Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Pup? puppy? What, puppp?

PUPPP stands for "pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy" or in other words, itchy rash pregnant women get.



Thankfully, that's not my leg... yet. Right now, I have a small. singular, oval red rash on my thigh, itchy from time to time and, if I'm not hallucinating, growing very slowly.

It's realtively common, usually in first pregnancies,never to reappear again, and I couldn't tell you why because I just didn't want to read about it.

What did catch my attention was that it usally appears in 3rd trimester, a few days before baby is born.

Um, I'm only in week 17.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

no need to worry, pinger. since when have you ever conformed to the norm? :) you and your baby will be just fine! i can't wait to see some preggo pics. i hope you are taking some progressive pictures (10 - 20 - 30weeks etc). -molly

Tigersan said...

Pup... puppy... puppp... ohhh, me thought you were calling for me... so me rushed to your rescue... but it looks like things are going great!!! :) Happy-happy... Joy-joy.

Tara said...

I cannot believe it has already been 17 weeks! You are moving along! Are you going to find out if it is a boy or girl?