PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for May, 2001: Re: 28weeks and still sick

Re: 28weeks and still sick

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 23 May 2001 22:52:06 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 23 May 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>I am 28 weeks pregnant with our 2nd. I still have morning sickness. I
>will go like 3 days with throwing up and then it changes to 3 days of
>loose stools.I have only gained back 3 pounds in which i have lost and
>still am not up to what I started at when I first got pregnant. The dr
>seems not to worry maybe because i am somewhat overweight. My question
>is does this harm the baby and what are my chances that this baby will
>be born normal with all this sickness? I am worried that this will hurt
>the baby. Please help. thanks

When a person is having trouble tolerating any significant diet, the body switches over and begins to burn fat. This is ok, but one of the by-products of burning fat is something called ketones. These ketones can potentially be harmful to the pregnancy. I would want to do a simple urine dip-stick analysis of your urine to assure that you are not having a lot of these ketones. If not, the baby should be doing fine... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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