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@junebugmama: Yea you can get non-medical u/s around here just for fun viewing purposes for like $75 specials or whatever. But those aren't like, doctors making medical diagnoses or whatever. They don't do anatomy scans (I mean, they'll check the sex of the baby, but not all the bits and pieces like they do at an anatomy scan) or follow-up for medical problems. It's more of a novelty
@iluvpink: thanks
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@iluvpink: glad you figured out what it is and that it will go away! Itchiness is annoying! I find that I'm so itchy on my back and belly this pregnancy...assuming it's my skin stretching out or something hahaha. I remember after my c-section last time being SO SO SO itchy in the hospital....apparently it's a side-effect of the morphine. Not looking forward to that again!
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@cookie_dough: my back was itchy the first trimester and my belly just started to itch this last few weeks. I am not scratching at all! I am actually pretty good with resisting haha....but now that you mention maybe itchiness after a C-Section then I better have some cortisone ready in my hospital bag. Thank you for the tip
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@iluvpink: well I'm glad your puppp's isn't making you too crazy. I had a client who had it all over her body. She would wake up bleeding from scratching so bad at night.
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@junebugmama: ouch! bleeding! Oh my goodness, how much did the poor thing scratch? I am being good and not even paying attention to it and I tried to moisturized as much as I can.
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@junebugmama: My induction took 3 days too but most of it was very uneventful (walking around the hospital grounds or sitting on monitors). So frustrating. I hope your labor and delivery are much better this time around.
@iluvpink: I have heard of a couple people with that. It sounds really uncomfortable. I hope you start feeling better.
@cookie_dough: My belly has been so itchy most of this pregnancy too. I just don't wear the full panel pants and make sure to moisturize and it has been better since then.
@Mae: We get huge bills for ultrasounds too until the deductible is reached. It's really annoying and expensive! I often wonder what's the point of insurance that we pay so much out of pocket in addition to the premiums.
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@skipra: thank you, lady! with regard to the full panel pants, they made itchy too, but I found that wearing a 100% cotton tank top under it helped and it still helps
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@iluvpink: she really just scratched and scratched. It looked terrible.
@skipra: I wasn't allowed to move, which I think made it worse. I'm hoping that I don't have to have another one. If I do though, I would be able to move which I think would help with progress. Hopefully though that doesn't happen!
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@skipra: same here about insurance! I feel like I pay so much and I have insurance! I thought i wouldn't end up paying too much out of pocket this time between our HRA account and me maxing our Flex spending account. Well jokes on me. Between DS getting tubes and my GD diagnosis which requires extra ultrasounds and meeting with the counselor, etc, there went all that money! Ugh. Just depresses me! But of course we can't account for everything.
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@skipra: @Mamasig: Right. I feel like I was lulled into a false sense of what insurance was when I was younger because my mom had amazing no-deductible insurance that I was on through college. So like, my copays were $20 and I rarely saw another bill. RXs were like $5 or 10. Now my husband WORKS for an insurance company (oh, the irony) and I feel like my insurance kind of sucks. Realistically it is probably just "normal" but it is still frustrating. Especially being pregnant over 2 calendar years and so having to meet 2 deductibles. I know in the end it will be whatever it is and we'll pay it and whatever. But that doesn't mean I'm not a bit frustrated by how expensive some simple things seem to be (like my portion of a doctor spending less than 10 min with me telling me "alls well" after an ultrasound = $120.. how?). I'm also battling insurance right now over some blood work. Meh.
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@Mae: ultrasounds are cheap here it seems. Each 3D ultrasound cost TT$300 which is about US$45. I'm not sure of the price of the 2D since my new obgyn doesn't charge us but I'm sure it's even cheaper.
@iluvpink: sorry to hear about the itchiness but great that it's not harmful to you or baby! Pregnancy comes with all sorts of surprises huh?!
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@iluvpink: I had bad itchiness last time because I was so swollen - my back, arms, feet, everywhere! So sorry you have to go through this!
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@Mamasig: @Mae: I hear you with the insurance situation! I, too, am spending so much in deductibles for our extra scans, because of my placenta previa grrrr!!!!! I thought it was going to be just fine especially because the insurance covered 100% of my fertility treatment, but yet is "blah" with my prenatal care. DH thinks is because we started a new year, pregnant, so we have to start to pay off our deductible for the year. Maybe? Sigh!
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@Glitter: @Mamasig: Thank you, ladies
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@iluvpink: that is probably what it is. We have to meet our deductible for each year even though pregnancy is one "event." So we almost met it last year, then Jan 1 came and we started all over. So essentially we've paid for everything out of pocket for this pregnancy thus far.
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Have yall started to think of birth control post baby? We were on the pill but I really hated being captive to it. I also really hate condoms. I'm tempted to do the rhythm method but given that we got pregnant so quickly that might not be the wisest approach.
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@Glitter: ugh, I've been thinking about this but can't decide. We are 99% sure we are done having kids (basically, unless we win the lottery...we are done! so i guess 99.999999% sure ;-)) I don't really want to go back on the pill, so I will probably end up getting an IUD, but haven't really looked into it at all. If we were 110% sure we were done, and I was having a c-section, I would probably get my tubes tied. But there's still that very miniscule chance that we'll change our minds and want another baby.
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@Glitter: This question is the current bane of my existence. We have thought/talked a lot about it and we don't know what to do. I was on BCP for a decade and I hated it, and didn't fully realize just how horrible it was for me until I was off and felt sooo much better. So it is really not an option I feel like. And I'm really scared of IUDs, so many people seem to have complications (plummeting sex drive, nonstop bleeding, weight gain, or the horrid migration/implantation!). Prior to pregnancy I was using a fertility monitor (lady comp) which you basically just take your temp first thing when you wake up every day and based on that you get a green light (go for sex) or red light (you're fertile). I loved that, but you have to get 5 hrs consecutive sleep every night for it to be reliable and that is not realistic with a new baby. So we just don't know what to do until she is reliably STTN enough for me to use that again. We really really really hate condoms. And we could just do pull n pray (which is what we did during "red light days" prior to pregnancy) but even though it worked for us for a year (got pregnant the one time dh got confused and thought it was a green light day)... it still makes me nervous as a method if we REALLY don't want to get pregnant (and I REALLY don't want to get pregnant my first year pp). Sorry for the novel.. but I'm just frustrated because I feel like there are no good options
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@Glitter: Yes, we did and for the moment we both agreed on just the pull out system. I was on the pill for years and to be honest, I don't feel like taking them again. Once I get my first period I guess I will start taking my temp as well. We had problems getting pregnant the first time, anyway, what are the odds of getting pregnant on my own this time around right?
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@Mae: yikes, you are definitely make me rethink the IUD! hahaha.
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Seems like most people hate the pill. That's my predicament too.. I know I want a short break post baby but I can't think of any means of bc that I'm comfortable with! I don't trust DH with pulling out in time AT ALL. I can just see that going terribly wrong... Sigh.
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@cookie_dough: lol sorry. It was my plan until I joined HB! It's just that so many people who have mirena say it kills their sex drive and makes them gain weight. Which is what the pill did to me so I feel like I'm susceptible to that sort of side effect
And the copper one people complain of bleeding for weeks or months. Ugh. It's just scary to me because I wound up pregnant literally the first time in my entire life I ever had unprotected sex. I don't discount how incredibly lucky I am that it worked out that way for me, and I'm super grateful it did because I'm so so excited about our LO. But I do NOT want an oops baby in my first year postpartum-- so I feel like the stakes are much higher now to prevent well vs. before where we were okay with a certain level of risk because we knew we could handle an oops.
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@Glitter: we were in the same predicament last too, since we wanted to TTC again within a year. We ended up just using condoms.
@Mae: ya, that might be a no-go for us then...since...if we're being honest here (as we always are hahaha), I don't have the biggest sex-drive anyways...so i'd rather avoid anything that negatively affects that! And I already have thyroid issues which don't help in the weight gain area. Guess I will have to do some more thinking!
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Hi ladies, quick check in, I haven't read back except this page. Whatever DD had on Sunday, has gotten into DH and I late yesterday. We are both home, ready to crawl in a hole, it is awful. I threw up all over our house four times, no warning, omg so gross. Trying to stay hydrated and rest, but am so a hey and uncomfortable.
Re: birth control after baby, I think I'm going on depo provera. IUD is out of the question for me given the very new scars from the surgery I had to removed my migrated one. Pill sounds not good enough, and blah, condoms, ehhh no. Sucks how little options there are. I was on depo for 9 years, and it just seems safe to me, despite my issues with it at times.
Hope everyone is doing well, hopefully I am human again soon, nothing like 2 days off work your last week? Typical bad timing.
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I'm confused, reading conflicting things on bf friendly or not
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@Beebug: I'm so sorry you guys have been sick! Hope you can get some rest and feel better soon!
@Glitter: I'm stressed about BC options too. We used condoms our whole relationship until TTC except for about 6 months in college. The pill made me such a crazy person and I really don't want to go back to it. I also don't want to do anything that could damage my milk supply since I'm already nervous about BFing 2 at a time. I want to jump to permanent BC measures right away because we only want two kids, but my husband thinks we need to wait and see. We'll probably do condoms for awhile (though I really don't want to!) and then figure something out later?
Is anyone else starting to get the crazy questions from family members? I'm going to lose it if I have to explain to my mom one more time that yes, technically I could go into labor any day but I could also go all the way until May and no one (me, dr, my husband) have any way of telling when it will happen. She keeps telling me that she has all of her Easter plans prepped at school (she works at a religious preschool) but should she get everything ready for Mother's Day too? It's like she believes that I secretly know when I'm going to have them and I'm just holding out on her. Believe me, I have no effing clue when they're going to arrive! Also now if DH or I don't respond to a text from my MIL within an hour, she believes I have gone into labor or am having a medical emergency or something and starts calling us repeatedly. My husband was at the grocery store on Sunday and didn't pick up his phone and she almost had a nervous breakdown. I can't deal with this anymore, ugh! Can you tell I'm getting a little grouchy, haha?
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@Beebug: Oh no! I hope you kick this bug soon. Feel better!
@Glitter: Well the midwives tell me that if you breastfeed on demand it's as good as the pill for about 6 months. We're probably just going to pull out. I hate the pill and wouldn't try the Depo shot for the reasons I hate the pill and IUDs scare me. I'm not quite ready to say that we're done with babies so I don't want anything permanent. I just have to remind DH from time to time that he has to pull out because he didn't a couple times even before I got a post partum period and well...here I am
Just curious, have any of you dropped yet? On Sunday I started feeling sharp pain in my cervix that I guess was the baby's head. The doctor commented yesterday at the ultrasound that the baby is low and the midwife today told me I'm measuring small because half the baby is in my pelvis. I thought they normally dropped much later second time around. Hopefully not true because I need at least another 3 weeks!
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@Beebug: omg sounds awful, so sorry you are all sick
@twodoghouse: omg.. sorry but I lol'd a little.
I'm guessing they're a bit more anxious than usual because of your bed rest? That sounds so annoying though. No one has bugged me too much about when I'll go into labor except my friends (trying to be funny) replacing their usual greeting with "so no baby yet?" The not knowing is stressing me out something terrible though. I've been a huge ball of nerves all day, trying to get stuff done at work but then more stuff keeps piling on. Then I'm fighting with insurance too and that is taking a bunch of time. And I keep telling my boss to STOP GIVING ME SHIT because I want to have all essential stuff done by 38 and then just start working ahead if I go past then. And he's all "eh your due date is May 4 I'm sure it'll be fine... just add this to your list." Okay? Thanks doctor who apparently knows that I'll go to full term or late. I mean.. I MAY... but I also may not. Shouldn't we prepare for the worst ("worst" work-wise being my going early... not that I'd consider it a tragedy if I did, but it would be really hard at work if I don't have things done). Sigh.
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@skipra: I don't know.. but I don't think so? I feel like she is still wedged pretty firmly between my bladder and my ribs. I would think when she drops I'd feel her less in my ribs and she'd move back more behind the bladder? But what do I know..
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@skipra: My doctor said I was looking smaller too, which I would dispute because obv I look huge. I have also been having some sharp pains in the cervix area if I'm walking the dog or have been standing a while. I don't think it means labor is imminent though.
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@twodoghouse: Ugh. Family can be so annoying. My mom was at the hospital with us for a while at my induction and she asked the midwives about a thousand questions that I already answered or explained to her. She drove me insane and I think one of the midwives had to tell her to back off. When it gets to that point for us I'm planning to just tell everyone that they think the baby is comfortable and will probably be late and if there is anything happening they will be the first to know (even if that's not true). How is bed rest going for you? Are babies cooperating?
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@whodat: That sounds exactly like what I feel. I don't think labor is imminent either and the midwife didn't seem to think so. I don't have any other signs besides a ton of BH the past week or so. DS was really low by this point too. I guess it's a good thing, less work to do during labor.
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@skipra: interesting! My midwife from being classes warned us NOT to rely on breastfeeding as a means of birth control. Our cleaner just told me today that I look like my belly dropped! She's 67 and had nine kids so she should be on to something... What I know is that I am feeling movement down low behind my pelvic bone now. Like he's moving his fingers practically in my vag
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@skipra: oh yea hmm I don't know then! At my last appointment the midwife said that my baby was sitting forward really far, like directly ON my bladder. Which I'm like ummm I'M AWARE.
I don't know what that means for low/high though. I don't think I've felt too much in the cervix region though? I have been feeling a lot of achey-ness in my pelvis. Like the boney area where thigh meets crotch (god pregnancy really does make you say awesome things..) is sore like.. all the time. Midwives said that is pelvis spreading. And I think I do feel occasional pangs in the cervix area but not horrible or too often yet. I have an appointment tomorrow so we'll see what they say re: position.
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@Mae: Yep me too, with the constant achy-ness down low. It's most annoying at night when I'm trying to get comfortable. I figure it's the ligaments stretching.
Also this guy is ALWAYS getting the hiccups. And it's always on my left side pretty low down, sometimes it even feels like hiccups in my pelvis. This sounds neurotic, but I googled it and Dr. Google says that frequent hiccups is sometimes caused by an umbilical cord around the neck. And my DS was always getting the hiccups in the womb and he was indeed born with his cord around his neck, which was scary. Now I'm paranoid this one also has his cord around his neck.
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@Beebug: wow
get plenty of rest and fluids. Hoping you all can fight this off soon!
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@whodat: oh no don't scare me. He is hiccuping right now!
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@Mae: Yes, I think it's 100% because I'm on bed rest that they are freaking out like this. Also apparently the word contraction makes people believe I am giving birth like right now. Even though I'm going on three weeks of lots of contractions and no babies! You'd think my mom who had 4 babies herself would understand some of these things...but, no.
@skipra: The kiddos seem to be cooperating with this bed rest thing better than I am these days. The only thing is that when my contractions get bad they start moving around a lot and it hurts! I feel like the inside of my body has bruises! I don't think I've really dropped, since Blake is still way up in my ribs, but Alice has been very low all along. I had a cervical check on Friday to see if I was starting to dilate and the dr was like "whoa, her head is right there, very engaged." So I guess she's low, but I don't even know if there's anywhere for a Blake to drop to? I don't know how that works with twins.
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@whodat: oh don't say that lol. Mine has hiccups a lot!
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@Beebug: oh my goodness, lady! that sounds awful. Feel better soon! all of you! *HUGS*
@twodoghouse: I am not getting crazy questions from family regarding birth yet, but last night my SIL who is also going to be the godmother asked me when I would be baptizing this LO. hmmmm!!!??? IDK I will figure it out when he is here.
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