#polyhydramnios

My belly looking like gigantic, pale, veiny balloon topped off with a gnarly popped-out belly button, only as heavy as a safe & dense, heavily laden with babies. Perhaps even an added case of polyhydramnios, with several hefty gallons of amniotic fluid sloshing around in my womb as well...

Just this enormous, turgid, dense sphere jutting out of me, bulging out wider than my hips, clearly visible from the back.

And despite this I'm only going to get bigger and heavier...

Despite being such a small, slender little thing, the multitude of babies & the increasing overabundance of amniotic fluids are going to skyrocket my weight!

I just know its gonna be hard for me to walk! Like at 5 months I'm already gonna have a significant waddle with staggering steps. But the further along I get that stagger turns into a shuffle, hardly even lifting my feet of the ground. Perhaps sooner or later I'm gonna need a person next to me to hold me and help me waddle! Maybe even 2 people by the time of 9 months!

Mind you, by 9 months my belly will be as big as the rest of me combined, with a circumference larger than my height! Obscenely huge & despite being so dense & firm, there's still a little give to my belly's surface due to it being so full of sloshing fluids!

Not much new to report.

Completed a 30 day yoga challenge. I’ll be honest, some days it was pathetic yoga, but I did it for 30 days. Give myself one day off and I’m starting another 30 day challenge. It’s basically the only exercise I can do anymore.

The symptoms are apparently things I’ve been dealing with already--abdominal pain, shortness of breath, nausea--all things that relate to my internal organs being smushed more than usual. And hearing that things might be on a path to worseness managed to trigger my anxiety...

...EXCEPT with my medication, the anxiety is kind of buried in my subconscious, so I didn’t realize I was feeling it until I couldn’t fall asleep last night and was having these weird buzzy brain feelings like someone was tasing me in the head, which is apparently a weird but common anxiety thing? So I’m anxious? But I don’t feel anxious? 

🍼 Too Much Amniotic Fluid During Pregnancy? Here Are 5 Serious Causes You Shouldn’t Ignore!

💧 What is Polyhydramnios? It’s a condition where too much amniotic fluid surrounds the baby. While fluid is essential for fetal growth, excess levels may signal underlying problems.

1 – Gestational or Pre-existing Diabetes

High maternal blood sugar causes the baby to produce more urine — leading to fluid buildup.

2 – Fetal Swallowing Issues or Birth Defects

If the baby struggles to swallow amniotic fluid, it accumulates. May indicate neurological or digestive tract anomalies.

3 – Twin or Multiple Pregnancy

Especially in conditions like Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), one baby may have excess fluid due to imbalanced circulation.

4 – Maternal Infections

Infections like CMV or toxoplasmosis during pregnancy can interfere with fluid regulation and fetal development.

5 – No Clear Cause (Idiopathic)

Sometimes, no obvious reason is found. Still, regular monitoring is crucial to prevent complications.

👩‍⚕️ When Should You See a Doctor? ✅ Rapid belly growth ✅ Shortness of breath ✅ Discomfort or tightness

📌 If diagnosed or suspicious, consult your obstetrician or fetal medicine expert immediately.

What is Polyhydramnios? 💧🤰

So I'm 22 weeks and like 6 days pregnant as of today (1/14/20), and I had an anatomy ultrasound done this morning. The reason they even scheduled the anatomy is because I was taking depakote (mood stabilizers) for my BPD at the very beginning of my pregnancy. I was about 8 weeks along when I found out and stopped taking it, but they've had me go through several blood tests and an NIPT since the get go.

Through the blood tests, they ruled out downs, spina bifada, and a lengthy number of defects I was likely to have because of the medication.

Well, they found an excess amount of amniotic fluid. Which would explain all of my discomfort with this pregnancy. I'm significantly larger this time than I was with my first two, measuring almost a month ahead of what the baby is measuring.

They also found some fluid around the baby's heart.

Long story short, they're sending me to a maternal medicine doctor in my states capital for a level 2 ultrasound, doing more bloodwork, and scheduled my glucose test two weeks early.

Basically, I've somehow wound up with something that occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies, with little to no explanation as to the cause. Gestational diabetes could be a cause, so hopefully that's the case.