Vikki's Pregnancy Diary

[winegirl]

Oh hun I am so sorry to hear that... Did teh doc offer to have you reffered at all? Did he given you any answers?

I hope everything is ok with you today and tonight with your OH being away from home. Any chance of anyone coming round to help out with you being so poorly??

Love

WG x

[Vikki]

So I have had a rough few months, I didn't expect to get ill so quickly. Thankfully nothing like before, so taking the ad's early was obviously the right thing to do. After seeing my psych yesterday, he now suspects that I also have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I was stunned, I thought you only got it from physical trauma, not things that were in your head! So he has referred me to another psycologist for some treatment, and he will still take care of the peri natal stuff. The pregnancy is otherwise going well, I still bleed everyday, but it is not anything to worry about. I already huge, people keeps asking me when she is due and when I say September they are always really shocked. I'm going to be a whale.

[monica]

Hi

Great to hear fromyou and that pregnancy is going well. You must be suffering in this heat - have been talking to a couple of other mums to be who hare having a hard time with it.

I'm so sorry things have been touch. Sounds like you have got good support though. I guess you can be traumised equally by stuff that has gone on in your head as any physical reaction. What Sort of treatment are you going to have.

Take care - hope you are getting in some R&R!

love

Monica

[Weeble]

Hi Vikki,

I am pregnant too due in early october, but booked for a elective section on the 30th september, this is my 4th pregnancy, but will hopefully be my 3rd child. I am finding the heat very difficult as well and would describe myself as a whale, even starting to walk in that odd pregnant way. I am about four weeks ahead in size of last time and about the size I was at 30 weeks with my first, so you are not the only one.

I did not get psychotic PNI but experienced a very severe form of non psychotic PNI after my second child born last september and have suffered PTSD style symptoms from the labour and am still very scared of health care professionals after everything that happened, I am still trying to trust myself and my thoughts now.

I have recently had enough courage to ask about the scariest symptoms I have experienced and why I got them, including things like feeling like I was invisible. Having them explained to me and learning how not to fear my own thoughts has really helped.

I guess you had your 20 week scan a few weeks ago, how was it? I am taking prozac as well all through pregnancy so would be interested to know how that has been going for you.


Hope the next few days are good for you

Kat

[gizmoracer]

Hi Vikki.

I'm the other one thats on similar dates to you. Like Kat I'm on 4th pregnancy but hopefully 3rd baby due around 16th October.

I've also found the beginning very hard going and been feeling rotten for most of it. I'm not on meds at the moment and hoping to avoid them until after the birth but my doc is happy to give me them should I need it. Unfortunatly I've had prozac in the past and it has done nothing for me so I guess it would have to be something else.

I don't seem to be getting much help compared to you guys, I guess thats because I never really got any help when I was very ill anyway. I was diagnosed with 'severe postnatal depression' when my eldest was 3 weeks old and basically left to it. After having my daughter I started to hear voices and see weird things and became suicidal but still wasn't taken seriously until my husband had to send the police out to find me some 5 yrs after being diagnosed. Thankfully he knows enough about me now to make sure if I slip I get the right help.

Look forward to hearing how things are going with you.

[Vikki]

Been getting a bit hairy really, thought my waters had broken a few weeks ago, thankfully they had not, but I am now on crutches due to SPD. Don't feel like I am getting a break at all at the moment. Midwife thinks that they will induce me due to the pain, but I won;t know til I see the cons in a couple of weeks. Bit of a nightmare really. Psychiatrist has given me some anti-psychotics to help me sleep, I don't have any psychosis at the moment, but I am worried they think I will as he was discussing an inpatient stay at our last visit. It's bad enough I have to stay in hospital for a few days after the baby is born. I know it's to check the baby doesn't have any withdrawal from the meds, but I hate hospitals, they make feel awful. I can't eat or sleep in hospitals, generally I just cry. At least I slept last night, I felt a bit spaced out today but i'm hoping that will fade the longer I take them.

[monica]

Poor you - you sound in agony. Are you having any physio. i have a friend who had spd very badly with her second child and had physio which helped. She was given a support belt which she found a bit uncomfortable but it helped her alot. Do push for a referral as you shouldn't be left in agony.

Our lovely moderator, Giz also has spd and saw an osteopath which helped her enormously. Might be worth looking into obviously checking out osteopath has experience in this area.

Re: in patient, I imagine given what yo've been through consultant thinking about getting a plan of action for you. It sounds liek they are keeping a close eye on you to prevent and/or minimise any reoccurence.

You sound as if you're dreading any hospital stay - I wonder could they give you a private room and let your oh stay with you? Might be worth considering if it makes you feel better.

Do come back and let us know how you are. you know you'll get lots of support here.

love

Monica