Due Date Club for Lil' March Hares, April Bunnies & May Pikas

[gurly]

Is anyone taking zofran? I'm thinking about asking for a prescription for it because I've been so sick I can't stand it anymore. It's all day and all night

[HopefulMonster]

I'm trying my best to soldier on. I am really against medication in pregnancy if it can be avoided so I'm suffering and miserable but Im 9 weeks now so the end is in sight. Longest month of my life, but im hoping it might end sooner than 12wks because it started fairly early at 5 weeks. I puke over 10 times a day/night, dry heave more times I can count. The nausea is 24:7 even while wearing sea bands constantly. It's been a nightmare, im so ashamed but I even started thinking it wouldn't be so terrible if I lost the baby because at least I'd feel better. I find tarty oranges help, I suck the juice out of the segments without actually eating it. Hard boiled glacier fruit sweets in orange and Lemon flavour help too. Eat something every hour. I know it's the last thing you feel like doing but it honestly helps. Dry cereal with no milk. ice pops. Oh I also read that taking vitamin b6 can really help, as can stopping your prenatal if it has iron in it (keep asking folio acid though.)

Whatever you decide to do, I really hope you feel better soon, it's awful isn't it! My midwife said as long as I can keep something down in 24 hours no matter how small, they don't recommend taking anything - easier said than done though, especially with a toddler to run round after!

[Bella29]

Yeah gurly I have taken zofran once so far. I don't like taking it more often, because it can make you more constipated. So just when I can't stop vomiting.

And hopefulmonster , I remember thinking that I wished that I could abort my first baby, cos I literally just felt so horrible till 18 weeks with her. I never would have, but I think when you feel that terrible, that it is a normal think to feel. You know you don't really mean it. Or at least you wouldn't think it if you were feeling normal.

[gurly]

Are there bad effects from zofran? I thought it was safe during pregnancy. I'll try b6 but I'm embarrassed to say I have skipped my prenatals a few times because I have gagged and thrown it right back up or just couldn't stomach trying to swallow it. I'm more concerned about not getting the folic acid than being on a medication that has been approved for pregnancy. I have plenty of lbs to spare so I'm not really worried about the weight loss but I'm miserable and uncomfortable and worried about dehydration. I'm also going diarrhea a whole lot. I think it started at 6 weeks, so it's been almost a month now.

[HopefulMonster]

Thanks so much Bella, I feel a lot better about it now I know I'm not the only person who's thought that!

Gurly I would seriously skip the prenatal while you are so sick an just buy folic acid tabs on their own, I find I feel much less sick if I take that over a full prenatal, and it's really that which is important anyway. If you're worried about dehydration keep an eye on the colour of your wee (lol no nice way of saying it!) and those sachets of rehydration solution for kids, dioralyte it's called over here, are fab for boosting you up with only a few tiny sips needed.

I honestly don't know about zofran. My thing is, and this sounds silly, but when my grandmother was pregnant she was terrible with morning sickness. Her doctor kept telling her to take this wonder drug that was proven to make your sickness a million times better, and that it was perfectly safe. She refused, and did eventually feel better, but the point of the story is that the drug was called thalidomide. I'm sure you've heard of it but if not it basically caused lots of terrible birth defects. I know things were different back in the 60s and medicine has come a long way but it makes me really wary of taking anything while pregnant. God knows what could have happened if took her drs advice and taken it.

If you look there are actually no drugs properly certified/approved as safe for stopping sickness while pregnant. Zofran actually has official warnings on it that they are not guaranteed safe while pregnant as it has not been studied enough to know. Zofran even has a few studies that show a potential association with a couple of nasty things like cleft palette and a heart condition called QT prolongation, and the current safety data is based on less than 200 births. That all makes me very spooked about it, but I'm a huge worry wart about things like that. Even when not pregnant I don't even take tablets for headaches or colds or anything!

[tmbabcock]

Gurly - I would talk to your Dr. He will have the best advice for you. You just need to sit down and compare the risks to the benefits. If it were me and I was just feeling miserable but everything else was good I would pass. However, if it's an issue of losing weight and dehydration it might be better to get the medicine because that can cause health risks to you and the baby. Especially dehydration. That is a very, very bad no no during any point in pregnancy. I know personally how conflicting it is to take medicine when pregnant. I have chronic migraines and during pregnancy I cannot take my prescription migraine medication. It is known to cause birth defects. So with both my previous pregnancies and this one I have had to take vicodin. I try not to take it if I can but when I get migraines they're not just really bad headaches. They are head splitting, vomit inducing, passing out from the pain migraines and I can't take care of my children or myself when I get one. So even though I don't like taking it the benefits out weigh the risks. I say if you trust your Dr then explain to him/her what is going on and discuss the options. Your Dr will know what is best for you and baby and might have some other alternatives for you as well.


8 weeks and 3 days today and I'm feeling okay so far. It's weird not feeling pregnant even though I know I am. I'm still over exhausted on a daily basis and sleeping anywhere from 12 to 15 hours a day. I just don't feel like I am really getting enough sleep. Still constantly hungry and feeling like my blood pressure is dropping way to low if I am not constantly eating something. I've always had low blood pressure growing up but it has never really affected me this bad. It's nuts. My boobs aren't really sore anymore but in my previous 2 pregnancies they only hurt for the first couple weeks and then didn't start hurting again till the end of my pregnancy. Other than that nothing really new.

[gurly]

I decided against the zofran for now. I've had a few moments (not full days, but moments) where I was ok and able to eat. I get crazy heartburn and feel gross afterward but at least I can eat a little sometimes

[Ribenaberry]

I had my booking appt today, soooo many forms to fill in! So should hopefully get my scan date through the post soon

Ive got to meet with a consultant because i lost 1300mls blood after dd2, so im hoping they will let me go on the birth centre. No homebirth for me then lol!

I need to dig all my hypnobirthing stuff out too, its too early yet but the way time flies these days ill be 30 weeks and still meaning to dig it out lol!

Sickness has gotten much worse, the awful taste in my mouth keeps making me puke, so ive been eating far too many sweets, im gonna lose teeth to this pregnancy i can just see it!

Hope everyone is as well as can be, roll on 2nd trimester lol!

Xxx

[tmbabcock]

Gurly- I have gotten crazy heartburn before too. I know this is gonna sound gross but mix 1tbsp of baking soda with an 8oz glass of water and chug it. It tastes nasty but it works almost immediately. I don't why but it does.

Riben- That is a lot of blood! I am glad you were okay after that. That must have been scary! My teeth were DESTROYED after DD1 from all the vomiting. They're like falling apart now since I had DD2. I have a long list of dental work I have to get done after this one is born now that I have dental insurance again. I just want the second trimester to come so I can hopefully get some energy back.

[Northern_Shutterbug]

Well, we had our 12 week scan and baby is looking well. Organs look to be in the right place, but obviously certain things aren't developed enough yet to give the full picture.

I got excited at first because the profile shot gave a lovely girly skull:


But then the sonographer panned out and it was the most boy nub I've ever seen! This was the best print to see it


The sonographer (who is the most experienced there and as its the detailed machine the best they have) asked if we wanted to see if it was a boy or girl, even though its still early, and she said she'd put money on it staying/being boy.

It's what I've felt all along, but I'm devastated. My dream of a daughter is over, I was so close to my little girl and she was taken away from me. I'm a big believer in karma, and I know I've done wrong in my life, so I guess I deserve this. I don't deserve a girl.

I'll post this on the ultrasound board but I know the results, it's obvious and its what deep down I knew all the time. But I think I need to stop coming here for a bit now. I tried so hard with my sway, I put chemicals into my body that were not natural and against my better judgement. I lowered my health and put my husband through a hard time with expecting him to be like a machine, but it just wasn't meant to be.

Good luck everyone waiting for their next scans, I hope you have better luck than me.