Symptoms: Along with the heartburn I have upper back pain near left shoulder I believe from all the Side sleeping. Hip pain on the same side, and just this week carpal tunnel in both hands. Pretty miserable at night and just can't get many hours of sleep.
AW/Appointments/Ultrasounds: I have a growth scan next week the first one since 27 weeks. Hoping babies have moved in the better positions for vaginal birth.
Questions/Comments/Concerns: my only real concern is the lack of sleep. I'm having a hard time working with such little sleep.
Also wanted to throw out there that at 30 weeks I'm only up about 15 pounds and my doctors are fine with that. I've tried gaining more but I had a lot of morning sickness at the beginning and then acid reflux that would make me throw up and now I just can eat hardly any amount of food. I did start the pregnancy a little overweight. So maybe that helped. My babies have always been slightly ahead for growth.
QOTW: how did you and your s.o meet? We initially met at Halloween party. We were both interested in each other but thought the other one was with someone. But about a month later we ran into each other at a dance club. Been together since.
purplegaloshes I didn't hate her book, but I agree that she perhaps intentionally misleads people a bit to think she is a MD. Also, I think the intensity of some of her recommendations and the way she presents them - as if you are being negligent or not trying hard enough if you can't/won't carry them out to their fullest extent could cause a lot of unnecessary stress and anxiety. I think a lot of her recommendations are extremely helpful to follow as loose guidelines especially re: diet and I do think she is more knowledgeable than many OBs and MFMs on the topic of nutrition for a multiples pregnancy so I found the book very worthwhile in that respect. She does border on blaming moms for poor outcomes and acts like a good outcome is something that you control, which really bothers me.
I have had 2 twin pregnancies - one that was a fiasco and did not end in taking home living children and my current twin pregnancy which thankfully has been much smoother so far. During the complicated twin pregnancy, I had morning sickness that bordered hyperemesis and had only gained 6 pounds by 20 weeks. This time around my weight gain has been very much in line with Dr. Luke's guidelines based on my BMI without trying very hard. Maybe in the first twin pregnancy my poor nutritional status was indeed linked to my chronic abruption and PPROM but it certainly wasn't my fault and I tried so mightily to get enough protein and do everything I could. This time around, my body has just cooperated a lot more and I've been able to gain the weight and to maintain the pregnancy but as far as I am concerned that's just dumb luck - not a skill or a choice. Her insinuation that it's anything more I found naive and hurtful.
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