Sharings by a Doc friend

Anyone with leg swelling syndrome? Here's some sharings by my friend, Dr Lee..:)

Don't worry bout the leg swelling... It is normal.When ur baby grow bigger, she (hehe...since no testis yet... =P) tend to sit on ur abdominal large vein a lot, thus reducing the blood return of ur lower limbs back to ur heart. This increases the hydrostatic pressure of ur lower limb vessels which causes oozing of fluid out of the vessel.Therefore the edema or swelling. If u stand a lot,or in certain people, even get varicose vein during this time. So no worry. It will subside after the delivery (it will get worse!) Just be sure that u r not losing protein from urine (which is usually caused by PIH:Pregnancy Induced Hypertension). If u r not hypertensive now, then nothing to worry about. What u can do is, try lifting ur legs a little when u sleep to help venous return. Another alternative is to lie in right lateral position when u sleep (more effective), meaning try lying on ur right side more frequently. This way the baby sleep on ur side instead of on ur major blood vessels in the back of ur abdomen. As for anaemia, just pull ur lower eyelid down and see. If it is pink, u r not anaemic. If white like pontianak, then anaemia...