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First Pregnancy (40 weeks and 2 days)
I carried my first child to 40 weeks and 2 days. Overall, it was a healthy and uncomplicated pregnancy.
  • Materials I used to help prepare for pregnancy and birth
  1. Book: What to Expect When You Are Expecting
  2. Childbirth Class: 8 hrs in 1 day through hospital taught by a Registered Nurse
  3. Television (Discovery / TLC): A Baby Story, Deliver Me, Birthday, Babies - Special Delivery
  • Pregnancy-Related Discomforts
I had nausea and vomiting from 8-16 weeks before it tapered off. I was put on anti-nausea medicine for several weeks during the first trimester. I didn't feel it helped.  I did have two urinary tract infections and a prolapsed cervix. I also had a yeast infection caused by the antibiotic for the urinary tract infection. I  was put on preventive medicine after my second urinary tract infection until about 38 weeks. I would get constant acid reflux at night, a few times I had a nosebleed or some blood in my nose. At our 20 week ultrasound, we discovered the sex.
  • Anemia & Prenatal Vitamins
My Obstetrician discovered I was slightly anemic when I started eating ice every day, as a result of switching from regular pre-natal vitamins to gummy prenatal vitamins after constant vomiting in the first trimester. Some gummy prenatal vitamins do not have iron and it is said that iron is usually what makes an expecting mother feel nauseated. I do not recommend taking the gummy prenatal vitamins for long-term use. In order to get my iron levels back to where they needed to be, I started taking regular prenatal vitamins again. By this point, the morning sickness had passed.
  • Pregnancy-Related Tests
I received the rogam shot because I am RH negative. I was also found to be Group B Strep negative. I passed my 1-hour glucose. In the last few weeks before delivery, I did develop carpal tunnel syndrome. It went away after birth.
  • Weight
I gained a surprising amount of 41 pounds, instead of the recommended amount of weight gain of 25-35 pounds. My starting pregnancy weight was 120 pounds and at the end of pregnancy, I was 161 pounds. My obstetrician believes some of it was a result of retaining water.
  • Shaving Before Birth
To Shave or Not to Shave? I know this is a question that as a first time mom, I wondered about, especially in a medical setting with a doctor and getting cervical checks at the end of pregnancy. Should I shave? Do I need to? And of course wondering about if I would need to for labor and delivery and if they do routine shaving, which I learned was not common these days in the US. The best advice on this one is up to you. I just went the trimming route, since as a first-time mom I had no idea what to expect in labor and delivery. Although this ended up being one of the farthest things from my mind when I actually went into labor.
  • Birth Plan
My birth plan was typed and printed out on computer paper and was 1 computer sheet of paper. It covered what I wanted in a medicated vaginal birth and what I wanted in case I needed a C-section.

 Last Edited: July 28,2017 
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