PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for September, 1999: Re: Scared....again

Re: Scared....again

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:34:57 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Tammy wrote: >
>With my last preg I had high blood pressure throughout my preg and was
>scared the whole time I was preg that something would happen to the
>baby...he was born perfect at 39 weeks and I had severe PPD for a couple
>months, I think because I was so worried throughout the preg I did not
>really enjoy it till the last few weeks, I never felt miserable.
>
>Now Iam dealing with the same blod pressure issues and I swore I would
>not allow myself to get worried this time since things went well last
>time, and it is going fairly well....but I am again waking up in the
>middle of the night unable to sleep and worrying since my last Dr visit.
>
>So here is my question...the dr mentions IUGR as a possibility from high
>BP, my son was the opposite he was actually very large... I am 13 weeks
>tommorrow and at 12 weeks he was easily able to find a hearbeat my
>current worry is that when I get an ultrasound at 15 weeks that the baby
>will already have the IUGR...I am thinking if that were the case then he
>would not have been able to hear the heartbeat? And the baby was moving
>around a great deal which is good right?

It sounds like everything up to this point has gone fine. If you feel you can't enjoy the pregnancy because of constant worry that did not come to fruition last time, some ob patients choose counselling to deal with realistic and unrealistic concerns.

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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