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[firespiritmelody]

Originally Posted by stormysky 

I'm also using Neil Med sinus wash and Xlear sinus spray. They provide temporary relief and it's not getting worse, but I am still not getting better! My nose itself is not congested, but there seems to be a post nasal drip that causes me to cough and have a hoarse voice. It provokes a lot of stupid comments from people, but it's convenient because I really don't like getting out these days and it's a good excuse. I think this is here to stay for a while. I am also using this tea tea oil ointment because I love the smell, though I'm a little iffy about using it in pregnancy.

Firespirit, I didn't mean to second guess you. How are you feeling this morning? Hope everyone feels better soon.

No worries, no offense taken!!

I'm feeling really crummy unfortunately. Was up most of the night with sever pain again and actually resorted to taking a sudefed (which is NOT something I would normally take during pregnancy) but nothing else I was doing was having any effect and I was just so tired and sore that I was desperate. It seemed to let me get some sleep (thank goodness!) and when I woke up the pain had subsided but now I can't hear at all out of my right ear and it feels like it's full of cotton. So, I'm on my way back to urgent care to see if there is anything they can do.

What a bummer that so many of us are feeling so icky. Here's hoping it clears up for everyone soon!!

[stormysky]

I've taken sudafed during pregnancy. Also guaifenesin (generic for mucinex). I took a lot of stuff when I had the flu. It was unbearable. I'm really hoping things will turn around when it gets warmer. It's been a looooong winter.

[Cananny]

Hello

sorry everyone is sick ... Add me to the list of sick ... I am sooo stopped up I can't smell Vic's either:( the dr put me in antibiotics and Benadryl to hopefully not get any worse ... I have asthma and this usually ends up in my chest... We don't want that our delivery is in 3 days!!!! Yes 3 days... I am still in the hospital miserable as I can be :( but Bp has stayed down ... The boys are big my stomach is huge and we r guessing they will be close to 4.5-5 lbs!!! I am in full panic mode re the c section.... I've never had surgery I hate needles and yeah I'm terrified...my doula/friend has been great trying to calm me but its hard ... I can't believe our boys will b born in 3 days!!!!! 

Hoping everyone is well ... We r all getting close!!!!! And hope all of who are sick get well fast !!!

[firespiritmelody]

So good to hear from you Cananny! We've all been thinking about you! Oh my gosh, 3 days?? Is there anything we can do for you from here?

[TIFF4NY]

Keeping you all in our thoughts Cananny! So very excited to meet your boys! I hope you feel a bit better by the time they come.

[bmcneal]

Originally Posted by Cananny 

Hello

sorry everyone is sick ... Add me to the list of sick ... I am sooo stopped up I can't smell Vic's either:( the dr put me in antibiotics and Benadryl to hopefully not get any worse ... I have asthma and this usually ends up in my chest... We don't want that our delivery is in 3 days!!!! Yes 3 days... I am still in the hospital miserable as I can be :( but Bp has stayed down ... The boys are big my stomach is huge and we r guessing they will be close to 4.5-5 lbs!!! I am in full panic mode re the c section.... I've never had surgery I hate needles and yeah I'm terrified...my doula/friend has been great trying to calm me but its hard ... I can't believe our boys will b born in 3 days!!!!! 

Hoping everyone is well ... We r all getting close!!!!! And hope all of who are sick get well fast !!!

Cananny, I understand about the panic mode. I didn't have a planned c-section with DD, but when they started talking c-section in earnest, it freaked me out. I can't believe you only have 3 days left!

[stormysky]

Cananny would they allow a humidifier in your hospital room? I remember the hospital air always being so dry. Feel better!

[IronMam]

DH interviews tomorrow at the only Canadian med school he applied to (the one in the city we're currently living in). I'm FREAKING OUT. But I can't talk to him about it, because I don't want to interfere with his calmness and confidence the night before the big day.

We won't know how it went until May 15th...which just kills me. I don't handle waiting for news well. I wish we could know BEFORE Teddy is born what our plans for the future will be.

We just found out this week that because of some provincial funding issues or something, there are actually fewer seats available this year at this school. :(     And we still are waiting to hear back from US schools...which seems like a really bad sign to me. 

So basically, all this stress + hormones = me  

[alaskanmomma]

Originally Posted by Cananny 

Hello

sorry everyone is sick ... Add me to the list of sick ... I am sooo stopped up I can't smell Vic's either:( the dr put me in antibiotics and Benadryl to hopefully not get any worse ... I have asthma and this usually ends up in my chest... We don't want that our delivery is in 3 days!!!! Yes 3 days... I am still in the hospital miserable as I can be :( but Bp has stayed down ... The boys are big my stomach is huge and we r guessing they will be close to 4.5-5 lbs!!! I am in full panic mode re the c section.... I've never had surgery I hate needles and yeah I'm terrified...my doula/friend has been great trying to calm me but its hard ... I can't believe our boys will b born in 3 days!!!!! 

Hoping everyone is well ... We r all getting close!!!!! And hope all of who are sick get well fast !!!

Originally Posted by IronMam 

DH interviews tomorrow at the only Canadian med school he applied to (the one in the city we're currently living in). I'm FREAKING OUT. But I can't talk to him about it, because I don't want to interfere with his calmness and confidence the night before the big day.

We won't know how it went until May 15th...which just kills me. I don't handle waiting for news well. I wish we could know BEFORE Teddy is born what our plans for the future will be.

We just found out this week that because of some provincial funding issues or something, there are actually fewer seats available this year at this school. :(     And we still are waiting to hear back from US schools...which seems like a really bad sign to me. 

So basically, all this stress + hormones = me  

I hope your DH gets into, or at least HEARS a yay or nay from some medical schools soon. It sucks having to wait, especially when you have a baby coming to add into all the chaos. If he were to not get into any med schools is he taking the MCATS again and reapplying or does he have another idea in mind(I HOPE there's no plan b needed, just curious!)

[IronMam]

He'll apply again. And yeah, unfortunately he'd have to take the MCAT again this year (it's good for a while, but this isn't his first time applying).

On the bright side, he says that he's prepared to do MUCH better at the interviews than last time. He's been going to practice groups and doing everything he can to prepare. He said looking back he can see now he did poorly. Now he knows what they expect from interviews. So his chances are much better this year.

[bmcneal]

Originally Posted by IronMam 

He'll apply again. And yeah, unfortunately he'd have to take the MCAT again this year (it's good for a while, but this isn't his first time applying).

On the bright side, he says that he's prepared to do MUCH better at the interviews than last time. He's been going to practice groups and doing everything he can to prepare. He said looking back he can see now he did poorly. Now he knows what they expect from interviews. So his chances are much better this year.

I hope he gets accepted this year! But it's good, too, that he sees where he could use improvement, and should he need to interview again, has that knowledge.

It seems like so many of us have major-ish changes going on in our lives, even outside of the major-ish change of welcoming a new baby. I hope things start to come together for everyone. 

[bambihelton]

Ahhh! I'm so excited for your babies to be here TOMORROW, Cananny! It doesn't seem that we could POSSIBLY be having babies!.... well, even though your's are a few weeks early! hehe 

I'm having a really hard time coping with the news that we just received about my little cousin, Sunni. Firstly, because I'm scared for her. And second, because this means that my aunt (that I am EXTREMELY close to) is going to be absent for baby's birth.... and the first month or two of his life! 

Sunni was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis last April. She's 6 years old now. We had gone through three years of extremely painful attacks for her before we even knew what was wrong. Doctors would say that she had strep throat, a stomach virus, this and that. One doctor even told us that it was all in her head and she just wanted attention. Eventually, last April, when she was taken to the ER, they tested her blood and found that her enzymes were skyrocketing. So we knew that it was her pancreas, but we didn't know just how bad it was. (For those of you who aren't familiar with pancreatitis, Sunni's form of the disease is genetic, even though no one has shown symptoms before. Basically, the enzymes produced to digest food never leave the pancreas. They get stuck inside and instead of breaking down food, they destroy her pancreatic tissue.) After spending a week in a children's hospital two and a half hours from home, they placed a stent in the duct of her pancreas to allow enzymes to be released from her pancreas into her intestines. This worked for a few weeks... until we were back at the hospital with another attack. This became an ongoing routine. Because her condition is so severe, her only option is to receive what is called an islet cell transplant. This is where they remove the pancreas, gallbladder, and several other organs, harvest the islet cells from her pancreas and inject them into her liver. If the transplant is successful, her liver will essentially work as both her liver and her pancreas. However, sometimes the liver takes over and becomes the pancreas and stops producing insulin. So there's a chance that she could become diabetic. ANYWAY, in order for this procedure to be successful, there has to be plenty of healthy pancreatic tissue. After the procedure, they have told us to expect her to be in the hospital for at least 8 weeks. Sunni's attacks are starting to get so close together and much worse, and the MRI shows that her pancreas doesn't look good. We can't afford to wait another three months while her pancreas continues to break itself down. She is going to be having this surgery at the beginning of April....  I think there are two hospitals in the country that do this type of transplant. The closest one is in Minnesota. We live in Virginia. I'm not due until the 26th. Therefore, my aunt will miss baby's birth and the beginning of his life. 

I don't want to sound selfish. I'm just having a really hard time dealing with this. 

Sorry for this GINORMOUS post.*

 

[IronMam]

bambihelton: I'm so sorry. It's OK to feel sad for yourself while also feeling sorry for others. It's not selfish. It's normal. 

bmcneal: Thanks for the well wishes. Right now I'm pretty much just sitting here waiting for him to call me to come pick him up. I dropped him off because I had my first prenatal aqua fitness class this am and needed the car.

Speaking of the fitness class, it was pretty nice. I didn't have time to stay behind and chat with anybody since I had to get home and relieve my BIL from babysitting duty. But the workout itself was good. It was more effort than I expected, which is a good thing. I was worried it was going to be a pansy workout with a name like "gentle aqua fitness." It is gentle, from the standpoint that it's low impact by nature of being in the water. But it definitely gets the heart going, and my arms are just the tiniest bit rubbery. But it's also not so hard a workout that I'm exhausted. I feel refreshed, which is just perfect. There are two moms in there expecting twins, and a mom or two past 35 weeks. There are also moms as early in their pregnancy as 12 weeks or so, so it's a nice mix.

[MaineCoastMama]

On the WHOA side of things, I don't know what I was thinking committing to do my first trade show (for gift buyers only) with my jewelry business less than a month before my due date (show is March 23-25). I'm kind of freaking out about having my catalog and collections wholesale ready by then- not to mention spiffing up my booth display. 

On a positive note, over break we did so much stuff to prep for the baby, including cleaning up and putting together the car seat, the Arm's Reach, the bouncer seat, organizing a diapering station downstairs, and organizing all our other baby stuff in our guest room for now. I even got my Moby yesterday and practiced using it with my stepdaughter's Baby Born doll. 

Sometimes everything converges at once and it is hard to see the path, though! That is right now.

[alaskanmomma]

Originally Posted by bambihelton 

Ahhh! I'm so excited for your babies to be here TOMORROW, Cananny! It doesn't seem that we could POSSIBLY be having babies!.... well, even though your's are a few weeks early! hehe 

I'm having a really hard time coping with the news that we just received about my little cousin, Sunni. Firstly, because I'm scared for her. And second, because this means that my aunt (that I am EXTREMELY close to) is going to be absent for baby's birth.... and the first month or two of his life! 

Sunni was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis last April. She's 6 years old now. We had gone through three years of extremely painful attacks for her before we even knew what was wrong. Doctors would say that she had strep throat, a stomach virus, this and that. One doctor even told us that it was all in her head and she just wanted attention. Eventually, last April, when she was taken to the ER, they tested her blood and found that her enzymes were skyrocketing. So we knew that it was her pancreas, but we didn't know just how bad it was. (For those of you who aren't familiar with pancreatitis, Sunni's form of the disease is genetic, even though no one has shown symptoms before. Basically, the enzymes produced to digest food never leave the pancreas. They get stuck inside and instead of breaking down food, they destroy her pancreatic tissue.) After spending a week in a children's hospital two and a half hours from home, they placed a stent in the duct of her pancreas to allow enzymes to be released from her pancreas into her intestines. This worked for a few weeks... until we were back at the hospital with another attack. This became an ongoing routine. Because her condition is so severe, her only option is to receive what is called an islet cell transplant. This is where they remove the pancreas, gallbladder, and several other organs, harvest the islet cells from her pancreas and inject them into her liver. If the transplant is successful, her liver will essentially work as both her liver and her pancreas. However, sometimes the liver takes over and becomes the pancreas and stops producing insulin. So there's a chance that she could become diabetic. ANYWAY, in order for this procedure to be successful, there has to be plenty of healthy pancreatic tissue. After the procedure, they have told us to expect her to be in the hospital for at least 8 weeks. Sunni's attacks are starting to get so close together and much worse, and the MRI shows that her pancreas doesn't look good. We can't afford to wait another three months while her pancreas continues to break itself down. She is going to be having this surgery at the beginning of April....  I think there are two hospitals in the country that do this type of transplant. The closest one is in Minnesota. We live in Virginia. I'm not due until the 26th. Therefore, my aunt will miss baby's birth and the beginning of his life. 

I don't want to sound selfish. I'm just having a really hard time dealing with this. 

Sorry for this GINORMOUS post.*

 

Oh no, I'm so sorry *hugs* All around, that's just not a good situation for anyone. I hope your cousin has a very successful surgery, and your baby's birth and first days of life will still be special :)

[brooklyn_warbler]

Ugh!  I am so sorry to hear that everyone is sick!  I hope you all are start feeling on the mend soon.  Firespiritmelody, you may want to try sipping apple cider vinegar to loosen up that congestion...sounds gross but really helped me the last time I had a sinus infection (a few years ago) along with the neti pot IN the shower so I was already steamed out.

Bambi, I think it is reasonable and natural to be able to mourn two things at once!  I'm sorry you won't have the support of your aunt at the birth and in the postpartum period.  I know how much you were relying on that.

IronMam, still crossing fingers for your hubs!!

AFM: I'm still feeling amazing physically and somewhat frazzled otherwise.  I just can't believe I have only 40 days to go til the EDD (and maybe less to baby given my other two were early?!  Don't want to count on that, but also don't want to be an idiot and completely disregard it's a possibility).  What's really crazy is I'm trying to frontload an entire semester's worth of coursework into 1/2 a semester so I can have most of it done pre-baby.  YIKES.  It's been pretty wild around here, trying to negotiate all our homeschooling activities, my husband's teaching, my husband's dissertation, and my coursework into every week.
 

[firespiritmelody]

Originally Posted by brooklyn_warbler 

Ugh!  I am so sorry to hear that everyone is sick!  I hope you all are start feeling on the mend soon.  Firespiritmelody, you may want to try sipping apple cider vinegar to loosen up that congestion...sounds gross but really helped me the last time I had a sinus infection (a few years ago) along with the neti pot IN the shower so I was already steamed out.

That's a great idea!

Bambi - it's completely understandable that you're dissappointed. It's always a bummer when plans change this late in the game, even if it's a legitimate reason.

[Cananny]

Proud to announce the easier than anticipated birth of our sons!!!!!

last night baby A broke his bag of water around 8 pm... And by 1:11 am all three babies were born crying and healthy ! My c section was smooth and I stayed calm... I shocked myself!!!

baby a is August Michael he's 5 lbs 

baby b is Gage Daniel hes 4 lbs 14 oz

baby c is Finn Edward hes 3 lbs 5 oz

we r excited and in love!!

i was able put August to the breast tonight he nursed like a pro :) I've been pumping about 1/2-1 oz of colostrum since 8 hrs after delivery ...

Edited by Cananny - 4/9/13 at 11:12am

[bmcneal]

Originally Posted by Cananny 

Proud to announce the easier than anticipated birth of our sons!!!!!

last night baby A broke his bag of water around 8 pm... And by 1:11 am all three babies were born crying and healthy ! My c section was smooth and I stayed calm... I shocked myself!!!

baby a is August Michael he's 5 lbs 2 oz

baby b is Finn Edward he's 4 lb 2oz

baby c is Gage Daniel he's 4 lb 14 oz!!

we r excited and in love!!

i was able put August to the breast tonight he nursed like a pro :) I've been pumping about 1/2-1 oz of colostrum since 8 hrs after delivery ...

Oh my gosh, cananny! Congratulations! I'm so happy for you!  babies!

[MountainMama15]

Congratulations, Cananny, how wonderful that the boys were ready to come on their own!
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