The MW has basically put me on light duty for the next 13 weeks. She wants me focused on nothing else but this baby. Not bed rest, per say, but has made it clear that I am to do nothing but light exercise, eat, drink and rest or my care will be transferred and the babe is at risk.
My liver is not functioning correctly and I am not giving it enough fluids and detoxifying herbs to cleanse the toxins coming into my system from the amniotic fluid that replaces itself every few hours. So instead, I am putting more pressure on the liver to have to detox my system.
I am also now measuring smaller and the MW says it's due to the lack of protein. But for the life of me, I eat better than I ever have. I don't get it! Part of me says the protein thing is bunk. But I want to believe she knows what she's talking about. Yet how did I have other healthy kids on a crappy diet? She says I am older and I don't think she really believes me anyway.
After all, I am fat and having problems, I must be lying about my diet, right? I made a joke about how I should go back to my diet of McDonald's twice a day, fortified with chips and Mountain Dew. That's mostly what I ate with my first two pregnancies! She didn't find that funny.
I think they're really tired of me. It seems SO easy, right? Just eat more proetin and drink more water. Period. But gag me! I am having such a hard time getting it all down. TWO things I have the hardest time with at any point in my life - eating protein and drinking water!
One part of me wants to forge ahead and prove I can do this by my next appt in two weeks. The other part of me says just give up.
My liver is not functioning correctly and I am not giving it enough fluids and detoxifying herbs to cleanse the toxins coming into my system from the amniotic fluid that replaces itself every few hours. So instead, I am putting more pressure on the liver to have to detox my system.
I am also now measuring smaller and the MW says it's due to the lack of protein. But for the life of me, I eat better than I ever have. I don't get it! Part of me says the protein thing is bunk. But I want to believe she knows what she's talking about. Yet how did I have other healthy kids on a crappy diet? She says I am older and I don't think she really believes me anyway.
After all, I am fat and having problems, I must be lying about my diet, right? I made a joke about how I should go back to my diet of McDonald's twice a day, fortified with chips and Mountain Dew. That's mostly what I ate with my first two pregnancies! She didn't find that funny.
I think they're really tired of me. It seems SO easy, right? Just eat more proetin and drink more water. Period. But gag me! I am having such a hard time getting it all down. TWO things I have the hardest time with at any point in my life - eating protein and drinking water!
One part of me wants to forge ahead and prove I can do this by my next appt in two weeks. The other part of me says just give up.
I know that you've been working SO hard to get tons of protein in...
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................HOWEVER Theo was a healthy 5 pound 9 oz. One thing i learned -- on my own NM did NOT find it necessary to tell me 
-- is that 95 to98 of baies that end up labled UGR -- as The was -- are 100% perfectly fine they are just small babies 
and the kick is you can't tell if the baby is in the 95 % or the 5% till birth anyway -- so really you do no good to the mom OR baby by stressing out the family. We are -- aggain -- measureing behind -- but eh OB is totally NOT stressed about it; he says i have a history of this and Theo was healthy so he needs more reg flags before he worried.
