If you think something is wrong, please call your midwife!
Please call immediately if you experience:
- An automobile accident, a blow to your abdomen, or a serious fall
- A fever greater than 101 for more than an hour
- Vaginal bleeding; pink/brown mucous is okay, but red blood like a period isn’t.
- You think your water broke. Note TACO: Time, Amount, Color, Odor
- Sharp abdominal pain or a persistent rigid or hard abdomen.
- Regular contractions before 37 weeks that increase in intensity and become more frequent despite drinking water, taking a warm bath, and resting.
- Decreased or absent movement of your baby even after drinking juice and lying down and talking to him.
- Continuous thrashing by your baby
Please call or text within 24 hours if you experience:
- Painful urination, greatly increased urgency, or pelvic/lower back tenderness or pain.
- Itching, burning or irritation in vagina or labia
- Vomiting for more than 24 hours if you cannot keep any fluids down
- A combination of 2 or more of these symptoms, especially in 3rd trimester:
- Severe headache that doesn’t respond to increased fluids, rest, or over the counter medicines like Tylenol.
- Sudden increased swelling in face, hands, feet, and legs;
- Visual disturbances such as spots in front of your eyes or blurred vision for no apparent reason
- Generally not feeling well or feeling yucky
- Pain in your upper right abdomen not related to baby’s positions/movement.
We welcome questions between appointments!
- Text is the easiest way to reach us with non-urgent questions, including rescheduling appointments. We will respond within 24 hours, likely much sooner.
- Please text between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., as we are always on call and our phones are never off.
- You’re welcome to text with questions about diet, common pregnancy discomforts, or just checking “is this normal?”
- If you need to get a hold of us and we’re not answering a text, please call, especially during the night when we are sleeping.