High Risk Pregnancy ~ General Discussion and Support

[skybie]

At monash, he'll have his surgery there too, its becoming our second home!
have anther appointment tomorrow, going to give them what for and see if i can have my diabetes managed outside of the hospital and to see my gp who is trained to deal with preggo ladies instead of seeing their OB's and just go to bubs appointments instead.
The Obs dont do anything my GP cant, all they do is take my blood pressure and check my fundal height, and i have to wait around for 2 hours on average for them to do it, with 2 little girls who get very very bored there! its prety stressfull on me trying to keep them quiet and busy while we wait, and by the time im seen to im pretty shirty aswell! so hoping i can see my own doctors in my own time around the girls and just see the specialists there. keep ur fingers crossed they agree to it!

found some info, not a heck of alot, apparently theres every chance bub will be able to come home once he's born! (super yay!) and we go back weekly to have his o2 sats checked and a heart scan till his surgery

[crumpet]

At monash, he'll have his surgery there too, its becoming our second home!
have anther appointment tomorrow, going to give them what for and see if i can have my diabetes managed outside of the hospital and to see my gp who is trained to deal with preggo ladies instead of seeing their OB's and just go to bubs appointments instead.
The Obs dont do anything my GP cant, all they do is take my blood pressure and check my fundal height, and i have to wait around for 2 hours on average for them to do it, with 2 little girls who get very very bored there! its prety stressfull on me trying to keep them quiet and busy while we wait, and by the time im seen to im pretty shirty aswell! so hoping i can see my own doctors in my own time around the girls and just see the specialists there. keep ur fingers crossed they agree to it!

found some info, not a heck of alot, apparently theres every chance bub will be able to come home once he's born! (super yay!) and we go back weekly to have his o2 sats checked and a heart scan till his surgery

good luck with ur appt today!!! hope it went well!!!

oh thats awsome if he could come home between birth and his op!! ill be crossing my fingers for you!!

[skybie]

ok so apparently i dont get a choice in who cares for my diabetes, i have to go to the hospital as often as they tell me to, to look in my book ad say ur doing well do u need more insulin? no, ok we'll see u next week!
Seriously it took me 2 hours to get in there this morning! then sit around for two hours waiting to be seen with the kids i felt like i was going to either scream or cry...or maybe both at the same time.
i dont understand why i dont get to choose who looks after me and my baby? surely theres an option, even if i could ring my levels in instead of actually going in IYKWIM??

Anyway got home and rang the maternal fetal medicine clinic who i have an app with in december and she's going to come in with me next week to see if we can work out a better arrangement for me and just come in on thursdays to the high risk clinic.
Fingers crossed!

[crumpet]

ok so apparently i dont get a choice in who cares for my diabetes, i have to go to the hospital as often as they tell me to, to look in my book ad say ur doing well do u need more insulin? no, ok we'll see u next week!
Seriously it took me 2 hours to get in there this morning! then sit around for two hours waiting to be seen with the kids i felt like i was going to either scream or cry...or maybe both at the same time.
i dont understand why i dont get to choose who looks after me and my baby? surely theres an option, even if i could ring my levels in instead of actually going in IYKWIM??

Anyway got home and rang the maternal fetal medicine clinic who i have an app with in december and she's going to come in with me next week to see if we can work out a better arrangement for me and just come in on thursdays to the high risk clinic.
Fingers crossed!

oh hun thats sooooo frustrating!!!
surely they can b slightly more flexible if they tried!!!

hopefully u get some action with the FMC lady being with you!

[ButterflyForever]

Hi all

Crumpet - it's great you have got this far on in the pregnacy, glad they aren't too worried about the bleeding. You are been well cared for, and it is better than been in hossy on bed rest. Well done you for getting bubs this cooked though.

Skybie - thinking of you with all those long waits for the appts, I had that too before I came into this prison. Now I'm a captive audience and believe me I'm always getting monitors and needles stuck in or on every available inch of me. Hope you can have your little boy home for a while, before surgery. Thinking of you.

afm - scan this am. No real cahnge, plodding along till 30 weeks, don't think they will let me go much past that. Having regular urine tests, the first sign of my bladder rupturing will be blood in the urine. Joy!!!

take care all

[crumpet]

Crumpet - it's great you have got this far on in the pregnacy, glad they aren't too worried about the bleeding. You are been well cared for, and it is better than been in hossy on bed rest. Well done you for getting bubs this cooked though.

afm - scan this am. No real cahnge, plodding along till 30 weeks, don't think they will let me go much past that. Having regular urine tests, the first sign of my bladder rupturing will be blood in the urine. Joy!!!

take care all

thanks hun!!
still just plodding along atm, 34weeks now so OB is really happy, stitch out in 2 weeks!!

how are things going ur end?? anymore news??
hopw ur not going to insane in hospy!!

skybie hows things going ur end love?

[JennaJayen]

Hey guys,

I haven't been on for a bit, been trying to steer clear of the forums for a while and concentrate on me and bub and relaxing and trying not to go reading into things.
I've had a lot of family issues going on lately - my dad and stepmum are separating, which I know it's their lives and everything, but I really need my family to be whole and together and supporting me right now and I'm not getting any of that at all. I basically have no support people around me at all apart from hubby when he's home and occasionally my bestie when she's not dealing with her issues involving the recent breakup of her very serious "had-been-talking-about-marriage-and-kids-just-the-month-before" relationship.

So anyway, firstly, a belated thank you to you all for the congrats on my bub being a girl I'm still over the moon about it and have so many clothes on layby now lol

Secondly, I have been feeling a bit out of place in here. I feel like my issues aren't anywhere near as bad as you guys have it right now, makes me feel like I don't really deserve to be in here ifykwim.

And thirdly, saw my OB for the first time today, which was intreresting and he seems really nice and everything but was in a real hurry and didn't really answer any of my questions and just brought up more.
Found out my fundal height is measuring at 28 weeks... which for me is really odd as my fundal height with DS only ever measured 3 weeks ahead at one time late in the pregnancy and I was sent for a scan to check out the fluid levels right away, and this time the OB hasn't even batted an eyelid about it.
To add to that I'm feeling a bit out of sorts, very light headed and slightly dizzy even when sitting down, lots of headaches, but my BP is apparently normal (it's normally around 110-115/80, but today it was 120/60, all after walking to the bus stop, waiting for and sitting on the bus for 30 minutes, a 10 minute walk to the consulting rooms while pushing a pram and then a 45 minute wait to see the OB where I had to get up and bend down repeatedly to pick up DS's toys and dummy).
I'm thinking of calling the maternity ward tonight, just to ask them about it as I've been getting painful BH's almost constantly again over the past 4 days as well...

I just wish things could be uncomplicated for a change so that I can completely relax and not have to worry about things.

Hope you're all doing ok, sending lots of sticky vibes out to you all and I'm praying that those bub's of yours will stay put for a while longer!