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Steroids for Fetal Lung Development?

The goods new is the baby is healthy and above average in weight, however, the drs. are quite certain I will have an early csection, due to complications/high risk and have talked about giving me steroids to speed up the baby's lung development (I A. 29.5 weeks right now). If you were given steroids to speed up lung development, can you tell me what the experience was like? Any side effects for the baby (or you)? I really do understand that this is for the benefit of the baby, in the event he comes early, it gives him the best chance of...

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Asthma and Pregnancy

Hi everyone. I have pretty severe asthma with this pregnancy (23 weeks) and am on a steroid based inhaler class b 3 puffs twice a day. Still not getting better (in fact worse) and my dr wants be to use flovent which is class c. I'm nervous about trying it and just would like some feedback from others who have asthma, or used flovent, or even other more natural things I can do! Thanks in advance!