Please read, might help avoid a still birth

thecone21

i posted this on the 2nd and 3rd tri board but i want to give everyone a heads up, especially if you are starting to notice itching. 

if you are itchy to the point that lotion doesn't really help PLEASE ask your doctor to do some blood work to check for a disease called Cholestasis (sounds like coleystasis) it is a disease that causes you to be severly itchy. it is caused by a liver problem (or in my case, gallbladder) and it puts you at a much higher risk for still birth. they will induce you as soon as the babies lungs are mature. i am being induced no later than the 37th week. here is a link to a website devoted to the disease. alot of the babies on the memorial page are still born in the 34th and 35th week.

itchymoms.com

JillAly

Good advice.  My friend had it but didn't know why she was itching so much.  I made her go to the doctor- I thought she might have PUPPS since it sounded so similar (except for the lack of rash).  Thank goodness she went- the doctor took one look at her and put her in the hospital and induced her.  We had no idea about cholestasis until then and feel so lucky that everything worked out ok for her and her daughter.

HeatherRyan

Where is the itchiness...  With the dry cold weather my shins are itchy.  So many things to always worry about.

Megan.10.06

It's hands and feet specifically, and worse at night.

 I had it, discovered at 30w, was induced at 38w.  I'm now lurking over here since we are thinking about our second baby and there is a 90% chance of reocurrence.