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High-Risk Pregnancy
~~Bed Rest Mama's Weekend Check In~~
Hope everyone is having a great weekend... Congrats to electricdoctor83 on the birth of her sweet boy!!!
Please
let me know if anyone needs to be added or removed, or if anything
about your status has changed. Also, I am newly on bed rest so I will
do a QOTD but since I had not previously participated - there may be a
repeat of questions you guys have done before...
Here goes!
Here
is a list of nesties who can commiserate together during bedrest.
Nothing better to do, right? Share your story, progress, news, and any
ideas of how to keep yourself busy. Check in will occur each day on the
High Risk Pregnancy Board in the mornings.
Post back with your info if you?d like to be added to the list!
QOTD: (Idea stolen from a question on 3rd tri) Were you trying to get pregnant? Do you know when/where you got pregnant?
Name: NCabeen (Natalie)
EDD: 7/27/09
Type of BR: Modified
Since when: 4/29/09
Reason: IC
Name: Arkchic
EDD: July 29, 2009
Type of BR: Strict- but can get up to use restroom and shower
Since when: March 12--20weeks
Reason: shortened cervix- had cerclage on April 3 (23 weeks)
Name: MrsBarkel2B (Erin)
EDD: 07.31.09
Type of BR:
Pretty strict. I'm allowed to go for walks around my house a couple
times a day to keep my strength up but otherwise it's on my left side.
Since when: On and off my whole pregnancy for different reasons but this time since 4/13 (24w3d)
Reason:
6 weeks - Threatened Miscarriage; 11 weeks - placenta previa; 21 weeks
and 24 weeks to present - PIH with borderline pre-E levels; 28 week -
PIH and Type 1 diabetes.
Name: Jennifer (pebblesjns)
EDD: August 12
Type of BR:
Modified (can walk around the house a little, bathroom, shower, make
quick meal, but not allowed to leave the house), will get more
privileges at 32 weeks
Since when: Saturday 4/25/09 (24w3d)
Reason:
My cervix was measuring short (1.9 cm) at my repeat "big" u/s (even
though it was fine the month before and the only reason we had a repeat
was due to the baby's positioning blocking some views), down from 3.5
cm at 19 weeks.
Name: Babyreyna (Valerie)
EDD: 8/20/09
Type of BR: Strict (Only allowed to get up to eat, shower, and eat, if I cant do it in bed.)
Since when: 4/20/09 until delivery
Reason: Shortening Cervix, Pre term labour in first preg. delivered @ 26 weeks
Name: mrst1014 (Meagen)
EDD: Sept. 22, 2009 (God Willing)
Type of BR: Strict, just get to go to the bathroom, shower ever other day, but I have to use a shower seat.
Since when: 8 weeks (2/13)
Reason: It
started with a SCH. At 14 weeks I had massive bleeding and needed two
blood transfusions. I also have partial placenta abruption.
Name: gizmo909
EDD: September 2, 2009
Type of Bedrest: Modified
Since when: Feb 24th (12w6d)
Reason: Severe Hyperemesis. Currently have PICC line and on TPN 16hrs/day and Zofran pump 24hrs/day.
Name: jennandjt (Jen)
EDD: September 22nd
Type of BR:
strict bedrest with bathroom privileges and the occasional trip
downstairs to the recliner. All meals are delivered by my DH as I do
not want to spend anymore time than I have to putting pressure on my
cervix!
Since when: April 22.....19wk2day
Reason:
during my BIG ultrasound they found my cervix 1.5 cm dilated and I went
in for an emergency cerclage. Hoping to hold on to this pregnancy as
long as possible as I was given a 50, 50 chance....would love to beat
those odds!!
Name: Mrs.Babbsy
EDD: 10/13/09 Mono-di twin GIRLS:)
Type: Full bedrest with shower and bathroom priveleges
Since: 5/20
Reason: Preterm Labor, shortening cervix and baby B is 18% behind.
Name: Lucky428
EDD: 10/13/09
Type of BR: Modified
Reason: small placental tear
Name: Yellowb
EDD: 9/5/09
Type: Modified with one outing per week
Since: 5/26/09
Reason:
large fibroid on cervix, cervix continues to shorten. Possible use of
steroid shots in the next few weeks if cervix continues to shorten
Name: Realisticdreams8
EDD: 11/9/2009
Type of BR: Modified, Basically House Arrest and stay off my feet
Since when: May 29, 2009, 16 weeks 4 days
Reason: spotting, cramping/pain from marginal placenta previa
Name: MissJaneRocks (Jane)
EDD: 7/29/09
Type of BR: home, up to shower and pee but not a whole lot else.
Since when: 4/20/09
Reason: cervical shortening and preterm contractions along with some mild bleeding.
Name: Kate (mrsbhk22)
EDD: 07-23
Type of BR: Strict BR, Only bathroom and shower privlidges
Since when: 5/28
Reason: Pre-term contractions and dilation. Prior pre-term delivery (35w)
Name: Cindy453
EDD: 8/29/09
Type of BR: didn't specify... stay off my feet and relax. No work or shopping trips.
Since when: 26 wks 6 days
Reason:
severe pitting edema, considered high risk for pre-e and gestational
diabetes- spilling sugar +4 on last visit, going for glucose test this
week
Name: AC Soup (Alexis)
EDD: 9/12/09
Type of BR: Strict @ home, only get up to pee and 2 mins showers- seeing the Dr. every 1-2 weeks for regular FFN tests and u/s
Since when: 24 wks 4 days
Name: n&d+2
Due date: August 28th
Since when: 6/10---28 weeks 5 days
Type of Bedrest: Modified, at home. resting most of the day
Reason: twin pregnancy, shortening cervix, positive ffn test
Name: 2baclark (Shanika)
EDD: 11/10
Type of BR: Modified bedrest. Can get up to use the bathroom, shower and brush teeth
Since when: 5/19
Reason: Incompetent cervix.
Name: Crystal (ilvmyfireman)
EDD: 8-18-09
Type of BR: At home, can shower and use restroom
Since when: 6-16-09 (31 weeks)
Reason: Elevated BP and headaches, and protein in urine found on 24 hour collection.
Name: mrsjrmiller (Arika)
Due date: October 16
Since when: 23w 3d (June 22)
Type of Bedrest: Strict, can shower, use bathroom, but I can drive to my appointments for now.
Reason: preeclampsia
Name: kadyra (Andrea)
EDD: September 13th
Type of Bedrest: Strict until 28 weeks, modified from 28 weeks until...
Since when: 25weeks 6days (June 6)
Reason: Placental abruption, IUGR, preterm contractions, and severe dyspnea of pregnancy (sometimes requiring 02)
Name: Jen (Jen*Johnson*)
Due date: October 29th
Since when: 20w (June 12)
Type of bedrest: Modified... I am allowed to do what's necessary to watch my 9 month old but I need to be laying most of the day still.
Reason: Low Amniotic Fluid.
Name: kkh2002 (Kristi)
Due date: October 17th
Since when: 23w1d
Type of bedrest: Hospitalized, strict. I'm allowed up to the bathroom and for daily showers which are the high point of my day :-)
Reason: pPROM. Little to no remaining fluid.
Name: nofreespeeches (jellibelli)
EDD: Aug 8, 2009
Type of Bedrest: not specified, i can get up to cook, do laundry, just not allowed to go to work?
Since: 33w2d (june 23)
Reason: PTL, dilated 2cms at 34w2d, on procardia, hoping to make it to 36 weeks.
Name: cll
EDD: July 24, 2009 (will have a c-section around July 17)
Type of Bedrest: modified
Since: 27 weeks and 2 days (April 26)
Reason: PTL, IC, dcels
Name: lisap921 (Lisa)
EDD: Aug 16th
Type of Bedrest: Modified - can use bathroom and shower. No housework, sex, driving, work.
Since: July 6th (34 weeks 1 day)
Reason:
Woke up Friday July 3rd with light bleeding - progressed into heavier
bleeding with clotting. Went to hospital and was having contractions 3
mins apart! Put on Mag to stop contractions - stayed in hospital 3
nights...home now on modified bedrest for 2 weeks.
Name: Ramella (Mell)
EDD: September 3, 2009
Type of Bedrest: Strict/Modified
- can use bathroom and shower with max of 10 minutes on my feet. No
housework, driving, work, no sitting. Taking terbutaline every 8
hours, and 1600 mg of magnesium twice a day.
Since: May 7, 2009 (23 weeks)
Reason: IC,
major beaking with only 1cm of closed cervix at 23 weeks. IC has has
progressed to completely effaced at 30 weeks, with 1cm dilated. We
are back to 1.2 cm of cervix, but 1cm dilated at 32 weeks. With every
week not in labor, we have increasing hope that we'll have a full term
baby 
It's been a long way from 23 weeks to 32 weeks today!
Name: tboneangel87 (Leah)
EDD: Aug 9th
Type of Bedrest: Modified - can use bathroom and shower. No housework, sex, driving, work.
Since: July 1st
Reason: Pre-eclampsia. Will be on bedrest until induction the week of the 13th or the 20th-depending on labs tomorrow.
Name: Francisca
EDD: 10-25-09
Type of BR: Hospitilized, bed pan and IV until either 32 wks or I stop contracting and re-efface a little
Since when: 07/7/09
Reason: pre term labor
Name: Sandra_05 (Sandy)
EDD: Sept 6th
Type of Bedrest: Modified ? allowed to shower, make quick meals and walk
down stairs. Not supposed to be on my feet for longer than 15 minutes at a time.
Since: July 20th
Reason: PIH and previous history of pre-e
Name: Jessica (JessandJeremy)
EDD: 10/4/09
Type of BR: Modified
Since when: 7/18/09
Reason: PT Contractions
Please let us know any updates!
This discussion has been closed.
Re: ~~Bed Rest Mama's Weekend Check In~~
No updates for me.
QOTD: We were not really trying but not exactly preventing. Things had been very out of wack since I had Ethan. My cycle was very short (3 weeks between periods). I know exactly when we conceived, and am amazed because it was 2 days after my period ended... That was the one and only time we did the deed in Jan because shortly after that me, my DH and Ethan got the flu and we passed it around for the next 2-1/2 weeks so there was no more action... then the period never showed and wa-la I got 2 lines!
Yes, we were trying. I got my IUD taken out in mid-September. It was lost in my uterus (it tipped sideways and the strings disappeared), so I had to have a hysteroscopy in the operating room and be put to sleep. So going off birth control was definitely a conscious decision for us! I started feeling nauseated and gross around new year's eve. I got my BFP while we were on our honeymoon in Hawaii a few days later. It must have happened right before Christmas, which is odd because we were on this brutal holiday work schedule. 24 hours on, 24 hours off. Where did I find the energy?
Update: No medical update. SIL and 18 month old nephew are in town. Totally fun! My stepdad also is driving up from Tucson today. May call and book a prenatal massage for next week if I get the OK from my ob. I hope she says yes!
Not really any updates. Just excited that my last two monitor readings showed no contractions. Hope my cervix stays calm and happy.
QOTD: I have PCOS and knew it would take us awhile to get pregnant. We started trying in August 07 and finally got pregnant on our second IUI. Therefore I know exactly where and when it happened. Funny part is that my husband could'nt be there for the IUI so he likes to tell people that he wasn't there when I got pregnant.
I'm excited that my family is coming over this evening to grill out this evening. I can't wait for good company.
QOTD: (Idea stolen from a question on 3rd tri) Were you trying to get pregnant? Do you know when/where you got pregnant?
We had been trying to a couple months. I had just started Charting in December. We got pregnant on either my birthday or the day after!
Name: Jessica-Kay
EDD: 9/20/09
Type of BR: Strict (up to use bathroom and shower)
Since when: 7/11/09 (29 weeks 6 days)
Reason: PT Contractions and positive Fetal Fibronectin test.
I see a high risk specialist on Monday, and have weekly appointments with my doctor till 36 weeks.
Hi please add me to the list!
Name: lynnew
EDD: 8/28/09
Type of BR: Modified
Since when: 6/11/09
Reason: So many reasons, they are hard to list. I was carrying twins and lost one at 20 weeks. I have had a shortened cervix, contractions, a positive FfN test, abnormal Dopplers on blood flow, baby's heart rate dropped and is low, now a drop off in growth or small growth. I was in the hospital a bit but now and home and hoping she is going to be healthy healthy healthy!
We were trying to get pregnant for sure.
Update : I am having a hard time today. Feeling sad and sorry for myself and really wishing I could be out doing anything other than laying in bed. I hope tomorrow is a better day. I think DH is going to go rent Confessions of a Shopaholic for me to watch tomorrow.
QOTD: (Idea stolen from a question on 3rd tri) Were you trying to get pregnant? Do you know when/where you got pregnant
Yes, we were trying to get pregnant. We had been trying since May of 2008, got pregnant in July and had a miscarriage in August. D&C was done and we waited the one cycle to try again and ended up getting pregnant in November. This baby was prayed for nightly
I hope that you are feeling better. ?I've had those days too! ?How was the video? ?I haven't seen that movie yet, but I think Isla Fisher is so funny. ?She was in wedding crashers and I loved her psycho-like character.
Update: ?Well this weekend was an exciting and scary one. ?I started contracting on Thursday morning during my Monday regular NST appmt. Every 8 minutes. ?Saw doc and she said, no worries, if I continue to have them at 6+ per hour to go to the hospital. ? The rest of Thurs. was sporadic contractions, no worry. ?I started contracting on Friday morning, and again no real patters, no worry. ?Friday night at about 930 I started having them again pretty regularly and at first it was mild, then it got much more intense and it caused me to start really timing them. ?Was having them every 7-8 minutes and decided to have husband drive to hospital. ?Spent several hours at the hospital with terbutaline shots every 30 minutes to control contractions. ?Sent home finally when contraction subsided, but then I was shaking all over like a bad crack addict. ?I've spent most of Saturday and today recovering from all the shaking. ?I go back again tomorrow to see the doc and to get monitored. ?So far, just sporadic contractions since I have been home, but nothing major. ?I am hoping not to be on terbutaline shots or even worse - hospital bed rest!!!
QOTD: ?We weren't trying. ?We had just gotten married in October last year. ?Was on the pill. ?I know exactly when it happened...our early December trip to Vegas (sometimes what happens there, you take with you! :P) Come our trip to Philadelphia to see hubby's parents during New Years, hubby got sick with the flu and I thought I was catching it too. ?Went to the drug store to get flu meds, and thought to pick up an ept test...voila! ?