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Old December 18th 08, 02:37 AM posted to misc.kids.pregnancy
Kat
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I'm going to try and make this as short as possible... Both girls are
upstairs (probably destroying the place) and need to be tossed in the bath
ASAP, but this is really becoming a pain...

For the last maybe 30 mins or so, I've been having some bad cramping feeling
in my stomach. I don't know why. I find if I'm sitting down, it hurts a
lot more, but if I stretch out or stand up straight, it's not as bad (but
still there)
I feel it all around - mostly on both sides and the top of my stomach,
though, and less on the bottom.
I don't really think there's much else. I don't really feel sick (as in
vomit or diarrhea), although I do have a little bit of heartburn, and right
now, it's nowhere near what I get usually at night. Taking a deep breath is
cut short as it kind of hurts a little, but I don't find I'm really short of
breath or dizzy. Baby is VERY active, as usual. No more or less than any
other day, and I find it moves ALL the time, day or night, so it's still
moving and jumping around as always.
When the cramping does happen, though, I find it helps a little to take
shorter breaths, and I find it does stop cramping. It just sort of comes
and goes, sometimes the cramping lasts maybe a minute or so then stops for
about the same then comes back again, or sometimes it comes, then is gone
for a few minutes and it's been like this for a good half an hour now.

I've never had this before, and I don't think I've even had it with other
pregnancies. Did I eat something bad? Is this normal? I really don't
recall anything like this before.

I don't want to call the 24 hour health line and ask a nurse mostly because
no matter what I've called about, they've always said go to the hospital and
get checked out NOW (or right away, as in they recommend within the next
hour or two or so) Heading to the hospital really isn't an option for them
to tell me nothing as I have the girls getting ready for bed, DS at a
community Christmas party and no one to stay with the kids - and I am NOT
dragging them out unless it's an absolute emergency with the roads pretty
bad, the weather VERY cold and nasty, DDs both having major tired and
melting down issues and DS also has school in the morning... So yea, it's
going to have to be a for sure, absolute emergency for me to even consider
packing EVERYONE up to go and sit at the hospital for half the night...


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Old December 18th 08, 02:41 AM posted to misc.kids.pregnancy
Kat
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Default Bad cramping??

Oh, and I forgot to mention... I'm just over 32 weeks now, I think, or
somewhere around there. I'm not high risk for anything at all, I've had no
issues and other than the few issues I've had (always being tired, no
energy, little appetite every now and then, being sore and a few other
strange things like the numb hands, racing heart, can't catch my breath
after a flight of stairs, etc - which I was told were all nothing)
everything's been fairly uneventful so far.
I'm also feeling extremely tired today - since I got up this morning, but
that's not totally out of the ordinary...


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Old December 18th 08, 03:37 AM posted to misc.kids.pregnancy
Anne Rogers
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I've never had this before, and I don't think I've even had it with other
pregnancies. Did I eat something bad? Is this normal? I really don't
recall anything like this before.

I don't want to call the 24 hour health line and ask a nurse mostly because
no matter what I've called about, they've always said go to the hospital and
get checked out NOW (or right away, as in they recommend within the next
hour or two or so)


Tough one, if it's new for you, you probably should get checked out, but
given some things are stopping it, I wouldn't be quite so worried
about doing it urgently as the nurse, because if you list what it could
be, the kind of things that would be a surgical emergency would mean you
would be feeling worse right now (not saying it isn't something in the
earlier stages) or if it's preterm labour, you also wouldn't get it to
stop - preterm labour does surprise some people, but your likelihood
when you've done all this before so you know what it feels like is
pretty slim that you'd not notice.

There are just so many things is can be, it could definitely be
something you've eaten, but a severe food reaction needing urgent
treatment would probably be unremitting until it comes out one way or
another and even that doesn't necessarily need treatment. Even slight
postural changes could set of something muscular that has a crampy
feeling to it.

So I think you do need to see someone, but not right now, there is
probably a pretty good chance you'll feel better soon and it can wait
until your next appointment, or if it's unremitting but soothable, then
tomorrow morning and if it gets worse, then do get seen.

I have to do the caution now, this is not medical advice - you have to
make your own decision on this one.

Cheers
Anne
 




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