When things began to change with my pregnancy

Although it took many years and several years of infertility treatment to conceive my daughter my pregnancy had been very easy. My biggest complaint over 25 weeks was that I felt normal and didn't feel pregnant. I didn't get morning sickness and it was hard to believe that I was finally pregnant I didn't really believe it until I could begin to feel Brianna move and kick. My doctors said to consider myself lucky but after all I had been through in 7 years I wanted a big belly and wanted to feel sick to my stomach. I could have done without the drama that was to come.

Around July 1, 2009 I began to have frequent heartburn and swelling in my ankles. I called my OB and spoke to my nurse who advised it was normal and told me to take tums or Pepcid for the heartburn and to elevate my legs as much as possible at night and to walk around frequently at work and not to sit at my desk too long. I did both of these things. About a week later a co-worker had noticed that I had puffy bags of fluid under my eyes and suggested I should call again to the OB and let them know I was still having swelling issues. I called my OB and spoke with my nurse and she said this was normal and keep doing what I'm doing and that this is the beginning part of the uncomfortable phase of the pregnancy. This was my first pregnancy so I thought she must be right and this is what I wished for to be uncomfortable and I was about to begin all the joys of the third trimester of pregnancy.