The ONE Thread Graduates!!! December, 2011 - Page 4

[Mummoth]

Stephanie Margaret was born on December 13th at 12:06AM! She is 7 pounds, 14 1/2 ounces and doing great! I am pretty tired, but recovering well. DH & I were having a giggle fit at 3AM remembering the birth because I said "Look a  baby! Andrew, I just had a baby! Oh wow... I just had a baby!!" LOL! By the third one, you'd think it isn't a shock how pregnancy ends but apparently that somehow alludes me!

[CDsMom1031]

                                               

[scowgirl]

Mummoth--Congratulations to you and your whole family!! So exciting! And Stephanie Margaret is a beautiful name.  Enjoy your time with her!

[BubbleMa]

Congrats!! 

[LivingSky]

Mummoth: Ditto to TTCCoC's post CONGRATULATIONS! Can't wait to see pictures and read your birth story, whenever you feel up to it! Enjoy your babymoon!!

[belacmsage]

Congrats Mummoth! Enjoy your new baby girl!

[JynxGirl]

Originally Posted by Mummoth 

Stephanie Margaret was born on December 13th at 12:06AM! She is 7 pounds, 14 1/2 ounces and doing great! I am pretty tired, but recovering well. DH & I were having a giggle fit at 3AM remembering the birth because I said "Look a  baby! Andrew, I just had a baby! Oh wow... I just had a baby!!" LOL! By the third one, you'd think it isn't a shock how pregnancy ends but apparently that somehow alludes me!

Congratulations hon!!!!

****hugs****

Not gonna lie, I stalked you here because I just realized this morning that you were due a few days ago. I'm so glad to hear everything went so well!!!

[janellody]

CONGRATS!!!!  Can't wait for the pics!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[CDsMom1031]

I got my work release. Let's party some more!

                                                                                                 

[deborahbgkelly]

Taurus- Very, very sorry to hear that. Mummoth-Congratulations on the new addition! AFM- 2nd ultrasound went just as well as the first and we got to hear the hearbeats and see little limb movements. Here are the pictures:

[deborahbgkelly]

Also, TTCChloeorConnor- Yay for work release!

[AndtheStars]

Mummoth, congrats!  Yay! for a wonderful, healthy baby girl!  Welcome to the world, Stephanie!

taurustheta, I was so sorry to read your news.  peace and light to you.

janellody, a boy!  Hello, Deacon!  I love that name.

deborah, twins!  identical ones!  woo-hoo! 

TTCCOC, get yourself back to work!  And super funny but my friend from high school sent me a christmas card yesterday and her kids are named Conner and Chloe.  I didn't even think about it until I saw the card and thought about you.  Totally random.  And your Christmas pictures are awesome.  Conner is just soooo cute.

scowgirl, I have no insight into your sweating thing but I hope that the clearing of the acne continues.  I had beautiful pregnant skin with DS and with this pregnancy, it's awful.  I don't have bad skin normally so this is an adjustment.  I think that if you have bad skin and it gets better, it means that you are having a boy.  If you have bad skin and it stays the same or gets worse, you're having a girl.  So I vote boy. 

AFM, I heard the heartbeat again on Tuesday and maaaaybe am starting to feel little flutters of movement.  I don't want to say that's what I'm feeling yet because if it's digestive in nature instead, I'll just feel depressed.   

[scowgirl]

AndTheStars, how cool about feeling the movement! That is great.

AFM first trimester screening next Friday (12/23). Getting antsy about it. I am worried about basically everything--missed miscarriage because I am on progesterone, genetic problems, how ludicrous it was of me to think I could handle being a parent, you name it. Then everything I am seeing and reading has me in an utter panic about my weight. They make it sound like any fat person who gets pregnant will with 100% certainty end up hypertensive, diabetic, and probably blind if not dead. I can't imagine all the stress is good for the baby, to say nothing of myself, but I can't help it. I lie awake at night worrying sometimes. Then I could not possibly hate my job more (although this is an ongoing issue basically from the very first day I started back with this company) and I am about ready to punch the 10 million project managers who are petulantly demanding stuff from me right now. As you can tell, I am not in the best frame of mind... sorry, just needed to vent a bit.

[janellody]

Andthestars - I felt the same way for awhile.. this is my first so I wasn't sure if it was movement I was feeling or just imagining it.  Well as of Monday, it IS movement and yesterday little Deacon was kicking up a STORM!!  It is so awesome to finally feel him move around!!

I texted my husband yesterday and said "your son is doing acrobats in my tummy" and he LOVED the  "your son" part.... you know when you have never heard that before and then someone says it.. I knew he would like it but I think it really made him happy.  It's so fun being new parents, I can't wait until we actually have our little guy out!!  But for now I will settle for lots of movement!!

[deborahbgkelly]

Thanks Andthestars!

[LivingSky]

scowgirl - let me give you some hope! I am overweight - seriously overweight, I think my BMI is around 37 or 38. I had no gestational diabetes, no hypertension, no weight related complications whatsoever. I had a normal, vaginal delivery, 12 hours of totally manageable labour and a perfectly healthy baby. This was our first baby, I'm in my 30's as well. The key is finding a healthcare provider who isn't fat-phobic! My first midwife had a real problem with overweight people and it was a nightmare. But I managed to deliver with a different midwife who was totally supportive and had no problem with my weight. Fight for your rights! Overweight does NOT necessarily mean unhealthy, and if your test results all seem normal, then you shouldn't be treated as high risk just because of your weight.

[scowgirl]

LivingSky--thank you so much for that--I really appreciate your perspective as someone who has been through this. It's frustrating because over time, in my everyday life, I have become fairly comfortable with sorting out what is a legitimate concern for me and what is fatphobic or exaggerated. But I've never been pregnant before, so it's a completely unknown quantity and I am a nervous wreck. Even fat-friendly pregnancy websites act like being fat makes you a walking death trap if your diet and exercise habits are not 100% perfect. Of course I want and try to do the best I can with nutrition and exercise, but it's so hard to strike that balance between being healthy and obsessing to a degree that is not helpful. Right now I'm kind of on the wrong side of both (knowing there are things I could do to be healthier, but also beating myself up all the time for not doing all of them). So that's not real productive.

The main problem is that my bp actually is a little high (I've been taking it over the past several days and it's right around 130/80... not great but not technically hypertension. That's also what it was at the drugstore last month, and the last time I gave blood.) So they are sending me for a high-risk consult. Fine. However, this is mainly because it was something like 150/90 in their office last week! I've never seen another number like that, ever. Now comes the fight to get the large cuff used on me at the high-risk appointment. I haven't been pushing for that so far, and of course my home cuff is standard size, but I will at that appointment. Although hypertension is nothing to fool around with, I want to make absolutely sure I actually have it before they start pushing pills on me.

[LivingSky]

scowgirl - yes, totally push for the large cuff to be used. It makes a huge difference! And if 130/80 is your normal BP, that actually isn't that high, it's within a normal range. If it's spiking in the doctor's office, then it's probably because you're freaked out that it will spike in the doctor's office Near the end of my pregnancy, my first midwife was giving me all kinds of grief about my weight, and my BP started creeping up whenever she would take it. But taken anywhere else (including by doctors when I was in the hospital for kidney stones) my BP was fine. So sometimes you can attribute high BP to situations, rather than because your BP is actually high. If you've got a cuff to take your BP at home, I'd keep track of your BP and bring that information with you to your appointment.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know I'm backing you! Don't let anyone tell you you're unhealthy just because you're overweight. The two are NOT the same thing. Yes, being overweight puts you at higher risk for certain things, but it doesn't mean all or even any of them will happen to you. You know your body better than any doctor does, and if you pay attention to it, you will know if there is something not right.

[deborahbgkelly]

Scowgirl- I agree with LivingSky. 130/80 is the high end of NORMAL. It also looks like it could be white coat syndrome. I had an OB Nurse Practitioner that blew that syndrome off. There were other things as well that irritated me about her, so I switched. I highly encourage you to look for someone who will be much more supportive.

[deborahbgkelly]

Also, I am overweight as well. I think my BMI is 31.8 or something like that (pre-pregnancy). I have been lucky that since I switched practitioners for all my doctors actually, there hasn't been much emphasis on my weight outside of my PCP who is only supportive and doesn't brow-beat me if I gain a few pounds. She even acknowledges that a lot of weight gain is water weight.