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- Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:21 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:36 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Still feeling pretty off. Side effects from new med, hangover from the awful weekend, or just one of those days? I decided yesterday that if my fingers were too puffy to wear my wedding ring, that probably made them just the right size to wear my grandma's emerald ring! http://img.photobucket.com/al...
- Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:18 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Alea, I already told you, but you aren't included in the world that I hate. Just FYI. :) I went in for the extra blood pressure monitoring the doctor told me to, and it had spiked some, so they admitted me. I spent the day peeing into a jug, being bored and lonely because Rei had to work, and had a ...
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:56 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:57 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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The edema is really bothering me. I'm glad I'm going to see my GP tomorrow, since maybe he can recommend something to help deal with it. My fingers feel like sausages and my feet and ankles are just as bad. I'm also going to have fun telling him that I am refusing the alternative anti-depressant I w...
- Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:21 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:37 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Still edemic. Had to prise off my wedding ring. :( :( :( But with my fingers getting so puffy, I just didn't want to risk something happening and it needing to be cut off. You can still see the indent in my ring finger where it normally sits. My fingers are puffed up enough that the ring now sits co...
- Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:09 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Momma Brontosaurus has been super-duper stressed about a whole bunch of things, and is sorry for not posting more. It's been a bit hard to talk. I've been a bit frustrated with having trouble contacting the supervisor of midwives. I'm trying again today (they are supposed to be 24-hours available, b...
- Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:04 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Momma Brontosaurus is grumpy today. Not enough sleep may contribute to that, as well as the med shift, but either way, I'm a grump. Warning: profanity. Went to my midwife appointment today. First problem, my regular midwife is on vacation. They may have told me that but I forgot to write it down, or...
- Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:14 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Acid reflux. Ugh. At least I think it's some sort of acid reflux, since it's sort of burny and tastes like whatever I ate most recently. That's reflux, right? Anyway, I has it. Hooray for good parents! I agree with all those things Kirsten said, and I want to add a healthy, happy relationship with f...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:02 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Since you'll asked... I have been very happily trundling along on 10mg of paroxetine per day. Very few side effects, just a low maintenance dose. I'm tapering off that 2.5mg every two weeks, and at the same time starting on 50mg of amitriptyline for 1-2 weeks (depending on side effects), then up to ...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:38 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Palpating has never been so exciting! Will I feel a spine or itty-bitty foot today?! In other news, Med Switch 2011 begins today. I am filled with trepidation. I like my prescription, it works , with very few side effects. This new one has a whole honk of side effects, and although it's supposed to ...
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:35 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Sleep Positions
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- Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:33 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:59 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:13 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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I think I mentioned it before, but I'll be having a total of five. I had one (non-standard) at about 6 or 7 weeks, because of bleeding concerns. I had a standard one at 13 weeks, which should have been at 8-10 weeks, but got bumped for PhD reasons. I guess that early scan is a newer thing. I had the...
- Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:09 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Ultrasound today! (Pictures forthcoming.) I am apparently really bad at counting, since I somehow lost a week in there again. I'm actually at 28 weeks! According to the US measurements, I have a large baby inside me: whereas its abdominal circumference was a bit behind at 19 weeks, it's shot way ahe...
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:54 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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I really don't feel much, but my situation is totally different to yours. I'm basically only taking it for the baby, who is developing a brain and needs the nutrition. I'll probably keep taking it throughout breastfeeding, but I may go down to a lower dose - we'll see what the midwife says. If you'r...
- Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:38 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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So noted! If he's still around, I'll even ask a semi-professional photographer friend to take a few shots of la Famiglia Brontosaurus. :) Well, I'd do that anyway, but you know. How's the appetite, Kirsten? And also, holy fast delivery, Batman! My soaker pads came this morning, and I only actually o...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:47 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:46 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:20 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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I've been massively down on myself for the past couple of days, sort of feeling hostage to my body and my baby. It's hard to be so out of control, and every time I turn around, there's some weird new body THING that no one told me about before I signed on for this. But today's bike ride made me feel...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:05 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Oh man, that sounds like a WAY better test! *jealous* Seems I passed, or at least the only thing I got called about was apparently low iron. Since I have had trouble with that in the past, I just pulled out the bottle of iron tablets and added them to the vitamin rota. I now take a multi, an iron, a...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:26 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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2-3 hours. They did a fingerprick to start with (5.4! woo!), then took 3 vials, then made me drink 420ml of some really weird English version of gatorade (Lucozade), and then I sat there for 2 hours. Then they took another vial of blood. I haven't gotten a frantic phone call, so I'm hoping I'm good ...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:58 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Well, I survived. It was an unpleasant couple of hours, despite some good company while waiting. Being poked with needles three different times in three different places when I'm underslept and shaky from lack of food is not my idea of fun. At least the blood-taking nurse was excellent, truly good a...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:33 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:58 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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*laughter* Advice from my mom: * If you go into early labour at a bad time (like, in an airplane), a glass of champagne is the best cure. Barring that, a shot of rum or whiskey. * Beer is good for breastfeeding! Keep in mind that this is a woman who doesn't like wine or spirits, except for one speci...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:53 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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I miss wine (and cider, and beer, and gin) so much! It really doesn't help that it's everywhere here, and often free. It's really hard to have another orange juice or coke when everyone around you is on the 3rd or 4th glass of free wine. I end up making sad faces a lot. Wee Brontosaurus has been inc...
- Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:09 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:55 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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- Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:38 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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I forgot to write about the sad things yesterday, I was so excited to be at 24 weeks and with a healthy baby. Turns out the structure of things here is such that my midwife won't be the one at the birth, almost for certain. Especially since with my high BP they're probably going to strongly recommen...
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:27 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Today I was talking to the doctor about my happy-making vitamins, and I realised that holy cow, yeah, by the next time I see him, it will be less than three months to go and time to start reducing my dosage. This seemed SO FAR away not that long ago! We also talked about getting me registered with t...
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:26 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Brontosaurus Lays an Egg
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Hugs! It sounds like you're having a rougher time of it than I had! Night sweats are awful, and I never had them before either. They got better for me pretty quick, so I hope the same holds true for you! Meanwhile, because I hope everything is going well enough that you don't need an early scan, her...