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[Mom2mmcjg]

Bumpy, Wow! So adorable! It does look like a real baby now doesn't it? Amazing the difference a couple of weeks makes!

Lou- What a beautiful baby! He's just great! Congratulations!

 

[sara1]

Pink- sorry you couldn't get your numbers today... the waiting is the hardest part, but I'm sure they're great!!

Hopeful: Great news about your scan... I'd love to see a pic, even a not so clear one. About the progesterone... Actually I tried it and it really is much less messy and everything I've read says they're equally effective front or back...eewwww I take it 4 times a day, so lying down is a bit inconvenient. Also, I checked out your nursery colors... We've got the exact green as your first choice on one wall of our bedroom... I love it, it's soothing and natural.

Croy: Walk around the lake sounds sooooo lovely. I live by the sea and usually walk along the waterfront at few days a week but I'm wary at the moment.

Bumpy- Have fun at the wedding and enjoy the sun!!

 

[heart tree]

Bedrest.

I've been having some lower uterine cramping since Monday. That combined with my whet cervix which is showing some funneling and my history made my doctor prescribe bedrest. I will go in for an ultrasound on Monday to check my cervix and then another one the following Monday. We'll reasess from there if I need to stay on bedrest or not. Apparently a study just came out yesterday that said progesterone isn't beneficial if your cervix is longer than 2.0. Mine is 2.6. She didn't want me taking it since there aren't long term studies on the effects of progesterone but said if I felt strongly about it she was ok with me taking it. I think I might wait until after Monday to make that decision. If it has shortened, I'll start taking it. I'm sad and scared girls.

 

[sara1]

Oh Heart, this is so scary. My heart goes out to you. First off, is your dh back from his trip yet? I hope you have him there with you. I wish I could say something comforting. I know a couple girls who've been put on bed rest during their pregnancies... They all hated it, but they all had healthy babies. I have one friend who is on bed rest now, she is due at the end of April. The first thing to remember is that its not necessarily a permanent thing... I could just be until that second scan... which is 9 days away... I hope that's the case. Is there anything besides the progesterone they can give you to help? I suppose you'll need a game plan for it... to keep yourself from going stir crazy. I'm trying to think of helpful practical things to say... Is there anything we can do for you?

 

[hopeful23456]

Heart- I completely understand being scared, but this is just another thing that is going to work out for you, it's ok. The nurse today told me they presc prometrium at 2.5 and I will double check with my ob/re next thurs at my appt (she is on vaca this week ) to get another opinion. If it doesn't hurt anything to take prog (and we pretty much know it doesn't) then I would wait until Monday too and if it's the same or any shorter I would start taking it. But did they say it was a prometrium pill your dr prescribes? It's a pill you insert...

I wish I could make it so you didnt have to worry! I don't like having that feeling at all and although we have worried so much the past months, in the end we really never had to.

It's going to be fine heart, will just get boring being in bed
Rrso much. Glad Tim is there. Wish I could come over to chat and bring you the 15 magazines I have stockpiled...

 

[Mom2mmcjg]

Heart- I'm so sorry. I know how scary and incredibly boring that is. I hope you don't have to stay on bedrest too long.

 

[Mon_n_john]

Heart, try not to worry too much. I was put on bedrest with my last baby at 25 weeks because I kept going into pre-term labor and they kept having to stop it with meds. Once I stayed put my pre-term contractions really settled down and I made it to 36.5 weeks. It does get boring but there are lots of things you can do in bed, tv, laptop, read, knit, scrapbook, etc. It's going to be OK, you'll see!

 

[heart tree]

Thanks everyone. I just wrote a long post and it got deleted. Damn.

Tim got home yesterday thank god. He worked from home today so is taking care of me. We'll have the whole weekend to establish a routine. I have to be lying down with my hips elevated all day. I can get up for 10 minutes every hour and then for 30 minutes for meals. I'm typing on my phone as I haven't figured out a comfortable way to type on my laptop yet.

Hopeful, I was taking Prometrium at the beginning of this pregnancy. That's what I'll take if my cervix continues to shorten. My doctor said there isn't enough long term research on taking progesterone like this. There may not be immediate effects on me or my child but there might be down the road. So I'm hesitant to take it until I know I need it. We'll see.

Mon thanks for the reassurance. I wish I knew how to knit! I obviously can't use my sewing machine but knitting would be perfect!

I talked to my boss and we're going to try to keep me working on the couch so I don't have to take disability. I'll just do phone work rather than talking to people in person.

Thanks for all the support ladies! Sorry I haven't been able to reciprocate lately. I will in a bit. Just having a "me" moment right now.

 

[Mom2mmcjg]

Heart- You think about you and that adorable baby girl, that's all you need to think about right now.

 

[croydongirl]

Oh Amanda I am so sorry. I can totally understand being scared. I know this is not the way you would have wanted it. But I believe you are going to get through this just fine. Stay off your feet and keeping that baby snuggled up in there. Really hoping that the scan shows not more of a decrease and that it can give you some anxiety relief.

I wish this wasn't happening to you but you have been such a fabulous support at every step to each of us, it's time to lay back (literally) and let us encourage you.

Lots of love xx

 

[daviess3]

Heart I no ur baby girl is all snuggly in there! We no that's where shes staying! Ok pma!!!
My consultNt told me other day that if at my scan they find a short cervix etc I would b put straighr back on the progesterone! Who knows! But do what u think an u have been advised! X
Pleased yr being looked after read baby name books pick lil girls name!! X

Well sally Morgan was not so good meal was nice! Hubby was drunk by time I got home sat with a friend who knows how many bottles of wine later!! Then he thinks we should have sex!! Erh no!!! U being drunk is not a good look loo! X

 

[Mon_n_john]

Then he thinks we should have sex!! Erh no!!! U being drunk is not a good look loo! X

i'm sorry that's just too funny!

 

[petitpas]

Hi everyone!

Satra, I suppose you are on cyclogest as well? If I remember it correctly I think the instruction leaflet also mentions that you can take them both ways. I'm glad you are ahem getting on with them.

Did I really read that you are on heparin but not aspirin? Is there a reason not to be? I don't think I have ever read about anyone on heparin but not on aspirin.
Heparin stops you from clotting but it doesn't cross the placenta so it doesn't prevent clotting on the baby's side of the placenta. Aspirin does and it is also given to prevent preeclampsia.
Can you ask your doc whether they would mind you taking a daily baby aspirin?
Or maybe I didn't read properly and you are already taking it.
Soz, I'm knackered!
Oh, and I stopped all exercise in first tri. Just in case.

Annmarie, I don't know what to say but you deserve some extra strong

Heart, I'm so sorry you are on bedrest I hope you can distract yourself with work and that it is just temporary. Your dic sounds great that she is being so careful with you

AFM, I've added my weekly bump pic to the first post in my journal.

 

[sara1]

Petit- I take utrogestan which is the same thing as cyclogest. I see my fs on Monday to check my clotting factor so I'll mention the aspirin . Thanks!

 

[jenny25]

Morning girls


Amanda's everything is going to be fine I remember a woman on here who was pregnant with triplets and she had to stay on bed rest and she made it xxxx

Davies I always wanted too see Sally Morgan I have watched her shows in tv and she seemed amazing xxx


Wooo 1 week today until gender scan and been married 6months today sun is shinning its all good I had my first little episode of a dizzy spell scary but I was ok xxx

 

[pink80]

Heart I'm sorry about the bedrest

I had a colleague who was put in bedrest at 22 weeks because her cervix was measuring 2.4, she was completely bored but baby made it all the way to 39 weeks. Hope it's only temporary for you xx

 

[croydongirl]

Ladies, I think today's the day we are buying our crib. I don't know why it feels like such a big deal but it does, it's the first big thing we are buying! I hope I love it as much in our house as I did in the store -- And that it doesn't stick! Hubby told me I have to wait until we get to the car before we sniff it so it doesn't look weird! ha ha

 

[petitpas]

Croy, you'll have to drop something next to the crib so you can bend down and have a sniff

 

[sara1]

Heart- I was browsing around the What to expect website when I came across this:
https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/bed-rest.aspx
There's nothing earth-shatteringly new in there but they've got some good checklist ideas for day to day and a section on how to stay sane.
Thinking of you.

 

[jenny25]

Girls ive been having some pain my lower back along my pelvis and at both side where my ovarys are freaking out x