Please pray for my poppyseed and her wee one.
Praying.
Prayers the wee one turns to the proper position.
MOZIE, this is your day. Do what you want. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. How was your "vacation"?
Many prayers for your poppyseed and her baby, Kayak. A load of prayers for you and for your own recovery.
Prayers for you too, Guennie, that the doctors effect the cure and set you free from worry.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY greetings to you, Mozie! May you have many more.
And my thanks go out to you, Molly, for starting today's thread...and to Miss Marple for yesterday's. I'm w/Iowa Granny in not having the skill to do it.
It's so nice to hear your happy news about these children and your new lease on life, Toby!
The cold weather that some of you have been experiencing will be here this week. Today may be our last day of spring-like weather. Oh well, it is January and about that time. ;)
Ah, venturing into new territory here at FR. :)
Went to the hospital last night. I've been having severe itching, more than what is "normal" pregnancy itching, and of course I looked it up online. The Internet is evil, y'all. So many diseases and disorders one can find one has when one reads about them online. Found one that fit my itching, a liver disorder called ICP that happens only during pregnancy. It scared me enough that I decided to go to the hospital to see how the baby - quieter than usual yesterday - was doing, and to have some liver bloodwork done. The itching has been going on for weeks, along with some of the other symptoms of this disorder that, taken separately, mean little, but taken together, paint a scary disorder-having picture.
My intake nurse at the hospital actually knew what I was talking about when I told her what I was experiencing, and didn't think I was crazy, which was one of my big fears - that people would think I was being a hysterical ninny. I got sent up to L&D and just like taking your car to the shop, the baby started jumping around and being active in a way she hadn't been all day. THE BABY WAS FINE LAST NIGHT. Better than fine. :)
Nurse called my doc, who didn't request bloodwork but who acquiesced when we requested it ourselves. I'll get the results this afternoon. Doc prescribed a shot of phenargen to help me with itching, and then we came home.
The itching is horrid - I don't have fingernails (I'm a biter) but have scratch marks all over my body - like nothing I have ever experienced before. But it isn't the itching that is the biggest problem here. I hate the itching, but can live with it for another day or two. The scary part of this disorder, which the nurses seem to think I have, is that because the mama's liver is functioning poorly, the baby runs an increased risk of stillbirth after 38 weeks. Most women who have this are induced/delivered at 36-37 weeks. I am 38 weeks, 1 day. Unfortunately, my doctor is quite inattentive (I met her for the first time in the whole pregnancy last week, for about 60 seconds, and she overtalked me the entire time, including dismissing some serious concerns I was trying to express to her) and she seems to believe that the itching is the reason for my freakout, not potential danger to my baby. Even if my labs come back abnormal, I'm not sure she'll do anything, since I'm already scheduled for a c-section tomorrow anyway. (That would be OK, except that this disorder can quite precipitously take a turn for the worse within a matter of hours.)
I have an ultrasound and meeting with the doctor (another 60 seconds, I'm sure) scheduled for this afternoon. For whatever it's worth to the doc, I'll get my lab results back this afternoon, too.
Sorry for this tome, but I wanted to ask if you'd redirect your prayers from baby-turning to live-baby-with-healthy-liver. I think it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that I'll be having a c-section, either today (if my labs come back abnormal - I am prepared to be a squeaky wheel) or tomorrow. There is an elevated risk of maternal hemorrhaging with this disorder, so I would like it if you'd also pray for a completely routine surgery for me, on top of a healthy baby.
I woke up only a short time ago, so the baby seems to still be asleep, which has me freaked out a bit. I'm going to have some caffeine to see if I can kickstart her, and then wake up everybody else so we can go have some lunch. I'll be on a restricted diet post-op, so I plan to eat good today. :) Thanks, Mama, for shifting some prayers my way, and thanks to everyone who's praying not only for my Mama, but for me and my wee-est one. Love to you all!