I am 35 weeks pregnant and at my regular appointment yesterday my doctor told me he wants me to leave work. Now. I don’t have any pregnancy complications, but I have had a lot of pain and discomfort in my hips and pelvis, as well as not being able to sleep. I drive 45 minutes to work everyday, sit at my desk for 9 hours, then drive 45 minutes home. He wants me to be moving around a lot more than what I am. He thinks that the drive and sitting all day have a lot to do with the pain in my lower back, hips and pelvis. Lack of sleep could be from stress. He told me to finish out the work week, and for Friday to be my last day (today is wednesday).
The problem is, I am not sure if my company’s insurance carrier is going to approve me for leave when I don’t have any major pregnancy complications. I really cannot afford to leave work without ANY pay. My company’s carrier is Liberty Mutual. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of situation or Liberty Mutual Short-term disability?

I have not been at my current job for a year yet (ony 9 months) so I do not qualify for FMLA maternity leave. That is why I have to make a disability claim.
Well, actually, they most certainly ARE going to pay from delivery until 6 weeks post-partum for sure. I don’t know why people say your not "disabled". One of the benefits at my company is short-term disablity for PREGNANCY and POST-PARTUM up to 26 weeks if needed. My question is, will they cover anything other than bed-rest during pregnancy (before delivery). Please only answer this question if you understand it. The first answer obviously did not understand. Thanks!
Yes my company pays for insurance. Actually just spoke to someone at liberty and they ARE going to cover me for short-term disability (66.6% pay) starting July 18th until until October 5th (unless there are complications and I need longer) (there will be one week without pay) I should have just waited for the phone call instead of asking on here, but I did not expect to hear back so quickly (3 days?)!! Well anyways, really glad you guys were wrong. Thanks anyways though!! I probably should have included that I am at risk for pre-term labor and have already dilated 2cms…but you were wrong either way… sweetpea
Oh, and btw, if you guys are insurance agents, why have NONE of you asked what state I am in? Pregnancy and maternity leave covered under FMLA and short-term disability varies state to state. Some states don’t consider 3rd trimester pregnancy a disability, but my state does!!

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do you put it in the nape of your lower back and kind of on top of your hips im really confused and want to get the most relief as possible for my back pain

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I am attending a wedding in 2 weeks from this Saturday. I have found an outfit that I like, and looks pretty good on me. The only problem is the skirt needs to be like 1 inch bigger in the hips to look really good. I am exercising and dieting trying to lose the inch off my hips, but I realize that there is no gaurantee to lose the inches in time for my friends wedding. I was wondering where I can find a paif of control top underwear that goes past the hips. I’m looking in the – range. I have looked at Wal Mart, Target, FAshion Bug, and Cato, none of these stores had the size that I needed.

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Im 17, I weight around 150 lbs, I’m 5’9 my hips are 39" waist 25".. When you look at me I dont appear plus size but I probably would to a modeling scout??

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My problem is my boy is sitting so low it is pulling on my hips and i have just started to nitoce the purple marks. I use a oil made for stratch marks and have used it since the beginging.

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OK there are a few different things that have popped up now. I am 28wks pregnant with my second and I never experienced any of this with my first. This is long, so if you are going to answer my question, please read everything so I don’t get useless answers. I thank you if you’ve read all of this. Are any of these things connected, and do I need to worry? I’m sure I’ll just have to stick it out the rest of these 3 months – it’s probably normal and I’m just worrying too much. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced these issues and if you were able to find some type of safe relief. My doctor is useless and I’ve mentioned these things to him and he just says take Tylenol or go see another doctor – if there is nothing he can do, he blows me off rather than telling me that it’s normal and there’s nothing he can do. I can’t switch, no one will take me this late in pregnancy. Thanks for any help!
1) Over the past 2-3days, I have been having a lot of discharge which looks to be like a yeast infection. Not the normal leukorrhea stuff.
2) My back pain has shot through the roof over the past week. It has spread to hurt in my hips, lower abdomen, thighs and down my legs into my feet. It gives me severe pain in my lower abdomen and what feels like the area between my thigh and my genitals. The pain is sharp, stabbing and burning in these areas, and it even feels like it’s going into my lower uterus and cervix. It went from being not so bad and relatively manageable to being absolutely and completely horrible. I can barely walk, I can’t get up or down from a chair, I can’t lay on my sides or back – forget about laying in any position at all. Sitting for too long hurts, standing for too long hurts, walking hurts. I can’t get in and out of bed if I even sleep in the bed. It is incredibly intense pain to move around at all in bed – there is always popping and clicking if I try to move. Even with my husband’s help, I can barely manage to get through the pain – it always has me in tears. I’m waiting for a glider to arrive so I can sleep in an upright sitting position so that I can hopefully start sleeping again. That’s how bad the pain is. I feel it every single second of the day whereas it was not so often before. It hurts so bad to go into a sitting position from standing and vice versa. I can’t get up and down at work all day like I used to. I have to walk very slow and I look really odd walking. I cannot do ANYTHING for myself such as carrying things, picking anything up, any kind of cleaning, trying to play with my 2yo son or put him down to sleep or give him baths. God forbid I drop something or have to be alone with my son. I can barely shower or bathe myself. I cannot sit on a toilet or pee without that intense pain in my lower back. Going to the bathroom is a nightmare. Heating pads do not help, Tylenol doesn’t help, the maternity back brace thing makes it WORSE and trying to keep up my exercises is getting to be so difficult with all this pain – I hear a lot of popping and clicking noises in my lower back when I try to do my exercises now. I could go on and on. I’m miserable. My OBGYN’s nurse told me to go to physical therapy so I am going to try that next. This is so hard to do when I work full-time as well. Getting up in the morning, trying to dress myself and getting in and out of my car is so very painful. Shifting in my seat at work is a nightmare because it hurts my back and pelvic area so bad. I sit here at my desk all day hoping and praying that no one asks me to get up to do something.
3) My abdomen has been very hard and tight and I’m not sure if it’s normal for it to ALWAYS be like that. Should it not be relaxed sometimes? Everyone keeps asking if I’m getting contractions. Sometimes it feels very uncomfortable or even painful but other times I can’t tell but it’s like that pretty much all day. This has been happening for the past 4-5 days.

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I’ve noticed her body shape fluctuates between thin, and slightly more curvy, and back again etc. As a straight guy, I think she looks really sexy with a bit more weight on her; she doesn’t look fat but more ‘womanly’ with more pronounced boobs and hips. It really compliments the beauty of her face too.

Do you think she looks nicer when she’s thin and toned, or with a fuller figure?

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So I’m probably a HUGE baby but I’m pretty sure I’m dying the last few days. I’m 33 weeks and 4 days pregnant today and my hips and pelvis are killing me!!! This is my third child and I’ve never experienced this before. It’s like someone kicked me in my privates. It hurts to walk, it hurts to lay down, it hurts to sit. Also new the last couple of days if I walk more than from one end of my house to the next I start having contraction. I’m sure they’re just the fake contractions, because they go away as soon as I’m able to sit down again, but man they hurt just as bad as real labor. The last thing that is killing me is that I’m not really able to stand up straight at this point. It feels like all of the muscles in my lower abdomen are so far stretched that I don’t have the ability to stand up straight without tearing every last one of them. I just want to know if anyone else has been feeling this way and that it’s normal. If it’s not I’ll make a call to my OB but I hate to do that if it’s not necessary.

I have been using a maternity belt, it doesn’t do any good and I’ve only gained 5 pounds this entire pregnancy so I don’t know that any of this is weight gain. Perhaps just weight distribution?

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I’m 33 weeks pregnant. Up until 19 weeks I didn’t gain any weight or show at all. But once my belly popped, it popped, like overnight I went from fitting into my jeans to having to buy maternity jeans and having this belly out of nowhere. Once I popped I started gaining weight and fast, even though I’ve been careful about what I eat and have been walking at least 3 times per week if not more. I’ve noticed the weight I’ve gained hasn’t been just in my belly, it’s been my boobs, butt, thighs, hips and tummy but I’ve gained 40 lbs all together. My doctor was concerned about diabetes but all tests and urine screens have been negative and the baby is within normal growth ranges for how many weeks I am. My belly even measured 30-31cm at my 32 week appointment so the doctor is no longer concerned about baby’s size. Everyone else however, is always commenting on how huge I am and how I must be having twins. I’ve had 9 ultrasounds now, between 5 weeks and 30 weeks, there’s no way there’s twins. I’m only 5’4" with a short torso so the baby has nowhere to go but out front making me appear to be huge. At first it was like whatever, I didn’t care and just brushed it off when people would say how huge I am. But now it’s getting to a point where it’s annoying and I just can’t stand people asking me anymore. Is there a way to handle this situation without offending people but getting them to shut up about it before I get pissed off? Any other advice on how to stay calm?

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So, I’m 7 months pregnant with our first child. Before I was pregnant, I had a pretty perfect body. 5’6" 120 pounds, 34C. Well, now that I’m preggo…my husband hates my body. It really hurts my feelings. The other day he was looking at old pics and said.."wow you used to be hot." GRRRR!!!! I was like what do you mean "used to be?" He said well, you still are, you’re just pregnant.
And then he said he gave me a compliment, and why was I being so Bit**y?

Then, today, I had on a pair of jeans. I asked if I looked ok for work. He said, "Where did you get those pants?" I said, "your sister"…they aren’t maternity…they’re size 4, editor jeans (kinda wide leg baggy.)

Anyways, he said, "oh, I’m use to you wearing tight skinny jeans…I said, "I know, but I can’t get those up over up hips…I tried." They’re a size 26 waist, with no give in them.

So, I’m really sensitive about all this. I can’t help it that I’m gaining weight…I incubating a baby! OUR baby. He hates how large my boobs have grown, they are now a 34ddd, huuuuge I know. He hates my round stomach. He won’t touch me in any way.

What do I do?

How do I deal?

All I want to do is cry…

Oh, and I have a photographer begging me to do preggo pics…but it’s like I don’t even want to now, bc I won’t feel beautiful when being photographed.

Please help advise me on what to do.

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Im a teen and I want to go into modeling.
I weigh 122 pounds but im curvy.
I have a normal upper body and then I have hips and a booty.
Would I fit in in regular modeling or plus size?
im 5’5”

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I am 11 weeks and 1 day pregnant with my second child and while I can no longer fit my normal pants due to my growing stomach and widing hips already I am wondering when other started to show. According to some of my close friends I still look great and cant even tell I am pregnant, even though I am in maternity clothes 90% of the time. How was it with your second baby? When were you in maternity clothes and how much were you showing? When did you finally feel the baby kick? Like I said second and or more babys please respond!

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I am 21, and plus sized, but i’m a pear-shape, my butt and hips are larger then up on top, and my boobs don’t match my butt. if i wanted to get breast implants to even out my shape, would they do that? it seems like everywhere i look only slender girls get them.

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My friend’s hips are smaller then her top, and she has trouble finding things look good on herself. Are there any fashion pro’s here who know any good tips?

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I just have bigger hips and breast. I’m not fat or anything I’m just built bigger than a size 4. Do you think that a strapless dress for a size 14-16 will look ok? I’m going to a fire and ice party this winter so I have to wear either or a combination of red, black and silver. I want a black strapless dress with red accessories do you think that would be pretty?

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