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Amniotic fluid performs a crucial function during pregnancy. It provides your baby with room to move around, and it aids in the development of limbs, muscles, lungs, and digestive system. Unfortunately, approximately eight percent of expectant mothers have low amniotic fluid during their pregnancy. About four percent have low enough fluid to receive a diagnosis of oligohydramnios.

The doctor say that your baby would not survive. what was wrong with her? >> nothing was wrong with her, unfortunately. it was my body that fwas failin. i had a condition called incompetent cervix or cervical insufficiency which means that my cervix was dilating far too early. at the 18 week mark, a baby can't survive outside of the womb, and with my cervix dield dilating, i lost all of my amniotic fluid a baby can't survive in the mother's womb with the amniotic fluid, so unfortunately she didn't stand a chance. >> your water broke, that's how you lost all of that amniotic fluid, and even whe...

Two women suffered from p prom, which is where your water breaks early. these were brave women shared their stories. she went to the hospital. she asked for help. they told her to go home and wait. she delivered the fetus in a toilet. she hemorrhaged so much. that she lost half the blood in her body. according to her medical records . she had her daughter, the doctor told her husband, you need to prepare for the worst. and she may not be able to have children now. chinese same situation went to hospitals. nobody wanted to help her. um, debra from lakeland. had the fetus had potter syndrome. hm...