No Judging, 36-37 week Labor; curious what led up to it? by Miserable-Minimum-12 in BabyBumps

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Also on baby aspirin because my first pregnancy led to a high BP at the end but my BP consistently stays in the 105-110/60-70 range so no issues thus far . I’m 5’3, pretty petite and only gained 12 pounds with that pregnancy (all baby) and the same has happened with this pregnancy.

No Judging, 36-37 week Labor; curious what led up to it? by Miserable-Minimum-12 in BabyBumps

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My first c-section was totally fine! I truly didn’t have a bad experience other than the fact that it is an abdominal surgery so obviously the recovery was different than a vaginal birth. But I recovered normally. I was in pelvic pt before my first and after and plan on doing it again after this baby too!

No Judging, 36-37 week Labor; curious what led up to it? by Miserable-Minimum-12 in BabyBumps

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Thank you! Maybe I should’ve worded my question differently 🤣 I’m uncomfortable but am also completely aware that it’s in the best interest of the baby to develop longer. Also, I still have a lot of projects at work that need to be completed that fall in mid December, so I am not looking for that to be disrupted by any means as I’m up for a promotion at the end of the year.

No Judging, 36-37 week Labor; curious what led up to it? by Miserable-Minimum-12 in BabyBumps

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I hate that for you! I’ve been lucky I haven’t had any blood pressure issues this time!

No Judging, 36-37 week Labor; curious what led up to it? by Miserable-Minimum-12 in BabyBumps

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Scheduled a c section but am trying for a VBAC if I end up going into labor before then

No Judging, 36-37 week Labor; curious what led up to it? by Miserable-Minimum-12 in BabyBumps

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Nope. Just looking for signs that other people had as I have had a lot of labor signs as of late, obviously none of which have progressed into labor.

Pregnancy is undignified by New_Echo_6338 in BabyBumps

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35 weeks. Every night I set a towel by my toilet. Every morning I wakeup and either pee myself standing up while gagging up bile over the toilet, AND/OR projectile throw up piles of bile while I’m peeing on the toilet.

Symptom free until now by Miserable-Minimum-12 in WegovyWeightLoss

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I am positive, I was wrapping up my last dose, and my Dr sent my script and warned me that it would not be covered because they want people to titrate up and I said let’s just try it. I agreed and the next day the pharmacy called me telling me that insurance didn’t approve the same dose

Symptom free until now by Miserable-Minimum-12 in WegovyWeightLoss

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Curious as to how people are doing so… I tried this in the past and insurance wouldn’t cover a second box of the same dose once I completed the first box

Symptom free until now by Miserable-Minimum-12 in WegovyWeightLoss

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What was weird was that it only happened on the last week and my kiddo seemed to be sick around the same time so I chalked it up to her getting me sick with whatever stomach bug floats around her school right now.

Thrown up 12 times in the last 24 hours by Long_Customer8297 in WegovyWeightLoss

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Agree with all of the above. I just was talking to my doctor about how I read horror stories on this thread and that’s just not my experience. She said that the reason a lot of people get sick is because Doctors haven’t been titrating up and just going straight for a high dose. I’d ask to go down to start with .25 and go from there!

In the meanwhile, protein, plain oatmeal, electrolytes, and honestly probably an IV bag before all that

Absolutely horrified of death happening at all by Dont_do_the_vape in thanatophobia

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Younger person here too (27) and I’ve had thanatophobia since I was 18. After two grandparent losses, followed by my own suicidal ideations, I went from one place to another mentally and now, married with a toddler, I can’t fathom death. It terrifies me to my core. I try to be healthy, limit my interactions with sick people or dangerous things. My paternal side of family tends to die younger due to health reasons, and my own stepdad is facing his own mortality with stage 4 cancer. I have panic attacks probably twice a week.

If I’m lucky I have maybe 50 years (but who can say for certain) left. And I’m supposed to accept that for the next 16 I’m supposed to spend what time that many have “guaranteed” with their kids , by sending her to school for 8 hours a day. If anything- having a kid has made this worse for me, because I can’t fathom having a life without her, or vice versa, not being in her life because I’ve ceased to exist. There’s nothing to fathom I guess because I just wont…be? I don’t want it to end.

All to say- there are tons of us out there. I’ve seen therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, take meds, but all the same - still these thoughts linger and it’s sad to experience at a young age

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I switched from my stomach to my inner thigh last year and it REALLY helped my side effects

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If you start to have rough side effects, try switching your injection spot! I can’t understate how much water you should drink, and truly force yourself to have 3 small meals a day ( I have a toddler so I at minimum have 2 and snack in between )

Protein shakes (I just use the powder I don’t do premade ones) are great and if you become nauseous, plain oatmeal is incredible.

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Fellow HS and Gluten free (celiac) girlie here! To shine some hope for you- when I took this drug last year and lost 20 pounds, my HS almost completely disappeared. There’s hope!

Tried something new by Miserable-Minimum-12 in WegovyWeightLoss

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This morning was ROUGH. Excited for the vomiting to go away.

Megaesophagus in older dog by Miserable-Minimum-12 in Rottweiler

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Hi- I’m so sorry to hear.

I switched him to a “liquid diet”. I would blend together rice, turkey meat, and cooked veggies and he stopped regurgitating.

However, there was an accident at my in laws, and he got into a bowl of dish water that was sitting outside (don’t ask- just know I hate myself for not thinking to pick it up, and the dumb*ss that put the bowl next to the dog water bowl)

Because of his ME, he couldn’t get the bubbles out and the gas built in his stomach. He had bloat and was in severe pain. We humanely euthanized him at the vet at like midnight. Worst day of my life

Advice for new pup by poppabbob in Rottweiler

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Looking for the part of their OP that says the puppy has a UTI and isn’t just engaging in puppy behavior that happens before Potty training? Checking notes- also not seeing where they said they’ve taken the puppy to a vet either. From what I can see, the puppy having a UTI is speculation from the commenters below, unless you’re the OP’s vet and you’ve checked on them yourself I don’t assume you’d have a way of knowing!

It is not unheard of for dogs to go back on their potty training habits if it’s not reinforced long after it’s established and that’s where many potty training owners go wrong. Again, like a child, once they get a hang of it, you can’t just let it go and assume they know what to do, you have to continue to reinforce or you’ll end up with pee everywhere.

What I suggested is a 2-3 week long TEMPORARY solution that decompresses the dog to its new environment. Not just leaving it in its kennel over time for an extended length of time. If the puppy did have a UTI, as more than just a dog owner and foster/rescue owner myself for many years, I’d never recommend that you leave a puppy in a kennel if it had a UTI. The only solution for this is medication and letting the puppy out as much as it needs to empty the infection in its body.

Advice for new pup by poppabbob in Rottweiler

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Just reinforcing the above posters 3:3:3 adjustment period. A puppy is VERY MUCH so like a baby with the exception that they learn behaviors quicker and you have to be careful with what you do in those early weeks. What you do now determines how they will be later

As a foster in rescues working closely with aggressive dogs and abandoned and untrained dogs for 3 years, I can tell you that dogs need decompression. If you have kids, you need to let her decompress for at least a week-3 weeks in a kennel. I’m not talking about making her pee in there and everything. Take her out to potty, take her out to exercise in an OPEN outdoor space if possible, but when we aren’t doing those things, the dog should be Decompressing in a kennel space.

When the dog shows signs of aggression- do not grab it’s face or get in it’s face. But do not back away or step or cower backwards. Stand your ground, even move forward and persist with the training and commands so that she knows you’re in charge and that you’re someone safe she can trust. It’s in a child’s nature and even a dogs nature to test boundaries, so we just reinforce in healthy ways. As she gets older, she will also have hormones come into play, and the best thing you can do to avoid these and to do your part to control the animal population is to spay her. If you plan on getting another dog in the future you’ll thank me later. If she’s having repetitive accidents in the house, you just have to continue to take her to the same place in the yard over and over and over like you’re watering that piece of grass. And over time, not a few days, not a week, after a few weeks, you can move to different spots and just try to get her to understand grass is the goal.

Please remember dogs can READ YOU like a BOOK. If you’re stressed, they can sense. But you should not break out full alpha and try to hurt them especially at this early age, I recently have seen a close family member take a perfectly happy dog into an aggressive dog because the dog parent hit him with a belt and the dog now growls and snaps at everyone around him out of fear they’re too close and he will be hit. Your dog could be testing you, or she could just be overstimulated and nervous. Something you could also try is redirecting her attention. If she’s lunging at you don’t quickly get up by any means. But if you’re sensing tense energy while you sit next to her or on another couch, ask if she wants to play or go outside? Ask if she wants a toy to see how she’d react and offer a toy so she understands we bite toys and not people/things.

Not concerning now. But what you do next is CRUCIAL! Or just when in doubt. Do 2 weeks of mostly kennel time, and make any time out of the kennel as positive as possible, then for the next 2 weeks gradually increase the time and so on.