24 hour urine collection

Is torture for a 36+ pregnant woman! Having to remember to go get my pee bucket from the fridge (YUCK) everytime I go pee (which is about 609982 times a day), peeing in the cup...all the exact opposite of what I want to be doing at this point in the game. But bc of my stupid high bp they have to check for protein in my urine.

I need a fast forward button so I can be holding my little guy already!

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I had to do this at 20 weeks!!! It was horrible, I can't imagine how bad it must be at 36 weeks. I'm sure you're almost done, but I found that it helped to pee into a red Solo cup standing up in the shower, then pour it into the jug. Sorry, that was very TMI!

I gagged every time I had to open that jug to pour more in there! Blech!!!!

Hang in there, you're SO close!!!!!!

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Posted by Cacarina



I had to do this at 20 weeks!!! It was horrible, I can't imagine how bad it must be at 36 weeks. I'm sure you're almost done, but I found that it helped to pee into a red Solo cup standing up in the shower, then pour it into the jug. Sorry, that was very TMI!

I gagged every time I had to open that jug to pour more in there! Blech!!!!

Hang in there, you're SO close!!!!!!

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i did the same thing, peed into a cup and then put it in the jug. i was 32w when i had to do it and they wanted me to do it at work the next day..mind you i worked in the city. i said i am absolutely not carrying around a jug of pee to work with me. i did it that weekend and then handed it monday...and was in the hospital on bedrest the next day..and delivered 5 days later...so i guess it was good i did it when i did!!

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Ugh. They stink! I had to do a few of them when I was preggo with my daughter. See if you can get a "hat" for the toilet so that you can pee normally in the potty and the hat will catch all the pee. It has a little spout to pour into the collection container!

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I know how you feel. I had to do this at 33 weeks. It was so disgusting! Every time I had to open it I thought I was going to vomit and it made me sick to think it was in my fridge.

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uhhh make sure you get an extra jug btw...by the morning i was one pee away from needing and extra one and the whole thing would have been ruined...eeks xoxo

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I had to do this too at 37 weeks with DS#1, it did lead to an induction for me bc of preclampsia.

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I did that at 36 weeks with my first pregnancy. I was put on bedrest right before Thanksgiving and had to do the 24 hour urine collection over Thanksgiving. It sucked. Hang in there.

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i had to do that when I had ds........

I was 35 1/2 weeks, when I gave it back to them they ended up putting me on bedrest due to the results.....

the one they gave me didn't have to be refridgerated, but it was still a PITA lugging it in a tote bag to the bathroom at work every time I had to go.