Re: Ow.......help, DR.
From: John Essien MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:20:45 -0600 (CST)
If you have increasingly severe pain and/or external bleeding you should
go to the nearest ER. COncerning your blood group, you should recieve
anti-D gammaglobulin injection during the pregnancy and even in this
situation, to prevent iso-immunization of your fetus.
At Sat, 22 Mar 2003, emme wrote:
>
>Last nite, I rammed my belly into a waist-level wooden
>wall!.........Immediately, my belly hurt all the way on the other
>side.....not the side that was hit........I'm currently just over 21 wks
>pg. Today I woke up and I'm still hurting, but really, now my whole
>belly hurts.......all on the insides........I'm noticing slightly more
>CM, but it's not colored or anything, and it's not too much but just
>feels like a bit more than usual........I can walk around but my stomach
>feels really tight and right now I'm feeling lots of movement from baby
>really low in my belly.....at least I hope that's the baby and not some
>kind of contractions! I have a home doppler, and the baby's hb is normal
>but maybe a few beats less than the usual, but still loud and
>strong.......anywhere from 135 to 151 and it's normally low 150's (I
>have the digital doppler so it reads the numbers for me and you know the
>numbers range up and down really fast with the digital). Anyway, on top
>of this I'm RhNegative........so what if I'm bleeding internally or baby
>is??????? I'm going in for my comprehensive (20 week) u/s on Monday even
>though I'll already be 21.5 wks.....do you have any advice for me
>regarding all of this? .......especially the blood issue?? I'm very
>worried right now.
--
John Essien, M.D. SOCOG
Camaguey, Cuba; Basseterre, St. Kitts
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