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Week 1 Check In (8/27-9/2)

brookepdavisbrookepdavis member
in March 2019 Moms
This thread is for those due March 1 (and earlier to March 9)

Due date: 

Any appointments? Questions?:

Rants/Raves?: 

How are you feeling?: 

GTKY: What is your biggest accomplishment?
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  • itsmebeckyitsmebecky member
    @brookepdavis yes! Saw a chiropractor a few times throughout my first and it helped so much
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  • shadylane18shadylane18 member
    @kt2019mom I'm in the exact same boat as you! I've had 3(!) good ultrasounds so far, with a strong heartbeart each time, but I'm still nervous about my appointment tomorrow. I just keep telling myself that there's no reason to believe anything is wrong, but I know I won't really relax until I have a good ultrasound tomorrow.  
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  • brookepdavisbrookepdavis member
    @Lbloom I will let you know what my doctor says. I got a big pack of collagen in one of those subscription boxes and I was so excited to use it, but then I got pregnant so I never even tried it. Dr. Google says it should be fine and could even be good for pregnancy, but I’m not trying it until my doctor gives the go ahead.
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  • LbloomLbloom member
    @mschanandlerbong1214 - Hang in there! I remember how hard this is. You'll get there and we're all rooting for you!
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  • BuckeyeNut05BuckeyeNut05 member
    Way late to the party but here goes. :)

    Due date: 3/6/19

    Any appointments? Questions?: Had my 12 week check up this week one day shy of 13 weeks. Heartbeat was 150 something and now just waiting on genetic testing results then I will feel comfortable sharing that I'm pregnant (soooooo close!)

    Rants/Raves?: Rave: went on vacation for a week
    Rant: my 6 year olds brought lice back with them. Yep. YUCK.  

    How are you feeling?: nauseous at night and extra fluffy

    GTKY: What is your biggest accomplishment? At this point, successfully raising sweet, little, well-mannered 6 year olds!  

    @brookepdavis I had pretty much decided on a VBAC because my Caesarian recovery sucked soooo badly but then my OB made it his mission this morning to scare me out of it. :smile:

    @maggiemadeit where are you going in Europe??  I am so jealous, I love it there!
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  • maggiemadeitmaggiemadeit member
    @BuckeyeNut05 I work remotely for a company in Amsterdam so I am going to spend a few days there in the office before traveling to Paris for a scientific meeting.

    I’ve never been to Europe before so I am pretty excited! I have also only worked for this company for 6 months and it seems like a good sign for my future with them that they are investing in this trip  :)
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  • maggiemadeitmaggiemadeit member
    @BuckeyeNut05 Can I ask why your OB was against trying for a VBAC? I really want to VBAC, and my midwife seemed supportive, but I am worried that maybe she won’t be when the time comes. 
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  • BuckeyeNut05BuckeyeNut05 member
    @maggiemadeit that is fantastic!  Enjoy every second and eat some pain au chocolat in Paris in my behalf. :)
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  • BuckeyeNut05BuckeyeNut05 member
    @maggiemadeit he said that 99% of the time that someone does a VBAC, everything is fine, but in the 1% where it's not, it's catastrophic to both the baby and mom. He then added in the stat that 40% of VBACs won't progress and will need a cesarean anyways. 

    The odds are in my favor but he said that having been in practice and seen even one that went wrong, he would advise against risking it. 

    So now I'm on the fence. :/

    My recovery was awful, but my circumstances were unique in that I had two infants and my husband was out of the country so I was basically on my own. I don't know what to do but I have to make a decision by my next appointment. 
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  • brookepdavisbrookepdavis member
    @BuckeyeNut05 Your doctor's perspective is interesting. I've always been leaning towards a RCS, but my chiropractor yesterday said that if I want to VBAC, she'll do everything she can to get my body ready. So now I'm torn the other way. I'll wait to hear my OB's thoughts, but in the past she's always said she would be supportive either way. I only had a c-section because DD was breech, so I'm apparently a good candidate. I'm curious why your doctor wants you to make a decision so soon? My doctor said I can decide any time. I do have to go through a medical review process if I even want to try to VBAC and that takes a few weeks, but she said if I'm on the fence, she would rather just go through the process so I have more time to make a decision. I don't know why you would need to decide now when there's still so much time. 
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  • mamaoftwomonkeysmamaoftwomonkeys member
    edited August 2018
    @BuckeyeNut05 It’s interesting your OB was so anti VBAC... I was seeing one practice that had a blanket ban on any VBAC then switched practices and my new OB is much more positive and talked about the benefit of labor even if I did end up with RCS. It seems like attitudes about VBAC are very provider specific. But, if you look at the ACOG guidelines from last October if a woman has had one prior c section (and a few other qualifications) VBAC is actually a totally valid option! 

    ETA: link to latest practice bulletin: https://vbacfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ACOG-PB184-VBAC-2017.pdf
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  • maggiemadeitmaggiemadeit member
    @BuckeyeNut05 That’s interesting, thank you for sharing. I am surprised that your OB would make you decide this early on. My midwife was supportive, but said we will evaluate closer to time. She said she would want to have a look at the size and position of the baby before we made any decisions. 
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  • swanbroonerswanbrooner member
    I have read that some OBs are very anti-VBAC if the hospital doesn’t have NICU facilities. I was ignorant enough to assume all hospitals that do labor and delivery would have NICUs!
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  • mayoduckmayoduck member
    @swanbrooner Wow! I didn't realize that either. 
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  • bieberm04bieberm04 member
    Hello, my SIL was told by her OB that their insurance will not allow them to do a VBAC after a CC.  If she wanted to try she would have to see a different Dr.  I had a horrible labor and ended up with a CC after over 24 hours so I was immediately OK with a scheduled CC.  everyone has a different experience 
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  • BuckeyeNut05BuckeyeNut05 member
    He stressed that this is what he'd recommend if it was his wife, but it's completely my decision and I am a great candidate.  It's not so much a push to decide on a c-section this early but more of a push to decide if I want to VBAC because they have to submit my previous C-section notes to a medical committee to get approved for it prior to, so that's why. And I had been adamant that I didn't want that recovery again (COMPLETELY underestimated it).

     I have four four weeks to dig into it and decide if I want to try and VBAC, so that's what I'll do. Thanks for the link @mamaoftwomonkeys !
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  • BuckeyeNut05BuckeyeNut05 member
    p.s. is anyone else having trouble posting from mobile or app?  I had to log in on an actual computer, I kept getting errors and it was driving me BANANAS.
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  • swanbroonerswanbrooner member
    @valentynsi We night ended up being birthday twins. I’m due 3/9 too, but my OB said if I opt for a RCS, she’d want to do it at 39 weeks.
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  • lovesclimbinglovesclimbing member
    @buckeyenut05, I'm not having any issues currently, but I have in the past. The XO Group forums in general have a lot of issues. For awhile, I was unable to love it posts and threads wouldn't auto-jump to first unread if I was on wifi over here on TB, but it would work on TK. I moved and switched wifi so I have no idea what the issue was. 

    Sometimes I've had issues with the HTML where I will post and all my line breaks will be taken out so it's just a wall of text. But I can go in and edit and add the breaks back in. 

    TK has issues with people being locked out and unable to post for days or weeks at a time (no, not banned). They're also having issues where once in awhile it will say your post needs to be approved, even though there's no questionable language, but your post will never end up being "approved" and posted. Usually, if you go right back to the thread, the post will show as a draft and then you can post it with no approval issues. What? People kept posting about it, and the mods kept saying they couldn't replicate the issue, which I take to mean they don't think there is an issue? Except recently in one poster's case where she was unable to post for over a week, and TK finally acknowledged the problem and applied a workaround while they "work on it." Their workaround was to seemingly post the whole backlog of "unapproved" posts, which in some cases with that particular poster was 15 posts all saying the same thing in a single thread because she had kept trying to post her response because that had worked in the past. :unamused: 

    So yea, XO doesn't seem to overly care about issues on the forums. You just kind of have to roll your eyes and deal with it. 
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