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High-Risk Pregnancy
~~Bed Rest Mama's Wednesday Check In!~~
Congrats to iluvmyfireman who had her baby early on Sat!! Please
let me know if anyone needs to be added or removed, or if anything
about your status has changed.
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: How many children do you want and how close together would you like to have them? Does being high risk change your thoughts on having more children?
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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.
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!
Name: sunandsand
EDD: by LMP its 9/14/09, will be induced 2 wks before that
Type of BR: Can shower, get up to pee, microwave a meal, drive myself to appts
Since when: July 22
Reason: PIH, swelling, h/a, RUQ pain, contractions
Name: mefsta777
EDD: 1/4/10
Type of BR: Modified, no more than 30 minutes of sitting or standing, no leaving the house
Since when: 7/31/09
Reason: "threatened miscarriage" and placental abruption
Name: Jenna (SoonToBeTabor)
EDD: 9/12/09
Type of BR: strict BR, left side only but can get up to use the bathroom and shower
Since when: 7/30/09
Reason: severe hypertension, as well as the beginning stages of pre-e and a history of pre-e
Name: megan (megsok11)
EDD: November 11, 2009
Type of BR: strict - only quick shower, bathroom, food, and doctor
appt. hope to get modified BR after 28wks, but i know i won't be able
to go back to work. Getting 17P injections from home health weekly
until 36wks, and received betamethasone injections at 24wks.
Since when: July 14, 2009 (23wk 0d)
Reason: one episode of spotting, vag US showed cervical funneling.
no risk factors, first pregnancy, no spotting since that one
time
Name: Carrie (cagreeran)
EDD: Sept. 11
Type of BR: Modified (can walk around the house a little, bathroom, shower, make quick meal, not allowed to go up and down stairs more then 3 times a day)
Since when: July 27 (33w4d)
Reason: Intense BH Contractions the night of July 27. Went to Hsp. next morning was put on the monitor was having more then 6 an hour. Two shots to relax my uterus and was sent home on bedrest.
EDD: Sept. 11
Type of BR: Modified (can walk around the house a little, bathroom, shower, make quick meal, not allowed to go up and down stairs more then 3 times a day)
Since when: July 27 (33w4d)
Reason: Intense BH Contractions the night of July 27. Went to Hsp. next morning was put on the monitor was having more then 6 an hour. Two shots to relax my uterus and was sent home on bedrest.
Name: Angeline924
EDD: 11/28
Type of BR: strict bedrest. Can get up to use the bathroom, shower( 5 min every other day)
Since when: 7/30 22w3d
Reason: Incompetent cervix, I was dilated 2 cm w/ bulging bag at last appt, had an emergency cerclage
This discussion has been closed.
Re: ~~Bed Rest Mama's Wednesday Check In!~~
Update: My doctor's office never got my labs or 24 hr UA results to me yesterday. When I called yesterday afternoon they said they would call me by today... hoping that no news is good news!
QOTD: How many children do you want and how close together would you like to have them? Does being high risk change your thoughts on having more children?
I have asked this before but we have so many new ladies on here I figured I would ask again...
This will be our last baby. I never had a number in mind of how many children I wanted, I just knew I wanted more than 1. I loved growing up in a big family (have 5 siblings) and wanted my children to experience siblings. Not sure I would have stopped at 2 if pregnancy would have been easier, but I am having a tubal after my daughter is born. I will have one of each, which is perfect and that will complete our family.
update: i have had a rash on my back for the past 6days or so that continues to spread. i called my OB yesterday but they couldn't find my chart so they said they would call me back, and forgot to! now they are closed today, as is my primary care provider. i am somehow convinced that i have shingles. i am miserable. just have to wait until tomorrow to call the doctor.....
QOTD: i have always wanted 4 children and wanted to have them fairly close together, preferably a couple years apart. since our issues with this first pregnancy, i kind of have no choice but to play it by ear from here on out. we'll see how the rest of this pregnancy goes and after a year or two maybe try and see how a second pregnancy goes. it may be reality that my body won't like having 4 babies, but you just never know!
Update: ?No much - just looking forward to tomorrow's ob appt. ?Hoping she will take me off BR. ?I feel guilty about this, but I am so looking forward to seeing and finally having our boy that I am counting 37 weeks as my goal and not 40 weeks (9/3/09)...hoping he'll be here before 9/3. ?The discomfort and the sleepless nights are tough right now - it hurts to breathe.
QOTD: ?Well, never even imagined that I would have one kid really. ?I have 4 siblings, and my husband has 3. ?I have tons of cousins and have always been used to a large family. ?I guess now that we will have our son, I can see how being an only kid can be lonely. ?I would be open to having another kid, I just hope that the next pregnancy wont be this difficult. ?Having been on BR for 13 weeks now has really taken a toll, but I don't know that it would completely deter me from having another one. ?If the excitement I feel right now of meeting my little boy is an indication of the joy we'll feel when he finally gets here, its enough of an incentive to have another. ?:)?
Update- Passed biophysical and NST today. Fluid dropped again though, to 8.9....but my OB said it has to get to 5 before she"ll admit me. I now have 2 possible induction dates...8/30 if bp's get higher, 9/4 if they remain stable.
QOTD- I've always wanted 4. Now DH is saying if there is more BR in our future he doesnt want to do this 3 more times. As much as I want a big family, i've been so uncomfortable this last week or so, I sometimes agree with him...i certainly don't love being pregnant.
As far as spacing goes, it will depend on 2 things....how big our next rental is, and how much we figure daycare will be for 2. And how long it takes us to pay our medical debt.
updates- I'm only allowed up to eat and shower now. My BP was very high at the OB's office yesterday- 177/90 when they first took it, 168/88 when they took it again. I was sent to L&D for monitoring. If I'm on my left side and ONLY on my left side, they go down to "normal". If I sit up, walk to the bathroom, or even talk too much then they go back up to 150/80ish. My first 24 hour urine came back at 300... but I'm 99% sure that I was so tired I got up and peed in the night and didn't put it in the bucket. I'm also showing protein at the in office dips, when I wasn't before.
My GD has also suddenly (overnight) improved, which is concerning to my peri. I turn in another 24 hour urine tomorrow, and have another appointment on Friday. I feel like we will have the baby soon. I'll be 37 weeks on Saturday (ticker is wrong), so I'm okay with that.
QOTD- I always thought we would have several chilldren- 3 or 4. Close together, even. Now... I don't feel it would be fair to Emerson to get PG again quickly. I will probably have problems again, so I would like to wait until she is in school and not as dependent on me. I also don't think it's fair of me to put my H through it again, since I'm the one who really wants more kids. We might look into adoption, I would have no problem at all adopting. But I know it comes with it's own hardships..
Update: Had my ob visit today. Got the GBS done. We thought we were getting our induction officially scheduled, but that's not until next week.
Our crib came in last night! So we went to BRU unexpectedly. When we got there, DH and I kind of looked at each other and decided to complete our registry. The girls were nice at guest services and gave us our completion code. DH took the crib home and I completely overdid it. I have gone on little errands before. But this was ridiculous. I am exhausted today and I feel really yucky. I forgot what real shopping entailed. The stretching and the lifting and the bending. Bulk diapers are heavy... We ended up with 2 cartfuls of stuff. DH scolded me the whole way home and sent me to bed. I kept coming out to check on the crib progress though because it was exciting to finally see it. I think he was annoyed with me. He will have to finish up the room because I am too tired to do anything else to it. I took everything out of the packaging, since I could do that sitting down. But I am not myself. I wonder if I can't even shop properly, how will I push out a baby???
QOTD: DH and I wanted 2. This pregnancy has taken its toll. If I end up with a thrombophilia on postpartum diagnosis as the cause for this IUGR, we may not try again. I know my hours as an attending ob/gyn will be less than a resident, so the asthma issues won't be quite as catastrophic as they were, and I can handle the hyperemesis. But if we add a reproducible cause for that in... I don't know. It'd make bedrest pretty much a certainty, and I'd be the only one working at that point. We plan on DH being a SAHD when I have a real job, so it would be catastrophic financially to have me out of work for this long again. It'd be great to have to, since we both have siblings and I come from a huge extended family, but... not at such an expense to my health and our finances again.