I'm 35 weeks almost 36 with my first baby, exactly one month til due date. Would love to have some friends due mid April 2013.

Just got back from my very eventful morning/afternoon. Went in for my NST and her heart rate was too high (180's), but she looked okay. So she sent me over to labor and delivery to be watched longer after trying to consult my high risk Dr. After getting me hooked up her heart rate was 140's to 160's and was going to watch me for 20-30 minutes, but then I started having contractions! I am only 33 weeks + 6 days, and they were coming every 2 minutes and getting stronger, so I got a shot to stop them. Thankfully it worked and they haven't started back up yet. So now I am home resting until my next NST on Thursday. She just needs to cook for another 3 weeks! Thankfully I have the best neighbor who was watching my son and my husband left work early to go to the hospital with me and is staying home the rest of the day.

Eek, that's scary! Glad they could stop the contractions and that you're resting. I have a friend who is due May 9th (so about two weeks ahead of me), and she told me yesterday that her doctor has threatened to put her on bedrest because she started having regular contractions (not BH) over the past weekend. She was monitored, and they stopped on their own, but she said that if it happens again, he's putting her on bedrest. Her daughter is almost exactly my son's age (~2 yrs 2 months), so I can't imagine how difficult that would be to be on bedrest with a toddler in the house. Those of you with older kids, I don't know how you do it!

Thanks RBX. I keep track of the May boards usually just haven't commented on them. I read almost everything on here as all the opinions/experiences are quite interesting to me. Glad to know I'm not the only one with a night owl baby. Although I have noticed this week that she has become much more active during the day which has put my mind at ease.
On the swelling issue I haven't had any problems this time except if I don't drink enough and then my wedding ring gets super snug. Last pregnancy my feet, ankles and calved swelled terribly. Probably a combination of working a job that was 80% sitting (bank teller) and giving birth the end of July (terrible time to be pregnant)

My glucose test is next week, hoping that goes well. Never had a problem with it in the past, but I know they say that's not always indicative of future pregnancies. I guess I also need to put a bug in their ear about my Rhogam shot, cuz I'm pretty sure that should be given no later than week 30.


@Rachy congrats a beautiful baby, so exciting!!

Thank you Aeriel! He's here! Born at 41 weeks, and though that extra week was a killer, emotionally, he's worth every second of the wait! His name is George James, he was 8lb 13oz or 4.01kg. Birth was very quick, waters broke with no contractions, but contractions established quickly. I had to go to hospital due to previous c section, arrived at hospital at 9.50pm and 2cm dilated, he was born at 11.17pm!! So basically 90 mins from 2cm to being born! My memories of the birth are very surreal, due to the pace I guess. He pooed during labour, scared the s*@t out of him!! So we had to stay in hospital to check he didn't have meconium in his lungs. That was all good and we're home now. My kids LOVE him soooo much!

Wow, you have deliveries like me.....all h*ll breaks loose once the water breaks! LOL Glad all went well and the you were able to do a VBAC successfully. Picture looks beautiful! Congratulations!

I guess they decided to wait on the Rhogam my last visit b/c I was a couple days shy of 26 weeks. And this appt I'll be a few days short of 30 weeks. Or even more likely, they probably just forgot. They have cautioned me with both previous pregnancies before and after delivery to remind them b/c apparently it's a pretty common thing for them to forget. How consoling!
I really cannot believe that this will be my last monthly visit!! Then we're on to every 2 weeks until May, and then it's once a week!! I'm amazed at how good I feel and how much energy I have! The aches and pains have actually gotten better, and my weight gain has slowed. My appetite has also been more controllable. I think part of it is knowing in the back of my mind that if I over eat I'm going to pay for it with terrible heartburn. I've also noticed I have to avoid tomato based sauces for supper or I'll be up all night with heartburn. Which really sucks b/c I have CRAVED Italian food with this baby.

Thank you everyone for the kind words. This last week has been complete chaos. It started Monday with my previous post, then on Tuesday I spent all day on the couch except to make meals. I called my OB that afternoon to let her know about the constant heaviness and tightening whenever I was on my feet. I got sent back to L&D Tuesday night to be monitored. I ended up having to be admitted for 24 hours due to pre term labor at 34 weeks. I ended up getting 3 shots of terbutaline to stop my contractions, 3 liters of ivf, a round of steroid shots to develop her lungs, and increasing my procardia dose to keep things under control. I came home on Wednesday night with strict orders for bed rest. While I was in the hospital I got my cervix checked and was 1.5 cm dilated and thinning and also had some bloody show. Right now the goal is to keep her cooking until I am at least 36 weeks (11 more days).

Thankfully I have great parents who are here to take care of my 3 yo son and myself while my husband is at work.

@rabbit_food - Congrats on a BEAUTIFUL BABY!!!!! Can't wait to hear how everything went.

@RBX - I must have jinxed myself. I have had zero problems with swelling until this weekend! Admittedly I did not drink nearly enough water, and hubs and I had the weekend off from the kids so I ate entirely too much salt. But OMG I forgot how awful that feeling is of your hands and feet feeling like they might just pop right off.

I also have had no problems sleeping.....until this weekend. It was like I couldn't shut my brain off to sleep, and I just kept tossing and turning. I would wake up with silly things on my mind. Really frusterating!!

Hello ladies!


I'm due with my second around May 19th. I've still got 5-9 weeks left and I'm so ready to be done. I've had quite a few "Any day now, right?" and "Oh you are so close! How many days til your due?" comments at work this morning. And I want to cry. I wish it was any day now (not that baby would come early, just that I was 36 weeks instead of 31). The last few weeks always seem the longest though. right?

Hope you are all doing well!

I know how you feel laurab! I've just started to get heartburn really badly and it is definitely evil! I was thinking about joining Curves, but my hubby doesn't think I'll actually do it, so he doesn't want to spend the money :O(. My new goals are to pay attention to sodium intake and to not drink soda, which makes achiness and water retention way worse!

Hi everyone! As you can see from my profile picture, I had my little man on Sunday. He was my little St. Patricks Day surprise! I was scheduled to be induced at 4 a.m. on Monday but he came a day early. I was 40 weeks, 3 days when I delivered. I got to the hospital at about 10:30 a.m. after noticing my water broke at home around 9:45 a.m. I had no contractions or anything. Once they confirmed my water did break, they admitted me at 3 cm dilated (had been that for a few days). I spent the rest of the day at 3 cn even with high doses of Pitocin. My contractions were very intense & 2-3 minutes apart for about 7 hours (I got an epidural about 3 hours in). My doctor was cocerned because I had made no progress whatsoever and decided to do a c section around 7 p.m. It all happened very quickly and by son was born at 7:15 pm at 8 lbs 5 oz. He is perfectly healthy :-) The reason I was not progressing with dilation is because he had both of his hands up by his cheeks. He was making it very hard to move down deep enough into the birth canal. Regardless of hiw I had to deliver, I'm so glad he is here & healthy. I fell in love with my little Logan Alexander as soon as I heard hik cry. We get to go home tomorrow evening as long as everything looks ok!

Congrats!!!

Hi everyone! As you can see from my profile picture, I had my little man on Sunday. He was my little St. Patricks Day surprise! I was scheduled to be induced at 4 a.m. on Monday but he came a day early. I was 40 weeks, 3 days when I delivered. I got to the hospital at about 10:30 a.m. after noticing my water broke at home around 9:45 a.m. I had no contractions or anything. Once they confirmed my water did break, they admitted me at 3 cm dilated (had been that for a few days). I spent the rest of the day at 3 cn even with high doses of Pitocin. My contractions were very intense & 2-3 minutes apart for about 7 hours (I got an epidural about 3 hours in). My doctor was cocerned because I had made no progress whatsoever and decided to do a c section around 7 p.m. It all happened very quickly and by son was born at 7:15 pm at 8 lbs 5 oz. He is perfectly healthy :-) The reason I was not progressing with dilation is because he had both of his hands up by his cheeks. He was making it very hard to move down deep enough into the birth canal. Regardless of hiw I had to deliver, I'm so glad he is here & healthy. I fell in love with my little Logan Alexander as soon as I heard hik cry. We get to go home tomorrow evening as long as everything looks ok!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Rabbit_food!

RBXChas - I would ask your pharmacist what they think, but I am pretty sure Zantac works the best when taken as a scheduled dose and not as needed. That way your are not having to wait for it to start working and can take the tums in between if needed. But I would make sure to ask your pharmacist or doctor and not take my word on it.

Here is my week 35 update. I went in to my OB yesterday for my twice weekly NST and her heart rate was too high again. After being on the monitor for an hour and not seeing it stay down consistently, my OB got me in for a ultrasound with my high risk doc (1 floor down) an hour later. The only problem was I had to stay hooked up to the monitor until 10 minutes before my appointment. So I was hooked up for a total of 2 hours in the morning. :-/ I went in for the other appointment and they did an ultrasound and looked at little girl's heart REALLY well, then I got to visit with my high risk doctor and get monitored for another 40 minutes (total of almost 3 hours on thee monitor all day). Basically with the umbilical vein varix (widening of her vein) coupled with the 2 vessel cord, my preterm labor last week, and her heart rate occasionally being in the 180's she wanted me to stop doing anything to prevent me from going into labor at this point. Her reasoning was there might be something going on that they can't see and my body and the baby are trying to tell us that she would be better off out than in at this point. Especially since I was able to get the steroid shots last week for her lungs and was still having mild contractions despite the procardia. So I stopped my strict bed rest, and all meds yesterday at noon and we are just in a wait and see game right now with continuing my twice weekly NST's.

As of yesterday she was measuring her to be 5 pounds and 1 ounce. We are praying that everything is okay and the delivery will be easy with no complications. I will try to keep you all updated as I can.

Here is my week 35 update. I went in to my OB yesterday for my twice weekly NST and her heart rate was too high again. After being on the monitor for an hour and not seeing it stay down consistently, my OB got me in for a ultrasound with my high risk doc (1 floor down) an hour later. The only problem was I had to stay hooked up to the monitor until 10 minutes before my appointment. So I was hooked up for a total of 2 hours in the morning. :-/ I went in for the other appointment and they did an ultrasound and looked at little girl's heart REALLY well, then I got to visit with my high risk doctor and get monitored for another 40 minutes (total of almost 3 hours on thee monitor all day). Basically with the umbilical vein varix (widening of her vein) coupled with the 2 vessel cord, my preterm labor last week, and her heart rate occasionally being in the 180's she wanted me to stop doing anything to prevent me from going into labor at this point. Her reasoning was there might be something going on that they can't see and my body and the baby are trying to tell us that she would be better off out than in at this point. Especially since I was able to get the steroid shots last week for her lungs and was still having mild contractions despite the procardia. So I stopped my strict bed rest, and all meds yesterday at noon and we are just in a wait and see game right now with continuing my twice weekly NST's.

As of yesterday she was measuring her to be 5 pounds and 1 ounce. We are praying that everything is okay and the delivery will be easy with no complications. I will try to keep you all updated as I can.

Also praying for you doubletnurse! Hope little one is safe and grows/develops as long as she can. Good luck!