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danuli8
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Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.
Fetal echo update/GBS+
danuli8
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Since everyone's asking in the check-in thread, let me update--yesterday morning was just a consult about a possible fetal echo. They didn't actually DO anything, we just talked about it. It was another cluster**** just like when I went to the cardiologist--they didn't have my records and had no idea why I was there, and the genetic counselor I was scheduled to see was dealing with 2 severe birth defect cases that morning so I sat and sat and sat in the waiting room. Finally a nurse took me back and I told her the whole story, and she got the basic vitals and listened to the baby's HB. Then she hooked me up with a different GC who basically asked me family history questions for a very, very long time, and then I asked her a bunch of questions about the fetal echo that she couldn't answer, so she dragged in a doctor who managed to answer most of them. The GC had figures of a 5-6% probability of my son having my heart defect, which was lower than the numbers I read. The doctor said he was 100% confident that they WOULD see it if my son has it, because they know exactly what they are looking for and he is about as big as he is going to get in utero, so his heart is a good size now. But of course, you know what really tipped the scales? Ding ding ding, money. Right now my son is on my deductible, which I am definitely going to meet with the delivery anyway, but if I wait until after he is born, he gets his own $2500 deductible and I have to start all over again. So as the doctor put it, "What do you have to lose? It's a non-invasive ultrasound. The worst case scenario is that we do it, we can't get sufficiently good pictures for some reason, and then you can decide after delivery if you want to try it again or not. You're going to be out that money one way or the other anyway." So we scheduled a fetal echo for Monday morning, April Fool's Day. I was really hoping to get it over with this week, but oh well.
What concerns me more right now is that my MW told me Tuesday afternoon that I tested GBS+. I don't want to do the IV antibiotics during labor. I am frantically researching looking for an alternative. The risk to transmit GBS to the baby during delivery is small, but has serious big-time consequences if it does happen, so although I can refuse the abx, I want to take some kind of alternative precautions. Does anyone have any ideas about that??
Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.
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Re: Fetal echo update/GBS+
So sorry your appointment was another cluster! I have a congenital heart defect that I'm hoping doesn't get passed to our LO, so I understand the worry and I have my FX for you!!
I don't have any advice on the GBS but it does sound scary.&n
me:40; DH:41; 4/30/12 1st visit with RE; 6/30/12 IUI #1 BFN; 7/19/12 IUI cancelled (overmedicated); 8/2/12 IUI cancelled (cyst); 9/1/12 IUI #2 BFP! EDD 5/28/13; 10/9/12 1st U/S at 7w3d--missed m/c (trisomy 16) D&C 10/19/12; karyotyping results normal!; 1/31/13 IUI #3 BFP! EDD 10/25/13
**DD1 - 7/9/98**
**DS - 11/9/00**
**DD2 - 4/30/13**
Ugh, sorry your appointment was such a pain in the a**! That is never fun when they can't seem to get it together. At least you did get most of your questions answered though and were able to come up with a game plan.
What's the reaso
Sorry about the hassle today that sucks!
FWIW I tested positive for GBS with DD#2 and my labor went so fast they had no time to give me IV antibiotics. She was fine but they monitored her more closely after birth. They didn't seem too conce
Thanks, all. I also posted my GBS+ question on the Natural Birth board and of course, someone immediately flung out the "dead baby" card. SO helpful.
But I do feel a
Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.
Well, there are a few ways to look at this-
1. Dude, garlic burns. There's no WAY I'd put that up my hoo hoo even though I'm convinced of its general antibacterial/good-for-you properties. OW!
2. C-section babies don't get that flora an
Because I don't know the reasons that you don't want to do the IV abx, other than you may, possibly, be WAAAAAAAAAAY overthinking/researching this...it is really in the best interest of your baby, and frankly, like PP pointed out, babies delivered CS d
You are right: it is silly to expect validation of anything from an Internet message board. I would argue it is equally silly to waste your valuable time and energy at 2 in the morning getting this bent out of shape over something some stranger posts o
Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.
Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.