Slightly higher temperature?

[thismama]

I feel hot, and my DD commented that I feel hotter than usual too. Not like feverish, but just slightly hotter than usual... exactly the same way I felt after I conceived but before i knew I was pg. Anyone else have this? Is it normal/common or am I a weirdo?

[battymama]

My body temperature has felt hotter this whole pregnancy, i have renauds so my hands and feet are usually freezing, seriously cold, and usually by this time of year they are unbearable. But they are actually warm now, i think it has to do with the extra blood and fluid. I dont know if that is what you are experiencing though, have you taken your temp? maybe you are fighting a bug?

[thismama]

I suppose it could be a bug or something. I'm just noticing my body temp seems a bit higher, I could feel it on my face just like when I was first pg, and my DD felt it on my stomach. Weird. I havent felt like this since very, very early pregnancy. So odd!

[Galatea]

Well, not to upset you, but your temp is supposed to remain high throughout pregnancy, and then fall just before labor. But anyway, I look flushed.

[thismama]

Oops. Well that sucks.

[Galatea]

When my mom was working and breeding dogs, I was the one who would have to come home from school if someone went into labor, so we would take their temps in the morning for the last week and they would usually drop about a degree F the day of labor, so we had some warning. We got this info from one of the dog breeding books we had, written by a very old woman. My last pregnancy, someone on MDC tried to informally study this. So it was like getting pg again - wake up, take temp with basal body thermometer, etc. I forget how it turned out.

FWIW, the dogs would also not eat the day of labor, acted snappish, and tore up the newspaper in their whelping boxes. So when I hear the word nesting, I get an image of myself on all fours, furiously tearing up piles of newspaper with my nails. And when I hear of eating the placenta, I think of myself hungrily gobbling up the placenta and chewing the cord off my baby. Sometimes they were so eager to eat the afterbirth that they would chew it off too close to the puppy and they would bleed a little bit.

[thismama]

That's hilarious Galatea!

Well I'm definitely snappish.... but that's about it. *le sigh*

[PuppyFluffer]

Galatea, what kind of dogs did you have?

[kalisage]

Originally Posted by Galatea

So when I hear the word nesting, I get an image of myself on all fours, furiously tearing up piles of newspaper with my nails.

::: that just made my day!!

[Galatea]

Originally Posted by PuppyFluffer

Galatea, what kind of dogs did you have?

Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. My mom still has about 10 but is not breeding anymore. I used to get out of school all the time b/c the neighbor would check on the bitch and call my school office if she was in labor. My mom is super-nervous and would nearly prolapse her own uterus by pushing for the bitch. I was the calm one.