For those who've had pregnancies

[NetherlandDwarf]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

You can also have mild contractions in early labor/beginning of birth process...... like you might be dialating a bit and maybe beginning to efface.

scary... :nerves1but i guess its all part of the process... i envy those who are able to deal with this and go through all this! and my husband thinks im brave... lol i can barely take it lol

Heart burn... has anyone have to deal with awful heart burn? omg.. i have it soo bad its unreal. my first pregnancy i had none, i never have it either.. but now or these last couple of months it unbearable! i started out with the tums and then that didn't last long so i did mylanta at night and tums during the day... i was being careful with what i ate but then it got to the point it didn't matter what i ate or drank it was still an issue. i saw my doc about it, but he didnt want to give me anything that gets rid of the acid because the acid in the tummy helps dissolve the vitamins and then extra iron that i have to take and right now as the doc said i need that acid because im not getting enough iron etc.. so i take zantac time to time and upped my milk drinking soo much im going through gallons of it! is there anything else i can do? im still having issues with it and ill wake up throughout my sleep to grab the mylanta that pretty much sleeps next to me to take a drink of it, because the heart burn wakes me up too along with going to bathroom constantly.. lol

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Netherland Dwarf, maybe you should go see your doctor? If you gave birth to your first baby at 35 weeks and are having some contractions now, it would probably help you relax if you know you aren't actually dilating or anything. I'm sure the baby would be fine if he/she were born now, but still I'd imagine it's nice to know what's up. Good luck!

 

[Bo B Bunny]

You've had one baby already?

Heartburn - Eat Tums. It's safe and it will help. I had it so bad with both of my kids it was really miserable. I threw up for 7 of the 9 mos with my first - they gave me medicine for the second cause I was losing so much weight.

Old Wives Tale - Heartburn means the baby has a ton of hair.

NetherlandDwarf wrote:

Bo B Bunny wrote:

You can also have mild contractions in early labor/beginning of birth process...... like you might be dialating a bit and maybe beginning to efface.

scary... :nerves1but i guess its all part of the process... i envy those who are able to deal with this and go through all this! and my husband thinks im brave... lol i can barely take it lol

Heart burn... has anyone have to deal with awful heart burn? omg.. i have it soo bad its unreal. my first pregnancy i had none, i never have it either.. but now or these last couple of months it unbearable! i started out with the tums and then that didn't last long so i did mylanta at night and tums during the day... i was being careful with what i ate but then it got to the point it didn't matter what i ate or drank it was still an issue. i saw my doc about it, but he didnt want to give me anything that gets rid of the acid because the acid in the tummy helps dissolve the vitamins and then extra iron that i have to take and right now as the doc said i need that acid because im not getting enough iron etc.. so i take zantac time to time and upped my milk drinking soo much im going through gallons of it! is there anything else i can do? im still having issues with it and ill wake up throughout my sleep to grab the mylanta that pretty much sleeps next to me to take a drink of it, because the heart burn wakes me up too along with going to bathroom constantly.. lol

 

[hartleybun]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

Old Wives Tale - Heartburn means the baby has a ton of hair.

terrible heartburn with son - bald as a coot when he came out:rollseyes

not a twinge with daughter - lovely head of hair:biggrin2:

braxton-hicks with both

re: heartburn - gaviscon worked for me as did raising the head of my bed slightly.

good luck!

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

Ha i was thinking about the hair thing too,lol. I had heart burn with the kids with hair and not so bad heart burn with my baldies,lol.

Heart burn ugh i feel for you, i use to get an acid reflux of sorts where i would throw up acidy stuff sometimes at night, so what i did was stop eating by 7 pm if i was going to bed at 9 and try to lay proped up a little bit to help that. I ate tums with two of my pregnancies like they were going out of style, i was at the point that i actually craved them at night,lo

 

[DyemondRabbitry]

uhhhh... all this talk of tums is making me ill. Oh, by the way- did you know they make cocoa flavored tums? Those are the only kind that don't leave a nasty taste in your mouth (imo).

Hopefully your heartburn will be like mine and ease up by week 36. The baby has already dropped here and let me tell you- it's so much easier to breath and EAT! (just not walk- I feel like a duck).

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

Luvmyzoocrew wrote:

Ha i was thinking about the hair thing too,lol. I had heart burn with the kids with hair and not so bad heart burn with my baldies,lol.

Heart burn ugh i feel for you, i use to get an acid reflux of sorts where i would throw up acidy stuff sometimes at night, so what i did was stop eating by 7 pm if i was going to bed at 9 and try to lay proped up a little bit to help that. I ate tums with two of my pregnancies like they were going out of style, i was at the point that i actually craved them at night,lo

oh im having that problem too, nights are pretty bad. i try not to eat before bed, but i need to or ill wake up early morning hours hungery and then go back to bed lol im having every kind of acid issue & indigestion... sigh... the doc say having such a big mass in the belly is just pushing everything up, besides tablets by day (tums) and liquids by night (mylanta) to avoid bending, running/jogging, etc..

maybe i should switch flavors of tums.. and i did not know they made a cocoa flavored tums! im always in the antacid section too.. i'll have to take another look. im excited about this! lol

 

[DyemondRabbitry]

Oh yeah- They're the tums "smoothies" in cocoa and cream... the best!

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

You've had one baby already?

Heartburn - Eat Tums. It's safe and it will help. I had it so bad with both of my kids it was really miserable. I threw up for 7 of the 9 mos with my first - they gave me medicine for the second cause I was losing so much weight.

Old Wives Tale - Heartburn means the baby has a ton of hair.

yes i have an 8 and a half year old daughter. i was sick too for most of my first pregnany.. it was awful having morning sickness forever! then i think i had about a month of being normal until other issues had set in. i waited a really long time for getting pregnant again lol

 

[DyemondRabbitry]

Ok- sorry for the hi-jack in advance but since we're already here...

My "cold" has a really bad cough- I mean, hacking up chunks of gross yellow mucus and now blood... It seems like everything is down in my chest. But, being pregnant, the family doctor doesn't ever want to do anything. My question is 1) what could it be and 2) I have an appointment (weekly) tomorrow- would they do anything for me there or make me go to yet another doctor... I can't afford taking MORE time off of work...

Thanks guys... and, again, sorry for the hi-jack.

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

DyemondRabbitry wrote:

Ok- sorry for the hi-jack in advance but since we're already here...

My "cold" has a really bad cough- I mean, hacking up chunks of gross yellow mucus and now blood... It seems like everything is down in my chest. But, being pregnant, the family doctor doesn't ever want to do anything. My question is 1) what could it be and 2) I have an appointment (weekly) tomorrow- would they do anything for me there or make me go to yet another doctor... I can't afford taking MORE time off of work...

Thanks guys... and, again, sorry for the hi-jack.

sounds like what my daughter had, allergy issues/post nasal drip. benegryl should be safe to take while pregnantto help dry it out a little bit and get some sleep at night since it will make you drowsy. i would recommend a humidifier too. i hope you are not getting a respiratory infection, sorry not trying to scare you. just keep blowing your nose and anything you cough up make sure you spit it out, i know it sounds gross but all that gunk is bacteria that your body is trying to get out. i hope this helps!

 

[DyemondRabbitry]

Ugh, it's just miserable. I've been trying to spit everything out...usually end up gagging myself and vomitting- seems to be the story with this entire pregnancy..lots of vomit. I'm hoping that's all it is. Really, I don't feel to bad off I just keep coughing up all of this nasty and can hardly talk.

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

DyemondRabbitry wrote:

Ugh, it's just miserable. I've been trying to spit everything out...usually end up gagging myself and vomitting- seems to be the story with this entire pregnancy..lots of vomit. I'm hoping that's all it is. Really, I don't feel to bad off I just keep coughing up all of this nasty and can hardly talk.

OH i just remembered saline nose spray is supposed to help a lot! and its natural!

are you having a fever with it?

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

Once you get to a certain point in your pregnancy you can take antibiotics, in case it was something requiring medication like that. You don't want or need it to turn into Bronchitis or Phenomena , if it isn't already one of them. Ask your OB about what over the counter ,medication you can take if any.

Sometimes when i get chest congestion like that i take a decongestant because during the day i make it a point to blow my nose a trillion times so the only way that stuff is getting into my chest is because of post nasal drip so i take something usually at bedtime. I know there is stuff, claratin and Zyrtec if i am not mistaken that you can take during pregnancy but of course ask the doc before

 

[DyemondRabbitry]

There was a low grade fever with it yesterday but I haven't noted any today. I actually found something called "Sinex" they said I could take once every 12 hours (it's a spray too) and it seems to work really well for the congestion. I tried a Zyrtec yesterday but I really just hate taking medicine. Hot rasberry tea had been working but then I read that it might induce labor? That could be false.. don't think it'd be a good thing to do right now though... so maybe I'll try hot chocolate instead? Has anybody read anything about the rasberry tea?? (lol- it tastes so good I'd hate to stop drinking it!)

Anyhow, I'm just hoping it's not something serious.. though if it were I should have a fever, right?! That's my saving grace right now... no fever.

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

DyemondRabbitry wrote:

There was a low grade fever with it yesterday but I haven't noted any today. I actually found something called "Sinex" they said I could take once every 12 hours (it's a spray too) and it seems to work really well for the congestion. I tried a Zyrtec yesterday but I really just hate taking medicine. Hot rasberry tea had been working but then I read that it might induce labor? That could be false.. don't think it'd be a good thing to do right now though... so maybe I'll try hot chocolate instead? Has anybody read anything about the rasberry tea?? (lol- it tastes so good I'd hate to stop drinking it!)

Anyhow, I'm just hoping it's not something serious.. though if it were I should have a fever, right?! That's my saving grace right now... no fever.

here's a link i found that i hope will help

http://www.babycenter.com/0_if-you-get-sick-during-pregnancy_3637040.bc

i think it was mint tea that could bring on contraction.. im not sure i know i got a paper from the doc about mint.. ill have to look for it and make sure myself, i love mint teas

is this your first pregnancy?

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

well i couldnt find that paper about mint, i know it said something about limiting it a lot towards the end of pregnancy. but i have read nothing but good things about raspberry tea! helps aid in delivery among other things.. im going to go get some! i did find it you running a temp of 100.5 or more you should see your doctor right away.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Something else I found was that anything sweet gave me heartburn as if it were spicey. Water was also helpful. I love to put a bottle of Dasani water in the freezer for about an hour - let it get icey but not frozen..... AHhhhh.....

 

[DyemondRabbitry]

NetherlandDwarf wrote:

i have read nothing but good things about raspberry tea! helps aid in delivery among other things.. im going to go get some!

Yay for rasberry tea! Lol- you just made my day!

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

well maybe we should change the name to this thread lol i have so many questions.. lol when the baby moves down lower to the pelvic region, the baby is still very much active and kicking and punching right? i dont know if that has happened to me yet? i know it says if you feel more pressure in the lower region, but i always feel pressure lol at the same time i also read this may not happen until labor.