Off bedrest! and Quad Screen Correction

Daron accompanied me to my appointment this morning. Unfortunately, the pressure is not letting up, but since there is no sign of pre-term labor the doctor released me from bedrest. She thinks it's likely that some of the scarring and adhesions from the endometriosis is pulling as things grow creating the pressure sensation. A gal I know at work who recently had a baby after struggling with endometriosis related infertility said she had a lot of pressure from about the same point as I am to the end of her pregnancy. So, it seems that is probably a very plausible explanation.

In addition to that, my hips and lower back are really starting to hurt quite badly. I scheduled a chiropractor appt for tomorrow. I saw her two weeks ago and at that time she told me my hips were very out. We scheduled my next appointment for a month out, but she told me to come back earlier if I needed to. In the meantime, my ob suggested I try sleeping in a recliner, so I can be on my back at an incline rather than laying on my hips since you have to lay on your side when flat in a bed while pregnant. We had been planning to buy a new recliner anyway, so we went ahead and bought one tonight. Luckily, we were able to get a good deal on a floor model and brought it home with us. I'll let you know how it goes.

In some exciting news, it turns out the Down's Syndrome number the nurse gave me was the baseline risk for my exact age and ethnicity (1:161). My actual risk of Down's is ~1:4000! The risk for trisomy 18 was ~1:5000, and like I said in my last post the risk of neural tube defects such as spina bifida was 1:3182 (that's the only actual number I got). If there was a number for trisomy 13, she didn't give it to me, but I'm sure if there was anything to be worried about, she would have told me. She started off by saying everything they measured came back as one in thousands. So, obviously, this doesn't guarantee the baby will be free of these genetic disorders, but at least it appears to be a very low risk. In fact, she told me I had the risk level of an 18 year old!

Now, if only I had the hips of an 18 year old...