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Knowing When to Call …….

Problems can and sometimes do happen during pregnancy.
Knowing the warning signs will help to protect you and your baby.

If any of the following happen,
call your doctor or midwife

• Your baby is not moving as much as usual.
  
  
•  Expect to feel your baby move 4-6 times in 1 hour
   after eating or drink juice and resting on your side.
  
  
• Swelling in hands, legs and face—more than just your feet and fingers.
  
  
• Headaches that don’t go away - even after Tylenol and rest.
  
  
• Dizziness, blurred vision or loss of vision.
  
  
• Severe or continued vomiting.
  
  
• Chills or fever of 100.4 F or higher.
  
  
• Emptying your bladder more than usual-with or without pain and burning. 
  
  
• Blood in your urine.
  
  
• Sudden gush of fluid from the vagina (birth canal).
  
  
• Bright red blood from your vagina-with or without pain.

A small amount of spotting may happen after a vaginal exam or sex, but if you're worried, ask your doctor, midwife, or call the Special Delivery Hotline.

Signs of Preterm Labor---

• Increase in pelvic or lower abdominal pressure
  
  
• Low, dull backache that doesn't go away with rest--it may not be constant
  
  
• Cramping of bowels--with or without diarrhea
  
  
• Abdomen tightens or the baby "balls up" more than 6 times in 1 hour
  even after you lie down on your side for 1 hour and drink several glasses of water. 
  
  
• It may even feel like menstrual cramps.
  
  
• Change or increase in discharge from your vagina-more watery, more
  mucous-like or blood tinged.