36 Weeks
10 Oct 2011 2 Comments
in Pregnancy Tags: 36 weeks, cylon, doula, non-stress test, Popeye, PUPPPS, twin pregnancy
Well I think that it is safe to say that we are pretty much ready for the Cylon invasion. In the sense that we’ve got all things set up in the apartment, and we are both excited to finally get to meet (and name) them. Whether we are ready to look after two little Cylons only time will tell but I’m feeling quietly confident that everything will (eventually) fall into place. We’ve taken a bunch of classes. We know the basics and are ready for the practical. Bring it on little Cylons!
Last week was the week of a zillion doctors appointments, and I was pretty shattered by the end of it. The scan at the hospital on Tuesday went well (Cylons are chubby), my dermatologist on Wednesday was happy with how my PUPPPS is clearing up, then it was back to the hospital on Thursday for the Non-Stress Test (checking on movement and heartbeats) and of course they aced it because the Cylons are in a constant state of training. The room at the hospital where you have the NST is a little freaky – like something out of a sci-fi movie. There are three monitoring stations where mamas are hooked up to, and the babies heartbeats are turned up to 11 so it’s beyond deafening. It’s like being in an isolation tank or one of Walter’s Fringe experiments.
35 weeks
04 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Photos, Pregnancy Tags: 35 weeks, bsgpregnancy, non-stress test, PUPPPS, twin pregnancy
Yippee we made it to 35 weeks! High fives all round.
Last week was pretty tough. My evil, itchy PUPPPS rash* was still in full force and had spread from my abdomen down to my toes and was starting to invade my arms and hands. My shins were bright red as the rash joined up to form one big angry mess. I could actually see the rash spreading in front of my eyes. It was pretty freaky stuff, and I was waking up in the middle of the night to find myself scratching myself red raw in my sleep. When you couple this ugly assed rash with an increasing sense of isolation as I hadn’t seen friends in a couple of weeks I was turning into one of those zoo animals that pace their cage and bite their keepers.
35 wks & PUPPPS rash less angry
In Case of Emergency
27 Sep 2011 1 Comment
in Pregnancy Tags: bsgpregnancy, emergency contact details, iPhone, PUPPPS, twin pregnancy
As I sit here trying very hard to ignore my itchy PUPPPS rash I figure the best way to stop from scratching is to keep my fingers busy by typing. It’s fraking typical that I would develop PUPPS something that only 1 in 200 pregnant women develop a bit like my extreme reaction to the sugar test. Talking about the sugar test that was quite the turning point in my pregnancy. After fainting I got a little jumpy about what would happen if I fainted (or worse) when I was out and about, and I wasn’t the only one concerned as Alex suggested that I should have an ‘In Case of Emergency’ note on me.
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