The urine analysis did come in, and it was fine, so no excess protein in my urine. What the specialist told me is that while the BP issues aren’t preeclampsia (“yet”), he said “for your reading pleasure, what we’re calling this is ‘gestational hypertension.’” So, officially all the lab work that’s come back has been […]

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Yesterday around 2:30pm, I was released. They started giving me methyldopa for the BP, and the first 12 hours (all in the hospital) didn’t really make any difference. In fact, on a couple readings it went UP into the 180s, and I think someone told me my midnight reading spiked to over 200. That particular […]

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Well, my OBGYN came in around 6pm, and let me know that the 3-hour glucose test came back fine, so I don’t have gestational diabetes or diabetes. That’s the good news! The no news is that the urine analysis isn’t done yet (machine still down, I suppose) and since the MFM specialist I’m supposed to […]

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3:45pm – came in at 166/77 (heart rate of 86). Up and down. Lab results should be in, in half an hour or so. We shall see.

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Took BP again at 11:15, and it came in at 143-over-something. The up and down is weird, to me. I was expecting it to be up again for the third reading, because even though I had made a point to try to nap before they came for the 11:15 reading (to “relax”), I was getting […]

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Well, mixed results thus far in the first 12 hours — they took my BP at 3:15 am, and it was 143 over something (a little sleepy to remember the bottom number). Just took it again at 7:15 and it was back up to 174 over something. Dangit. Woke me up both times, so I […]

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Well, I’m in the hospital until at least tomorrow night at 7pm, and possibly the next night. They are monitoring my BP, and the baby. All the blood work and urine samples taken in triage came back fine, but the BP is still up there. At one point, I was getting an ultrasound (to make […]

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Well, poo. Just got a call back from the doctor about the testing I had done yesterday. He said he’s not too concerned about the abnormally high BP (which came in at 140/90 on two separate readings), since my urine samples have come back fine, but he wants me to do a 24-hour urine sample. […]

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I should have posted about this when it happened (last Tuesday), but eh, at least I’m getting this in within a week 🙂 So lately it looks like I’ve swallowed a basketball, when I lie down. Very round, very firm. And now, very active! The kicking I have been feeling on the inside is now […]

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Well, we took a tour of the hospital this past Saturday, which was pretty helpful. We now know where to pull in and park, how much that will cost, where the triage and L&D rooms are, as well as where post-partum is. Probably make a few firedrill runs from home and the office to the […]

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