Post by purple on Jun 27, 2016 17:16:58 GMT -5
Hi! My friend @jimbobcooter suggested I might like to say hello to you lovely ladies.
My H and I have been married for nearly eight years. For various excellent reasons we didn't start TTC straight away. When we did try it took two years, 28 cycles and a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, but we were very lucky and Laura was conceived naturally. That's us in my profile pic, but she's bigger than that now - her birthday was the fifteenth of this month. Pregnancy was complicated: I'm diabetic, albeit extremely well-controlled outwith pregnancy, and at four and a half months I was diagnosed with an exceptionally rare heart condition. The heart turned out to be harmless but no one knew that! I had mild PND but wasn't admitting it to anyone, including myself.
In January, with an eye on the clock, we started NTNP, and to our delight and surprise I fell pregnant straight away. I had a scan at what I thought was about seven and a half weeks. We saw the heartbeat and I was told I was just six weeks.
At nine weeks by their estimate, ten and a half by mine, I started spotting. The loss was confirmed and I decided to try natural miscarriage. Four days later I haemorrhaged and ended up having life saving emergency surgery in the middle of the night.
Just over a month later, I've been given the go-ahead physically, but I'm scared of sex: scared of getting pregnant in case it goes wrong, and scared of not getting pregnant. And I turned 39 two days before L's birthday.
We live in Scotland so I'm depressed about the whole wretched Brexit mess and worried that we won't be able to sell our house as a consequence.
My cycles are usually about 24 days and I'm about half way through my first proper post-miscarriage cycle. We've decided to NTNP for a bit longer, mostly because I need not to have mord stress, so I'll hang around and get to know you all, if that's okay.
And if you've read all that, have a virtual medal...
My H and I have been married for nearly eight years. For various excellent reasons we didn't start TTC straight away. When we did try it took two years, 28 cycles and a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, but we were very lucky and Laura was conceived naturally. That's us in my profile pic, but she's bigger than that now - her birthday was the fifteenth of this month. Pregnancy was complicated: I'm diabetic, albeit extremely well-controlled outwith pregnancy, and at four and a half months I was diagnosed with an exceptionally rare heart condition. The heart turned out to be harmless but no one knew that! I had mild PND but wasn't admitting it to anyone, including myself.
In January, with an eye on the clock, we started NTNP, and to our delight and surprise I fell pregnant straight away. I had a scan at what I thought was about seven and a half weeks. We saw the heartbeat and I was told I was just six weeks.
At nine weeks by their estimate, ten and a half by mine, I started spotting. The loss was confirmed and I decided to try natural miscarriage. Four days later I haemorrhaged and ended up having life saving emergency surgery in the middle of the night.
Just over a month later, I've been given the go-ahead physically, but I'm scared of sex: scared of getting pregnant in case it goes wrong, and scared of not getting pregnant. And I turned 39 two days before L's birthday.
We live in Scotland so I'm depressed about the whole wretched Brexit mess and worried that we won't be able to sell our house as a consequence.
My cycles are usually about 24 days and I'm about half way through my first proper post-miscarriage cycle. We've decided to NTNP for a bit longer, mostly because I need not to have mord stress, so I'll hang around and get to know you all, if that's okay.
And if you've read all that, have a virtual medal...
