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Old October 20th 04, 06:05 AM
Kelly
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On Friday I had my 23 week appt. with my midwife and basically got in
"trouble" for not contacting her about the cramping and discomfort I have
been having at work and post work. I truly thought it was because of the
work I do AND being #4 pregnancy. Well, I was wrong. Dang it. After a
horrible weekend of cramping I felt better yesterday, but began having mild
waves of discomfort again today (I'm avoiding the whole contraction term.
heehee) so finally called the midwife to chat. Needless to say I was sent
down the hall from my unit to Maternity for monitoring. Ahhh, resting with
my feet up was heaven I had several while there, but each one was less
than the previous and within a very short time I was feeling much better and
back to nearly normal. Yeah!

So, now I am to check in a bit more often and keep track of what's going on
instead of feigning ignorance. Fortunately everything is great with baby
and my cervix so I will carry on as tolerated.

Anyone else have a very active uterus at this stage?

Kelly
#4 2/12/05


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Old October 20th 04, 12:06 PM
Cheryl
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:05:08 -0700, "Kelly"
wrote:

On Friday I had my 23 week appt. with my midwife and basically got in
"trouble" for not contacting her about the cramping and discomfort I have
been having at work and post work. I truly thought it was because of the
work I do AND being #4 pregnancy. Well, I was wrong. Dang it. After a
horrible weekend of cramping I felt better yesterday, but began having mild
waves of discomfort again today (I'm avoiding the whole contraction term.
heehee) so finally called the midwife to chat. Needless to say I was sent
down the hall from my unit to Maternity for monitoring. Ahhh, resting with
my feet up was heaven I had several while there, but each one was less
than the previous and within a very short time I was feeling much better and
back to nearly normal. Yeah!

So, now I am to check in a bit more often and keep track of what's going on
instead of feigning ignorance. Fortunately everything is great with baby
and my cervix so I will carry on as tolerated.

Anyone else have a very active uterus at this stage?

Yes. I started feeling BH contractions at around 6.5 weeks so I was
searching through Google and other sources to check up on it. A post
from Elfanie said that that is a fairly common time for contractions
to start even though most women don't feel them then so I decided that
I'm normal after all. When I had an ultrasound at 12 weeks I felt a
contraction and the ultrasound lady told me she saw it at the same
time so I asked her about it and she told me I'm normal. At the
moment I'm having a few noticeable contractions every day with more on
days that I don't drink enough water. They're never consistent
though, not really coming in waves like you described.

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Cheryl
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Mischief (30 Jul 02)
+ someone new due Feb 05
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Old October 20th 04, 05:02 PM
Heather Kitchen
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Yeah! I started having contractions around 25 weeks & now I'm 31 weeks and
I have them every day in varying degrees. My ob said that as long as I
wasn't having "bloody show" (I assume that just means passing blood??) and
the contractions aren't really measurable, then it's nothing to be concerned
about. This is my 2nd baby & I don't remember having them with my first.
They feel like menstrual cramps!

Heather


"Kelly" wrote in message
...
On Friday I had my 23 week appt. with my midwife and basically got in
"trouble" for not contacting her about the cramping and discomfort I have
been having at work and post work. I truly thought it was because of the
work I do AND being #4 pregnancy. Well, I was wrong. Dang it. After a
horrible weekend of cramping I felt better yesterday, but began having

mild
waves of discomfort again today (I'm avoiding the whole contraction term.
heehee) so finally called the midwife to chat. Needless to say I was

sent
down the hall from my unit to Maternity for monitoring. Ahhh, resting

with
my feet up was heaven I had several while there, but each one was less
than the previous and within a very short time I was feeling much better

and
back to nearly normal. Yeah!

So, now I am to check in a bit more often and keep track of what's going

on
instead of feigning ignorance. Fortunately everything is great with baby
and my cervix so I will carry on as tolerated.

Anyone else have a very active uterus at this stage?

Kelly
#4 2/12/05




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Old October 21st 04, 06:17 AM
Kelly
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I don't remember much from #1, either. I'm sure I had BH's, but much much
later. These are much more uncomfortable, but hello-it is #4 I keep
telling myself this.

Kelly
#4 2/12/05

"Heather Kitchen" wrote in message
...
Yeah! I started having contractions around 25 weeks & now I'm 31 weeks

and
I have them every day in varying degrees. My ob said that as long as I
wasn't having "bloody show" (I assume that just means passing blood??) and
the contractions aren't really measurable, then it's nothing to be

concerned
about. This is my 2nd baby & I don't remember having them with my first.
They feel like menstrual cramps!

Heather


"Kelly" wrote in message
...
On Friday I had my 23 week appt. with my midwife and basically got in
"trouble" for not contacting her about the cramping and discomfort I

have
been having at work and post work. I truly thought it was because of

the
work I do AND being #4 pregnancy. Well, I was wrong. Dang it. After a
horrible weekend of cramping I felt better yesterday, but began having

mild
waves of discomfort again today (I'm avoiding the whole contraction

term.
heehee) so finally called the midwife to chat. Needless to say I was

sent
down the hall from my unit to Maternity for monitoring. Ahhh, resting

with
my feet up was heaven I had several while there, but each one was

less
than the previous and within a very short time I was feeling much better

and
back to nearly normal. Yeah!

So, now I am to check in a bit more often and keep track of what's going

on
instead of feigning ignorance. Fortunately everything is great with

baby
and my cervix so I will carry on as tolerated.

Anyone else have a very active uterus at this stage?

Kelly
#4 2/12/05






 




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