Not that I’ve tried it, but I was wondering how it would feel to start tapering down with another form of cortisone that doesn’t cross the placenta instead of Dex if they find that the baby doesn’t need it, thus discontinuing to give some more unnecessary steroids to the baby.  I asked my OB and the doctor in Cornell who called me with the CVS results and they both agreed that it would be OK.  If so, why isn’t it done that way?  Can it make the mother feel worse if she switches to something else in the middle, or what?

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