Prevent Miscarriage, Sleeping with Sloping Beds

News Health Articles - Prevent Miscarriage, Sleeping with Sloping Beds. Twice suffered a miscarriage make a woman feel very worried at all three pregnancies. So as not to experience similar conditions, the woman was undergoing radical solutions suggested the doctor, namely sleeping with the bed tilted for 10 weeks.

The doctor again warned Donna Kelly (29 years) that the pregnancy is just 5 months old at high risk of miscarriage. Doctors also advise a radical solution that is asking Donna to sleep with a sloping bed in the hospital for 10 weeks.



Ultrasound scans showed there is damage to the cervix (cervical) Donna, which makes the baby down too far down in the womb. To change the force of gravity on the cervix, Donna was asked to lie on a bed that is tilted 45 degrees with your feet pointing up.

Donna had to eat, read and watch television in bed University Hospital in Coventry, England. He was only allowed out of bed if you want to go to the toilet.

"I was surprised when my doctor told me to lie down on the bed side, but I am ready to try something that does not miscarry again. It makes me sick at first, but after a few days my body started to adjust and get used to," said Donna Kelly, who quit his job as a gynecological care, as reported by Dailymail, Wednesday (12/21/2011).

Doctors say the birth of his first son Joshua naturally may have made Donna cervix is ​​permanently weakened. This eventually led to two times he had a miscarriage in January 2009 when the pregnancy is 23 weeks and again in May 2010 at 19 weeks gestation.

Donna was given a cream containing the hormone progesterone to help strengthen the cervix and prevent infection. He also had undergone cervical suture at 14 weeks of pregnancy to strengthen the cervix, but at week-23 re-stitching the cervix open.

"The only chance to prevent another miscarriage is to reduce the pressure on the cervix Donna with her head under," explained Professor Siobhan Quenby, an expert in recurrent miscarriage.

According to Professor Quenby, some of the causes of cervical weakness among others the damage of previous births and miscarriages, pap smear tests and treatment for pre cancerous cells.

"Weakness of cervical Donna worse than usual. This is the weakest I have ever dealt with. The concept of putting a woman in bed this is a relatively simple physical theory. This may sound strange but very effective," explained Professor Quenby.

Donna finally gave birth to a healthy and beautiful daughter named Amelia, weighing 2.24 kg through an emergency Caesarean section in August 2011 after the water broke six weeks early.

Amelia spent two weeks in an incubator in intensive care before Donna and her husband Mark (32 years) allowed home.

"One day Joshua told me, 'Mom, I love being a brother'. It makes the sacrifice paid off," added Donna.