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@yellowbeach Holy Overload is right!! Your work is so deeply appreciated and I hope you are able to find time for rest soon. This is such a wild time for anxiety management/pregnancy/life without the added pressures of your job.

@MountainBaby: I'm sorry. That is disappointing

@BUNBUN: Oooo I need to bookmark these.

@yellowbeach: I saw your coronavirus posts on the other thread. Are you doing okay? Any word on results - beefing keeping my fingers crossed you didn’t get any symptoms and a negative result!

@yellowbeach: Hoping your case is mild, if you do have it.

My county has run out of tests, and the official number before they ran out was 96 positive cases. At this point they’re only testing those who really need to know if they have it (like health care workers), and asking others to quarantine for at least 14 days. My BIL is currently quarantined (he definitely has it—all those weird symptoms like not being able to taste or smell, plus typical fever and dry cough). I’ve seen a few moms post on our local moms Facebook group about having all those symptoms and being told the same. My SIL (his sister) who is due any day has isolated her family so we’re not even seeing her now. This is such a weird time.

I will say that this is keeping my mind off of pregnancy and any antsiness that might come along with the third trimester (I’m 27 tomorrow so almost there). I talked to my OBs office yesterday and they are only seeing pregnant women now, no other patients.

Is it the same everywhere as here: you can’t bring anyone into your appointments or into the office with you (and you get temped before entering), and at the birth only one person can be there, with no visitors permitted at the hospital? I’m fine with this—it’s my third time so I don’t have birth fears—but I know it’s stressful for a lot of people, especially first time moms and those with high risk pregnancies and C sections.

@Mrs. Chocolate: I just read your post. I am so sorry you are going through this and I hope you have more answers soon.

Quick update from the scan today. Healthy baby boy! Partial placenta previa, so pelvic rest for now and I’ll be back in 8 weeks to see if it’s resolved. It was sad to not have family along, but we celebrated at home together afterwards with blue frosted brownies so it was a nice day overall.

@Mrs. Chocolate I’m thinking of you and I’m so sorry we’re going through this with everything else. I hope the next few weeks can bring some answers.

@mountainbaby hooray for baby boy! I’m glad you found a way to make the day special!

@MrsJBeeG: Still off work until I get results. Really hope to hear something today.

@Mrs. Chocolate: I read your beautifully written post. I just wanted to add that I am so sorry you are going through this, especially at this time. It sounds like you've found some supportive resources, which I hope is reassuring. I hope you have more answers soon!

@yellowbeach: I hope you hear today too!

@yellowbeach: sigh. That’s a long time for you to be in limbo. Wish they had better news for you.

@yellowbeach said I should come back so here I am! I'm now due August 28 (but the latest I'll go is August 21). I had some scary bleeding over the weekend. After calling in to the OB emergency line, I went in to the ER to get checked out. Thankfully, everything was okay with baby but we found out that I have placenta previa with an anterior succenturiate lobe. Meaning I have blood vessels crossing over my cervix (not my picture but gives a fairly good example of what it's like). So it's something we'll have to keep an eye on. There's a chance it could correct itself but it's not super likely because of the fact that there are two separate lobes. If it doesn't correct itself (and move away from my cervix) I have to have a C-section which we're planning on anyway.

28 weeks today. Passed my glucose test this morning. Phew. With the exception of ultrasounds, all appointments from here on out will be telehealth. Still no Covid test results. Hopefully tomorrow.

@yellowbeach: are you monitoring yourself for hypertension/pre-e?

@skiierchck99: Yes - checking BPs at home. If I were you guys, as someone with a hx of high risk pregnancy and as an MD, I'd make sure you have at home (links to the models I own):
- BP cuff https://smile.amazon.com/Omron-Upper-Blood-Pressure-Monitor/dp/B07S3LNS1L/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=omron+bp&qid=1585324109&sr=8-10
- Pulse ox https://smile.amazon.com/Deluxe-SM-110-Display-Finger-Oximeter/dp/B003TJH3LI/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=finger+pulse&qid=1585324228&rnid=2470954011&sr=8-5
- Urine test strips to monitor for any protein as needed https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B071XTRPPT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- Thermometer

While I'm personally not offering telemed to my patients, all of my colleagues have said they are recommending buying a pulse ox and BP cuff to their patients, as especially for OB, these are the vital signs they really care about in the current setting. I'd honestly buy them now because I think the availability will be scarce as hospitals start to formally recommend this to patients.

@Becky: My first telehealth visit for OB will be 4/14. Will definitely keep you posted.

@skiierchck99: we don’t have a Doppler but only because we have a handheld ultrasound. Doppler is a good add to the list.

@Becky: Best is to get a Doppler. There’s an iPhone app called Shell but I’ve yet to have much luck with it.

Hi All, joining in to be part of a support group. I'm due mid-May with my second child and frankly, pretty scared. I am most scared that by then, I won't have a safe place to deliver my baby. I would happily deliver my baby in a tent in the hospital parking lot if that meant I had medical professionals attending to the birth. Trying not to swirl with my thoughts!

I had planned to deliver at the local hospital 25 minutes from my house, which has a Level 3 NICU. However, that hospital has been designated as a COVID location for the system. So, depending on the caseload in 7 weeks, I was told I may be delivering at a different hospital in the system, which is much smaller and 1-1/2 hours away. I have no idea how that would even work, I imagine I will be induced before 40 weeks?

@yellowbeach: Thank you for the links. I appreciate them. I also appreciate you and your husband and your family is in my thoughts and prayers.

@skiierchck99: I just had my 32 week appointment and will not be returning until I'm 36 weeks.

Thinking of you all

@SweetCaroline: Welcome! I am just starting to think about what labor and delivery will begin to look like. At the end of the most recent Evidence Based Birth podcast, she talks about the detriment of taking away a laboring woman’s support network in a time when hospital staff will already be limited, and how there is no research or basis to show that a laboring woman alone is any less of an infectious risk to hospital staff than a couple. I’m hopeful that hospital systems will strongly consider this. The system I am delivering with has a dedicated COVID-19 facility (we are seeing really sharp increases in cases here) so I’m additionally hopeful that this will make it less likely that birth partners are disallowed. I have heard from a few local moms on Facebook that they are getting people out of the hospital more quickly after birth. I’m really interested to see how this goes with C-sections (my SIL will deliver any day via C section and I’ll share an update then).