Congratulations @rdm10 and @meghan07 keeping everything crossed for you.
@serenaoverjoyed glad the scan went well, dating is really heard on early scans and the growth rate is so sporadic in the first 12 weeks there isn’t really a ‘normal’
@hayleyfx 🤞 for Monday. The early scans aren’t 3D sound so internal or external only pick what is immediately in front of it so you can get a different view. I’m really hoping it’s not blighted ovum xxx
Someone asked ages ago about acupuncture and my recommendation for it so I’ll try to explain! After mc in March my cycles weren’t getting back to normal (normal to gp at 31-33 days) but not normal to me usually 28days) and previously I’ve recovered quickly. I had one month I don’t think I ovd at all. So I decided to give it a go id heard it helps women conceive so thought it might help get me on track. She’s amazing she was a midwife for 25 yrs and retired into acupuncture. She explained how the body needs to work in sync and the spleen is the controller of blood flow (energy) and hormones (fertility). She felt that all my energy was being pushed to my brain as I was always thinking, researching, planning conception, analysing (sound familiar ladies?) etc and so the spleen was busy keeping my brain energised to cope with the extra work. That meant there was not enough focus on my hormones and thus my cycles weren’t quite right. The ying and yang means to be ‘in balance’ and I wasn’t. We talked in detail about my cycles and the fact that I wasn’t regularly having ewcm and that my periods are short and clotty (2 days) rather than ‘thin and flowy’. That’s when she started treatment and timed it with my cycle. When I was I day 14 first month I had no sign of any ewcm, so she treated me to get all the energy flowing to my uterus to ‘let go’ and 30 mins later at home I got a mass of ewcm. I couldn’t believe this ‘magic’. Then she treated me for good blood flow and my next period was thin and red and lasted 5 days. She told me to do yoga to clear my mind each week and maintain the right balance. Second month ecwm happened by itself on day 10, I ovd on day 14 ( bang on) ...and fell pregnant. I genuinely believe she got my cycles back to normal quicker than I could have on my own which is why I am now pregnant. I’m sticking with both, we will reduce to once a month after 12 weeks, current treatment is focused on keeping all energy in my abdomen to support these early weeks. She had so much advice too and interpretation of the female body to Chinese medicine is amazing and I just love her ❤️
I went into it completely open minded and was amazed, but it might not be right for everyone.
Sorry to see new joiners here, hope you are feeling ok xx
Day 3 of heparin injections for me, it’s going ok, it stings but I’ll get used to it. First scan Monday morning, be lovely to see a heartbeat. Feeling good otherwise,steady symptoms. I hate the cramps, you never know if they’re good or bad but seem to have calmed down now. 6w today xx