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October 2015 Moms
leighann1
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PSA: Don't wait to call the doctor! *trigger warning*
leighann1
member
I get weekly pregnancy updates from the AlphaMom blog. They're a great mix of helpful and hilarious. Today I got my 32-week update, and I felt the need to share, because I've seen so many posts lately where ladies are unsure whether or not to call their doctor. To sum up: when in doubt, call your doctor. Trust your intuition. Don't worry about bugging them, they've seen it all before, and that's what they get paid for.
Here's the post, but I think this comment from a L&D nurse really drives the point home:
*trigger warning*
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As someone who used to work on the L&D Floor, please don’t wait. Yes, the Mom-Who-Freaks-About-Nothing may be slightly annoying, but she is a Million times better then the Mom who’s 8 months pregnant, doesn’t feel her child move for 3 days, but doesn’t call because she didn’t want to “be a bother” – your heart breaks when she walks by, crying, hand in her husbands, knowing she’s about to spend 15 hours in labor so she can bury her child. DO NOT WAIT. Be a bother, be a royal-pain-in-the-ass, be annoying. Call 50 times a day. Whatever it takes to make sure you’er okay and you’re baby is okay. Even the annoyed nurses would rather that then a child in danger.
Re: PSA: Don't wait to call the doctor! *trigger warning*
(I've been having a persistent cough for almost a month now. Comes and goes throughout the day. It's annoying me! The nurse told my husband to get me some cough drops and deal with it.)
The day I came home from the hospital with him, I checked my BP at the pharmacy and it was elevated. I called my OB, who said it was dangerously high and sent me to the ER. After a dose of medication, I was fine and got to go home. But if I had decided not to call so as not to be a bother, my son or I might not be here.
Fortunately, as I was reading this, starting to wonder if I should call the doctor because I hadn't felt DD move since yesterday, she woke up and started kicking. :-)
But no matter how "annoyed" the person on the phone seems to be, it's better to call and be told everything's OK than to not call and then it's too late.