Stark realisation - not a good one.

[alioops]

Is that anti E or anti D hun? bit confused never heard of anti E.

If everyone who was 'high risk' never had babies, then there would be far less babies in the world. Hun I am not a fan of OBs for low risk births, I have faith that you will find an OB that will look after you. They are trained to help with high risk.

Dont feel guilty for wanting to bring another beautiful life into this world hun, You are a woman and that is what we are designed to do. People being concerned for you is their way of showing that they love you.

I trust that you are doing what you can to manage the nausea and keeping hydrated. Try to have something to eat with you at all times so that there is enough going in to couteract what comes out calorie wise.

Information overload is probably the perfect description hun. Yes you may be officially classed as 'high risk' (I hate that term BTW) but you know that you can do this. It is understandable for your family to be concerned, they only see the bad parts, you feel the excitement, the kicks, and you just enjoy the feeling of pg.

[Inertia]

Hey Nelle. Having the Anti-e makes me high risk during the pregnancy as if the baby got Big E from dad, then my little e antibodies build up and start attacking the baby. It can cause anemia in the baby in-utero and in serious cases they have been known to transfuse to the baby while still in the womb and then deliver as soon as its considered "safe" to do so.

My PPH puts me in high risk for third stage complications.

Then there is the hypoglycemia which I am so used to monitoring anyway I never really thing about it, but my blood sugar drops like a stone when I am pg.

Finally I have a mitral valve regurgitation. Thats a valve in the heart that doesnt close properly so blood flows backwards from the ventricle and back into the atrium. Under high physical load this can cause it to flood back into the lungs.

I have really never put 1+1+1+1 all together before and come up with 4. Its always just been 1 to me.

Ali: Its Anti-e, which is another part of the RH chain. So its like Anti-D, but the anti-d immunoglobin is not structured to help anyone but D.

I know that I have generally cruised through 5 other pregnancies, and really taking that into consideration, it shouldnt stress me as much as it has, but as I said above. Before they were just little things to me. It kind of made me think of the phrase 'death by 1000 cuts' iykwim.

[Nelle]

Don't feel silly, I can see why it would be easy to miss 1 + 1 + 1...especially since this isn't your first child. Is it stuff you can do anything about, or is it just something you need to let your health care provider know down the track? Do you have an ob yet?
Don't feel bad, no judgement from us!

[Inertia]

Don't feel silly, I can see why it would be easy to miss 1 + 1 + 1...especially since this isn't your first child. Is it stuff you can do anything about, or is it just something you need to let your health care provider know down the track? Do you have an ob yet?
Don't feel bad, no judgement from us!

I have an appointment with my doc in an hour. I kinda put the whole deal off for the holiday and DHs surgery. I tend to try and see the positives of things, and seemed to just meh at the chance of real complications. I mean even my PPH was really severe - I was actually transfused, two bags. I lost practically half my blood supply and from what DH remembers through the panic of the situation, they very nearly lost me in the delivery suite. I vaguely remember trying to sign something and feeling very dizzy and tired. Yet I never really accepted the severity of the whole thing until last night. I go onto oxytocin drip after the babies now, so its just another thing they do now. Like the heart scans, the weekly blood tests, the weekly ultrasounds from 25 weeks.

This stuff isn't normal. It just kinda all hit me at once last night and scared the hell out of me.