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I met my husband about 6 years ago and we got pregnant about a year into our relationship. He is 4 now and such an amazing kid! We have been struggling to have a successful pregnancy for 2 years now, with 4 miscarriages all in the first tri-mester

What does it all mean??

TTC= trying to conceive

BBT= basal body temperature

HPT= home pregnancy test

OPK= ovulation predictor kit

BFP= big fat positive (what we want!)

BFN= big fat negative (what we loathe...)




What's been going on?

Dec 2004: Met Derek at a friends birthday dinner (and didn't like him lol!)

Feb 2006: Conceived Owen by surprise

Sept 22, 2006: Derek and I got married

Nov 6, 2006: Owen was born!

Nov 2008: Decide to TTC for #2

Jan 2009: Longest cycle ever, take HPT and got a BFP. Go to dr and find out we're mid miscarriage

May 2009: BFP!

June 2009: Go to DR for first OB appointment to find no heartbeat, off to hospital for D&C. Told to wait 3 months before TTC again

Dec 2009: BFP and one week later start bleeding, miscarriage #3

Jan 2010: Go in to see DR, check blood and all organs working well, and ovulating well.

April 2010: Another BFP. About a week later start bleeding again, miscarriage #4.

May 2010: Talk to my DR, has me wait 6 months before TTC again.

Sept 2010: Go to follow up with DR, has me start taking prenatal vitamins, baby asprin and progesterone 48 hours after ovulation (to take until my cycle starts, or reach 13 weeks in a pregnancy)

March 7th 2011: BFP!!!!! (over the next few days I ended up taking 4 tests to be for sure positive)

April 4th 2011: First OB appointment... saw lil baby on ultrasound and STRONG heartbeat of 175 bpm.

June 27th 2011: Second ultrasound, we're having a lil boy!

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

my test results

Last night I got a paper in the mail from my Dr. It was my results from the blood test taken last Friday. Everything is normal and I'm perfectly healthy. Which in a way settles my mind, but in other ways makes me more confused. I mean, if I'm one healthy girl and all of my body seems to be functioning normally, then why am I having so many miscarriages? What is going wrong? Am I just having bad luck or is it something I'm doing when I get pregnant? So, with all of this good news comes more uncertainty. I'm still terrified to get pregnant again in fear of losing yet another baby... but I don't want to give up the hope of having another child just yet either... ugh, this is so hard!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

so it's my due date today

This took me by surprise today... I just looked at the date January 12th. And not a single emotion rose up in me. That really surprised me. I'm ok with it. I'm ok with not having a baby... God didn't intend on us having one now for whatever reasons. Today is just like any other day really... just going on with my day of taking care of the kids and reading my book for bible study tonight. Thank you God for helping me see passed this day as a bad day and letting me enjoy it!!!

Friday, January 8, 2010

what the dr says

I went to the Dr this afternoon to talk about what is going wrong with me. We just talked about the 3 miscarriages, and what could possibly be the problem. I will go in next week to get some blood work done. They will check my hormone levels and do some other tests, but he wants to make sure I've ovulated. I guess that after you ovulate, your body produces more progesterone. So, if that doesn't happen we will have to figure out some other reason why I've had so many miscarriages. He seems optimistic considering we have Owen already and he was a healthy pregnancy. As for me, I'm just not even entertaining the idea of having another baby... too much heartache in too little time for me to want it now. If it happens it happens, but I'm not "trying" anymore.