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Itchy Rash During Pregnancy (?? Prurigo??)

I'm 13 weeks pregnant with our second baby, and last Thursday I started having an itchy rash on random spots of my body. They look like tiny little bumps (sometimes the color of my skin and other times more inflamed and red). The bumps started on the backs of my hands and now it's on my forearms, hips, and inner thighs. Sometimes the itching is so bad that it wakes me up. I saw my Ob Gyne b/c I was wondering if it was pregnancy related since nothing else is new and I haven't done anything different (i.e. foods, detergents, lotions, etc). ...

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Pregnancy Itching @ Night ... Can Anyone Help?

Hello, I sure would love to get some help with this issue I am having with, itching. This is my sixth pregnancy, and fifth child, and I never had this side effect with ANY of my other pregnancies. I am 21 weeks pregnant, and have been having this issue with itching since I was about 13 weeks. The first couple nights, I was up all night, and thought I had got into some insulation or something like that... but after a lot of thought, I came to the realization that I had not. So about 3 AM, I finally called the nurse line, and the nurse...