[HPFGU-OTChatter] Jen's update on hurting bellies and a funny Ginger story

[Pam Hugonnet]

jenP_97 wrote:

> Now... I went to the emergency room last night with some severe pain
> - spent 6 (SIX!) hours there and had some nasty things done to me
> (had a very mean ultrasound tech that I'd dealt with before - the
> first time I met her, she yelled at me and made me feel inadequate
> because I didn't have a full bladder!).  In any case, when the doctor
> finally got a chance to see me, he poked me (gently, thank goodness),
> prodded me, made me do some calisthenics(!), and then proclaimed that
> the baby was doing very well (and was in the right spot!) and that
> I'd just pulled an abdominal muscle somehow.  YAY!  I'm in tons of
> pain, but at least I know what's causing it, and I know that all
> things baby are going well.
>

    I know this is an old post ( I've got better than 1000 messages in
my inbox--the kids have been sick) but I had to reply.
First, congratulations on the new baby; you must have mentioned you were
pregnant earlier and I probably missed the post.  When is the baby due?

Hope you're doing better with the pulled muscle.  I've managed to do
that in each of my pregnancies; because the abdominal muscles are under
such strain in pregnancy anyway, it only takes the slightest movement to
wrench one.  Heating pads, especially moist heat, seem to help.

Remember, take it slow.

drpam
/who is pulling an all-nighter but is about to fall asleep right now.


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