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[ quote author=runfast link=board=13;threadid=1981;start=1590#51195 date=1215624799] Hi! I have been reading this site for quite sometime, but I have never posted anything.
I have 2 daughters age 9 & 7, but since them I have lost twins at 3 months, and a baby at 5 months. After a lot of blood work, we found out I have factor 5. So with this pregnancy I have been on lovenox, 1 shot a day the whole pregnancy. I was told that they would do the c-section 2 weeks before the due date. (I had c-sections with my daughters) I stopped the lovenox 24 hours before the c-section. I was scared to death that either, I would not have enoug in my system, and I might get a blood clot, or that there would be too much in my system, and with a spinal, it could cause paralasis. So, need less to say I was very nervous going into it. But, last wednesday on the 2nd I had my miracle little boy. He weighed 6lbs 4oz and was 19 3/4 inches long. Everything went well, He is perfect, a little jaundice. I can move and walk, and I am back on the lovenox for 6 weeks. I just wanted to let everyone know about a happy ending! Good luck to everyone! I know how hard it is!
Thank you!! I have a 5year old son and just lost my daughter Ava in Feb (8month preg). After a series of test I too have the same thing you do. I am 10 weeks pregnat and scared to death. I am taking baby asprin, lovenox, folbic tabs. I am so happy to hear that you had a successful out come, it makes me feel hopeful. Congradulations!
Well, I'll tell you...I do adore him and love him, but I can't see why people would want more than one. I don't like the screaming and crying. I know he has a bit of colic because he gulps too much air and drinks too fast, even with slow flow nipples. The problem with the bottles is they are the basic run of the mill type, not something nice like Avent or Dr. Browns which I wanted which claim to wipe out colic by reducing air intake. But in order to avoid the BPA chemical scare and having seen these brands of bottles recalled, I choose to er on the side of caution and just go with the basics. The only affordable bottle on the market I have found which does NOT contain BPA are called Evenflos. Basically, any non-clear colored bottle won't have BPA, so if you have a pink or blue (any color) tinted bottle you're safe, or if you get them that say they don't have BPA, which ought to be splashed all over the label if they don't. The other option is buying the $10 per bottle Born-Frees.
So we deal with screaming and crying whenever he's awake. Luckily though he's managed to only get me up 3 times during the night and usually has one 4-hour slot of sleep time per day I can use to my advantage. If I don't sleep when he does though, I'm dead to the world.
He does seem to calm a little when we read books to him, and I have gone out and bought board books for him so that he won't projectile spew all over the pages, lol. Also, I have a harmonica I am taking up and he seems to like the noise I make, and I got a couple books on baby sign language I intend to start teaching him once he turns 6 months old.
I am managing fine and he's a great little guy and I'm glad he is ok and thriving, but I wouldn't do it again even if you paid me. Once is definately enough, even with a fairly easy labor.
Clad: if your babys sleep nice and don't get the screami-mimis all the time, I can see why you'd want another. When I was in the hospital I briefly shared a room with another new mom and it was like she didn't have a baby in the room at all...it never (save one time and it wasn't even a cry) heard a peep from it. Mine, on the other hand, dispises diaper changes with a passion, and baths, and baby lotion and powder...just about anything you touch him with...and and also changing his clothes. Oh he can't tolerate it! He's inconsolable and screams at the top of his lungs for all these things. It's amazing how nobody can hear anything over his racket...it's really THAT loud. I never knew babies could scream this loud, it's like an ice pick to the brain.
watergazer~ im using playtex drop in bottles, the liner is bpa free and they are inexpensive, i really like them because they reduce gas and colickyness and you never have to clean the bottle part, you just throw out the liner and clean the nipple, less dishes is always good to me! im mostly breast feeding but i do try to pump 1- or twice a day and she gets at least one bottle of expressed milk a day. im feel like all i do is feed her, im the walking feeding machine and it sux, i can see why so many people give up and switch to formula. but im cheap and stubborn so im going to continue with this for as long as possible, i just dont like that ive become a stripper, nearly everyone whose come to visit has seen my boobs, if i left to a separate room id be gone for an hour cause she totally started taking that long! my inlaws are coming in august and im not going to be comfortable with my boobs hanging all out in front of them....... im seriously considering full time pumping and only giving her a bottle, we'll see.
26 yrs old : 11/30/06 1st pregnancy ended in fetal demise in utero @ 15 weeks(boy). heterozygous PAI-1 5G/4G Allele. 7/7/08~ baby girl with help from lovenox
wateragzer you should definitely try the drop in u can push all the air out of the bag prior to givein it to him i used them with both my children and they are cheap you can get like 2-3 bottle and just get the drop ins
I wanted to avoid those liners mainly because of cost but I will give them a try. We try to get at least 3 good burps out of him during a feed. He takes 3 ounces every 3 hours now so we burp him after each ounce...or TRY to. Or hands get tired patting him. Now I've even started to try burping him 4 or 5 times during a feed, and anytime I change him or hold him since he just screams most of the time when he's awake. There are times he lies quiet but they are few and far between. I don't think it's because he wants to be held all the time either.
But I'll give them a try. If they don't work I'll only be out a few bucks becauseI'm sure I'll notice a difference right away if they do. And if they do work, then the cost would more than be worthwhile to not hear him screaming and have him miserable. He does sleep pretty well though when he does, so that's one good thing at least.
Veroki: It's best to be using your milk, and if that's what you want to do don't let anyone bother you about it. I assume you're using the nursing bras and such to now completely all hang out? But it's nature and that's what boobs are there for. Only certain cultures see them as a sex symbol thing to be shamed anyway. I used to be prudish myself but over the years I've realized you just gotta live and there's no time to worry about what other people think about nudity. Heck, everyone in the hospital and their grandma's sawaeverything I have to offer, and things I wouldn't even show my husband. Hey, it is what it is, accept it or don't, and if they can't accept seeing a little boob, then hey, that's really their own personal issues. You're doing what's best for your baby, don't change on anyone else's account. Sidenote: By the time she is done feeding I imagine she's ready for more. I don't know how you can tolerate feeding for that long! My little guys eats too fast...he's done in 20 minutes or less and even then it's like...wow, how do people breast feed? And then he eats every 3 hours almost on the dot, so I get a break. Breast feeders, you go all day and all night on the hour. How do you do it, I don't know.
BTW: With drop-in refills do you still have to burp them?
yes u still have to burb them... thry laying him aross you legs and burp him it should help between the pressure of him lying and you patting it may go quicker. Also what formula do they have you using? I know that soy based formula is suppose to be better for gassy babies.
My little girl had colic as well...She is 3 1/2 months old now and has just gotten over it. They are right the playtex dropins are the best, trust me, I tryed everything including aveant and dr.browns bottles and they didnt help and they are expensive. We also went through 10 formula changes. The best we have found is simalac sentive, and we tryed soy even though the peditrician wouldnt recomend it, and it didnt help anyway. they ended up giving us some levson drops and zantac...they both seemed to help as well. We took gracelyn to the doc. every week for colic until she was 2 1/2 months old...I let them know something was wrong. I also took her a chiropractor and it helped a little, most of them see infants for free. Hang in there I know it is tough I was just there if you have any questions feel free to ask. I tryed just about everything I can tell you helped for us. and I know all babies are different but if you are anything like me you will try anything at this point. It does get better but I think the biggest thing is they have to grow out of it. Which is hard to deal with as well.
I also use the Similac Sensitive. It worked the best with my daughter. She was in the NICU when she was born for 6 days and could not seem to keep much of anything down, including breast milk. I finally stopped the breast milk because she was so unhappy with it and went with the Similac Sensitive.
Though it's hard to be pregnant with a blood disorder, it's comforting to know I am not alone.
I have protein c deficiency which was diagnosed back in 2004. I refused to get on anti-coagulation therapy as the only relative I had to relate to with this disorder was deceased as a result of it. I figured I'd take my chances. I haven't had any problems since that event; which was caused by birth control I might add.
I found out in May that I am pregnant for the first time. This is also the first time I don't have medical insurance. As a result, I've had to apply for medi-cal. Now I started in one county and decided to move to the county I and my fiance grew up in. The doctor checked my protein c level and decided that I should be on lovenox, 40mg a day. Since I'm in the lag period before medi-cal is official, every pharmacy is having an issue re-filling the meds. I made it clear to my doctors and the nurses that I would not get on the lovenox if there was any kind of risk for myself or the baby in the event that I would have to abrupbtly cease the injections. I now have one left with an appointment with a specialist on Monday.
Basically I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what the risks are, if there are any, for me being off the lovenox until Monday?
I'm pretty scared. This was why I didn't want to start them in the first place and I was assured there wasn't going to be any issues with them re-filling the meds. So much for that!
Hey guys...finally got a video going on YouTube of Nicholas...at least he's not toallt screaming in it. Actually, sometimes he is awake and quiet and usually the bouncer helps him...but typically if he's awake he is screaming, going to sleep after about 2 hours into a scream fit. I looked up info. on colic but they say it' not really colic unless they are screaming for like 5 hours non-stop. He does stop, but only sometimes. If I walk holding him he's fine but I can't walk for long because he's heavy for me. Last night my hubby and I watched a movie and had the captions on because we couldn't hear through all the crying. It REALLY gets to him. He says it grates on his nerves like sandpaper. Me, I just try to shut my brain down. I haven't gotten to the store to get the bottle liners yet because I can't asfford gas for the car yet but I will by tomorrow so we'll see how it goes.
Anyway, here he is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MzEAXFsYIo You need to copy the whole line and paste into your browser for it to work.
My son didn't cry very much. He was a very good baby and he is turning into a great young man. My husband and I really don't have big issues with him. He is well mannered and everyone tells us how cute and adorable he is. I am kind of giving up on the idea of having another baby. I don't want to end up taking fertility drugs to get pg and I am not sure I can get pg very easily. It did take 6 years between our two pregnancies. So I am not sure we will have anymore. If we do, great, if not. At least we have Shawn and at least we got to have Jonathon for a couple of hours.
Watergazer--I did notice that when I would burp Shawn as a baby, rubbing his back in a circle tended to work better than patting his back. And rocking him side to side always managed to put him to sleep. He didn't like bouncing too much. But he loved to be rocked from side to side. It's worth a shot. Nicholas is too cute.
Hi. I recently discovered this site and very happy about that. My story: 10 years ago my hubby and I tried having a baby. Within 2 years I had 4 miscarriages including one twin pregnancy and one very frightening mc at 13 weeks. Doctors couldn't find anything wrong with either of us. We gave up and lived 8 great years without kids thinking it just wasn't in the cards for us. But I occasionally missed what could have been. Last year I turned 40 and we re-visited the subject and decided we would give it one more try if we could figure out the problem. This time testing showed I have factor 5. Dr said they didn't have this test 10 years ago? Anyway, I am now pregnant again at 41, taking baby aspirin and lovenox 40 mg once per day. Now 10.5 weeks and 3 US shows everything is looking great. Had a great scare on Monday when had a gush of bright red blood. Thought for sure it was over. But saw Dr that day and US showed everything is perfect. Dr thought it was possible I had a small tear in the placenta and the lovenox may have caused me to bleed more than normal? I was taken off aspirin/lovenox for 2 days then started up again last night. No more bleeding or spotting since Monday but still feel like I am on pins and needles. Has anyone heard of this? Have any of you had bleeding/spotting on lovenox throughout pregnancy? Anyone here over 40? I'm in good health, but still I know there are higher risks of problems due to my age. I don't do amnio for another 4 weeks. Thanks for any advice!
i have another u/s on tuesday and he should weigh 2 lbs or more. im nervous but excited to see him again and get some more pictures. if im below 50% then i might have to go on bed rest cause it means hes not growing at an accurate rate so that scares me. i just want him to weigh more than 2 lbs so i know hes growing great.
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