Obstetric cholestasis

[whenhenshaveteeth]

Hello,

Did you have it everytime? If not what did you do to prevent it or were the circumstances different?

Also has anyone been given useful advice from their consultants or do you always get: "you had before, you're going to have it again, so man up and shut up?"

I had it with DS and was induced at 37+6 , it wasn't terrible but wasn't great either - a bit too far from the "natural" labour I wanted and I was felt cheated I didn't get to experience the ooh-am-I-in-labour-feeling.

I'm now 16+5 with DC2 and I'm paranoid of it happening again so I'm trying to be uber healthy (minus the Easter chocolate I'm still eating).

Any tips or is it all doom and gloom?

Umm my consultant asked me if I wanted the good news or the bad news. I asked for the bad new and he said there was a 90% chance I'd get it again but the good news was that there was a 10% chance I wouldn't!!! Think that says it all really. He explained there's not much they can do but treat the symptoms and induce as there is no cure for it other than the baby being born.

Sorry I feel your pain but I think we both have to live with the liklihood of getting it again :(

It's not all doom and gloom!!

I had OC with DC2 but did not have it with DC1. DC1 was born at 40+4 after I went into labour naturally.

I have to say that my induced OC labour was far easier and shorter than my first labour!

Some useful info on OC here should you get it again - fingers crossed you don't!
www.ocsupport.org

Well, at least he had some sense of humour!

I'm going to try my best to be part of the 10%, the worst that can happen is that I get it anyway but I'm in good shape when baby comes along...

Still don't understand why I had it in the first place, I don't fit the statistics!

Anyone else?

Rick, can you think of anything that was different in your two pregnancy? Did you have a different diet? Lifestyle? Amount of stress? Sex of the baby? Anything you can think of??

Sorry, I'm not obsessing at all...

I'm afraid my 2 pregnancies were quite similar!

The only difference I can think of is that I was more sick with the OC one and that one followed very soon after a miscarriage?

But everything else - diet, lifestyle, exercise, stress levels, sex of baby - was the same.

I'm not sure there is anything you can do to stop yourself getting OC!