Ok, I have a few questions, I have already talked to my OB and to the Labor RN and am getting really confused. I get these attacks that cause me to get really dizzy, see cloudy, get disoriented, sweaty and really shaky. Most times I can get my feet in the air before I pass out but I have passed out 3 times already. They are not sure what these attacks are. My Blood pressure is great, my iron and all blood work is great. I had my 1 hour glucose test done and never heard anything so I’m guessing they are alright. But I do take my Blood sugar and sometimes when I feel this way it’s 112 and other times is 58. So I’m guessing sometimes it’s my blood sugar. So they told me to eat up to 8 times a day. Well it’s not working. I ate a nutrigrain bar, 2 eggs and turkey sausage for breakfast and my Blood sugar was 60 an hour later. I’m starting to worry about this because I’m afraid to go anywhere ’cause I’m afraid I will pass out. I have a history of Panic and Anxiety so I don’t know if that’s what’s happening too. This all started at 20-21 weeks pregnant. I’m on no meds except prenatal vitamin. Can anyone help me out, and if this is normal than what the heck am I suppose to eat? Fruit and Juice all cause my blood sugar level to drop within an hour. Can hypoglycemia show up only from pregnancy? What’s the difference between Panic attacks and Hypoglycemia? Any help is appreciated. If this is hypoglycemia then how come after I eat something it takes like an hour to feel normal again? The Drs are all stumped. Thanks, God Bless
tehy are starting to help but still have days when anxiety jsut happens and need to take a valium to relax me which teh doc prescribed to take edge off til citalopram works how long does anyone no when get full effect
hi, i am 19 +1 week pregnant for the last month i have been extremely tired, i cry at the littlest thing that upsets me and my mood has all of a sudden got bad which i never suffered with in my first 3 months of my pregancy. i have got constant worries that there is going to be a problem with my baby mainly down syndrome as i havent had any of the scans or tests done for it. my partner has recently been made redundant so we only have 1 income and i earn too much to get help with benefits so we are struggling. i work shift which isnt helping as i’m up at half 4 in the morning which i found hard even before i was pregnant but never struggled as much as i am. i finish wok at 2 and by half past im fast asleep on the sofa for an hour then back in bed for 8 to make sure i get enough sleep to get my through the next day. i’m finding it really hard to concentrate or even move about too much.
work isnt helping as im constantly on my feet which gives me backache and stomach ache, i’m also eating foods that are making my sick as i work within a food factory and my boss isnt really listerning to me when i try and talk to her. but i’m mainly worried about the tiredness as i have to drive and the worrying. i feel like i have so much going on in my head that i just dont know what to do but cry and i even then start to worry that my stress is going to harm my baby which i REALLY dont want.
I was seeing a guy for a short while. I am diabetic and have severe medical issues. I was with him only a small amount of time before I had to tell him that if he did not wish to seek professional help from a psychiatrist that I would have to leave him as a result of his severe depression and suicidal thoughts. I gave him a month and after he still refused I left him. Shortly after I found out I was pregnant. I was terrified. I am only 23 and I felt he had the right to know. He told me right away to have an abortion. I told him that was not a choice I felt comfortable in making. I asked him if he would give me a sum of money to help me pay for child items (PRENATAL) such as medications like folic acid and diabetic items. He obliged an he signed a piece of paper (on a bank statement, at the bank in front of cameras) that says he is giving me (not loaning me) the money for prenatial (before) birth care. I plan to use the money to get to my many doctors appointments since I have no car and live in the country away from all the doctors. He is now saying that he wants the money back and that he wants to see the baby.
My thoughts are this, and I’m only looking for the opinions of people, if I wasn’t concerned with the best interest of the child I wouldn’t ask. If the father has a severe mental health issue, refuses to get help, and now is trying to go after me legally for money he gave me, but wants to see the child…what right’s do I have in protecting myself and the unborn baby? I have 7-8 months of pregnancy to go and already I am very ill, it’s painful, it’s scary, I live alone and he is not supporting me except for the financial pay he gave me, now he wants it back. Legally I have no reason to give it back, and if i do he may still come after me for the child. But how fair is it for a mother to have to go through nine months of hell alone, while still having to work, clean, cook and take care of her health, then give painful birth, and then have a father (or sperm donor in this case) walk in and declare he has rights? His family will support him in his decisions. My family has been supportive in mine. He will not speak to me, and I see this as being unstable right from the start. If he can’t communicate to me that he needs some space to think how will he ever communicate visits with my child? How can I work with someone who is not communicating? How do I protect myself and the child BEFORE it is born? I don’t want to have a little baby that I have worked so hard for for 9 months be born and then have him able to barge in and take the infant for the weekend.
ive had panic attacks alot recently since my son had a febrile seizure….and now its just wearing me out….besides the fact that im anemic ..im just soo tired…i had my first panic attack in my sleep tonight and it scared the shit out of me…i woke up sweaty with my heart pounding and i couldn’t slow it down right away ..it was so scary ..i though i was having a heart attack! im just so tired of anxiety and panic but i got over them b4 ..but its harder ..i dunno is it because im pregnant! im a huge hypochondriac…im just scared of everything..and now its my anemia thats scaring em..i don’t even know if im that low i take 2 iron pills a day and prenatal! like the doc prescribed…i just need tips on ways to calm myself down!
(i have a therapist)
my doc prescribed 2 irons a day …one at lunch one at dinner …some ppl take 3 if they really anemic and kids outgrow their febrile seizures by 5 yrs just to let u know
im 17 and i gave birth to my daughter last week… but now i don’t feel i can cope with her and to be honest it doesn’t feel like i love her very much i feel too ashamed to seek professional help can anyone tell me if this is normal?
*How do you use the ball in labor?* If you are sitting on the ball it is important that your legs are open wide and your feet are on the outside edge of the ball(the same width as if you were sitting backwards on a chair or backwards on the toilet). This helps keep your pelvic outlet wide. Because you are sitting on the ball the inside of your pelvis can relax because it is not working to hold you up like when you stand. You can make hip circles as we already talked about. You can also do pelvic tilts and release (this moves the babys head between pubic bone and tailbone) and can help the baby wiggle down onto the cervix. Tipping the hips side to side shifts weight on the sit bones and this helps the baby wiggle down if they seem to be stuck on one side of the pelvis or other. I have had many students say they spend the last two weeks before their due date and lots of time in labor just moving their pelvis around until they feel what feels like the whole of the babys top of the head on the cervix. You can bring the ball about a foot out in front of you and on your knees, hold onto opposite elbows and place arms and maybe chest on the ball for a variation of cat so that baby is gravity neutral. Or if you want to be gravity plus you can bring the ball right up to you and drape yourself over it with your big toes together and sitting back on your heels (in a upraised pose of a child). It is very comforting to just rock side to side and it is a gentle way to move the baby …
I am a day away from having a c-section and I am going absolutely crazy! Just to give a little background on the situation. I was diagnosed with preeclampsia, got put on bed rest, and found out in one of my prenatal visits that Im GBS+. In the midst of all this lovely news I find out that my landlord was in the final throws of foreclosure which meant we had to move out quick! (This is not exactly what I wanted to be doing while 39 weeks pregnant!!) Now… My mom has been eager to come and help me with all thats been going on. We don’t see each other very often since we live about 3 hrs from each other, but on the phone things have always been pleasant. I’ve been warned and aware of her controlling / passive aggressive behavior in the past by siblings & their significant others, but I paid no mind. I figured that her intentions were good and thats all that mattered. Now that she is here I see what my brother was talking about… As I mentioned, I am on medical bed rest and at this point about to be 40 weeks pregnant. Now, since her purpose for staying here for a while was to HELP, I expected her to help me with driving to the store for me, packing small items so I wouldn’t have to bend, stand, etc.. The entire time all she did was stay in the kitchen. She loves to cook, but when it got to the point of it being ALL DAY, I felt that it was too much. I also found her cleaning things that were unnecessary at the time (since we had to move in a week) She would clean things about five times!! She was moving all my things around and not help me pack. Then, she asks me if John (my boyfriend) is going to drive her back and forth from the hospital when I am admitted. She is fully capable of driving, but now she is rendering herself powerless!! So now I feel like I have to cater to her. She cannot go to the store or post office by herself because “she will get lost” and “does not know how to follow directions”. SO, I drive and have to tow her along with me (not what I had in mind, since…Im supposed to be on BED REST and keep my BP from skyrocketing!!) She has however taken the liberty on telling me what to eat and what not to eat, criticizing my boyfriend for everything he does, even picking out my baby’s coming home outfit! She got into it with my boyfriend because he and I had a small argument with all the stress, and she interfered. She even went as far as to say to him that this is her house!! Now when she does help out, (for example: laundry, dishes & cooking) she immediately throws it back in our face and uses it as a reason to control and butt in where she is not welcome. The day our friends came by to help my boyfriend move, she would not stay out of the way. I had already made it clear to her the way I wanted things and how I wanted. All she could do was mope and have an attitude about it and say I was treating her badly after all she has done for me. My dad was around to witness this and she even made indirect remarks about me not being even a hair as good as her, etc, etc.. This worked in my favor since she’s lied to my dad all week about how we’ve been treating her. So now at this point I am taking her insults and cheap shots too, only because I assert myself in having my home organized the way I want it.
Now in our new place and a day away from delivery, she is still trying to reorganize my things, Im STILL having to move things several times back to the way it was, I have to hear the sink running at 11 o’clock at night for no reason, and I STILL have to be behind the steering wheel because “Her Majesty” refuses to drive.
Once the baby is here Im afraid of what to expect. She is known for snatching babies from your arms (this is coming from my sister in law AND my brother) and I fear that I will let out the worst tongue lashing in the world, in which I know I’ll regret. Im also afraid that IF I do have postpartum depression, she will make it worse. I’ve had severe vomiting everyday ever since she got here and have had to take my BP meds alot more. I hope there is a solution to this situation. Any feedback would be most appreciated.
I went of off birth control pills Nov 2004 to ttc baby #1. I didn’t get a period on my own until 2 and a half years later, in June 2007. For the past year I have had 9 menstrual cycles. My cycles are very irregular,and I usually have 40 to 60 days in between periods. My hubby and I are ttc but finding it difficult because of my irregular periods. I don’t know when/if I am ovulating. I am taking a prenatal vitamin, vitex, calcium, magnesium, zinc, vitamin B6 and PABA. I am about 5’6” and 150 lbs. I do have some stress/anxiety, but even when I don’t stress my periods are still irregular. I eat pretty healthy too.
Does anyone know how I can regulate my menstrual cycle to the normal 28-35 days? I do not want to go back on birth control, as I am ttc. Any advise I would really be grateful for. Thank you!
I just turned 26 years old.
i feel too ashamed to seek professional help can anyone tell me if this is normal?
