Mary1978
- Jan 13, 2010 10:07 am
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I was in the hospital on Christmas day with a few contractions and baby not moving as much. They did an ultrasound and said I had funneling and my cervix was down to a 2.5. By the next day the next day the ultrasound showed no funneling and my cervix was back to a 2.9. My dr. seemed happy with that and sent me home to continue the bed rest. I have another ultrasound in 2 weeks to measure size and the cervix. I will be 32 weeks then. Hang in there and take it easy.
I too know what you are going through with waiting a long time for your little one. This one is 5 and a half years in the waiting. We also had a round of IVF that did not take along with many other artificial insiminations and clomid failed trials. So I am taking it day by day with this little one to get her to the34 week goal. Hopefully longer! Good luck and stay positive. If something feels wrong go to the hospital even if it is to make yourself feel better! I hope this helps!
Mary
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inayashaikh
- Feb 23, 2010 3:46 pm
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janicemp
- Feb 23, 2010 4:06 pm
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Peasinapod
- Feb 23, 2010 5:31 pm
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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inayashaikh (Feb 23, 2010 3:46 pm)
Scared: I am a physician myself, dealing with all kinds of cases. At my 26 1/2 wk, I went for...
Re: Scared
Ayesha, I'm sure being in the medical profession makes things harder in some ways, but hopefully better too. I'm sorry you've gone through such a difficult and scary situation. Terb does wonders for many women and I hope you will have a great outcome with it. Bedrest, in my opinion, is a wonderful thing. I've read about women on this site that have gone full term with virutally no cervix just due to bedrest. Remember the fFN is not a guarantee that you will go into labor, so hopefully that will help put your mind at ease a bit. Wishing you the best for yourself and your baby.
Kristyn
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Peasinapod
- Feb 23, 2010 5:32 pm
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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janicemp (Feb 23, 2010 4:06 pm)
update: Here's an update...I am 32w1d today. My last cervix measurement (last week) was 1.4. The dr thinks I'll make...
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How fantastic! Congrats on keeping your little one baking for so long...you've done great! Stay on bedrest as long as possible even if they start telling you that you can get up at 35 or 36 weeks...you might even make it full term! I have my fingers crossed that you will.
Kristyn
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Grace's Mom
- Feb 27, 2010 7:34 am
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^i^D'Lon Grace^i^ ~ Forever 3 ~ Missing you every second of every day! (I HATE PH!) |
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janicemp (Feb 23, 2010 4:06 pm)
update: Here's an update...I am 32w1d today. My last cervix measurement (last week) was 1.4. The dr thinks I'll make...
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Congratulations! That's awesome!
Yolonda
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faithingodalways
- Mar 3, 2010 9:17 am
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Replying to:
inayashaikh (Feb 23, 2010 3:46 pm)
Scared: I am a physician myself, dealing with all kinds of cases. At my 26 1/2 wk, I went for...
hi
am new here and i notes your massege and i need your help please i am 27 weeks and 3 days that my fifth pregnancy i have a 5 years old girl i treid after i had her to get pregnant i had 2 missgaregs and i lost one pretearm i am very waridd now i start funneling in23 weeks and iwas in the hospetal for a week when it was 19 they send me home for a bed rest i went to the dr yeasrerday they told me my cervix 7 i have been takin the shots every week the p shots the cervix 7 with funneling is it dangeros i am very warrid i need that baby boy badly  last thing i forgot to say that my baby have a heart defacets and need a sargery but he have to be at lest 7 bonds and he is now 2 bounds
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Peasinapod (Mar 3, 2010 10:19 am)
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esg1
- Mar 3, 2010 9:31 am
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Abigail's Mom (29 weeks, 3/21/05) |
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Hi and Welcome to Share. I cannot comment on the cervix numbers. I never knew mine but I know many ladies here who have dealt with short cervixes and will jump on soon. I just wanted to let you know that someone hears and understands your fears. It is great (even if it doesn't feel like it) that you have made it to 27 weeks. You are doing a wonderful job and it sounds like you are in close contact with your doctor.
I hope we continue to hear updates from you.
Take care,
Ellen
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Peasinapod
- Mar 3, 2010 10:19 am
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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faithingodalways (Mar 3, 2010 9:17 am)
hi: am new here and i notes your massege and i need your help please i am 27 weeks and...
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So sorry you are going through this.
First, try not to worry too much! I know it is very very hard not to worry, but you need to rest for that baby. Stress is believed to be a factor in preterm labor. So, please try to relax. I assume you mean your cervix is less than 1 cm or .7 cm right now. You are right. It is short, but it does not mean you will deliver early.
Have you had a fetal fibronectin test done? This is where they use a q-tip like thing to swab looking for a protein. If it is there they will probably give you steriod injections. If it is not, your chances of going into labor in the next two weeks are very small. I would discuss bedrest, possible medications (if you are contracting - even if they don't feel strong) and the fetal fibronectin test.
You are doing great keeping your baby boy in and I wish you the best. Please keep us posted how you are doing.
Kristyn
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inayashaikh
- Mar 3, 2010 12:32 pm
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Replying to:
inayashaikh (Feb 23, 2010 3:46 pm)
Scared: I am a physician myself, dealing with all kinds of cases. At my 26 1/2 wk, I went for...
Re: Scared
Update on my status. at 28 weeks and 4 days ultrasound showed disappearance of cervix length and now dilatation is in process. Basically membranes are expected to bulge in vagina. Baby is gaining weight as expected. I continue to be on bed rest, terbutalin pump and weekly injections. I am taking it day by day..! Each night my husband gives me a high five. I have stopped crying, fussing, arguing, and getting frustrated. Encouraging positive hormones run in my blood and reach my baby, to help gain confidence and positive attitude towards starting a new life. It has helped a lot. I can't control circumstances, but I can sure appreciate all the facilities and support that I have. My positive attitude has brought me and my husband closer and I need him and his optimism.
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Peasinapod (Mar 3, 2010 12:36 pm)
inayashaikh (Mar 11, 2010 4:06 pm)
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Peasinapod
- Mar 3, 2010 12:36 pm
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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Replying to:
inayashaikh (Mar 3, 2010 12:32 pm)
Re: Scared: Update on my status. at 28 weeks and 4 days ultrasound showed disappearance of cervix length and now...
Re: Scared
Hopefully you can hang on a few more weeks if not longer. It is amazing to see it when it happens on here, but those stories always give me hope for those women that are facing such challenges.
Congrats on almost 29 weeks! That is very encouraging...each day is critical and you are doing such a great job keeping your little one in there!
Kristyn
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faithingodalways
- Mar 3, 2010 4:52 pm
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pray for my baby please
hi i realy glad i found you all here and thanks for you all today i got the steroid and i have one tomorrow the my obyjn and the ultrasound dr they want me to get to 40 weeks for the baby he need to be strong for his heart sargary so far i am tray to relax and not to be warreid praying every day for my baby but the days goes very slow you know thank you all 
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Peasinapod (Mar 3, 2010 7:20 pm)
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Peasinapod
- Mar 3, 2010 7:20 pm
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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faithingodalways (Mar 3, 2010 4:52 pm)
pray for my baby please: hi i realy glad i found you all here and thanks for you all today...
Re: pray for my baby please
Glad you are getting steriod injections. I hope you stay pregnant for much longer! Please feel free to join the Pregnant and Fabulous Thread to chat with other pregnant women that are going through or have gone through worrisome pregnancies. Thinking of you.
Kristyn
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Jackie G
- Mar 3, 2010 8:16 pm
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Mom to Kimberly (25 wkr, 6 yrs!) & Matthew (38.5 wkr, 4 yrs!) |
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Keeping you in my thoughts....
Hugs,
Jackie
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faithingodalways
- Mar 4, 2010 10:02 pm
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thank you all
hi every body thank you all and god pless your kids Kristyn i always wish to have a lot of kids i love kids alot but the life sometimes do not came the way we wish i hope get with this baby to the save stage i want to ask if any one had any information a bout the heartdefacts my baby had transpoition of great arteries and ventricular septal defect and subpulmonary stenosis his dr tell me do not wary every thing is fixsaple hope so
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Peasinapod (Mar 5, 2010 6:53 am)
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esg1
- Mar 5, 2010 6:43 am
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Abigail's Mom (29 weeks, 3/21/05) |
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Good luck with the surgery. Doctors are usually up front with the risks but if you are worried, I would ask him to carefully spell out the procedure and the risks. That might help you to be more relaxed or at least express your concerns more easily.
Welcome to Share!
Ellen
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Peasinapod
- Mar 5, 2010 6:53 am
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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faithingodalways (Mar 4, 2010 10:02 pm)
thank you all: hi every body thank you all and god pless your kids Kristyn i always wish to have...
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Thank you, I'm very lucky to have my beautiful babies.
I agree that you should ask the doctors to explain everything again and again until you feel you have a better understanding of it. I am thinking of you and your little one.
Kristyn
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Yinka Bally
- Mar 5, 2010 1:35 pm
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Awesom
Congrats on keeping your lil one in there for so long, i am in a similar situation and hoping very hard that things can only get better. My prayers are with you. All the best xxx.
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faithingodalways
- Mar 6, 2010 1:47 pm
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tel me more
hi can you tell me more about your story
cause i fell i am lost i stays hours on the internt tray to find answers and i read a lot of stories similar to mine and even hardier it give me hope the more i read i get more hope
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inayashaikh
- Mar 11, 2010 4:06 pm
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Replying to:
inayashaikh (Mar 3, 2010 12:32 pm)
Re: Scared: Update on my status. at 28 weeks and 4 days ultrasound showed disappearance of cervix length and now...
Re: Scared
30 weeks Update: Perinatologist suggested very infrequent doctors visits to avoid interruption in bed rest and also management is going to be same regardless. Currently Terbutlalin pump and bed rest. Continuation of other medicines. Changed Loveox to Heparin: Reason is in case of delivery, it is easier to reverse Heparin for purpose of epidural anesthesia. Heparin is less painful than Lovenox anyways!
I received second round of Steroids and also getting Progesterone inj weekly. I am fortunate to have home health now.
Interestingly and funny in its own way: My arm muscles had steroid inj, Belly is for Heparin inj, Buttocks for weekly progesterone and thighs for Terbutalin. My home health nurse thinks I will become a porous net if continued to be poked this much.... we make fun of it!
Hey.. we need to find entertainment in circumstances like these, face it with humor and it will be much easier. Welcome your family members with sweet smile, put some lipstick on, perfumes. It will make us all better team.
you Rock Ladies!
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Peasinapod (Mar 11, 2010 6:35 pm)
inayashaikh (Mar 17, 2010 2:52 pm)
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esg1
- Mar 11, 2010 5:37 pm
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Abigail's Mom (29 weeks, 3/21/05) |
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Glad things are under control and you are past thirty weeks that is such a big deal for the baby's health. Keep baking and keep us posted.
Take care,
Ellen
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Peasinapod
- Mar 11, 2010 6:35 pm
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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inayashaikh (Mar 11, 2010 4:06 pm)
Re: Scared: 30 weeks Update: Perinatologist suggested very infrequent doctors visits to avoid interruption in bed rest and also management...
Re: Scared
30 weeks is great! You have a great attitude  Can't wait to hear more from you. Congrats!
Kristyn
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inayashaikh
- Mar 17, 2010 2:52 pm
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Replying to:
inayashaikh (Mar 11, 2010 4:06 pm)
Re: Scared: 30 weeks Update: Perinatologist suggested very infrequent doctors visits to avoid interruption in bed rest and also management...
Scared, no more!
31 weeks update: Just returned from Perinatology visit, Cervix is DYNAMIC, I am having more contractions, more pressures..who cares! I am still pregnant is all that counts. Baby is 3.5 pounds. Miracle as it seems to remain pregnant without a cervix for 4 weeks!
I will encourage all my friends who are in similar circumstances to think that they are doing all the best that they could. It is sure a very tough phase. Celebrate every day that you gain in pregnancy.
being overly stressed brings with it negative hormones and you do not want those to be fed to your precious one in the womb.
Show the world your strong motherhoodness! Go Ladies!
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Peasinapod (Mar 17, 2010 7:39 pm)
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Peasinapod
- Mar 17, 2010 7:39 pm
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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Replying to:
inayashaikh (Mar 17, 2010 2:52 pm)
Scared, no more!: 31 weeks update: Just returned from Perinatology visit, Cervix is DYNAMIC, I am having more contractions, more...
Re: Scared, no more!
Amazing news! So happy to hear you are still going strong. I hope that things continue to go well for you...I'm sure they will. Congrats
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faithingodalways
- Mar 19, 2010 2:48 pm
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good for you
am happy for you aisha i am alomst 30 weeks i felt pain in my belly above my stomic for like days now i had to go to the obgyn and they monter me for an hour she took an culture test and came positive she said that means you may go inlapor i am very worried he shod not come now beacuse of his chd when you start your contraions
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inayashaikh (Mar 20, 2010 10:28 am)
Peasinapod (Mar 21, 2010 10:38 am)
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inayashaikh
- Mar 20, 2010 10:28 am
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faithingodalways (Mar 19, 2010 2:48 pm)
good for you: am happy for you aisha i am alomst 30 weeks i felt pain in my belly above...
Re: good for you
Hi, I know how you feel. The test that predicts labor is called Fetal Fibronectin. It was positive for me 5 weeks ago. I did go into labor a week after test was positive, but since then my contractions are controled on medicine called Terbutalin. Did your doctor give you 'steroid medicine' for baby lung and brain maturity? If not, then you should ask them. Hopefully things will be fine, if you are able to make it another 2 to three weeks you will be in a safe time zone as for baby delivery. Relax for now and not worry about future.
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Peasinapod
- Mar 21, 2010 10:38 am
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Momma of Sky - now 6 (32 weeker), Will - 4 years old (37 weeks) and Adalynn - 21 months (37 weeks) and Ian (38 weeks) |
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faithingodalways (Mar 19, 2010 2:48 pm)
good for you: am happy for you aisha i am alomst 30 weeks i felt pain in my belly above...
Re: good for you
I agree you should talk about steriod shots to help the baby's lungs and to also look into taking meds regulary to help control contractions. There are some different options, so hopefully you can find one or a combination that looks for you. Also, resting at much as possible is always good. Good luck to you...I'm hope for at least 37 weeks for you!
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faithingodalways
- Mar 22, 2010 2:43 pm
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hope to god
yes i did take like four shots cuble weeks ago for the longs i try to relax and not listen to reslts why cause they give you stress the best is like aisha said do not think about the futuer
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inayashaikh (Mar 23, 2010 7:10 am)
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inayashaikh
- Mar 23, 2010 7:10 am
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faithingodalways (Mar 22, 2010 2:43 pm)
hope to god: yes i did take like four shots cuble weeks ago for the longs i try to...
Re: hope to god
Great..So you are on the right track! Celebrate every day that you have gained in this pregnancy. I agree, rest, feet up. Catch up on your emails, phone calls. Make list of baby essentials. You are unable to go and do any shopping now, so have a list ready for your friends/spouse to do the job for you. If baby comes early, and if you plan to breast feed, you may need a pump. You may want to spend time on internet to educate yourself on that. See I have already told you so many things you can do when you are on bed rest! I make a list of things to do every morning, and today my husband wanted me to fix buttons on few of his shirts... knowing he will not get this GOLDEN oppertunity again.hahaha
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inayashaikh
- Mar 28, 2010 9:27 am
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32 weeks update
Tomorrow is end of week 32. I have started to ambulate a bit in order to gain some stamina for labor process. counting down for heparin injections now. I get those injections for antiphospholipid syndrome.
It has been so tough, although I feel I have gotten closer to my family while staying at home. I had always been at work since my daughter was born and doing my doctor job.
Only now after 2 and a half years I have been able to spend so much time with my first born. She visits me in my room many times per day and likes to stay around. I have a feeling that she acknowledges my presences in house. I have developed more respect and care for my live-in-nany.
I was bored to death in the begining of this bed rest deal, and spending time thinking of what may happen. Only now I have realized there is much more outside my mechanical work life of assignments, calls, and pager. It may be a lot of adjustment to go back to professional life from domestic life, with addtion of a breast pump!
Has anyone else felt the same way?
Ayesha
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Peasinapod (Mar 28, 2010 5:55 pm)
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