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Re: 14 weeks and fundal height very high

From: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:31:50 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Michelle wrote: >
>I am 14 weeks and 2 days pregnant. I am almost 100% sure of my dates.
>LMP was December 19, 2001 and I have 31 day cycles. I am 32 years old
>and about 35lbs overweight for my body size/type. I was charting my
>cycles and temperature before we got pregnant for b/c.
>
>We went to the midwife last night for a checkup and to hear the baby's
>heartbeat. I have been able to feel the baby move for about 2 weeks
>now. She looked for the heartbeat very low down near my pubic bone and
>could not find anything after searching for about five minutes. I asked
>why I could feel the baby move higher and why I'm starting to show
>higher, is it my intestines, my bowels or ?? so she lubed up the Doppler
>again and tried just under my bellybutton. Sure enough we heard a very
>strong heart beat betweeen 140-150 bmp.
>
>She told us that she thinks either I'm further along by a month or that
>we may be carrying multiples. I have never used fertility drugs and we
>got pregnant unintentionally on our first "not worrying about if we did
>get pregnant" month.
>
>Could there be another cause of the baby being so high other than
>multiples? I'm so sure of my dates that I'd bet on them. Our midwife
>scheduled an ultrasound but we can't get in for two weeks and I'm a
>little stressed out not knowing what's going on.
>
>Any help anyone can provide would be awesome.

Michelle

those are the two most common scenarios. Also ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids.

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William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG
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Pregnancy and Birth Section
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