Pregnant after a Loss
photogmommystacy
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Saying hi and just getting this off my chest (loss mentioned)
photogmommystacy
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Hi everyone,
Sorry - after I got done I realized this is ridiculously long. I'm new to this board. I just need to get this all off my chest - I can't really talk to anyone yet other than my husband.
A little background:
My husband and I have 2 beautiful wonderful littles. When our now 3 and a half year old was 1 we decided we wanted to start trying for #3. He had taken around 9 months of trying (our first took just one month) so we were prepared for a bit of a wait. 2 years later we were at our wits end.
Apparently ovulating is a problem for me. We had tried Clomid, but I was at the max my OB wanted to do and we weren't really wanting to go with more intense fertility treatments since we do have 2 perfect littles already. So we sort of took a break from all the stress of trying. Lo and behold - I got pregnant in September 2015. My progesterone levels were low at 10.1 and I was put on progesterone suppositories until 12 weeks. Everything was normal and wonderful at my first ultrasound around 7 weeks. Our next appointment was just a checkup at 11 weeks and they didn't listen for a heartbeat - just a blood pressure/weight check. My next appointment was set for 14 weeks. But at 13 weeks, just one week after we had shouted our news from the rooftops to literally everyone we knew, I started bleeding....a lot. I rushed to my OBs office for a sono and, with our two kids with us (because I didn't have time to take them to anyone) we learned that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. I had miscarried around 8.5 weeks and had no symptoms at all until the bleeding at 13 weeks. Devastated doesn't even come close to describing our heartbreak (as I'm sure you all unfortunately understand). My d&c was November 6.
We wanted to try again as soon as possible. I have been taking ovulation tests several times a day for the last few weeks with no luck, so we hadn't really 'tried' at all. Always always a negative. Then, last week, two days before Christmas, I finally got a suuuuuuper positive ovulation test!!! And for 5 days afterword it was really really positive
. So after some googling around, I decided to try a pregnancy test - which what do you know - it was positive! My OBs nurse called me today with yesterday's blood results and hcg is good, but progesterone is 10.5 and tonight will be my first progesterone suppository again. I must have bawled for a full hour after I got that call. I can't believe it's starting out exactly the same again 
. I'm trying to stay positive and read success stories - but I'm terrified that I will miscarry again with such a low progesterone level.
Like I said, I just needed to get that all off my chest because we're not telling anyone after the awfulness of having to tell literally everyone we knew that we had lost the last baby. Thanks for listening
Sorry - after I got done I realized this is ridiculously long. I'm new to this board. I just need to get this all off my chest - I can't really talk to anyone yet other than my husband.
A little background:
My husband and I have 2 beautiful wonderful littles. When our now 3 and a half year old was 1 we decided we wanted to start trying for #3. He had taken around 9 months of trying (our first took just one month) so we were prepared for a bit of a wait. 2 years later we were at our wits end.
Apparently ovulating is a problem for me. We had tried Clomid, but I was at the max my OB wanted to do and we weren't really wanting to go with more intense fertility treatments since we do have 2 perfect littles already. So we sort of took a break from all the stress of trying. Lo and behold - I got pregnant in September 2015. My progesterone levels were low at 10.1 and I was put on progesterone suppositories until 12 weeks. Everything was normal and wonderful at my first ultrasound around 7 weeks. Our next appointment was just a checkup at 11 weeks and they didn't listen for a heartbeat - just a blood pressure/weight check. My next appointment was set for 14 weeks. But at 13 weeks, just one week after we had shouted our news from the rooftops to literally everyone we knew, I started bleeding....a lot. I rushed to my OBs office for a sono and, with our two kids with us (because I didn't have time to take them to anyone) we learned that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. I had miscarried around 8.5 weeks and had no symptoms at all until the bleeding at 13 weeks. Devastated doesn't even come close to describing our heartbreak (as I'm sure you all unfortunately understand). My d&c was November 6.
We wanted to try again as soon as possible. I have been taking ovulation tests several times a day for the last few weeks with no luck, so we hadn't really 'tried' at all. Always always a negative. Then, last week, two days before Christmas, I finally got a suuuuuuper positive ovulation test!!! And for 5 days afterword it was really really positive
. So after some googling around, I decided to try a pregnancy test - which what do you know - it was positive! My OBs nurse called me today with yesterday's blood results and hcg is good, but progesterone is 10.5 and tonight will be my first progesterone suppository again. I must have bawled for a full hour after I got that call. I can't believe it's starting out exactly the same again . I'm trying to stay positive and read success stories - but I'm terrified that I will miscarry again with such a low progesterone level.Like I said, I just needed to get that all off my chest because we're not telling anyone after the awfulness of having to tell literally everyone we knew that we had lost the last baby. Thanks for listening
Re: Saying hi and just getting this off my chest (loss mentioned)
DD1 - BFP 7/23/15 (EDD 3/31/16). "We believe in you rainbow" DOB 4/2/16
DD2 - BFP 2/9/18 (EDD 10/19/18). "Grow baby grow!" DOB 10/24/18
BFP 11/16/20 (EDD 7/31/21). "Round 3 FIGHT!"
BFP 2/19/15 • MMC found at 9 wks • D&E at 11 wks (age 36)
BFP 8/29/15 • CP (age 37)
TTC#2 since May 2017
BFP 10/18/17 • MMC found at 8 wks • Misoprostal at 10.5 wks (age 39)
BFP 2/16/18 • CP (age 39)
BFP 4/13/18 • CP (age 39)
BFP 5/07/18 • MMC found at 10.5 wks • D&E at 11.5 wks • Testing showed it was a girl with Trisomy 22. (age 39/40)
9/5/18 Diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve (4-5 follicles, one ovary had none and was very atrophied)
RE says the low egg count is likely causing my recurrent pregnancy loss. Less eggs results in more aneuploidy.
BFP 9/24/18 • CP (age 40)
Thoughts and prayers with you and keep your head up. I know a lot of women who had low progesterone and carried a healthy pregnancy no problem. It usually is more of a problem if they don't know you had low progesterone. And from what I've been told by my doctor, missed miscarriages are due to chromosomal abnormalities typically, so wouldnt even be connected with you progesterone.
DH and I have a mantra we repeat daily: "Today there's a baby, today I'm pregnant." And once we talk with the doctor tomorrow we will have more frequent monitoring to try to ease our minds. Good luck and I hope you find support here!
Actually, I have no idea how many weeks I would be. I never had a period after the d&c on November 6 and my ovulation strips tested negative every single day. I stopped bleeding from the d&c November 21ish though, so I don't have any idea how they'd calculate it.
Sigh. I'm so glad to have everyone's posts and support to read at times like this
BFP 2/19/15 • MMC found at 9 wks • D&E at 11 wks (age 36)
BFP 8/29/15 • CP (age 37)
TTC#2 since May 2017
BFP 10/18/17 • MMC found at 8 wks • Misoprostal at 10.5 wks (age 39)
BFP 2/16/18 • CP (age 39)
BFP 4/13/18 • CP (age 39)
BFP 5/07/18 • MMC found at 10.5 wks • D&E at 11.5 wks • Testing showed it was a girl with Trisomy 22. (age 39/40)
9/5/18 Diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve (4-5 follicles, one ovary had none and was very atrophied)
RE says the low egg count is likely causing my recurrent pregnancy loss. Less eggs results in more aneuploidy.
BFP 9/24/18 • CP (age 40)
We got in for an ultrasound last night. We thought it was just barely 6 weeks and my husband was worried (rightly so) that we wouldn't hear a heartbeat because it was too early and I would spend the next few weeks freaking out. Luckily, thank God, we saw a tiny little heart beating a zillion miles an hour. I asked the OB if we could rent one of these things (the sono machine)