preloude to a drama queen

So this is how miss Lilly came early ......
From the time I was around 30 weeks pregnant I started to become icreasingly itchy, I thought at one stage I had nits or a bed bug infestation as it came on mostly at night and would effect my sleeping
Than it started happening during the day, almost my entire body was itchy, it was unbearable I'd spend all day scratching and would scratch until I bleed,
Eventually I went on the bubhub and posted a msg describing my symptoms on the forums. People replyed saying it could be Obstetric Cholestasis, which affects the liver functioning and bile is realeased back into your system which causes the itchyness and most cases babies are induced early
The other option is PUPPS
The following wednesday i asked the midwife who ran our birthing classes about it she thought it was Cholestasis (OC) and told me to tell the ob at my next clinic visit on Monday
(side note we moved over that weekend)
On Monday I told the ob about it she thought it was oc too and sent me for a blood test the next morning and oragnised an appintment in the featal maternal assement unit (FMAU) for Friday to get the results
On Friday I go in my liver function (LFT) is through the roof and so is my bile acid test confirming OC the midwife took my BP and it wad very high, I had never had a high BP in my life, an internal was done and discovered bub was breached
They talked about delivering me since I was 36 weeks and via c section due to breached bub
The ob who admitted me wanted to try and keep me until 37 weeks
They admitted me and I was placed on meds for the OC and BP I also had to do a 24 hour urine test where totally gross I had collect all urine for a 24 hour period
On Monday I was aloud to go home, because my LFTs had lowered but still were high so i was put on bed rest and told to cone back to the FMAU every 2 days
On Thursday I went back for my next appointment to FMAU BP still high and LFTs and Bile acid test still high
The ob said he didn't see any benifit of keeping the bub any longer that it was more dangerous trying to extend the pregnancy any longer for the benifit of bub development, esp since bub was 37 weeks so he booked a c section for the following day due to breached
I was given an injection of steroids for bubs lungs and was aloud to go home to have dinner and wad admitted at 9pm
The next morning I was taken at 9 down to the or to have the c section
At 10.2am on 7-8-09 Lilly Maree Dowdell was born
I'll post another blog to detail the c section

Bubhub



obstetric cholestasis



Pupps

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