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I've made it to the final finish line in the birthing process - six weeks post delivery. For the first 2 weeks home, I had the no heavy lifting, no driving, and no more than once up and down the stairs a day rules. Add the no bath, swimming, or exercise...
Well, although I've immensely enjoyed my experience with my high risk practice and the three OBs in the practice, it feels FANTASTIC to have made my last appointment and have a clean bill of health for myself and, most importantly, the baby. Today's appointment...
Although I'm not there gestationally, this is where I am from a LMP standpoint. Had another visit with my primary practice this morning, after waiting about 30 minutes for the doctor, the visit was all of 2 minutes. The baby's heartbeat is right around...
With everything that's been going on the past few days I completely forgot about the call I received from my primary OB's office on Thursday afternoon. A very nice woman called to let me know that they had finally heard back from the high risk OB's office...
In the mail today I received a copy of the letter the high risk OB sent to my primary OB back in August. After digesting the two pages and all of the medical terms and abbreviations (like CHB = congenital heart block...or fetal heart block)...and I have...
I had my first visit with my primary OB this afternoon. Definitely exciting, and as my husband, my son in his winter suit packed into his stroller like that kid from A Christmas Story, and I huddled in a room with the sterile table, a bunch of rolling...
In that section about Sjogren's pregnancies and in the article I referenced in my earlier post it also mentioned that woman with Sjogren's who get pregnant and have both the anti-Ro and anti-La antibodies (which I have, and have high levels of) have a...
I crawled into bed the other night and pulled in with my my "Sjogren's bible"...the big book with SO much information it's overwhelming. However, taken in chunks, it's tolerable without making you feel like you need an antidepressant (which you really...
In addition to our discussion with the high risk obstetrician about taking Plaquinel during my next pregnancy, we also discussed the main medical concern autoimmune patients have during pregnancy - the risk that the baby will develop something called...
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