High Risk Check-in

admiralnilla

Hello ladies and hopefully good morning. You may have seen me on other threads but this one will be near and dear to me. I'll start first.
***TW:PREVIOUS LOSSES MENTIONED***



I have been pregnant 3 different times in my 20's with the last one being back in 2015. Every single one was a misscarriage. Due to this, Pregnancy is and has been a very sore subject when it came to my own fertility. None of those pregnancies survived past 6 weeks. 
Needless to say when I found out I was pregnant this time, I was just not hopeful. I found out just 2 DAYS after LMP and was terrified to go through loss again. I called my doctors, got referred RIGHT AWAY to a high risk OB who has been seeing me several times (like about 7 now) to track as early as 4 WEEKS to see if I had a shot. 
My partner nor my therapist could really soothe these fears. Hardly could console myself for fearing the worst again. 
But with each visit, the staff was more comforting. With each visit I was allowed to see these progressions happening within me. And with each visit I cried less. 
So yes ladies as I'm typing this those tears are back. 
If you have even suffered 1 loss, if you feel like "your to old and afraid" im telling you now, this user believes in you. I have SO MANY mental heath issues from leaving the armed forces along with physical ones. I understand you future moms. Let's be here on this board and help each other through the even more troubled waters that pregnancy has given us. 
As I've told another,"Your Pregnancy isn't over till the blood work says its over. Untill then, give them hell and fight!"

admiralnilla

This week, the doctor says baby(?) And I are doing well and now ill be able to see him 1 month from now. I finally got scheduled for a "normal ultrasound " when I'm supposed to be like 10 weeks or so. They prescribed me some suppotories to help stabilize the pregnancy which is making me feel more comfortable for the long journey. Being pregnant is hard, but trying to not freak out on the all normal things 🙃 😅 is even harder. 😑

scoutkate

I’m considered high risk by way of being old as hell (42).  My daughter was born in 2010 and for several reasons we considered ourselves one and done until very recently.  I’ve had betas drawn which looked good, but otherwise won’t be seen by my OB until 5/25.  I’m going into this journey with eyes wide open as to the risks.  I know the odds aren’t on our side. But I do feel pretty hopeful and somehow peaceful about it all.  And I’m actually in better physical shape now than I was during my first pregnancy.

bunniecee

When I had my son at 31, I was high risk because my recently diagnosed autoimmune disorder wasn’t able to be controlled by anything except steroids, so I had to pretty heavily monitored. I had a miscarriage before I had my son and another very early loss about 4 months ago. This time around, I’m 41, so I’ll likely be put into high risk again based on that alone, but my doctor’s office hasn’t made any mention of being high risk as yet so..maybe? I’m assuming probably at any rate. My autoimmune disorder has been in remission for the last 3.5 years at least. I have an exam scheduled with a midwife at a new office tomorrow that is affiliated with a different hospital and will be discussing expectations going forward. I didn’t really think about my age being so problematic when I called them though and I’m feeling like this may well be a waste of a visit if they’re going to just bump me up to an OB or MFM. 

msd15

I knew at 37 I would likely be considered high risk. I have 2 MCs last fall. I decided to switch OBs this time as I felt like my dr wasn’t being proactive enough. After the 2nd mc I asked for testing to see if we could find any issues and was told they wouldn’t do that until I had 3MCs 😳 I’m sorry what!? Plus after the first MC I had hoped they would want to monitor my closer but no dice. Didn’t want to schedule anything until 8wks. New doc has been great. I have already had blood drawn and 1 ultrasound. I even have an ultrasound this week just for my peace of mind (that’s what doc said) I’m still terrified something is wrong or I’ll be told there is no heartbeat tho