EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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kajira said:
Happy thanskgiving everyone!! :)


I've been a little mia - had a health issue that cropped up and spent 4 days in the hospital last week, and still figuring out WTF happened. Saw a cardiologist and having an Echo on monday - we suspect pre-Eclampsia in the early stages, and my heart condition because it's a leaky valve is making my BP yoyo up and down which is why the OB's weren't sure WTF was going on. They use a different BP protocol for pregnancy patients, then my heart doctor would for a pregnant patient with my heart condition.

I may end up on beta blockers next week, but the brain confusion/fuzziness is awful. I've never had heartburn, or vomited this pregnancy, or had chronic, daily migraines, or pressure headaches or ringing ears. This has really sucked and it just started happening out of the blue about 3 weeks ago with an increase in BP. I've been on BP meds, 4x a day and I'm almost back to my normal range again, but the other symptoms are still kind of there and I just feel sick.

BAby is doing great, and the baby chicks I was allowing my daughter to hatch, hatched. We only lost 2, out of the ones my daughter stuck in the incubator.

I wanted to take the kids to chinese since hubby's working tonight, but I'm not sure he's going to let me go. LOL I just got my morning BP under control and he thinks it will be too much for me to go alone :(
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Oh gosh...I'm sorry to hear of the scare! I wondered because you hadn't been on for a while. I'll admit, I'm inclined to agree with your husband. Taking your kids out is a lot on the system, especially when you're not feeling well. I had the fuzzy brain. I declined to drive when I was like that. Thankfully my brother was here and he drove when Dh couldn't.

I remember feeling like a semi truck was parked on my head when they first put me on the blood pressure medicine. I think I finally called and my OB lessened it and increased it more gradually. It was awful. I remember I had wanted to go and pick strawberries and I was told to go straight home on bedrest. I was most disappointed not being able to pick strawberries. I LOVE strawberries. :love

When they admitted me into the hospital to get my sugars under control when my regular doc dropped the ball...the lady across from me had been medicating high blood pressure. But her's spiked and they couldn't bring it down. Very scary stuff. They moved to induce her to save everyone. Please stay safe. :hugs
 
Farmer Connie said:
We were waiting for you to get back. It wasn't the same without you!
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Awwwww! Thanks Connie! bighug.gif
(It was probably MUCH better, wasn't it?):gig :bun :wee

I didn't know I was going to be away 2 days in a row! That was a killer!

Oh that darn DH! And then he made me work yesterday! :smack
 
Wickedchicken6 said:
Oh gosh...I'm sorry to hear of the scare! I wondered because you hadn't been on for a while. I'll admit, I'm inclined to agree with your husband. Taking your kids out is a lot on the system, especially when you're not feeling well. I had the fuzzy brain. I declined to drive when I was like that. Thankfully my brother was here and he drove when Dh couldn't.

I remember feeling like a semi truck was parked on my head when they first put me on the blood pressure medicine. I think I finally called and my OB lessened it and increased it more gradually. It was awful. I remember I had wanted to go and pick strawberries and I was told to go straight home on bedrest. I was most disappointed not being able to pick strawberries. I LOVE strawberries. :love

When they admitted me into the hospital to get my sugars under control when my regular doc dropped the ball...the lady across from me had been medicating high blood pressure. But her's spiked and they couldn't bring it down. Very scary stuff. They moved to induce her to save everyone. Please stay safe. :hugs
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The doctor who discharged me (the doctor who will be delivering the baby) didn't think I had a BP issue and told me I could resume fairly normal amounts of activity levels, along
with cutting my meds in half when she released me. the BP meds don't make me sick, procardia is also used for contractions, and I've taken it last pregnancy, with zero issues. I can also do magnesium IV, and it actually made me feel human, instead of sick.

So, these feelings, have nothign to do with the procardia, sadly. I wish I could blame it on them, but I was feeling this way off them, and cutting it in half made me feel worse, instead of better.

Hubby and I talked, he said if I stayed in bed ALL day, only took a 5 minute shower and had the kids handle my food, instead of me walking around the chinese place, I could go with them.

So, that's what I'll do. I promised them a few weeks ago, we'd go to chinese if their dad was working, and my 3 year old was really upset when he thought we weren't going today. I know the older kids understand, but he looks at me, and sees a normal looking mom and goes "wtf"

Probably why my OB thought I was fine, too. I look normal, and my BP/heart issue is complicated. OB's knew I had a MVP - but I don't think they really considered how much a leaky valve, would **** with a BP reading.

I still don't know if it's going to turn INTO pre-eclamspia. I just feel like crap and want them to fix me and I feel like a whiner, and the way they treated me made me feel like nothing was wrong with me.
Cardiologist is going to see me every 2 weeks for like 2 visits, then weekly until I give birth, depending on my Echo - if it needs to be weekly, it will be weekly.

I just don't even know how to cope with some of these symptoms, because I was having a really, easy pregnancy, and then out of the blue it just stopped being fine.
 
kajira said:
The doctor who discharged me (the doctor who will be delivering the baby) didn't think I had a BP issue and told me I could resume fairly normal amounts of activity levels, along
with cutting my meds in half when she released me. the BP meds don't make me sick, procardia is also used for contractions, and I've taken it last pregnancy, with zero issues. I can also do magnesium IV, and it actually made me feel human, instead of sick.

So, these feelings, have nothign to do with the procardia, sadly. I wish I could blame it on them, but I was feeling this way off them, and cutting it in half made me feel worse, instead of better.

Hubby and I talked, he said if I stayed in bed ALL day, only took a 5 minute shower and had the kids handle my food, instead of me walking around the chinese place, I could go with them.

So, that's what I'll do. I promised them a few weeks ago, we'd go to chinese if their dad was working, and my 3 year old was really upset when he thought we weren't going today. I know the older kids understand, but he looks at me, and sees a normal looking mom and goes "wtf"

Probably why my OB thought I was fine, too. I look normal, and my BP/heart issue is complicated. OB's knew I had a MVP - but I don't think they really considered how much a leaky valve, would **** with a BP reading.

I still don't know if it's going to turn INTO pre-eclamspia. I just feel like crap and want them to fix me and I feel like a whiner, and the way they treated me made me feel like nothing was wrong with me.
Cardiologist is going to see me every 2 weeks for like 2 visits, then weekly until I give birth, depending on my Echo - if it needs to be weekly, it will be weekly.

I just don't even know how to cope with some of these symptoms, because I was having a really, easy pregnancy, and then out of the blue it just stopped being fine.
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That sounds awful. I vomited for my first 5 months, I had two good weeks and then had the high blood pressure. But having the high blood pressure was still much better than being sick...lol.

You sound like you have a good plan for supper. I keep forgetting that you have older kids as well. I'm amazed that you have a 3 year old that like chinese food! That's awesome! :bow
 

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