsy due to her dd's oxygen deprivation. And I think she was diagnosed with a mild form of CP, but honestly her 'delays' as described by my friend are extremely minor. Unfortunately, it's something my friend has never gotten over. She's had anxiety over it since her dd was born. Looking on with the objective observation of an outsider it really seems like 'no big deal' as far as her daughter's delays though. She was slower to do things like jumping, pedaling a bike, and a bit slower on language... but honestly, she hit these milestones at the same time as my twin dd who just happens to be a little less coordinated than my other kids. My friend really obsesses over it though because of how traumatic the birth was, which is understandable, but unfortunately she took it to the point where she really slapped a label on her dd in her mind and everything her dd does or doesn't do gets filtered through that label. It's especially challenging for her because her twins are identical, so she has this mental perception that they 'ought' to hit their milestones at exactly the same age... which is really not true at all for id. twins. (Heck, my id. twin sister walked at the ripe age of 15 months... I didn't walk until 17 months!! And no CP involved!!)

I would encourage you to talk it over with your pediatrician. Make him/her see your concerns. If you have a gut instinct that your child is behind in milestones, then be a strong advocate and get help. But try not to worry overly much. Every child hits milestones at different points. My twins almost never met their milestones together. One of them crawled months before the other, but it was an army crawl... So then the other started right up with a regular crawl which influenced the first crawler to get off his belly!! But they always took turns hitting milestones, never at the same time. So try not to compare them to each other, but rather to ballpark 'norms' as far as the range of ages that most kids hit these milestones.

It does sound like they got your baby out pretty quickly, hopefully there are no other signs of CP going on. The only other thing I have to add is that my last delivery involved a placenta that disconnected prematurely. I don't know how severe it was (I never asked), but I do know the doctor pushed to do the episiotomy to let her out quicker because he was very concerned. I had had placental issues during the pregnancy prior to delivery as well. My dd is just fine. A little slow on her verbal skills compared to my other kids at this age, but within the normal range... and quite clearly brilliant in her understanding of verbal commands like 'go get your shoes' or 'where is your nose?' She hit all her physical milestones just fine. Hopefully the same will be true for your baby!

 

thank you all for the prays and replies.

It has been over 3 months and I did not notice any difference between my boy and girl in terms of 3 months milestones. Acturally, my boy did much better than his little sister so far: he reached all 3 months milestones earlier than 3 months:

•Raise head and chest while on tummy
•Lift head 45 degrees
•Kick and strengthen legs while on back
•Open and shut hand
•Reach for dangling objects
•Grasp and shake hand toys
•Begin to develop a social smile
•Kick legs energetically
•Bring both hands together

I think I already got over the delivery story and enjoy my life with my twins. It was very hard over the first month but I passed that period. I just thought positive side. I read all the documents released to us about the boy during his delivery. It seems his cord blood pH and pressure CO2 level is still within the normal range (though it is on the lower limit). This information might be an indication the ruption might just happen before I delivered them. Anyway, I just want to keep everyone updated and thanks again for your prays.

 

What great news on your little boy!! :clapping:

It sounds like he is doing just fine! :hug:

 

I am so glad to hear that they are both doing so great, especially your little boy.

 

Wonderful news. :hug: :hug:

 

So glad to hear everything is going well! :hug: