Pre-eclampsia, did you get it again?

[sethsmummy]

Lambie - Congratulations on your pregnancy hun. I will keep my fingers crossed for you that this time goes a lot smoother for you. You should definitely be in good hands if your seeing a high risk doc

lala - i cant say i ever had any rib pain with ds1. Although i went from just high bp to pre-e pretty quickly and it was caught straight away and induced (I was luckily overdue at that time). You can have bp spikes... i think you can get them even without the bp issues.

RcdM - sorry to hear you failed your one hour. Over here we just get thrown straight into the 2/3 hour gtt.. there's no one hour test. I will no doubt have mine booked soon (oh joys). Fingers crossed you pass your 3 hour one hun. Super glad your BP is doing well Thats fantastic news!
I think your monitor is a bit out of whak.. but your right to do it 3 times hun.. -take the average reading until you can get someone else to do one for you.
Hopefully the iron tablets work quickly and sort out your anemia


Ann - just keep a close eye on any extra symptoms hun. I think it has to be consistently high before they consider meds... although i was only on baby aspirin with ds2 even when it started going up a bit BUT i was having the twice weekly liver checks etc.




AFM - i need to book my 16 week appointment with the midwife. I had my dating scan and baby looked perfect... i dont get my anomoly scan until 21+6 so i've booked myself a private gender scan at 18+2... its a 3d one so i cant wait!
I have had + protein in my urine for around a week now so either things are starting already or i have a UTI but i have no nitrites so thats got me a little concerned. WIll bring that up with midwife at 16 weeks and see what my bp is sat at.. hopefully still nice and low
I've started feeling flutters And trying to work out from scan pic what im having but i have no clue! probably another boy! xx

 

[RcdM]

How is everyone doing? Sethsmummy glad you are starting to feel flutters! I can't get my LO to calm down. He goes crazy in there every day! I feel like he is so much more active than my dd was. Maybe it's a boy thing lol.

Still no bp issues for me and urine was fine at my appointment on Tuesday! Very excited. I'll be 29 weeks tomorrow and I'm less than 2 weeks away from when I had my dd. That's crazy to think about!

However, I'm not getting away with this pregnancy complication free I failed my 1 hour glucose test, took the 3 hour on Tuesday and just got my results back today that I failed that as well. So I have GD! I was a little shocked because I had the same thing happen with my dd but passed the 3 hour so I was sure that I would pass again. I meet with a dietitian next week and have to change my diet, get a blood sugar monitor and check my blood sugar 4 times a day. It's all pretty crazy and still sinking in. But I can handle it... it's just going to be rough at first because sweets have been my absolute weakness this pregnancy! But hey I'll take GD over pre-e any day!

 

[sethsmummy]

im sure youll be able to get sweeties hun.. i think dark chocolate is the best? my sister ALWAYS ate sweets and crap and she had GD in 3 of her pregnancies. I have no clue when ill get my gtt but we dont do a 1 hour one here.. its just straigh to the big one.

I cant believe it would only be 2 weeks till you had your first.. I bet your looking forward to passing that mile stone hun!

ooo i dont know if its a boy thing... my two were so lazy lol.

i get constant little movements now i just cant find the little monkey on the doppler yet Theres that many sounds in there i cant hear anything over my own heartbeat and blood flow lol.
Ive had some dizzy spells and hot flushes lately but they calmed down since i stopped taking my aspirin so i need to bring that up with the midwife next week... im not willing to put myself in danger from collapsing and the extra folic acid is giving me some serious stomach issues so had to stop that too.

My Ms finally seems to be easing off! thank goodness! lol xxx

 

[Betheney]

Have to be apart of the high risk clinic because of my PE history. Bit of a bummer. I might not even get PE

 

[sethsmummy]

At least youl get watched more carefully though hun and maybe get more scans being high risk xx

 

[Betheney]

I was a part of the high risk clinic last time. I hate it, diff obstetrician every visit. Last time my BP went up my doctor got the ball rolling straight away and transferred my care to them. I wish they would just do the same this time. I hate not having that doctor patient relationship. Although the hospital said I can still see my regular doctor as much as I want he just won't be in charge of my care. So I might still visit him just to keep some normalcy.

I won't get more scans without high BP or PE though. Of course I'll get them with it tho. Last time I got them fortnightly once I had high BP

 

[sethsmummy]

oh wow will they not even do growth scans? I get them at 30/33/36 weeks.

Thats good you cans till see your gp all the time hun. I always get the same guy for my appointments which im glad about. x

 

[Betheney]

I had fortnightly growth scans with Remi because I had pregnancy induced hypertension and then PE.

You don't get them standard so I can't imagine why I'd get them if I dont have PIH or PE. Growth scans won't show that I've got PE before my blood pressure would.

Maybe if I was suddenly measuring small they might do one...

dunno. I have my first hospital booking appt in about 2 weeks and they'll organise ny high risk clinic paperwork and then I'll have my first appt with them. So maybe I will get extra scans and I'm just assuming I wont. My doctor said theyll also decide if I should start asprin or not

 

[sethsmummy]

hun its such a stressfull time.

I get the growth scans purely to check babies size (ds1 was small) and to check condition of placenta and blood flow. i had the same with ds2 as i will with this baby. I was put on aspirin but have had to stop due to it making me ill. I hope they can do a compromise of some kind so you can see your gp hun xx

 

[Betheney]

They said I can still see him, just he won't run my care

I too had those umbilical flow scans with my hypertension. I'm pretty sure they were weekly from memory. But neither of my children suffered from IUGR. They were slightly small for their gestation but otherwise perfectly fine. Eva was 6lb 12oz I think and she was just before her due date and Remi was 4lb 3oz at 33+4

My induction at 33 weeks was due to the fact they just could not control my incredibly out of control blood pressure.

 

[sethsmummy]

They said I can still see him, just he won't run my care

I too had those umbilical flow scans with my hypertension. I'm pretty sure they were weekly from memory. But neither of my children suffered from IUGR. They were slightly small for their gestation but otherwise perfectly fine. Eva was 6lb 12oz I think and she was just before her due date and Remi was 4lb 3oz at 33+4

My induction at 33 weeks was due to the fact they just could not control my incredibly out of control blood pressure.

thats good that you can see him but a shame theyre not doing shared care or something for you.

my lil guy wasnt diagnosed as IUGR either (although he probably should have been but the scans i had with him they told me he was a "big" baby and to expect 8lb minimum at birth, and i had a few scans all the way through do to him not moving etc).

fingers crossed everything goes fine this time hun and our BP behaves xxxx

 

[Betheney]

Thanks heaps. Good luck to you to.

I have my hospital booking appt this Wednesday and they'll make my first high-risk clinic appt there and then I have my 12week scan on Friday

 

[sethsmummy]

ooo are you excited hun?! I loved my 12 week scans! I hope your appointment goes well

I have my gender scan on Saturday

 

[sethsmummy]

ooo i didnt say.. when i was last in the midwife i checked my bp on the waiting room BP machine and it was upto 173/86. Hopefully it was just a one off spike for now.. but i am going to invest in my own BP thing so i can check it at home. YOu can get wrist monitors that do it x

 

[Betheney]

I checked my BP at thr chemist the other day and it pretty damn high!! But I was running around and all over the place so I'm going to ignore it.

I'm very excited for the scan. It's at my 12week scan that I really connect with the baby and everything is really real after that. Haha. There's always a tiny bit of anxiety that something might be wrong. I think I'm just a chronic worrier. But all in all I'm very excited.

I wanted to buy a BP machine last time but I was having 3 appts a week so I think I'll wait to see how far apart my appts are. If they're monthly I'll buy a BP machine. A month is a long time if the BP goes up just after an appt! But I really am not going to know the plan until that first appt.

 

[sethsmummy]

yeah id ignore it too hun if you had been running around. That usually makes it a lot higher than it normally is.

thats the same for me hun it kind of doesnt feel real until you've had your 12 week scan. I think we all get that little bit of anxiety before a scan. Even feeling baby every day and finding it on the doppler daily im still worried something will be wrong come saturday.

Fx you get all your answers and a care plan in place xx

 

[RcdM]

Ohh I'm excited for your gender scan Sethsmummy! It's always so fun because it means you can finally start planning! At least that's how I felt. You'll have to keep us updated!

Betheney, good luck on your 12 week scan as well! I love that scan too because it finally looks like an actual baby in there, the growth from just a few weeks is crazy! I hope both of you ladies' bp calms down. I have taken my bp after running around and it's always a tad high, so I always make sure to rest for 5 min or so before taking mine. I do take my bp every night and keep a log, and if I get a number that seems a little high I wait a min or 2 and retake it, sometimes even 3 times just to get an average.

I had a growth scan yesterday and baby is 3lbs 8oz!! That is so exciting to me because not only is he right on track with where he should be but he's already almost a whole pound bigger than my dd was when she was born. It's hard to believe I have a 3 1/2 pound baby in my belly! I certainly feel it though, his kicks are strong! They also said he was head down, which I did not know! I swore he was laying with his head near my left side and feet at my right (not sure what position that is called) because I constantly feel kicks on both of my sides at the same time. So if he's head down, it makes it really hard for me to understand how he's kicking or punching me on opposite sides simultaneously! LOL! But I have been noticing a lot more movement in my ribs so that would make sense.

I noticed when she was measuring his femur and other bones in his legs that the estimate for weeks that appear on the screen when they measure was coming up a little behind, like somewhere around 29 weeks. That's about 2 weeks behind but I've read not to worry too much about that. I'll talk to my dr about it next week. I didn't like our ultrasound tech though. She had another tech in there with us that she was training or something, and she barely spoke to us the whole time, and when she did she talked to me with this tone as if I was a child! Made me really annoyed. And when I asked if she could show him in 3D she practically ignored my question and just said, oh, the baby's hand is in the way, we're almost done anyway. She wasn't very nice. I got to see him in 3D at my 25 week scan but DH didn't get to come to that appointment, so I made sure to schedule this one so he could be there but the whole scan was super rushed and almost pointless for DH to come. I know we all have bad days at work but scans are really special for us, especially for us high risk mommies, and I really wish they'd treat us that way.

 

[sethsmummy]

I cant wait.. DH is going to go OTT on the pink if its a girl lol. he even wants a pink cot I will do updates when i get home or on Sunday morning

Can i ask what machine you use to do your BP at home hun? I want to get one but im not keen on an arm one incase i do it wrong.. or can you not really do it wrong?

Im glad its all going to plan hun! omg its so surreal isnt it.. i remember at my 36 week scan ds2 was 5l 14oz.. which is what Seth was when he was born! I was so shocked and felt so so weird knowing that at that weight he was in my arms.

It's head could be facing forward towards your belly so hed then be able to hit both sides at the same time.

dont worry about the legs. DS1's were like that too and they are fine

Cant believe they were horrid with you but then again our growth scans are always rushed too.. infact most of our scans are... thats why im going for a private one this time round.. i actually want to see the whole scan instead of the 3 minutes i get to see at the end at the hospital. xx

 

[Betheney]

Had my BP measured today and it was 130/80 so a good reading. I wouldn't expect it to be high but I want a nice good history from 1st and 2nd tri of BP readings so if/when it goes up there is a good basis to see where it should be. My last pregnancy it wasnt really taken often or recorded so when it was high and my diastolic was 95-100 we didn't really know how high that was for me.

Rcdm I'm excited for your scan! It's so exciting when people discover the gender! I stay team yellow but I love others discovering it! It's a real shame abour the scan your hubby went to. My 20weeks scan with Remi was similar. He was super friendly and nice but apparently he was some top notch sonographers and so did the scan in about 1/2 the time so we could barely see anything and it just didn't have that fun seeing the baby bounce around experience

 

[sethsmummy]

Im glad your BP seems ok hun.. im actually surprised when youve had previous BP issues they dont take it more often so they can see what your average is like. I never actually thought of that before Betheney.. so thank you! I;ve only had my done properly twice and i dont get it done again till 25 weeks which is too long a wait i think.


I'm jelous that you ladies get to see so much of your scans. At our hospital my DH can see everything but i see nothing until the very very end when she turns the screen for all of 2 minutes to show me. Sucks.