{"id":39,"date":"2009-08-11T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2009-08-11T13:39:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:39:43","slug":"the-pressure-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"The pressure of it all!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am currently 19 weeks pregnant<\/a> – and am happy to say for the most part, they have been quite uneventful weeks.<\/p>\n

However, early last week out of no where I nearly fainted during rush hour on the subway. \u00c2\u00a0I’m not usually a big fainter, so this threw me for a loop – especially because I had very little warning. \u00c2\u00a0The platform was stuffy but not terrible and the train was full but not packed. \u00c2\u00a0All of a sudden, I realized I would be on the floor if I didn’t ask someone (anyone!) for a seat when I started to black out. \u00c2\u00a0Thankfully, New Yorkers are a lot nicer than given credit for and I asked for (and immediately received) a seat not a second too soon.
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\nOf course, I don’t look completely pregnant at this point, so people near me regarded me as though I had the plague, but the near fainting spell passed and I made it to work safety. \u00c2\u00a0After calling Pops to relay the story I called my doctor and learned a great tidbit of information the isn’t listed in any pregnancy book I’ve read: \u00c2\u00a0Around 20 weeks, women who take the subway start to have problems with fainting. \u00c2\u00a0Presumably it’s the combination of stuffiness, crowding, etc that causes this…..but I suspect another factor should be given attention – especially to those of us who ‘tunnel’ to Manhattan.<\/p>\n

On the R\/V line there is a point where the train dips under the East river. \u00c2\u00a0Over the past week I’ve noted I feel my worst at this point. \u00c2\u00a0And perhaps it makes sense – at this point in pregnancy my blood pressure is already low and when the train dips down and starts picking up speed (thus increasing the side to side motion) I think it’s reasonable to assume my pressure drops even more – and quite suddenly.<\/p>\n

As a lover of the subway, I think the above explains away a lot of it. \u00c2\u00a0I’d hate to think a train is making me ill. \u00c2\u00a0I’d rather blame the pressure change! \u00c2\u00a0So, if you’re pregnant and riding the subway, consider this as a possibility and take heed. \u00c2\u00a0And maybe you’ll be lucky like me and convince your significant other to ride with you in the morning…just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am currently 19 weeks pregnant – and am happy to say for the most part, they have been quite uneventful weeks. However, early last week out of no where I nearly fainted during rush hour on the subway. \u00c2\u00a0I’m not usually a big fainter, so this threw me for a loop – especially because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[22,19,23,76,21,20],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy","tag-blood-pressure","tag-fainting","tag-new-yorkers-are-nice","tag-pregnancy","tag-second-trimester","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}