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Re: Another update! (pg mentioned)
From: Koolaide (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 25 Jan 2003 08:11:51 -0600 (CST)
Yippee !! Sonnet, I'm so happy that you and Peanut are doing fine ! I
just 30 seconds ago sent you and Randi an email. You don't have to
rehash this latest greatest news back to me now ! I am still praying,
I'm sure things will be purrrfect. Kick your doctor in the nuts really
hard and just say "sorry doc. if you just were not a man, you wouldn't
have the nuts I just kicked" yeah...love the lose weight and you won't
have pcos deal. whatever ! Anyway...gotta fly, talk soon.. Bon
At Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Sonnet wrote:
>
>OK guys, me again! My new round of doctor appointments has begun!
>
>Like I said in a pervious post, seeing my endo was great. He's a good
>guy. Very knowledgeable too, and willing to really monitor my thyroid.
>The one thing that's a worry is that my hypothyroid was REALLY out of
>control until last week, and I'm almost out of my first trimester.
>Apparently that can cause serious mental birth defects in the baby.
>OOPS, HMO! Maybe you should have listened to me when I begged to see an
>endo for 2 months huh!!! Now we have to see a perinatologist to check on
>the likelihood and severity of possible birth defects, but fortunately
>I'm not too worried. We'll just have to see.
>
>ANYWAY, we saw an OB today. I am still "interviewing" OB's, and will
>see one I'm really excited about on the 30th. But this guys is covered
>100% by my insurance, so that's a plus.
>
>The good news: we heard the heartbeat on the doppler! At only
>10weeks6days, which is early, considering I weigh a LOT. So I was very
>pleasantly surprised. I also weighed in at 312, meaning I've lost 13lbs
>in the last 10 weeks. That sounds bad when you're pg, but really it's
>not - I am eating well and the baby is growing well, so it's a plus.
>Both good things to come away from the appointment with. Oh! And, they
>were scheduling a GTT for me in a couple of weeks (since I'm obviously
>high risk for GD) and I wasn't thrilled, but they said if I check my
>sugars (which I do anyway) I don't have to take it. Yay!
>
>The bad news: Both this OB and his nurse were sooooo fat-unfriendly,
>shall we say! Yikes! They were at least trying to be kind about it, but
>I've never had my weight so thrown in my face and so repeatedly, and so
>often told it was obviously not related to PCOS. When I first came in,
>and mentioned that I head heard weight loss was common in early pg for
>larger women, the nurse gave me a death look and said, after a silence,
>"Well, that's bcause when you're pregnant, you know you're eating for
>the baby too, and chubby ladies start eating less McDonald's!" Ummmm OK!
>Because obviously all I eat every day is those 7 or 8 Big Macs. Sure!
>The OB kept telling me over and over that I would have NO insulin
>problems whatsoever if I would just lose weight. I then pointed out
>that it is very well documented that I had hypoglycemia from birth (I
>was regularly hospitalized with it as an infant) and I weighed what,
>8lbs? So what weight exactly, would I have to get to, to NOT be
>hypoglycemic then?? He didn't answer. :) I also pointed out that most
>my PCOS symptoms started before the weight gain. He just repeated that
>if I lost weight the PCOS would magically go away. I hate when doctors
>are stubborn!
>
>Anyway just letting you all know what's going on and that the baby is
>still there, heart beating away. Yay!! Again please forgive me if you
>come acorss this and it seems like I am being selfish and REALLY taking
>up a lot of forum space talking about myself here! I would have sooo
>many emails to write otherwise though.... thanks!
>
>TTY all soon - Sonnet
>
>--
>email always welcome: sonnet_fitz@hotmail.com
>
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