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June 2015 Moms
ElRuby
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Weekly appointment check-ins (Week of 5/18)
ElRuby
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How are those weekly appointments going?
Re: Weekly appointment check-ins (Week of 5/18)
Baby is as low as he can possibly get. As my Dr. checked for the heartbeat apparently I was having contractions! It's so crazy to hear because I've been wondering when Braxton Hicks will come lol. She told me to have everything prepared & that her guess is LO won't make it to his due date. She even made the comment that I might not make it to my next appointment.
You know, I wish Drs didn't tell women stuff like that. I find that it causes confusion & gives false hope. I mean she could be right but she could also be equally as wrong too.
But just in case she is right, I'm installing the car seat today lol.
Worst case scenario is baby has to get antibiotics through an IV if 4hrs doesn't pass.
I didn't know there were remedies?! Garlic makes since because it's antibacterial. But you know how Drs are with remedies. I read online that once you test positive, the hospital has to give you antibiotics even if it comes back negative a second time.
So my doc was able to feel that my baby's head was down and could confirm her butt is squishing my ribs and gall bladder. So while it's still early enough that she could keep on flipping around, it was comforting to hear that she's in a good spot now. It made me happy to be able to picture what she looks like in there
ETA: Also, i haaaaaaaate discussing it but it's seriously killing me watching the scale continue to jump up so quickly. I feel like if i knew i was gonna give birth at 37 weeks, I wouldnt feel that bad but if im going to go to 41 weeks then I'm in serious trouble.
Not to worry anyone but regarding positive GBS... "worse case scenario" isn't just baby having to get antibiotics through an IV. While home remedies may provide an extra bit of protection for your baby, the IV antibiotics you should receive in a timely manner (4 hours) are your best line of defense. While it is fairly common and most of the time results in normal healthy babies, GBS sepsis in a newborn can be life threatening and should not be taken lightly.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001366.htm
I'm just ready to go.
2nd round exp 8/20/18.
Wanted to add, I was paranoid about GBS so spent some time researching home remedies and asked my birth class instructor who told me the easiest thing you can do is eat yogurt/take acidophilus. Promotes healthy vaginal bacteria and prevents yeast infections in you and thrush in baby in the case that you do need the antibiotics.
So now I'm bouncing like a nut on this ball and researching red leaf tea and labor cookies.
You mentioned you were searching the internet, were you able to find any remedies? & I'm curious if testing positive once means all future pregnancies will be positive as well?
Had mine today at 37+4. GBS negative, but thinking of you ladies who are positive. Got my DPT shot, and handled it like a big girl despite my needle phobia. Baby's head is engaged and cervix is "shortening", whatever any of that means. Doctor said, "I don't know. It means your body is getting ready. I don't predict your baby will come today, tomorrow, or probably even the next day. After that, who knows." I like his style.
I thought an engaged head would mean some relief on my ribs, but those little feet like my ribs. My mother says, "Serves you right - you rested your feet up on my right rib for three straight months!" So now I have the feeling of a head in my pelvis AND feet in my ribs. Makes me laugh, though - it won't last long.
LO is measuring about 6.5 pounds. DH is very disappointed and keeps calling it "small" although it is exactly in the 50th percentile. I was 9 lbs and DH was 9 lbs 12 oz, so maybe the kid is smaller than we were, but... it's not coming out of his body!! So shut up, dude!
Waiting for an u/s to confirm baby boy is still breech but I can tell us right now he still is because I can feel his head near my belly button...
We just finished the U/s and he is still breech. They say he is 5 lbs 15 oz. I do worry that he is tiny, but I also know that u/s does not always give the most accurate measurement.
I'm afraid of inserting anything vaginally tho (I came across people putting things on tampons) unless I was being seen by a midwife & she suggested it. I started taking probiotics last night & I plan to take them daily. I found a super small study that concluded that daily probiotic use will lower GBS colony count. Hopefully doing those things in combination with IV antibiotics will drastically lower the risk.