PC Pregnancy Trouble Prayers Needed Please

[janebrain]

Please let us know how dr appt. goes as soon as you can. I am so glad you are going with her. I can't imagine how awful it must be to have to gasp to just breathe!
Jane

[Star*]

Daisy,

OF course you know that PC and the baby and you and your whole family are in my prayers.

That being said I want to tell you something that you may think is nuts, but it's about me (so that kinda fits). I am anemic. No matter what I eat, how green, how good? I'm anemic. I also have Thalassemia trait. (anemia that is like sickle cell but is not). IF I do not take iron? I can't breathe. I will be winded walking from the car to the front of a store. Twenty steps and my face is red, I'm wheezy and my sinuses burn.

IS SHE....taking her IRON???? Has she (not a nurse but trying to help) gotten her iron tested?

Doc is right - anemia will make you short of breath. I am hoping this is some help.

Hugs
Star

[totoro]

I was anemic during both pregnancies. I had the same type of things go on. I went black at the Sears Tower in Chicago... I went dizzy and almost out a bunch of times.

I only gained 15 and 17 pounds with both girls. Not for lack of trying. I never had high BP. It was very low.
Towards the end (last couple of days) my Blood Sugar went low. I stopped eating sugar.
Both girls were exactly 3 weeks early and the same weight. I was on no meds at the time.
But they were completely fine not one complication.
Apgars fine. Feeding fine everything.
So I am hoping it is nothing. But it will not hurt to check things out and make sure.

[Hound dog]

OB is still poo pooing. Now he says its gas. I didn't get to go. SIL went instead.

PCs iron was normal because she's taking an extra prescription on top of the prenatal vits. So it's not the anemia problem causing it. I'm finding it extremely hard to believe it is gas, of all things. (gimme a break) But PC has chosen to listen to the OB and not go for a 2nd opinion. But she has conceded to going to the ER the next time she has the tachycardia instead of waiting to see OB.

So........I still get to worry sick. I think OB is full of it. Why he won't just do an ultrasound to be sure is beyond me. PCs insurance would cover it without a hitch. grrr

Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers. I have a feeling PC needs all she can get.

Hugs

[KTMom91]

Sending hugs and prayers that PC and the baby will be fine.

[everywoman]

Praying hard that pc and baby will be fine and the pregnancy will progress without major complications. Even when they're grown, they are still our babies, and that mommy gut tells you when it's more than meets the eye.

[flutterbee]

Continuing to send good thoughts to PC and baby.

Mamabear, I know you'll stay on her case about going to the ER with tachycardia or respiratory distress.

Keep us posted.

(((hugs)))

[susiestar]

Next time YOU go with her!!! This does not at all sound in any way like GAS. NOt making her DIZZY. Bloated, yes. MAybe bigger than you expect. But not dizzy, hard time breathing AND tachycardic.

Are there any other OBs in your area? Cause this guy just plain isn't LISTENING to pc. My first preg I had a doc who wouldn't listen to me. He let me walk around town at 4 cm for 4 weeks before he induced labor. I was 44 weeks when Wiz was born. The ONLY reason he induced then and not another 2 weeks later was b/c I threatened to pull his lungs out through his nostril. He had the stones to put in the chart that I was "irrational". What I was was "terrified".

The next pregnancy I changed OBs. There was (and still is) only 1 OB/GYN practice in our town. They told me I couldn't switch to a diff doc w/in the practice. I said Oh yes I can. Show me the law that says I have to let a doc who let me go to 44 weeks with a pregnancy and see him for a 2nd preg? If anything happens to this preg and you don't let me switch to Dr. B I will sue the doc AND YOU PERSONALLY.

I got to see Dr. B. Who was wonderful. And the staff was glad they let me switch, b/c I lost the baby 6 weeks later. NO fault of anyone.

I still won't see the doc who delivered Wiz. I go to a fam practice doc for gyn checks. Until the hyster I drove 2 hours to the OB I liked. (dr. B from above)).

It is crucially important that the OB pay attention to PC. And that she FEEL he is paying attention. With a tipped uterus she might very well have many problems, some might be helped with a certain position when laying down, or bed rest, or whatever. But if the doc is being an idiot it is PCs job to challenge him. Or your job to do it if she can't.

PLEASE get her to the ER for a sonogram. And to another doc for an exam if there is one available. IF this guy keeps ignoring her she or the baby could be seriously hurt.

I will ALWAYS wonder if Wiz has Asperger's b/c the pregnancy went so long.

I hope she is OK and I am praying for her.