Bah! My latest hosptial stay. Just got home late last night. I was seconds away from climbing the walls!!!
I went in for a weekly stress test(for the baby)and my blood pressure was alarmingly high. I have never had high BP...not even close to high so it concerned my Dr(and me too!!!).
I had a few of the signs of pre-eclampsia but after monitoring me for 24 hours, my dr feels confident theat the baby is still great and called her a "happy baby". I, however, have been restricted to total bedrest. Im not great at being home without cleaning, cooking, organizing, bleaching baseboards with a toothbrush and starting projects(darn you Pinterest!) but seeing those SUPER high BP numbers really scared me so I'm trying to be good.
Im checking my BP(and my blood sugar...fun fun )at home now and my BP is still high but not enough to induce labor.
Did you experience the signs of pre-eclampsia? Did you deliver early? How was your labor and was it an emergency delivery? And anything else you think I need to know!
Who is John Galt?"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
They put me into the hospital 8 days before they induced my labor.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~~~~~ "A room without a book, is like a body without a soul" ~Cicero ~~~~~~ I dream of a world...where chickens can cross the road without their motives being questioned.
They put me into the hospital 8 days before they induced my labor.
EIGHT days? Ugh....sounds dreadful. One more day and I was gonna be in a white jacket singing the alphabet in a corner.
Who is John Galt?"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
I went into natural labor 3 days in, after 3 days of that they began to induce, 3 days of pitocin and I had only dilated two centimeters. The last 7 hours of that third day I literally could not catch a breath in between contractions. I was going all natural, except for the pitocin. Her heart rate began to drop, and by the time they wheeled me in for the c-section I was screaming for them to 'just put me to sleep'.
That was rough, but I knew enough to refuse the pitocin when they tried to convince me to have it again 2 1/2 years later with her brother. I just had them go ahead and take him.
But, I am defective and can't dilate. I understand if you can, the pitocin works well. Just be aware it causes VERY hard labor pains. Like I said, I was going all natural, no epidural or anything until it became apparent I could not deliver naturally.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~~~~~ "A room without a book, is like a body without a soul" ~Cicero ~~~~~~ I dream of a world...where chickens can cross the road without their motives being questioned.
Gippergirl, I am so sorry to hear that you are going through this right now. I say just sit back and R...E...L...A...X. Don't worry about anything right now, there will be plenty of time for that later.
Get yourself a good book, a yummy snack, and put on some relaxing music and rest. Enjoy this time.
Here is some soothing music that I found for you to get you started.
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My niece went through this a little over a year ago. She was in the hospital probably a week or week and a half. Went home and she then delivered through C-section because her BP started spiking again. She actually gave birth on the day of her baby shower. She was 2 months early. Baby is great now, no problems!
EIGHT days? Ugh....sounds dreadful. One more day and I was gonna be in a white jacket singing the alphabet in a corner.
Until that time, AGG, here's a kiss from my baby.
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied. ... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." ~ The Chief Author of our Declaration of Independence
AGG - one of my dearest friends literally went through this four weeks ago - she had atypical preclampesia (sp?). All kinds of problems - she was in the hospital for five days before they induced. Please don't play around with this. And, tell SO to get you to the hospital immediately if you start showing any mental changes. My girlfriend was getting quite scary with the laaa, laaaaaa, laaa. She wouldn't remember having conversation, she would remember conversations that didn't happen. It was scary. He was born 8 weeks early and is just the cutest thing on earth.
Both of my nieces were born preemie for this reason - one at 26 weeks and one at 28 weeks. My SIL had symptomatic versions both times.
Please take care of yourself, please do the bed rest, and if that doesn't work, please be willing to let her get here early. If I were you - I'd go ahead and meet with the NICU staff and drs just so that you have that take care of (that, personally, would put my mind at ease).
I was in the hospital for a couple of days for it. My BP spiked out of nowhere. It turned out that I had a UTI at the same time. After that, they put me on bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy. I also had to go in twice a week for them to put the fetal monitor on me, check my bp, and count kicks. It's no fun, but remember it will all be over soon enough. Being in bed for a few weeks is worth coming home with a healthy baby!
Get a couple of good books, watch tv, and get plenty of sleep while you can! After the baby comes home, you will be sleep deprived! Good luck!
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Life is what happens to you while you are planning to do something else.
I had it and also had the diabetes to go along with it
My blood pressure was 220 over 180. They put me right in the hospital
and started pumping me with medicine.
I got to come home but on bed rest also with a 3 year old so I had to stay with
my mom.
I lasted at home two weeks and lost 35 pounds in 2 weeks on a very restrictive diet--
no sugar, no fat and no salt.
Went back in the hospital and lasted a week before they took my son at 23 weeks.
They told me to go ahead and make plans for someone to take care of my kids because
my kidneys were failing.
I was scared to death--but as soon as I delivered everything about me went back to normal.
My case was very unusual because I developed eclampsia in my 4th month.
My sister had it, but let me also state that she was a high-risk pregnancy to begin with. She was put on complete bed rest, and then on hospital bed rest. Thank goodness she was because the baby's heart rate dropped and she ended up having to have a splash and slash aka emergency c-section. Just like in the movies, nurses were running, they went flying down the hall before all the bed plugs could be pulled out of the wall, and a nurse's foot was even run over by the bed wheel. My sister ended up delivering at 31 weeks and my beautiful, perfect niece weighed in at 2.6lbs and 14" long. My sister had never had high BP before her pregnancy. But she does have Rheumatoid Arthritis and was off her medicine the whole pregnancy plus several months before she conceived.
I had it with all three of my children, it was always at the end of my pregnancy and my BP was so high they had to induce. My quack of a Dr. told me that since all three of my kids had the same dad it had to be something with him?!?!?!?! Needless to say, I got a second and third opinion and had some test done that showed I have PCOS. I done some research and found that pre-eclampsia and PCOS usually go hand in hand.
It will be over before you know it, and it is scary serious stuff but before you know it it will be over and you will have that sweet baby in your arms!
I had it with all three of my children, it was always at the end of my pregnancy and my BP was so high they had to induce. My quack of a Dr. told me that since all three of my kids had the same dad it had to be something with him?!?!?!?! Needless to say, I got a second and third opinion and had some test done that showed I have PCOS. I done some research and found that pre-eclampsia and PCOS usually go hand in hand.
It will be over before you know it, and it is scary serious stuff but before you know it it will be over and you will have that sweet baby in your arms!
The Dr. isn't so quacky when it comes to saying pre-eclampsia has to do with the dad. My first marriage produced two babies and I had severe pre-eclampsia with high blood pressure. After a divorce and remarriage several years later, I became pregnant with my 3rd child. I had no pre-eclampsia or high blood pressure and the Dr. told me then that it had a lot to do with the makeup of my baby's father. Now I know why I divorced the 1st husband! LOL! Good luck AGG. Just take it easy and everything will turn out ok. Definitely REST like the Dr. says. Just getting up on your feet will make your blood pressure rise.
Bah! My latest hosptial stay. Just got home late last night. I was seconds away from climbing the walls!!!
I went in for a weekly stress test(for the baby)and my blood pressure was alarmingly high. I have never had high BP...not even close to high so it concerned my Dr(and me too!!!).
I had a few of the signs of pre-eclampsia but after monitoring me for 24 hours, my dr feels confident theat the baby is still great and called her a "happy baby". I, however, have been restricted to total bedrest. Im not great at being home without cleaning, cooking, organizing, bleaching baseboards with a toothbrush and starting projects(darn you Pinterest!) but seeing those SUPER high BP numbers really scared me so I'm trying to be good.
Im checking my BP(and my blood sugar...fun fun )at home now and my BP is still high but not enough to induce labor.
Did you experience the signs of pre-eclampsia? Did you deliver early? How was your labor and was it an emergency delivery? And anything else you think I need to know!
My first daughter is 16 months old. I ended up with high blood pressure out of nowhere with her around 35 weeks. I went on bed rest, and all my bp readings after that were much lower. I ended up being induced at 38.5 weeks due to a combination of high bp, gestational diabetes, and they were estimating her weight as over 9 lbs. My induction went 3 days and they finally said failed to progress so I ended up with a c section. I'm 36 weeks this time and haven't had any of the issues I had with the first. Which is good, not sure how to do bedrest with a 16 month old
I had it and gestational diabetes. I have hight blood pressure for a while and was on meds during pregnancy. I went in because i didnt feel little man moving, stayed in hospital for 4 days, while they did protein test and kept eye on bp which didnt go down. The day my son was born it was crazy like 230/195. They did an emergancy c-section and yes he was early and only weighed 5lbs, he stayed in NICU for 10 days. Now...........he is a healthy 6 year old, just a small boy for his age. Good luck to you and lay on your left side if bp is up. I had to stay in hospital for 4 days after he was born and couldnt not see him for 3, that was the worst.
I had it with my first pregnancy. Swelled sooooo bad and high BP. They ended up inducing me three weeks early. Try not to be on your feet if at all possible. I had a mild seizure also with the pre eclampsia.
I had a severe case, but had no symptoms except for really bad swelling in my feet and legs. My son had his foot in my kidney and I made them do an ultrasound and they saw my fluid was low and my placenta wasnt working properly.
They sent me for a 24 hr urine count, and my protein level was 220, I believe 180 is the highest acceptable. They immediately admitted me. The next 24hr urine count went up to 3500. They said they would do one more 24hr count and if it got to 5000 they would have to take the baby. The next morning my dr came in with the most grim look on her face and she told me she didnt know how I was sitting there talking to her, but my protein level was over 13,000 and my liver and kidneys were completely shut down. She said she didnt know how I wasnt siezing or having a stroke, my blood pressure was 220/140.
They immediately put me on magnesium to keep me from seizing but the dr said she had never seen a case as severe as mine. They took him at 31 weeks 6 days and he was 3lbs 5 oz and had no real health issues except severe reflux and he was on a heart monitor for it for 7 months but only had to stay in the hospital 16 days. If he hadnt had his foot in my kidney I may have been at home and never had the chest pain or shooting stars in my eyes and very well could have died, I never felt any different. Scary stuff.
♥GaLinemansWife♥, on 10 March 2012 - 04:47 PM, said:
I had a severe case, but had no symptoms except for really bad swelling in my feet and legs. My son had his foot in my kidney and I made them do an ultrasound and they saw my fluid was low and my placenta wasnt working properly.
They sent me for a 24 hr urine count, and my protein level was 220, I believe 180 is the highest acceptable. They immediately admitted me. The next 24hr urine count went up to 3500. They said they would do one more 24hr count and if it got to 5000 they would have to take the baby. The next morning my dr came in with the most grim look on her face and she told me she didnt know how I was sitting there talking to her, but my protein level was over 13,000 and my liver and kidneys were completely shut down. She said she didnt know how I wasnt siezing or having a stroke, my blood pressure was 220/140.
They immediately put me on magnesium to keep me from seizing but the dr said she had never seen a case as severe as mine. They took him at 31 weeks 6 days and he was 3lbs 5 oz and had no real health issues except severe reflux and he was on a heart monitor for it for 7 months but only had to stay in the hospital 16 days. If he hadnt had his foot in my kidney I may have been at home and never had the chest pain or shooting stars in my eyes and very well could have died, I never felt any different. Scary stuff.
WOW! That is scary! Glad everything turned out okay in the end!
The Dr. isn't so quacky when it comes to saying pre-eclampsia has to do with the dad. My first marriage produced two babies and I had severe pre-eclampsia with high blood pressure. After a divorce and remarriage several years later, I became pregnant with my 3rd child. I had no pre-eclampsia or high blood pressure and the Dr. told me then that it had a lot to do with the makeup of my baby's father. Now I know why I divorced the 1st husband! LOL! Good luck AGG. Just take it easy and everything will turn out ok. Definitely REST like the Dr. says. Just getting up on your feet will make your blood pressure rise.
Wow! Well I really thought my Dr was losing it! The things MEN put us through, LOL! I'm happy I changed Dr's for other reasons too, he had an awful bedside manner!
The Dr. isn't so quacky when it comes to saying pre-eclampsia has to do with the dad. My first marriage produced two babies and I had severe pre-eclampsia with high blood pressure. After a divorce and remarriage several years later, I became pregnant with my 3rd child. I had no pre-eclampsia or high blood pressure and the Dr. told me then that it had a lot to do with the makeup of my baby's father. Now I know why I divorced the 1st husband! LOL! Good luck AGG. Just take it easy and everything will turn out ok. Definitely REST like the Dr. says. Just getting up on your feet will make your blood pressure rise.
I'm having my second with my husband and the two pregnancies are very different. I had gd and high bp with the first and nit the second. The doctor told me pregnancies are just different and was surprised I didn't have gd again.
You all have no idea how much I've gotten from reading all your posts. It makes it so much more personal when it is real stories from real people(at least I THINK ya'll are real ). Tuscany Trailer and GLW are especially startling to me. This is some SERIOUS stuff and not to be underestimated. Thank goodness for that little foot in the kidney . Would you believe I was back in the ER today??? My BP went way over 100(diastolic)and the dr switched a med(for a different reason)and I was having cold chills like crazy. Not to mention the anxiety of it all.
Im back home tonight and hoping and praying for a good nights sleep.
Who is John Galt?"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
You all have no idea how much I've gotten from reading all your posts. It makes it so much more personal when it is real stories from real people(at least I THINK ya'll are real ). Tuscany Trailer and GLW are especially startling to me. This is some SERIOUS stuff and not to be underestimated. Thank goodness for that little foot in the kidney . Would you believe I was back in the ER today??? My BP went way over 100(diastolic)and the dr switched a med(for a different reason)and I was having cold chills like crazy. Not to mention the anxiety of it all.
Im back home tonight and hoping and praying for a good nights sleep.
Did they tell you to lay on your left side? They always told me to do that. I'm not exactly sure why, but it did help my BP.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Life is what happens to you while you are planning to do something else.
Did they tell you to lay on your left side? They always told me to do that. I'm not exactly sure why, but it did help my BP.
They told my sister the same thing, too. According to the American Pregnancy Assn: "Sleeping on your left side will increase the amount of blood and nutrients that reach the placenta and your baby." My linky.
Did they tell you to lay on your left side? They always told me to do that. I'm not exactly sure why, but it did help my BP.
Yes they did. My BP is lower everytime I check it while laying with my feet up on my left side. It has to do with a main artery. Amazing really. My BP is still too high but I'm doing everything I can to keep it stable.
Who is John Galt?"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
Yes they did. My BP is lower everytime I check it while laying with my feet up on my left side. It has to do with a main artery. Amazing really. My BP is still too high but I'm doing everything I can to keep it stable.
Here's how it looked for my granddaughter after it was all over with, AGG!
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"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied. ... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." ~ The Chief Author of our Declaration of Independence
Great pics and a very happy little family . Thank you for the reminder. You know, when you feel terrible it's hard to keep your eyes on the prize. It's only temporary!
Who is John Galt?"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
I an proud of them. My granddaughter is a RN at the Kennestone Hospital, Emergency Room Center.
I though that would cheer you up a little, AGG! Their's good times ahead. My granddaughter enjoyed her pregnancy, but what can you expect from a nurse who works in the Trauma Center"
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied. ... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." ~ The Chief Author of our Declaration of Independence
I an proud of them. My granddaughter is a RN at the Kennestone Hospital, Emergency Room Center.
I though that would cheer you up a little, AGG! Their's good times ahead. My granddaughter enjoyed her pregnancy, but what can you expect from a nurse who works in the Trauma Center"
Postman, my brother has been a P.A at Kennestone for 25+ years and his wife is a nurse there, too. He worked soley in the ER for many, many years and loved it. The night shift in the ER is still his first love but not as condusive as working in a practice to his family life now that he's on the way to 50 yrs old... . We were born there and have had many family births and deaths there. It's part of our family.
I bet she loves working there, too.
Thank you for the encouragement as always...
Who is John Galt?"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
Postman, my brother has been a P.A at Kennestone for 25+ years and his wife is a nurse there, too. He worked soley in the ER for many, many years and loved it. The night shift in the ER is still his first love but not as condusive as working in a practice to his family life now that he's on the way to 50 yrs old... . We were born there and have had many family births and deaths there. It's part of our family.
I bet she loves working there, too.
Thank you for the encouragement as always...
She certainly does, love it. She just finished college before going to work there a year, or two, ago! She is 25 years old, and says she loves working there. She worked her way through college. Kennestone helped her also, so whether she likes it or not she will be working there for a while. As much as she loves working there I don't think she'll be going anywhere.
I had heard that your brother worked at Kennestone, and I'm glad he has a practice now.
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied. ... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." ~ The Chief Author of our Declaration of Independence
Gipper Girl my daughters kidneys shut down she had it so bad and here is a picture of that sweet little girl the next day. She was in the hospital 4 days before she had her and 2 more after. She is now over a month old and never would you have know all my daughter went through. We are praying for you and God is in control.
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and can't dilate. I understand if you can, the pitocin works well. Just be aware it causes VERY hard labor pains. Like I said, I was going all natural, no epidural or anything until it became apparent I could not deliver naturally.
I say just sit back and 
). Tuscany Trailer and GLW are especially startling to me. This is some SERIOUS stuff and not to be underestimated. Thank goodness for that little foot in the kidney 
My BP went way over 100(diastolic)and the dr switched a med(for a different reason)and I was having cold chills like crazy. Not to mention the anxiety of it all.
. We were born there and have had many family births and deaths there. It's part of our family.
