murphnd

First, thank you so much for this book! I had a relatively easy pregnancy until my water broke at 29 weeks and my son was born by C-section at 30 weeks. I have two questions that aren’t covered in the preterm birth chapter: (1) Is there any data on the mother’s age affecting recurrence of spontaneous preterm birth? I was 41 when my son was born and will obviously be older than that if I get pregnant again. (2) During the C-section, the doctors discovered that the cord was wrapped around my son’s neck, which had been causing his heart rate to keep dropping. Is there any data (or even hypotheses) on that as a possible cause of preterm labor and the probability of recurrence?