I heard it one too many times over the past few weeks, and it finally got to me:
It's situations like these
why others should watch what they say
to hyper-hormonal pregnant women!
the weight is distributed very differently... and it's not in my belly. I spent some time comparing pictures of myself at 33 weeks with G and how I look this week, and honestly, I don't look like someone halfway through her third trimester. I'm about as big -- belly-wise -- right now as I was at 22 weeks with G. Combine that with everyone's comments (from the lady on the elliptical next to me at the gym to strangers at the grocery store), and I got paranoid.So when I woke up yesterday morning and realized, "Hmmm, I haven't felt Baby C move since yesterday," I was worried. When a few more hours passed and I still felt nothing, I started to panic. DH, G and I were on our way to do some grocery shopping when I expressed my concerns to him, and he drove right past the Harris Teeter and directly to my OB (did I mention he's my conscience and my hero?).
When I told the nurse what was going on, she asked me how long it had been since I felt the baby move. I honestly wasn't sure... I had been so busy the day before, and I didn't even remember feeling him move at all -- which is unusual for my little guy, because he's usually a spitfire of energy inside of me. The nurses all got that "Uh oh" look on their faces and brought me back immediately.
After forcing me to swig down a Pepsi (which gave me caffeine-induced tremors the rest of the day), the nurses hooked me up to a fetal heartbeat monitor for an NST (non-stress test). As soon as they hooked me up, I heard Baby C's heartbeat, nice and steady around 135 beats per minute. But he still wasn't moving. In fact, it took about 10 minutes on the machine before C started some feeble movements; then, the caffeine must have kicked in, because he started going bonkers in there. My fears were alleviated.
The nurses told me I did the right thing by coming in; they said that at this point in a pregnancy, any major change in fetal movement like what I'd experienced over the previous 24 hours is cause enough for concern. They also told me that, like a car in the shop, most women who come in with the same concerns I had end up having no problems the moment they walk into the doctor's office.
I'm hoping this is the one and only "scare" related to this pregnancy... because it was more than I could take! I spent the rest of the day feeling drained, emotionally and physically.
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In my last 2 or 3 months, I ended up being very swollen and was having pretty bad headaches. I was worried about a lot of things that could go wrong. Thankfully, nothing did go wrong, and they ended up having to induce me 2 days after B's due date. I swear they wouldn't have if my blood pressure hadn't been so high.
Wowza - I would've done the same thing!
My biggest scare of my pregnancy with N was when I fell on our driveway, face down, and landed squarely on my belly. I wasn't very big yet but I FLIPPED and Chris drove me straight to the OB. They hooked me up to every machine they had and she was just fine, all cozy and protected in there.
Oh how awful! I hope tha tyou are starting to calm down after what I am sure was a very stressful day. For me nothing majorly stressful during my pregnancy other than sometimes crippling back pain that made me feel like I was in labor way, way to early!
I did that so often that I bought one of those little cheap home "hear your babies heartbeat" monitors of my own. It was a lifesaver for when I needed to hear the heartbeat for my own sanity sake.
The worst thing for me was when I was prego with my 4th, trying to take care of my other 3 and I could NOT sleep. I was bonkers and went to the doctor crying about not being able to sleep and he finally game me Ambien to get me through the last 2-3 weeks. It was horrible.
Glad the baby is okay.
You look great!!!
And I totally get it. I wonder if boys lay different, because I had problems feeling J often near the end. He would be fine when I went in for my NSTs, but they didn't like him being so lazy so they'd load me up with sugar to get him moving.
Then he'd sleep all afternoon leaving me freaking out again...
I think I have had them all, but the biggest was nearly bleeding to death. I awoke at 2 AM and had to go to the bathroom. Then awoke three more times in a hour to do the same. The last time I went to stand up and it all let loose. Thought my water broke. I was bleeding out as fast as if I was going the bathroom. Very bad. My husband drove 90 miles an hour with the Dr telling him DON'T stop for anything even when the police where behind us.
I was so scared I would bleed to death in my truck. I was only 30 weeks and it was over 30 minutes to the closest hospital. We did arrive and I was given 7 units of blood. They said a women my size only has about 9 units in them, so it was very close. They had no idea how I was still consious with the amount of blood I lost in the truck alone.
Spent the next month in the hospital and the baby was still born 6 weeks early by emergency c-section. He had a hard start and only weighted 10 lbs when he was 5 months, but he will be one next months and is doing great.
My heart aches for another child even after all this (he is our 5th), but to much damage was done for me to ever carry another child again.
I say I never want breakfast (lunch or dinner either)in bed again. Having to lay completely still for a month will drive you crazy fast. My husband was left to do everything with the 4 other children, try to work, and take care of the house while trying to get at least some homeschooling in and music lessons. I was transferred to a hospital a hour from our home, but he would bring them all to visit me at least 2-3 times a week. And I had thousands of people who prayed. That made all the difference.
It has been a hard road for me as well since the birth. Laying in bed for a month takes a lot out of you. Then I have had major bleeding problems since. I think now that it is almost a year later I am almost back to normal if there is such a thing as normal with 5 kids.
Scariest moment in either of my pregnancies was with #1. I had placenta previa, but it was marginal and expected to be okay for vaginal delivery. Right around 30 weeks I woke up at 4 am gushing blood. I called DH into the bathroom and he was freaking even more than I was. Scary, but everything was fine (I stopped bleeding on the way to the hospital).