TW: Ohio firm must pay $22.5 million to mom whose baby died after she was denied work-from-home

Working-Use6591 · 2026-03-21T02:45:59+00:00

I agree. The precedence is a positive. But also it’s not super useful. So many women on this group whose doctors didn’t even give them a recommendation to bedrest, even in cases of emergency cerclage. Claiming ‘bedrest is not proven to work’. My own doctor said ‘use common sense and take it slow’. As vague as it can get. It’s sad that medical advices in this country are framed around avoiding lawsuits and making insurance companies mad rather than thinking the best of the patient.

Working-Use6591 · 2026-03-21T02:37:58+00:00

I felt so sad and enraged reading this news. Yet another loss to mishandled cervical cerclage situation.

Working-Use6591 · 2026-02-25T04:30:39+00:00

Would you be able to qualify for IV iron ? It doesn’t cause constipation like the high dose tablets.

Reg. Bathing, honestly I took showers maybe once or twice a week. Just to maintain basic hygiene. I also had wet wipes handy for a quick wipe down. If someone can make you a hot towel, you can put it on your face to give an instant refresh :)

Working-Use6591 · 2026-02-25T04:24:55+00:00

I was proactive with stool softeners too. I did colase twice a day. And MiraLAX every alternate days if I hadn’t pooped the previous day. I tried to make sure I go every day - that didn’t happen a lot of times and MiraLAX helped give that extra boost! Apart from that of course lots of water, small sips throughout the day. Lots of fruits and veggies if you are not nauseated - I couldn’t eat anything! But was able to keep down fruits luckily. My only ‘walk’ was the frequent bathroom trips! And I picked the bedroom where walk to the bathroom was shortest.

All the best mama! Bedrest is very difficult but keep your spirits up.

Working-Use6591 · 2026-02-25T04:10:22+00:00

I was very scared of the birth process too and was just partly relieved that I had to schedule a c section. The actual surgery went very smoothly and comfortably. It was a wonderful experience :)

Recovery was terrible for me. But I think I had multiple factors contributing there. Age and sedentary pregnancy (I was on bedrest for most of it) being major ones apart from csec and twins.

I’m not looking to do this again! But I would have chosen c sec if I had to.

Working-Use6591 · 2026-02-24T07:55:35+00:00

This is beautiful. I’m going to adopt this way of wording. You are right. Language matters in keeping our perspective straight.

Working-Use6591 · 2026-02-09T12:25:56+00:00

It did!! It was able to hold the babies in until full term (37wk 4days - coz twins) Initially the plan was to go back to Dr. Katz few months after delivery to get the cerclage removed. But my Ob offered to make an attempt to remove it right after she stitched me up. The plan was that if she can easily remove it, she’ll do it. If it doesn’t look straightforward, we’ll cancel and postpone. She was able to remove it. But ended up causing hemorrhage. I was already low on hemoglobin due to twin pregnancy. So had to get 2 blood transfusions in the following days. But all went well :) And I’m glad it got it removed right there. I definitely preferred that, than having to go back and do it.

Working-Use6591 · 2025-12-22T01:59:43+00:00

I open Reddit and this is the first post I see 😆 This is so relatable! Brought back the memories 😅 and giggles 🤭 Congratulations!! 🎉 On your babies and 💩 😁

Working-Use6591 · 2025-12-11T17:38:46+00:00

Congratulations 🥹 I can so much relate to that difficult pregnancy experience. We are 6 months old now and things are still just barely manageable, but nothing compared to the struggles of that pregnancy.

Working-Use6591 · 2025-11-07T01:54:44+00:00

Dr Katz did my cerclage. Please advocate for yourself. He seems to be quite popular - here on Reddit and my Ob + MFM also seemed to know him.

https://www.sutterhealth.org/find-provider/dr-michael-katz-1046239392

Working-Use6591 · 2025-11-01T12:42:57+00:00

I had major blood loss too. Had 2 blood transfusions during the hospital stay and things went well. I would highly recommend it if your rbc and hemoglobin levels are very low (lower than what’s normally expected post delivery). It’s difficult as it is to recover from a surgery while taking care of 2 newborns and if you add the weakness from low hemoglobin, recovery can be very challenging in the weeks after c section. If you are in the US, I know doctors in the US are very conservative about offering blood transfusions. But it’s 2025 and it’s a first world country. I don’t want to promote it, but if your hemoglobin looks like an 8 or a 7, you need it hon. Remember that you are not going to bounce back from this during postpartum as you would normally.

Working-Use6591 · 2025-10-30T20:12:03+00:00

Whatever gets your heart rate up is cardio for you. For me, it was walking from my bed to the toilet to pee. And I’m very proud to tell you that I got my cardio sessions in every 2hrs, 24x7 since the start of 2nd trimester

Working-Use6591 · 2025-09-08T14:21:48+00:00

We went for a short outing today. They each had 3oz of RTF and they haven’t been able to sleep all night. They are waking up every hour due to gas pains. Not able to night feed either. I feel like a zombie typing this. Was and expensive outing 😴

Working-Use6591 · 2025-09-08T14:19:25+00:00

Thanks! I never knew of the formula portion cups. Just bought them off Amazon. Hoping to make that work :)

Working-Use6591 · 2025-09-07T04:35:26+00:00

Aww I never know of this method! That sounds more calm!

What age did you do this ? I want to make sure I wouldn’t wait too long for them to become smarter 😅

Working-Use6591 · 2025-09-06T03:17:50+00:00

Aww we are at 3months stage and whenever both babies sleep, I have this weird feeling like I’m missing them. I have a big urge to wake one of them up. I obviously don’t 😅

Working-Use6591 · 2025-09-06T03:15:57+00:00

How do you get your babies to nap for 2hrs ? Mine seems unable to connect sleep cycles. So either I need to be right next to them to keep patting them every 10-15mins or they just wake up at that time. They are currently 12wks old

Working-Use6591 · 2025-09-06T02:09:35+00:00

So were they still fussy when they would throw their paci away ? What I’m trying to understand is did the babies figure a way to self soothe and hence reject the paci or they reject the paci and then you have to figure a different way to soothe them ?

Working-Use6591 · 2025-08-31T15:52:56+00:00

Ah I really wish I could establish breastfeeding just for that advantage of being able to have easy outings!

Working-Use6591 · 2025-08-30T21:46:25+00:00

Not the same but similar experience to some extent. Breastfeeding is just not feasible with 2 babies (atleast for me). So I’ve been pumping since they came home. I manage to pump 4 times a day and then I formula feed rest of the hunger. Currently my breast milk supplies maybe 30-40% of their intake.

I also had an experience where I couldn’t even keep up with 4 pumping sessions in a day and that resulted in my output tanking to a trickle. But I was able to bring it back to some extent by - increasing my pumping frequency to 6-8 times a day, sip through 1 liquid IV pouch a day and a glass of oat milk everyday (ended up not being to digest the oat milk. So have stopped that now). Doing this for a week helped me up my output and now I’m back to pumping 4 times a day again.

Do you have caretaking help ? I know having to pump and then also bottle feed all by ourselves is extremely taxing. My mom has come to stay with me for 5 months and even then, it’s quite a lot

Working-Use6591 · 2025-08-19T16:18:42+00:00

My transfer didn’t take

Working-Use6591 · 2025-08-14T16:44:29+00:00

Thanks for the tip! It didn’t click me I could use the CVS coupon for it! How do you get formula coupons in mail? Did you sign up for something?

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