My story, FMS and pregnancy.
didn’t THINK about anything she wanted to KNOW. I found myself quickly hustled off to a barge of tests, blood tests, sonograms, pulmonologist, and heart testing!
What a difference! The good news was that the baby so far was developing on schedule. IT, for lack of a better term was going to be small. That was okay by me small healthy babies are as pretty as fat healthy ones!
Then Dr. Marilyn (as I call her) made the best appointment ever and it’s the appointment I want you to all have. She called in a neonatal specialist. She believed that if she didn’t know what she needed to then by golly she would find someone who did! My neonatal specialist was a huge man with a graying hair. He had a confident face a pile of papers and a look of confidence. It didn’t hurt one bit that on his door was the words, Head of Neonatal Care Reading Hospital Pennsylvania. At least this one KNEW what he was doing!
I voiced my fears he looked at my list of meds and said... “Boy I wish I had seen you when you first got pregnant.” and he was smiling. I felt like a balloon that had been popped! He looked closely at my sonograms a second and third time.
“Well, don’t worry. I am not going to make lite of all the medications you are on. However, I can tell you now by looking at the sonograms that your baby is just fine and developing normally.” More air escaped that balloon and I wanted to hug the man to death. Then he began to very carefully explain every drug and every potential problem they could have caused.
The worry was ending and the work of being pregnant was growing right along with my waistline. I was fat that’s a fact. I indulged on foods I did like to eat and kept that cranky knee from giving out. Dr. Marilyn ordered not 1 but 4 sonograms and if I was worried she let me here the babies heart beat. Everything was going fine!
We even made it through 2 ER visits for Asthma, my Fibromyalgia pain, depression, allergies and 3 false contraction episodes.
It was late in August when I started swelling too much. I was concerned and bought some sassafras tea just to take a little of the water off. It was
Latest Articles