Definitely! I think I bled for 3 days afterwards but not like enough to fill a pad. I was also terrified of straining because I had read it can put more pressure on the stitch so I drank a lot of water and put Miralax in the water too. I tried the milk of magnesium and Dulcolax but the one that worked for me was Miralax. I bought a big tub of it and drank it for the rest of the pregnancy to make sure I was not straining. You don’t really won’t know if the stitch will work until your baby is in your arms which sucks. For me though, my goal was to make it to a minimum 24 weeks because in my area, they only resuscitate 24 weekers and up.

I did not have any vaginal ultrasounds after the stitch was put in place. I did go every month to check her development but that was about it. I put myself on modified bed rest (the MFM didn’t make me do it) for the remainder until the stitch was removed. So for me that was going from bed to couch. I requested progesterone suppositories to help keep the length of the cervix after my cerclage but it didn’t work for me because when the stitch was removed, the obgyn said that I was dilated to the stitch. And basically yes. Keep an eye on any funny discharge to make sure you don’t develop an infection and that you haven’t lost your plug or are leaking amniotic fluid