I figure since I have been a very active member here since last November.
So here is my story up to date and I plan to try and keep this up.... might be a good thing for me to get my feelings out even if no one ever reads it.
Oct 2002 I meet & started dating DH we were both 20 years old.
Our relationship moved very quick at first. He was living with me with in 3 weeks. The next year he bought a house and we both moved out of my apartment into his house.
Well at that point things slowed down to just dating for the next 4 years.
July 2006 OPPS my period had been absent for over 5 weeks now. This was nothing new to me but I took a HPT because in the past it always seem to make A/F show. Well SURPRISE I was pregnant. Because my periods were so irregular a DR thought I may have PCOS and would need MA to get pregnant so we were not very careful.
The next day we went and got an engagement ring and THEN told our parents. I did not have health insurance so we decided to rush a wedding and picked a date less than 3 weeks away.
About a week later I was spotting brown but had not cramping. Everyone I talked to said its "normal" and not to worry since it is not red and i don't have cramps. So I tried to ignore it. The Monday before the wedding DH's grandmother passed away and my spotting turned to more period type bleeding. I called my OB and the receptionist told me they would not make an appointment for me because at this point there is nothing they can do and if the bleeding gets bad I need to go to the ER. I was not going to take that as an answer so I found another office and they got me in with in 45 minutes of my phone call. Since I did not have insurance and little money the DR said lets do this the cheap way and just do Beta's. I do not remember what the betas were around 500 and dropping and I should have been getting close to 8 weeks along. The DR confirmed I was having a miscarriage and that night the bleeding got very heavy and I passed large clots. The DR followed me to the desk on the way out and said no charge for the visits or the blood work... I was so impressed. So we still got married that Saturday, It sucks that my memory of my wedding and honey moon are of a miscarriage. The DR I saw was a older DR and told me to wait 6 months and put me on birth control for people with low hormones.
During that 6 month break I quit smoking and lost 15 pounds. We also decided it was a good time to buy a new house. Our first month in the new house I quit birth control to get ready to TTC.
March 2007 I got my first non birth control cycle and I used OPK's. Well we got pregnant!!! At 5 weeks I had some bleeding and went in for a ultrasound. There was a sac, fetal pole but no heartbeat. I was told to come back in 2 weeks. That was the longest 2 weeks of my life, plus my grandmother passed away (starting to notice a pattern with people in our family passing away in my early pregnancy). 2 weeks later have my follow up ultrasound and the baby was measuring right on track and there was a heartbeat! The rest of my pregnancy went perfect. I ended up swapping to a new DR because the other way retired right before I got pregnant again. I had a great pregnancy but the birth was pretty traumatic and the DR ended up being awful during delivery. December 4th 2007 we welcomed Madison Ann into the world.
So for the next 2 and a half years I enjoyed being a mommy and started my own business.
July 2010 I weaned Madison from Breastfeeding.
Sept 2010... Uh oh Period is over 5 weeks late again and I feel like CRAP. Made a DR appointment with my family DR. 1 hour before the appointment something inside me clicked and I took a pregnancy test. PREGNANT.
That Monday I called this new mid wive/OB office that I had heard so many wonderful things about. I told them my history and they said no need to come in early since I only had 1 loss and a live birth since, they will see me at 9 weeks. I go in for my visit and all seems normal. I kept telling my friends how un pregnant I feel. I was not sick nor tired. I told the mid wive this and she said well maybe its a boy because we react different to different pregnancy's. She then went on to do the ultrasound... she kept looking and was quite. She said I am not seeing any fetal movement or cardiac activity I was supposed to be 9 weeks even and baby measured 8w1d. She sent me to another office to get a second opinion and it was confirmed. I am a wedding photographer and had 5 weddings in the next 4 weeks and 6 other types of shoots so I was triffid to just wait it out and did the D&C the next morning (Oct 6th 2010).
Oct 2010- I started using OPKs because I wanted a heads up on when my period might show. I got a positive and decided why waste it and we TTC. I had my D&C follow up Nov 4th and the DR said you want a blood test so you don't have to wait... Of course I said YES. It was negative though
Nov 2010- First period came and it was long and strong. What a slap in the face that you are not pregnant. I used OPKS and we DTD on all the right times according to the OPKS. BFN
December 2010- I started charting for the first time and along with OPK's pinned down my O date and 9DPO ... BFP.
12dpo- 82 hcg 28 prog
14 dpo- 366 29.5 prog
Jan 19th- first ultrasound (showed sac but no baby) Dr said to early not to worry
Jan 31st -second ultrasound (showed baby, and a heartbeat)
Feb 23rd- 10 week prenatal visit. I told Midwife something does not feel right and before we start the hour worth of paper work could we please check for a heartbeat. She used the Doppler and no heartbeat. She got the DR to do a ultrasound and he confirmed no heart beat and baby stopped growing 8w5d.
I choose to wait it out because D&C's are way to expensive and DR said to many can be a bad thing and mess up my fertility even more.
Feb 25th I decided to try the pills to force miscarriage, but they did not work
March 7th, had another ultrasound to check progress of miscarriage. At this appointment we also talked for over an hour and was diagnosed with PCOS. He also ran more blood work on me.
March 17th tried another and stronger round of the pill to force miscarriage and this time it worked. I passed the sac with the baby still inside.
March 24th- follow up ultrasound to make sure all was clear and no D&C needed. Since my uterus was all clear he ran more clotting panels on me.
march 31st- Dr phoned me himself to break the news that I have MTHFR and 1 copy of each mutation and will need a shot a day next pregnancy.
I started temping and using OPKS after the loss and not sure if they were correct or not but I think I am about 12-15 DPO and BFN. So now I am waiting on my first A/F after loss to show.
If you read this whole thing sorry it was so long I had years of TTC to catch up on.
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So I am going to to wait so I can get treated with the Florida trip and maybe give my poor body a little break. I always wanted a spring baby so maybe this was lifes way or making that happen for me?
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