Liz - I was going to say this in our thread but now that you're obviously worried, I'm going to say it here: You NEED to take it easy!!! Between working at night and doing life stuff in the day, you'll be running yourself to the bone and you have to remember that you have somebody else in there sucking your energy as well.
Even Wonder Woman needed a rest every now and then and I think this is your body's way of telling you that this is your time. And please harass your Dr if this continues. Listen to everyone who posted above me as they obviously know more about this than we do having gone through it before.
Let us know how you're going, okay? And don't you DARE go to work tonight.
My Dr is always booked out for a week - how do people know they will be sick so far in advance??? I complained to her one day and she said to ask the receptionist to open her 'day book' and she will be able to see me. Most Dr's have available appointments for 'emergency's'. Otherwise I tell the receptionist that I will just go to the hospital, they always come back with an appointment for me....
I had a little bit of dizziness as well during this pregnancy. Nothing as bad as you're describing, but Ob said it's normally attributed to low blood pressure or iron levels. You might be able to get a chemist to take your blood pressure for you maybe. Otherwise the Ob said sit down as soon as you feel dizzy so you don't fall over.
I would probably tend to think it was either low blood pressure or low iron rather than anything wrong with bubs. Take it easy and try and relax. Put your feet up and get DH to look after you
I think the girls have given you the answers you need and I agree with them - it's just one of the joys of pregnancy. I almost fainted a couple of times between weeks 10 and 20. The dizzy spells were awful! They are very common in pregnancy though and are usually either your blood pressure, your blood sugar levels (which i think was my problem so I always had snacks or lollies handy) or your iron levels.
Make sure you raise it with your carer but I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. It all sounds very normal to me
Oh, and yes, give work a miss tonight!!!
Last edited by Taurean; May 6th, 2009 at 04:18 PM.
Hey LizJessie..
As the other ladies have said- TAKE IT EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When your not at work- REST sit on your butt and grow your baby- thats a big enough job!!!
Also if you cant get into your dr, i am pretty sure you can just go the hospital and they will let you go right to the maternity ward and they can at least do your blood preassure check your iron etc and even do a CTG thing which is where they put a little monitor thing on your belly and listen to bubs heartbeat and make sure everything is ok.
And honestly they dont mind you going there- call first to make sure they arnt too busy, but they will most likely say to come in especially if yo explain you cant get in to see your dr till next week.
Take care and drink lots of water and RELAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suffer from dizzy spells in most of my pregnancies. I agree with the others, you need to take it easy. My dizzy spells are because of low blood pressure and low blood sugar... now I try to make sure I have some fruit or fruit juice on stand by and a bottle of water constantly in my hand... whenever I feel dizzy, I sit down, drink the water and wait for it to pass.
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- I was going to say this in our thread but now that you're obviously worried, I'm going to say it here: You NEED to take it easy!!! Between working at night and doing life stuff in the day, you'll be running yourself to the bone and you have to remember that you have somebody else in there sucking your energy as well.
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