Days of Grace 8-17-10
1. Either today or tomorrow is my last day of shooting up with Lovenox. Ever. May it also be the last time I ever have to inject myself with ANYTHING. How cool a concept is that?
2. Being home is splendid, even if I’m not spending the first bit of time at home doing quite what I expected. More on that to come, but it IS lovely being home, surrounded by home comforts.
3. I actually accomplished quite a few things on my list yesterday. I paid for it (as did the Boy) last night by getting myself so exhausted that I was quite the snarly bitch. But still, I was an accomplished, snarly bitch, so that’s all right. Nothing a cool 10 hours of sleep didn’t take care of.
4. Cicadas. I love their high, shrill screech, and I love the way their noise takes over just about any summer day. I hope there are cicadas in New Hampshire.
5. The Boy’s going up – without me 
– to have The Perfect House inspected by an engineer this Friday. Make sure it’s in the good shape we expect it to be in, and hope nothing weird shows up in the testing. Because then? Then it’s all a matter of just getting it done, and then we are homeowners! Woohooo!!!
I have a stupid question for you that I have been wondering about since your bleeding all over the bedding issue.
Since you are sporting a baby bump now, where exactly do you give yourself the shots? I’m curious since that will be something I’ll end up having to do when I get my next positive.
Hey there, are you not taking Heparin for the last several weeks of your pregnancy? I took Lovenox until week 36 and then switched to Heparin, I guess I thought that was the “norm”. As in, why would you need the blood thinner until now and then not need it anymore?
Carla, I always found an “inch to pinch” on the side of my bump, even in my last days of pregnancy.
Susan Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Yeah, my OB left me on the Lovenox my RE prescribed basically because ‘it can’t hurt & it might help’, because after so many losses, he figured I’d rather play it safe on the clotting issues than quibble about some extra belly pokes.
Which I was happy to do!
But it’s also his feeling that any blood vessels in the umbilical cord are no longer of a size to be clogged up in case of a clotting episode (and my numbers were never anything to really worry about, it was more family histories, and ‘what else can we throw at this problem?’ to begin with.
So he’d rather have me be good to go for an emergency C-section. He’s been very conservative to date, so I feel comfortable going off the Lovenox without a safety net. Shoot, they’re monitoring me so closely these days that I think nothing could happen without them noticing right away.
I emailed Carla off-blog, but yeah for anyone else wondering the same thing – that IVF flab has come in handy. I know some women switch to their thighs, but I’ve had enough ‘used to be a waist’ flab that I’ve just moved further & further over to the side.
Susan,
I was “in your shoes” not very long ago. I had two healthy children (no issues with the conception or pregnancies) and then four miscarriages. My third child (daughter) was born this past December. I also had “normal” bloodwork and we did the Lovenox as a “can’t hurt, might help” thing. And I felt good knowing that I was doing the Heparin those past few weeks. If you look at some of the stories on this board:
http://community.babycenter.com/groups/a241035/lovely_lovenox_ladies
You will see that women have lost babies in the 2nd/3rd trimester and then went on to use Lovenox and Heparin the next time to avoid that happening again.
I know you trust your docs, and I’m certainly not trying to scare you. But just think about three or four more weeks of shots. It won’t hurt (well, it will hurt, but you know what I mean) but it could help. You just never know with these blood clotting issues.
Feel free to email me off-blog if you want to discuss in more detail.