Bed Rest
It has taken me too long to update you, I'm sorry. So much has been happening I have wanted time to process, then post.
June 25th I had a Dr. appointment, and ultrasound. I was finally able to see Dr.L and he is a very nice man whose primary concern is my baby, so he's in my good graces now even though he's a pain in the ass to get in to. I now understand why women rearrange schedules and gladly wait 45 minutes just to see him.
I went in to the ultrasound first, baby was her usual aloof self and only gave us a drive by for the picture :)
At the time I was just over 34 weeks pregnant, she measured at 35 weeks. Not that I want a huge baby but her measuring larger is especially good news because I test low for the hormone Estria (sp?), 15% of women who test low for this have babies with low birth rate. We will be revisiting the Estria issue later in this post.
So baby looks good but my amniotic fluid level is "low-normal" you should have between 10-20 units of amniotic fluid, I was at 10 which is still OK just not optimal. By the time I get in to see Dr.L three people have asked me if I am still working and what my job is, I answer wondering why all of a sudden everyone feels compelled to ask this.
Dr.L asks "Casey are you still working, and what do you do?"
I answer "yes I plan to work to full term, and I do medical billing"
Dr.L " Do you do a lot physically?"
Me laughing " No I can't anymore baby doesn't like it. Why?"
Dr.L "well your amniotic fluid is low, but my concern is you went from 13 units to 10 units. Do you have a lot of stress?"
Me "Absolutely. Why am I loosing fluid?"
Dr.L "My guess is stress. I will let you work 40 hours a week, as long as you promise to go straight home and do NOTHING else for the remainder of the evening."
Me "Could you please write me a note for that? My husband is a little hard core & would never believe me."
Dr.L "Absolutely."
Off I go with my de-stress and kick back note, this pleases Cody very little, but we want a healthy baby and I still get to work. I spent the week analyzing why some people at home and at work piss me off so bad. The answers are, at work I believe you get paid to do a job, do it! That is way to hard for a few people employed by my bosses, I had to let that go if you can't give a shit about getting your own job done neither can I. I now only give 100% of what I am given to work with, I quit pushing for others to complete their jobs so I can mine, I'll just start passing it back to them when I can't finish certain things. Also a personal issue I will not get into here has been affecting me greatly, I decided this person can go to Hell and that's that :). SO once I figured all this out I had a great week at work watching everyone else stress out about our favorite slackers and I smiled and let them deal with it.
July 3rd, check up Dr appointment to check my fluid level, down to 9.5 units. This royally pisses me off, I de-stressed, and laid on my ass all week, and baby has been much more active.What the crap?!
Dr.L then goes through the list of possibilities that I was maybe still doing too much, I told him not true. He goes back through my chart and notes the low Estria, seems there's a little bit of info there that was never relayed to me. As well as having babies with low birth rates, women with low Estria also sometimes have to deal with their placenta crapping out before full term. My baby still gets what she needs but the placenta slowly starts shutting down thus affecting things like amniotic fluid. Right now I am grateful they test for this because is has given me extra ultrasounds, without which I have to wonder if they would have ever noticed my low fluid.
Dr.L sends me to the hospital for a non stress test, I sit in a recliner & watch TV while the put monitors on my belly and see what the baby is up to, 45 minutes later she's perfect.
Dr.L says since I am still loosing fluid I get to go on bed rest this week, in the hopes of building fluid if I can get to 10 or above I can go back to work, although he thinks now low Estria is the culprit.
The other reason low fluid is a problem is baby is still breach, the less fluid she has the harder it is for her to turn, we want her to turn or it's C-section for mommy....no thank you.
SUCK! I don't do well with bed rest, I have things to do.
"Let other people take care of that and you rest"
I take care of me. I get frustrated letting others do it. Baby comes first. Now I get to sit reclined or lay down, the end.
June 25th I had a Dr. appointment, and ultrasound. I was finally able to see Dr.L and he is a very nice man whose primary concern is my baby, so he's in my good graces now even though he's a pain in the ass to get in to. I now understand why women rearrange schedules and gladly wait 45 minutes just to see him.
I went in to the ultrasound first, baby was her usual aloof self and only gave us a drive by for the picture :)
At the time I was just over 34 weeks pregnant, she measured at 35 weeks. Not that I want a huge baby but her measuring larger is especially good news because I test low for the hormone Estria (sp?), 15% of women who test low for this have babies with low birth rate. We will be revisiting the Estria issue later in this post.
So baby looks good but my amniotic fluid level is "low-normal" you should have between 10-20 units of amniotic fluid, I was at 10 which is still OK just not optimal. By the time I get in to see Dr.L three people have asked me if I am still working and what my job is, I answer wondering why all of a sudden everyone feels compelled to ask this.
Dr.L asks "Casey are you still working, and what do you do?"
I answer "yes I plan to work to full term, and I do medical billing"
Dr.L " Do you do a lot physically?"
Me laughing " No I can't anymore baby doesn't like it. Why?"
Dr.L "well your amniotic fluid is low, but my concern is you went from 13 units to 10 units. Do you have a lot of stress?"
Me "Absolutely. Why am I loosing fluid?"
Dr.L "My guess is stress. I will let you work 40 hours a week, as long as you promise to go straight home and do NOTHING else for the remainder of the evening."
Me "Could you please write me a note for that? My husband is a little hard core & would never believe me."
Dr.L "Absolutely."
Off I go with my de-stress and kick back note, this pleases Cody very little, but we want a healthy baby and I still get to work. I spent the week analyzing why some people at home and at work piss me off so bad. The answers are, at work I believe you get paid to do a job, do it! That is way to hard for a few people employed by my bosses, I had to let that go if you can't give a shit about getting your own job done neither can I. I now only give 100% of what I am given to work with, I quit pushing for others to complete their jobs so I can mine, I'll just start passing it back to them when I can't finish certain things. Also a personal issue I will not get into here has been affecting me greatly, I decided this person can go to Hell and that's that :). SO once I figured all this out I had a great week at work watching everyone else stress out about our favorite slackers and I smiled and let them deal with it.
July 3rd, check up Dr appointment to check my fluid level, down to 9.5 units. This royally pisses me off, I de-stressed, and laid on my ass all week, and baby has been much more active.What the crap?!
Dr.L then goes through the list of possibilities that I was maybe still doing too much, I told him not true. He goes back through my chart and notes the low Estria, seems there's a little bit of info there that was never relayed to me. As well as having babies with low birth rates, women with low Estria also sometimes have to deal with their placenta crapping out before full term. My baby still gets what she needs but the placenta slowly starts shutting down thus affecting things like amniotic fluid. Right now I am grateful they test for this because is has given me extra ultrasounds, without which I have to wonder if they would have ever noticed my low fluid.
Dr.L sends me to the hospital for a non stress test, I sit in a recliner & watch TV while the put monitors on my belly and see what the baby is up to, 45 minutes later she's perfect.
Dr.L says since I am still loosing fluid I get to go on bed rest this week, in the hopes of building fluid if I can get to 10 or above I can go back to work, although he thinks now low Estria is the culprit.
The other reason low fluid is a problem is baby is still breach, the less fluid she has the harder it is for her to turn, we want her to turn or it's C-section for mommy....no thank you.
SUCK! I don't do well with bed rest, I have things to do.
"Let other people take care of that and you rest"
I take care of me. I get frustrated letting others do it. Baby comes first. Now I get to sit reclined or lay down, the end.
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