Third Beta & Healthy Pregnancy Tips

The results of our third beta arrived. HCG went up from 414 to 1477 and the estrogen and progesterone levels are good as well.

But since I had a bad heavy cramp last Sunday and yesterday, I just stayed in bed most of the time. Worrying about our babies. I called the hospital again which she said "het is normal e. Jouw lichaam is aan het voorbereiden voor de zwangerschap."  It is normal and according to her it is the body preparing itself for the pregnancy. But I did not take her word for it. I don't remember being in pain during this term with my first.  Does everything have to hurt from now on? I am getting mentally stressed and worn out.

Here are some healthy pregnancy tips:

1. Getting an early prenatal appointment with the doctor. I am halfway through my fifth week. I have to go back next week for a blood work and at the same time make an appointment with the gyn. Which will not be until two weeks later from then on (by then I'll be 8 weeks along) is that late or early? I don't know. All I know is, I was past the first trimester when I found out I was pregnant with the little man. But then again, this isn't a normal pregnancy at all. I have been freaking out starting with our first cycle until this very moment. So yes! I would want an ultrasound asap and see if everything is okay and normal and hear their first heartbeats if there are two of them.

2. Take your prenatal vitamins.  I do this. My fiance double checks it everyday because I forget it quite too often.

3. Consult the medications you are taking regularly.  As for me, I have bronchiectasis. A disease with a permanent enlargement of parts of the airway of the lungs, in my case my right lung. Which I take inhalers and cortisone when I have excessive production of mucus and when I have breathing problems.  I usually take three different inhalers and a cortisone tablet. But I cut down to just one inhaler per day enough for me to breath 'okay' on adaily basis. Coughing happens all the time with thick phlegms but I am trying to live with it. Cortisone is not good for the embryo and is not good during the implantation stage.

4. Stop smoking. I don't smoke.

5. Stop drinking alcohol. I don't drink any alcoholic beverages as well unless there is a special occasion. I will not miss it for the next nine months or so.

6.  Make sure home and work are safe-free for the mom and the baby.  My physician advised me to stay home until the 15th to see how it goes with me and whether or not I am ready to go back to work again.  So that is something I don't have to worry as of the moment and our home is clean. Both my fiance and I don't smoke and neither of us drink any alcoholic beverages nor do any recreational drugs.

I can pretty much say that my body is a safe haven for our little Eskimos to grow.

I hope they'll grow and develop just fine.