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***UPDATE*** Yesterday's heart skipping a beat

Babybear70Babybear70 member
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Well, the doctor's office decided to send me over to L&D to be checked out to make sure that everything was okay. They then sent me down to the ER since they didn't have the heart monitoring equipment that would be needed to check to make sure my heart was okay. After sitting in the hospital for 3 hours they finally got me back to the room and got me all hooked up. My EKG looked good, all my bloodwork came back fine, but they were noticing the "lost beat" on the heart monitor.

They said that I'm dropping PVC's (have to look that up still) and that it is pretty common during pregnancy. I have to follow up with a cardiologist today and set up an appt. for them to look into it a little further to make sure that I'm fine. So it looks like we are all okay over here. Baby was moving around a lot and the nurse checked the baby's heartrate and it was fine too. So, onto the next step. Hopefully we can get it figured out today to ease my mind. Just thought I would let you girls know how things came out from yesterday.

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Re: ***UPDATE*** Yesterday's heart skipping a beat

  • FamilyIsLoveFamilyIsLove member
    Yeah, PVC's are basically a palpitation.  I get them too and they usually get worse during pregnancy.  I would keep on top of them just in case but likely they are just from your pregnancy.
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    Glad to hear that everything is fine!  Good luck with the cardiologist! 

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  • jrgoogrljrgoogrl member
    Thanks for the update babybear! Glad to hear everything's ok with you and the baby. Good luck with the cardiologist!
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  • Beth1031Beth1031 member
    Hope things go well with the cardiologist and happy that things are looking good for you and baby!
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  • Amy11722Amy11722 member
    Glad to hear everything is ok with you and the baby.Hope everything goes well with your cardiologist...take care
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  • kcoleman20kcoleman20
    This exact thing happened to me about two weeks ago, I also went to the ER because I had never felt that way before, my heart was skipping every third beat but it wasnt effecting baby's heartbeat at all, and was told to make a follow-up with a cardiologist, the cardiologist put me on a portable monitor for 24 hours, and after about 5 days the palpitations went away on their own, glad to hear your doing well! try not to worry, I was told it was normal during pregnancy too because our hearts are trying to pump so much more blood than usual.

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  • kaybee10kaybee10 member
    Thanks for the update Babybear, glad to hear everything is ok with you and lo!  Good luck at your cardiologist appointment, hopefully everything goes well and it will go away on it's own, like the pp mentioned.  It's never fun having to have an extra worry during pregnancy!  Let us know how the cardio appt goes :)
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  • joshandpandajoshandpanda member

    Glad to hear that its looking pretty good, just keep us posted!

    glad LO is looking good too! 

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  • sarafb117sarafb117 member
    Glad you're doing alright! I hope the cardiologist appointment goes well. I've been having similar spells and I have my OB appt in a week, so I figured I would just bring it up then. So happy your baby was bouncing around!
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  • Babybear70Babybear70 member

    Just got back from the cardiologist and I'm wearing a 24hour monitor so they can see my heart activity. She asked me to write down everytime it happened and I told her that was impossible because I would be writting her a novel, so I'm just supposed to document anything that is unusual. She said everything looked okay, they just want to make sure that this is totally normal and not some heart malformation. I should know in a few days what they find from this monitor.

    So it is no shower for me tonight....just a sink bath...BOOOOOO!!!

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  • Beth1031Beth1031 member
    imageBabybear70:

    Just got back from the cardiologist and I'm wearing a 24hour monitor so they can see my heart activity. She asked me to write down everytime it happened and I told her that was impossible because I would be writting her a novel, so I'm just supposed to document anything that is unusual. She said everything looked okay, they just want to make sure that this is totally normal and not some heart malformation. I should know in a few days what they find from this monitor.

    So it is no shower for me tonight....just a sink bath...BOOOOOO!!!

    I had a two week monitor, but I could take it off and shower and then put new pads on.  No fun!  Hopefully all your results come back normal!  I hated having to write everything down, so time consuming, just remember it's only 24 hours and worth it to be sure you and baby are doing fine! 

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    imageBabybear70:

    Just got back from the cardiologist and I'm wearing a 24hour monitor so they can see my heart activity. She asked me to write down everytime it happened and I told her that was impossible because I would be writting her a novel, so I'm just supposed to document anything that is unusual. She said everything looked okay, they just want to make sure that this is totally normal and not some heart malformation. I should know in a few days what they find from this monitor.

    So it is no shower for me tonight....just a sink bath...BOOOOOO!!!

     

    I hope everything goes back to normal soon for you Babybear. I had to wear one of those monitors back in high school and it turns out it was due to my anxiety and not truly a heart problem after all.

    Thinking of you and your little one!

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