I'm home

Well, after all the insurance fuss, (with the result that my BP was higher
yesterday than it had been since Monday), my perinatologist felt that it was
about as well to go ahead and let me rest at home-although if it goes up
much at all, I'm back in again (and then, it's likely that BC/BS won't fight
quite as much). We did every test in the book today, and everything looks to
be stable-Cuddles is up to 4 lbs 9 oz according to ultrasound, and is
measuring between 32-34 weeks on everything, so she's doing great. I don't
think either the OB or the Peri are too thrilled with the situation-both
feel that things are likely to swing again and that the best chance of
keeping it as gestational hypertension and getting as much time as possible
is hospital bedrest and monitoring (just going to an OB appointment in the
past has caused an increase in BP for several hours afterwards), but that
without anything more than my prior history.


--
Donna DeVore Metler
Orff Music Specialist/Band/Choir
Mother to Angel Brian Anthony 1/1/2002, 22 weeks, severe PE/HELLP
and "Cuddles", EDD 12/24/04

Donna Metler writes:
: Well, after all the insurance fuss, (with the result that my BP was higher
: yesterday than it had been since Monday), my perinatologist felt that it was
: about as well to go ahead and let me rest at home-although if it goes up
: much at all, I'm back in again (and then, it's likely that BC/BS won't fight
: quite as much). We did every test in the book today, and everything looks to
: be stable-Cuddles is up to 4 lbs 9 oz according to ultrasound, and is
: measuring between 32-34 weeks on everything, so she's doing great. I don't
: think either the OB or the Peri are too thrilled with the situation-both
: feel that things are likely to swing again and that the best chance of
: keeping it as gestational hypertension and getting as much time as possible
: is hospital bedrest and monitoring (just going to an OB appointment in the
: past has caused an increase in BP for several hours afterwards), but that
: without anything more than my prior history.


Donna, I don't know what you think about "home remedies" to keep BP
down, but you might read the link "PIH in the last 3 weeks" on our
website: http://home.comcast.net/~l.mcmahan/.

It described what Monika did to fight hypertension in the last few
weeks of her pregnancy with Niel, so we could homebirth and not be
transferred to a hospital. It worked for us, you might find
something useful.

Good luck,
Larry

Donna Metler wrote:
Well, after all the insurance fuss, (with the result that my BP was
higher yesterday than it had been since Monday), my perinatologist
felt that it was about as well to go ahead and let me rest at
home-although if it goes up much at all, I'm back in again (and then,
it's likely that BC/BS won't fight quite as much). We did every test
in the book today, and everything looks to be stable-Cuddles is up to
4 lbs 9 oz according to ultrasound, and is measuring between 32-34
weeks on everything, so she's doing great. I don't think either the
OB or the Peri are too thrilled with the situation-both feel that
things are likely to swing again and that the best chance of keeping
it as gestational hypertension and getting as much time as possible
is hospital bedrest and monitoring (just going to an OB appointment
in the past has caused an increase in BP for several hours
afterwards), but that without anything more than my prior history.

Good luck with things. My niece was only 4 lb 10 (at full term) and she was
fighting fit, so it sounds as though Cuddles is doing really well.

Cathy

Oh, Donna! I can't believe all this crap you are going through. You be real
serious about resting now, okay? I'm glad the tests show that baby is still
doing so well.


Leslie

Emily (2/4/91)
Jake (1/27/94)
Teddy (2/15/95)
William (3/5/01 -- VBA3C, 13 lbs. 5 oz.)
and Lorelei, expected 11/2/04

"Children come trailing clouds of glory from God, which is their home."
~ William Wordsworth