Re: My 14 week Appt...(& update on BT)

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Hi (and all)

I wrote posts about minut weightgain as well. At 14 wks (or

thereabouts) I was still down 12 lbs...and trying frantically to gain

a little. I am now 27 wks and have gained a total of 17 pounds!!!

I know that my womb and baby boy do not weigh that much, but luckily

it's ALL in my belly. I kind of think my butt is looking a tad

bigger but it doesn't show/feel like it in my pants.

I'm having problems again with my Anemia (it was good for the last

five mths and was actually the first time in four years) and have to

have some IV treatments but that's no biggie.

The doctors are more worried about my low blood pressure. While it's

not HBP, it's what caused my son (6yrs old) to be an emergency

csection. Last Wed it was 96 over 58. I was 2wks late with my son

and on the fourth day of Petocin, my BP starting racing (for me) at

130 over 90...it put him in major fetal distress and they got him out

in 3 minutes!

This baby is going to be long legged as well. They're assuming

somewhere between 22 and 26 inches! Is that even possible?

I'll post about my weekend as well - that's another story in itself.

Good luck on your weightgain...sounds like youre on the right path!

in Detroit

[Guest guest]

> Hi (and all)

> I wrote posts about minut weightgain as well. At 14 wks (or

> thereabouts) I was still down 12 lbs...and trying frantically to gain

> a little. I am now 27 wks and have gained a total of 17 pounds!!!

> I know that my womb and baby boy do not weigh that much, but luckily

> it's ALL in my belly. I kind of think my butt is looking a tad

> bigger but it doesn't show/feel like it in my pants.

....

> in Detroit

Hi !

I seem to be in a similar problem as you, no anemia, but down 13 lbs

and was put on high carb high calorie diet to gain back 10-15 lbs by

my next appt. well, I thought how hard could it be to gain 10 lbs in

3 weeks? That was a week and a half ago and I had 1 lb back for all

of 1 day before it fell off again. Now I am trying so hard to eat all

day long, but I keep getting low bloodpressure and when the blood

pressure falls, my blood sugar seems to jump up about 80 pts. how

weird is that? I was diabetic and on insulin before my surgery but

from one day pst-op on my sugar levels never went above 150 even after

the biggest meal I could eat. yesterday they hit 220. I sure hope I

am not becoming gestationally diabetic. I was so joyous to be done

with the diabetes before.

Anyway I will keep pounding the carbs and maybe doc will at least be

happy no more weight came off. I am exactly at the halfway point on

Friday of 20 weeks along. Still stuck on bedrest but hopefully they

will let me off bedrest on the 13th when I see Doc again. I've got my

fingers crossed!

I hope your health improves too, we sure don't need all these extra

worries. Hang in there and just do what the docs tell you.

Colleen

open RNY 5-9-03

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19 1/2 weeks pregnant-EDD 1-23-05