Re: preemie-l False Labor Signs
Cindi Winkley (cindiw@zianet.com)
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:18:27 -0600
At 08:21 PM 6/5/96 GMT, you wrote:
>I think Mary's mission is a legitimate one. I'm going to write my old
>lamaze teacher (I only made one class, but became popular in the group
>anyway because of our experience, go figure) and ask her to include in her
>classes just what you said: False labor should be examined, regardless of
>what the textbooks say, because it might not be false! I don't want other
>women to become alarmed, but being prepared was never a crime.
>
>If I hadn't read that part of the book, I would have called my OB when the
>cramps didn't go away after a couple hours. I still can't believe I didn't
>anyway, I really educated myself. It's actually ironic; if I hadn't been
>reading so much, I would have called my doc earlier!
>
>It's hard for me to be objective, and I've been met with resistance when
>I've gathered enough courage to offer advice to expecting Moms. I'm
>hesitant to anyway, because I know they always consider me cautious.
>There's such a push in the current time for women to have healthy, active,
>normal pregnancies and not to slow down in their normal, everyday pursuits.
>I think positive attitude is a great step in the past few generations, but
>have we gone from one extreme to the other?
I agree -- just because a mom appears "normal" and very healthy in the first
trimester doesn't mean that she should keep up pre-pregnancy activities.
We've touched on this subject before, but it's one of the real
disappointments of my prenatal care: lack of education by my OB/GYN about
the complications of pregnancy and lack of concern about the obvious signs
of my incompentant cervix!
Cindi Winkley, Nicolas' Mom (26 weeker, 1 year old today!!)
cindiw@zianet.com
Nic's Page -- http://www.zianet.com/ewinkley/nic.htm