Should I be worried about the swelling in my legs, face, and hands?

[STARRYSKY]

I hope for your sake your bubba makes an early show!
I ended up being induced at 40wks exactly, due to my bp doing crazy things, up and dawn and allround......I could barely walk by then, I was also in pre labour for 2 weeks before that.
do you find the shower makes it worse? lying in bed at night would marginally improve things, only for me to get up and shower and hello balloon feet! pfft forget about sleep!!
thats a b it hard to do with restless legs, indigestion, crazy itchiness from the swelling and contractions every 10 mins.....
sorry, im still a bit peeved about all that!!
I think I said before that the bath was good, as long as my feet were up out the water on the edge.
I feel for you, hey if im up feeding i will have a look and see if youre here, looks like u were up early this morning.....
have a happy easter, as hard as it is, try to enjoy this last little bit, theres not too long to go!!
xxx

[Carmen2]

I hope for your sake your bubba makes an early show!
I ended up being induced at 40wks exactly, due to my bp doing crazy things, up and dawn and allround......I could barely walk by then, I was also in pre labour for 2 weeks before that.
do you find the shower makes it worse? lying in bed at night would marginally improve things, only for me to get up and shower and hello balloon feet! pfft forget about sleep!!
thats a b it hard to do with restless legs, indigestion, crazy itchiness from the swelling and contractions every 10 mins.....
sorry, im still a bit peeved about all that!!
I think I said before that the bath was good, as long as my feet were up out the water on the edge.
I feel for you, hey if im up feeding i will have a look and see if youre here, looks like u were up early this morning.....
have a happy easter, as hard as it is, try to enjoy this last little bit, theres not too long to go!!
xxx

Sorry I wasn't able to respond earlier! Hope you had a happy easter too! My easter sucked as I ended up staying home because I wasn't feeling so great with the increased swelling in my legs. I am finding it SO SO hard to pass the rest of the days. It feels like it's just dreading on forever and ever. I know there's supposedly two weeks left but these two weeks don't seem to exciting to me. I have put on another 3lbs just over a period of 2 days. This is primarily due to my water retention again. So now, wearing my sandals is almost not a possible thing. I try keeping my legs up as much as possible but don't do much either. SIGH

So far, my blood pressure has been okay. I am told to keep monitoring just in case things do get wild... I will probably try taking a bath later just to give myself a treat. Unfortunately, my bath tub does not serve an easy access for pregnant individuals like me! I have a jacuzzi type of bath tub so it's much harder to get in though once I'm in, I hate to come out. I think I will take on your advice and put my legs up while I'm in there. Last time, I spent half an hour in the tub without elevating my legs so my legs swelled up even more I had to get DH to get me out! LOL, it was a sight for DH and DD!!!

I am also putting heaps of cream these days because it's so itchy everywhere (I guess the skin is stretching so much my body is having a hard time to adjust to the elasticity)!

Oh, I live in Canada which explains why I am up early because we are in different time zones... How I wish I am in Australia with such a beautiful weather.... Maybe this will help me make my days happier!

[Carmen2]

Just a little update... my swelling has been quite the same since I last posted here except for my hands to feel quite numb and the inability to clench my hands into fists. So my doctor asked me if I wanted to speed things up a little though it's not guarantee to work 100%.After telling me how dilated I was, she went up to my cervix and stretched the membranes a little. If it does work, things could be happening any time now. So, here I am waiting for the "magical moment" to appear... I have been feeling pretty strong tightenings so maybe something will happen but then again I am not putting my hopes too high because I don't want to feel disappointment by the end of the day which I always end up feeling. All I could say is that I am happy my blood pressure is under control and I have no protein in my urine. WIth that, I should be grateful that this pregnancy is uncomplicated except the fact that I have some discomforts!

[Carmen2]

Oh no, my swelling has gotten much worst today. I don't know what happened but this morning woke up with huge hands. I can't clench into a fist at all. It's painfully numb

I went out today with DD and DH to do some grocery shopping... ended up being up on my feet without sitting for 4 hours straight... now, I come home with swollen legs and feet. It's so bad that I get red blotches on my lower legs and my ankles are just so swelled up... I have practically no ankles!

Does that mean I have pushed myself to the limit with the walking? I thought the walk would speed things up but it doesn't look too good at the moment.

My blood pressure is okay though, but just have heaps of trouble with the swelling....

[BekZ]

I had this problem with DD1. Seeing that you've had a big day today, try and rest for a bit to see if the swelling goes down. If your bp is ok then you should be fine. However, if you do become concerned take a trip to the hospital to get checked out.

[Carmen2]

Bekz,

Was your swelling really bad with DD1? I didn't have any swelling while pregnant with DD but with this 2nd pregnancy, everything seems to act out at the same time.

Hopefully the swelling will go down by tomorrow as I'm having heaps of trouble just walking around... and it's not so easy when you've got an active toddler demanding for attention. Oh well, not too much longer to go, but I certainly hope that my baby will decide for an earlier show!

[BekZ]

My swelling was so bad that I couldn't close my hands, I had no ankles and my feet ached even sitting down. Thankfully I didn't have it with DD2 and so far only one episode with this pregnancy but it started at 28wks with DD1 and I am 28wks next week.