(NB This was written retrospectively)<\/p>\n
I had a routine antenatal appointment with my midwife and she diagnosed polyhydramnios – excess amniotic fluid. She sent me for an urgent scan to see if they could find a reason for the excess. This is what has made me so huge and so, so uncomfortable. As the days went by I wondered how on earth I was going to continue for another 2 months like this. I had given up driving (a small accident in J’s car helped to make this decision) and stopped working and could really do nothing much at the moment.<\/p>\n
Polyhydramnios means a premature birth is much more likely due to the pressure of the excess fluid. There is also a higher risk of a prolapsed umbilical cord – ie. the force of the water pushes the umbilical cord out before the baby putting the baby in mortal danger. Should this happen an emergency caesarian is preformed.<\/p>\n
Rest is all I could do, and of course hope for the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(NB This was written retrospectively) I had a routine antenatal appointment with my midwife and she diagnosed polyhydramnios – excess amniotic fluid. She sent me for an urgent scan to see if they could find a reason for the excess. This is what has made me so huge and so, so uncomfortable. As the days … Continue reading “Polyhydramnios”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}