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Awesome Kristin posted:Thanks for all the info, Mnemosyne. Now I'm afraid of the drink. It's not the worst thing in the world, it's just gross, and if you were still holding on to some queasiness from earlier in pregnancy, it can make you a little nauseous, but my doctor told me that that wasn't terribly common. I wish they had some alternate option, like "eat x number of teaspoons of sugar," because I think I would have preferred that.
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There are alternatives-- some midwives use food or juices (Naked Juice comes to mind, though I have no idea what flavor and how much of it is used). No idea how widespread that is, but I've heard it from several friends in various areas of the country.
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Jun 12, 2012 19:58
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Amelia Song posted:There are alternatives-- some midwives use food or juices (Naked Juice comes to mind, though I have no idea what flavor and how much of it is used). No idea how widespread that is, but I've heard it from several friends in various areas of the country. I asked about it before I had to do it because the first (less gross) drink made me really nauseous and it was a serious struggle not to throw up even on the 1-hour test for me, and they told me "Yeah, I've heard of some people substituting other items for the drink, but we don't do that because we want the results as tightly controlled as possible."
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Jun 12, 2012 20:09
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Got my maternity belt today. Boy is that sexy.
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Jun 12, 2012 20:11
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Schweig und tanze posted:We're referring to it as El Jefe for the moment Ours was Zygotina, then Embrya, now it's Eowyn (because that's her name!)
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Jun 12, 2012 20:18
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Lullabee fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Jun 12, 2012 20:29
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Had my "why did the doctor order this?" ultrasound today, and the ultrasound tech told me she wasn't allowed to give me any details. She did however, say that if anything was at an "emergency" level of concern, that she would be calling my doctor with that info immediately. So at the end of my scan, I asked her if she was going to have to call my doctor, or if he could wait until tomorrow to see the results and she said that she was NOT going to be calling him today, so as long as it's not that serious, then most of my fears are allayed. New concern; if these ultrasound photos are in any way indicative of real life, I am in for one seriously unattractive baby. (Not actually that concerned about it, but good lord, I'd better go return all those "handsome like daddy" onesies/bibs we got at the shower.)
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Jun 12, 2012 20:30
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Lullabee posted:So, I'm still in the process of reading this thread, but I'm 5 weeks pregnant currently, and I was curious: Mr. Lullabee is insistant that I have no caffeine EVER. From what I've read so far, everyone else says one a day won't hurt. Is there any studies I can show him that prove that one can of cola or one cup of coffee won't hurt me? I'm a caffeine addict, and already dealing with horrid headaches now because of it. Here's ACOG's article on it. Hopefully that will be enough for him!
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Jun 12, 2012 20:35
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^^^ Beaten, with useful data! Thanks for linking that. Now I don't worry about all the coffee ice cream I've had!Lullabee posted:So, I'm still in the process of reading this thread, but I'm 5 weeks pregnant currently, and I was curious: Mr. Lullabee is insistant that I have no caffeine EVER. From what I've read so far, everyone else says one a day won't hurt. Is there any studies I can show him that prove that one can of cola or one cup of coffee won't hurt me? I'm a caffeine addict, and already dealing with horrid headaches now because of it. I mean, my doctor told me a cup of something daily was okay. Can you wait out the first few weeks, though, when the miscarriage risk is highest? I don't know whether the timing of caffeine consumption affects whatever risk there is, but your husband might feel less jittery.
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Jun 12, 2012 20:36
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Lullabee fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Jun 12, 2012 20:41
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Lullabee posted:Things like Sprite and other non caffeinated drinks are okay though, right? Sorry, first pregnancy, and everyone I usually ask is at work and can't talk for another four hours or so. In moderation, yes. Learn to love water. If you hate water, learn to love things like MIO and Crystal Light to add some flavor to water. 
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Jun 12, 2012 20:53
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Ginger ale and most root beer brands are generally caffeine-free as well. Cutting out/cutting down on caffeine isn't too hard for me, but I very much miss my bottle of beer with dinner. Even though I don't think I'm going to go to the trouble of making any of these, this thread on non-alcoholic drinks was fun to follow: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3487484 Maybe something there to keep you entertained?
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Jun 12, 2012 21:00
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nah.
Lullabee fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Jun 12, 2012 21:02
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buttzilla posted:It wasn't bad. I didn't notice a different consistency. Just that it was sweeter. Bring lots of water and you'll be fine. Be sure your doctor's office will let you drink water afterwards, though - mine wouldn't. (That said, I didn't notice a different consistency, either; it was nauseatingly sweet, and there was more of it, but it wasn't thicker.) Lullabee posted:Is there any studies I can show him that prove that one can of cola or one cup of coffee won't hurt me? I'm a caffeine addict, and already dealing with horrid headaches now because of it. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9717693?dopt=Abstract ("Moderate to heavy caffeine consumption during pregnancy and relationship to spontaneous abortion and abnormal fetal growth") used "less than 150mg of caffeine daily" as the control, so a cup of coffee or a can of cola shouldn't be an issue. http://www.infantrisk.com/content/caffeine-intake mentions the danger of more than seven cups of coffee a day - so, again, while five or six might be too close to seven, one should be okay.
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Jun 12, 2012 21:05
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zonohedron posted:Be sure your doctor's office will let you drink water afterwards, though - mine wouldn't. Mine wouldn't let me have any water afterwards either.
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Jun 12, 2012 21:22
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Mnemosyne posted:Mine wouldn't let me have any water afterwards either. For the 3 hour? Mine didn't have any problems after every hour test on the 3 hour one. But yea, I guess ask wherever you're getting the test done. 
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Jun 12, 2012 21:24
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Going in for our third ultrasound. Something like 26 weeks now. The last one said the babys head was pretty small in comparison to its body. Body and stuff was 58% but the head was like 12% so they want to do another one. Why is the head so small? He said the brain is formed well and its size is normal. I'm just hoping it was because the baby was jack-knifed in the belly and there was a shadow or something to throw the head measurements off.
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Jun 12, 2012 21:33
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buttzilla posted:For the 3 hour? Mine didn't have any problems after every hour test on the 3 hour one. But yea, I guess ask wherever you're getting the test done. Nope, none at all. The nurses actually told me that they felt bad for me, and after 2 hours they "snuck" me a cup with a single swallow of water in it, but even that was against the rules (and I was insanely grateful). Apparently I looked like poo poo; pale, sweaty and glassy-eyed the whole time. Even the other women in the waiting room were walking up and asking if I was ok. Nobody else seemed to have that sort of horrendous reaction to it. My anxiety about the needles for the blood draw probably didn't help.
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Jun 12, 2012 21:53
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I picked up the paperwork for my 3 hour glucose test. I have to go on a high carb (300g a day) diet for 3 days prior to the test, then a 12 hour fast immediately before the appointment. My husband is so sweet, we're doing it on his day off so he can stay with me. I'm such a wuss when it comes to my blood being taken. It's not the blood part that bothers me, it's the pain and discomfort from the needle. When he holds my hand it helps a lot.
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Jun 12, 2012 22:18
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Water has absolutely no effect on blood sugar. That's seriously crappy to deny you water after you've drunk the glucose. That's interesting they are putting you on a high carb diet before the test. I've never heard of that, but it makes more sense in some ways than the usual way of putting stress on your system by glugging the glucose. I suppose they're seeing if your fasting sugar will be higher this way compared to the 1-hour.
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Jun 12, 2012 22:43
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hepscat posted:Water has absolutely no effect on blood sugar. That's seriously crappy to deny you water after you've drunk the glucose. The explanation I was given is that they know exactly how diluted the 1-hour and 3-hour drinks were, and they didn't want me diluting it further by drinking water. 
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Jun 12, 2012 23:35
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That would only make sense if you didn't drink it all. You could take the syrup, and throw in 8 oz of water, and it would have the same amount of carbohydrates/sugar either way. I suppose if you added it to a gallon of water and therefore it took you an hour to drink the liquid, yes that would skew the results. But if you drank your syrup, then 10 minutes later drank water, it wouldn't flush glucose out of your blood stream. Believe me, if it were that easy to bring down a high blood sugar, diabetics wouldn't put themselves through injecting insulin several times a day. Edit: I just wanted to add if I sound grumpy it's not at you, it's just that I've encountered this weird misunderstanding of how diabetes works in the medical community more than once. I remember being in an endocrinologists' office once when she got called away to an emergency phone call. When she came back, she was irritated to have been interrupted. Apparently an ER doctor had been on the line wanting to know what to do with a child who had drunk an entire bottle of insulin. Now, a parent panicking is totally understandable (and correct!) but the point of insulin is that it breaks down and does nothing if you swallow it. There is no such thing as an insulin pill. It's harmless if taken by mouth, and no one would bother injecting themselves - especially type 1's who might be injecting different kinds several times a day, or living on a pump - if you could take a pill instead. It's just something you would expect a fellow doctor to know. hepscat fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Lullabee posted:So, I'm still in the process of reading this thread, but I'm 5 weeks pregnant currently, and I was curious: Mr. Lullabee is insistant that I have no caffeine EVER. From what I've read so far, everyone else says one a day won't hurt. Is there any studies I can show him that prove that one can of cola or one cup of coffee won't hurt me? I'm a caffeine addict, and already dealing with horrid headaches now because of it. When pregnant with Christopher I had a chai tea latte just about every morning for breakfast and he popped out as healthy as can be (the morning shift at Starbucks got to know me so well I bring the baby by to visit them once a month.) Granted, its about a third of the caffeine of a cup of coffee but still was like 100mg a day, on top of the copious amounts of chocolate I used as self medication.
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Well I haven't posted in a few months, but I thought I would give an update. For those that don't know, my wife is just about 23 weeks along with triplets. Had a few hiccups along the way. At 20 weeks, she started having pre-term contractions and we ended up going to the hospital. We didn't go to our normal one as it's about 30 minutes away, which is where they do the high risk pregnancies. We went to the one that was about 10 minutes away and they gave her a shot of tribulin to stop the contractions and found that she was dialated at 1 cm. They shipped us off to our regular hospital where she was promptly admitted. We stayed the night and she had a cerclage put in the next morning. She was on bedrest for the next few days until her next appointment where she was doing much better. She is still working, but at reduced hours (20 per week). She is staying off of her feet the rest of the time. We have our 6th ultrasound tomorrow and will get them every 2 weeks from here on out. It's been pretty cool to see them so often. We really were hoping to make it to 35 weeks, but with what happened we're just hoping to make it to 30 weeks at least. Oh and we're having 2 boys and a girl From 2 weeks ago: 
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Late to the party but my OB office let me have water after the drink. However, they warned not to drink too much and said it would probably be better to drink small sips. Their reasoning was that too much might make it more likely for me to vomit in which case I'd have to come back another day to re-take the test. No clue how true that is. I probably drank a 20 oz bottle in my time there but the drink never made me feel sick at all. Also, my doctor has switched to doing a 2 hour instead of a 1 hour with 3 hour if you fail. The 2 hour drink tasted similar as far as I remember but there was much more of it. Instead of a little cup I had to drink 10 ounces.
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Spermy Smurf posted:Going in for our third ultrasound. Something like 26 weeks now. The last one said the babys head was pretty small in comparison to its body. Body and stuff was 58% but the head was like 12% so they want to do another one. Update on this: Baby is formed proportionately fine, but is in the 9th percentile overall for weight/size. Going to see a specialist for yet another ultrasound to see if there is something wrong in a week or so. I was a tiny baby, and my wife is very small, so hopefully it's just a small baby.
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Spermy Smurf posted:
Probably this. My friend's babies were full-term, perfectly healthy...but the first was a 5.5lb girl, and the second a 4.5lb boy. Totally healthy kids and perfectly proportioned, but her and her husband are both fairly petite, and now that they're in preschool/kindergarten, they're still small compared to their classmates.
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Jun 13, 2012 19:01
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Has anyone else had the thing where every person you speak to had an early baby while you are still getting the home sorted for the new arrival. Then when you are into the final week or so everyone you speak to had a late first baby? It's like it's some sort of conspiracy to cause us more stress. The due date is tomorrow, so it's not looking to be an early baby.
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Jun 14, 2012 17:38
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I don't know anyone who went late (except people who gave birth more than 20 years ago). Everyone I know delivered early either naturally, for medical problems, or induced early for convenience. I've actually been joking that if I can make it to my scheduled c-section, I'll still have been pregnant longer than anyone I know.
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Jun 14, 2012 18:23
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I know tons of people who went late. Most naturally, some ending up with a c-section due to medical complications from an induction or otherwise. Personally speaking I was only 4 days early with my first, but didn't have GD to worry about so this next one I'm not going to anticipate an early or late birth.
bamzilla fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jun 14, 2012 |
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Jun 14, 2012 19:13
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First time pregnancies are typically 'late' I think. A lot of doctors will induce without medical indication though, which I think is bad practice. I was 10 days late with my first. I was 4 days late with my second. I was 16 days late with my third. All natural births with healthy babies.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:18
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I was 9 days late. I was sick of being pregnant at the end of it Especially my parents were pestering me at the end, my mother calling me like twice a day D: But the baby came without complications. My mother in law had my husband 3 weeks overdue, poor woman.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:29
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Panne posted:I was 9 days late. I was sick of being pregnant at the end of it Ugh, my husband was something like 17 days overdue. PLUS 11 1/2 lbs and a giant head. She's a petite woman.  All natural FORCEPS BABY. Hardcore.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:44
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Guh. My daughter was born right at 37 weeks and I was already completely sick of being pregnant. Two or three weeks over term would have had me hammering on the hospital doors every morning begging them to do something. Anything.
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Jun 14, 2012 19:53
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That's exactly what I mean! I'm sure all the people we remember telling us they had an early baby we are just remembering because of confirmation bias when we were in no way organised for the kid. Now we are into the waiting phase and just want to get on with things, it seems that everyone is talking about post due date births. Including most of you lot! :-)
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Jun 14, 2012 20:04
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Mr Darcy posted:I'm sure all the people we remember telling us they had an early baby we are just remembering because of confirmation bias when we were in no way organised for the kid. Now we are into the waiting phase and just want to get on with things, it seems that everyone is talking about post due date births. Including most of you lot! :-) My son (a first baby) was two weeks early; for the month before he was born, everyone who said anything about birth timing really was talking about babies born early, either declaring that I definitely would give birth early, or that they were born early, or that their cousin's friend's sister's kids were all early, or what-have-you, and I don't think it's just confirmation bias on my part. I think people talking to expectant parents simply tell time-appropriate stories - when I was in my first trimester, I heard morning sickness stories, when I was in my second trimester people told me about how much they loved that trimester of pregnancy, in my third trimester I heard early baby stories, and so if I'd passed my due date I'm sure I'd have heard late baby stories then.
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Speaking of dates and all that, my mother's sister is basically my only family member, and she went into natural/spontaneous labor with both of hers at 37 weeks, which has caused my husband to be absolutely sure that I was having this baby at 37 weeks, especially after I started with the contractions at 34 weeks. I managed to hit 38 weeks today, so now I get to lord over him that he's wrong. It's especially nice since from the beginning I thought this baby was a girl, and he correctly predicted boy, and ever since then likes to point out all the time how he was totally right about that and that I should listen to him more.
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Jun 14, 2012 20:39
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Lullabee fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Lullabee posted:A few questions; Does it matter what time I take my prenatals? I take them in the morning when I get up. I'm assuming it's fine as long as I take them, right? This may be TMI, but what's the best way to keep my nipples from being SO sensitive? Like, anything barely touches them and it's nothing but pain for a good minute afterwards. Would something like a sports bra work? My sister didn't have any issues, and everyone else I know who's had babies it's been years so they don't remember what they did (if anything at all). It doesn't matter what time of day you take your prenatals. Some people don't like them at night because it gives them heartburn, some people like them with meals because otherwise they feel sick, etc. Whenever works for you is fine. Wearing a snug bra helped with the nipple sensitivity for me.
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Lullabee posted:This may be TMI, but what's the best way to keep my nipples from being SO sensitive? Like, anything barely touches them and it's nothing but pain for a good minute afterwards. Would something like a sports bra work? My sister didn't have any issues, and everyone else I know who's had babies it's been years so they don't remember what they did (if anything at all). Not much you can do, other than wait it out. It should go away sometime in the 2nd trimester (some people seem to have to go away early and some don't have it go away until nearly the 3rd). Pretty much just experiment with all the bras you have and figure out which ones are comfiest. I found that in the evening when I didn't usually wear a bra, chafing was a problem, so I bought some sports bras to wear at night and to sleep in, which was more comfortable than having the sheets or my PJs rub up against them.
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