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ttc after placental abruption

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sayitwithsam · 13/06/2010 21:19

Arrggghhhhh!!!!!! Another month gone and I still haven't had a strong positive on the OPK. My period was 35 days last month and 33 this month.
I'm worried that I'm not ovulating every cycle and that's why it took over a year to get pregnant the first time. My GP said not to worry about it though, that it will happen when it happens. It's so easy to be blase when you're not the person desperate for a baby.
I spent most of yesterday in fits of tears. I thought I'd never stop. It's been like this on the first day of all my periods since losing my baby. I feel like it's all happening again and I'm back in that hospital room.
It's my brother-in-laws wedding in October and I should be there with my little boy, showing him his new family and beaming with pride but now I'll be surrounded by all these people giving me sympathetic smiles and whispering behind my back.
Everyone keeps saying I will get my baby which makes me feel like they don't think my boy was real, or that he didn't matter. It has to get better than this doesn't it?
I want to be pregnant again so badly but I worry like mad that if I do I'll be expecting the same baby I lost. Has anyone else felt like this?

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LunaticFringe · 18/08/2010 20:51

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sayitwithsam · 20/08/2010 08:57

Oh good stuff. How far are you now? How are you feeling about being pregnant again, are you very worried or are you alright? I keep thinking I'll be stressed out constantly when it happens again but now I'm not so sure. I'm ready for it and hope that means I'll cope ok.

I'm ok. Using my new fertility monitor and the last two days have been high fertility so my DH is very tired again. As soon as I'm pregnant he can rest! I woke up this morning with a total belief I'll be pregnant at Christmas. So fingers crossed that comes true.

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sayitwithsam · 23/08/2010 18:36

I got my positive on my new fertility monitor yesterday and today. I've also noticed that this month my temps have been pretty steady unlike the other months when it was all over the place. Do you think this is a good sign?

I suppose it could be that my body has taken this long to get over losing my baby and is only now back on track.

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sayitwithsam · 30/08/2010 18:49

The TWW is a friggin nightmare!

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LunaticFringe · 01/09/2010 20:37

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sayitwithsam · 01/09/2010 22:56

That's ok I know you have loads to cope with. Was the anniversary as hard as you thought? The run up to Archie's due date was hard, but I don't know how I'll be on his actual birthday. He was born on my mother-in-laws birthday so it will be very difficult celebrating that knowing it's the day we lost our precious son. I know she'll be thinking the same.
How have the scans been? I keep worrying that when I am pregnant again I'll seem like I don't care at the scans. I know I'll be excited and happy but they told me everything was ok before and they were wrong so I want to stay as detatched as possible until my baby is alive in my arms. Knowing me I'll be over excited as soon as I get a BFP and then stress out every second of every day hoping the baby is ok.

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sayitwithsam · 03/09/2010 08:32

I thought AF was due Sunday but my fertility monitor is saying today. Please let this be my month!

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sayitwithsam · 04/09/2010 07:43

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sayitwithsam · 04/09/2010 07:44

ps I didn't do that many test, I;m just very excited!

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LunaticFringe · 04/09/2010 19:13

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sayitwithsam · 05/09/2010 09:22

Just the one clearblue plus and it went positive straight away. I'm already worried and I only got the positive yesterday! I've got a slight burning when I pee, hope that's not protein in there. Will have to do some serious pressuring of the receptionist tomorrow to get an appointment.

DH is ok, very worried of course and doesn't want to tell our parents before I start showing. Actually this is where having IBS comes in handy, because they'll just think it's that for a while! I don't know how I'm going to keep quiet. I am bursting to tell the world. Need that early scan to make sure this baby is viable and that things are going as they should. Very nervous, but you'd understand that.

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sayitwithsam · 09/09/2010 09:43

Good news. Bet you're bursting to tell everyone.
I thought it was a UTI too and did a wee test but she didn't seem concerned (they never seem concerned). I had real trouble the first few months with a problem bladder and did tons of tests but they were all 'fine' apparently. The burning has stopped now (thanks to many gallons of cranberry juice?).
My 'symptoms' now are gas related, nice huh?! Pain under my left shoulder blade (yes I did freak out it was an ectopic pregnancy but it's under my shoulder blade not shoulder tip pain) and in my hips. It eases when I become a human trumpet! I am desperate for an early scan. Seeing my midwife in two weeks and will get her to refer me. My Gp said I didn't need one until 12 weeks but sod that, I want to see my little bean ASAP.
Apart from the wind though, and the aches and pains which I get from time to time anyway, I don't feel pregnant at all. I'm so scared I'll get a scan and they'll be this empty sac or something. Did you feel like that? What effects have pregnancy had on you this time?
ps I promise I will join the pregnancy thread when I've seen my baby. Until then I won't really believe it's real.

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sayitwithsam · 10/09/2010 22:21

The consultant specifically stated in the letter to my GP I should have an early scan so hopefully my midwife will push it through.
I'm actually worried now that I don't feel anything. Other than a few twinges now and then, everything has stopped. I wish I could know that everything was ok in there.
It's amazing your consultant actually had looked up your case! Ours only read my file when we got in the room and kept asking us questions we had no idea about! I had no faith in him and have already told my GP I won't see him again. You have to feel confident in them don't you?
Glad its going well. Hopefully I will be following your lead.

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sayitwithsam · 14/09/2010 10:03

I'm not sure if I have thrush or some other infection. There's the thick white cm right up in the warm bits of my lady area (but not a lot) and a creamier cm in the actual vagina opening. I check myself daily because of losing the plug just before going into very early labour last time. It doesn't itch. I burn a little still when I pee but not all the time. I've got some canesten I'll try for a few days. It's normal to get an over abundance of things going on down there in early pregnancy though right? I'm putting off going to the GP because of what happened last time.

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sayitwithsam · 17/09/2010 18:33

I don't see my midwife until Wednesday. She's pretty on the ball so she'll probably call the hospital to book a scan there and then. The hospital staff didn't seem to like her (because she makes them work probably).
Your experience sounds horrific. Thank God you had an excellent paramedic. I do still have nightmares about being in the hospital or pouring with blood. I don't like being out on my own in case anything happens but I have to get on with it. I wake up in a sweat some nights but there's not much I can do about that. I'm trying to take each day as it comes and hope for the best. My family haven't been great. They keep saying things like "you shouldn't be doing that, lay down, make sure you do everything right this time". I did everything right last time, I just lost my baby anyway!
I'm more physical than I was last time. I'm out for at least an hour every day with my pup and he keeps me on my toes! But I do need a nap most days now.
So happy it's going well for you. I'll join you on the other thread when I see my baby. Still doesn't feel real.

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sayitwithsam · 22/09/2010 18:36

Hi
Sorry to hear you've been ill. Hope it stays at bay now.
I had a two hour wait to see my midwife which was very bad. I felt a bit dizzy when we got there and 2 hours later was desperate for some water. She took tons of blood and we had to go through tons of paperwork. I'm the same ethic origin etc than last time, could they not have filled all that in before? She kept asking me if I'd had medication for depression when I lost Archie. I said no so many times. Then she saw a few scars when she took my blood and said "oh you're a self harmer". I was when I was in my early teens but I'm not a teenager anymore! I thought oh crap I'm going on some unsuitable mother list now.
She requested an early scan so hopefully that will come through soon.
Saw one of best friends the other day and she told me she's pregnant and due a few days before me. I'm so happy for her but the last time I was pregnant another friends was due the same time. She got her baby and I didn't. I know its really selfish but I keep thinking what if history repeats itself?
How far along are you now?

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LunaticFringe · 22/09/2010 19:47

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sayitwithsam · 22/09/2010 22:24

I'm 6 weeks today.

Flu is quite common during pregnancy isn't it? I had a few bad colds last time but no flu thank God. Last time I had that I was in bed for weeks and thought I was going to puke up internal organs I was so sick. Feel for you, must have been terrible with all the other joys of pregnancy as well!

My midwife showed my the list of results for all the tests I had after I lost Archie. It was the written equivalence of white noise. But she said the consultant had put spontaneous abortion as a cause and she refused to put that because it sounded so horrible. She put late miscarriage due to placental abruption instead.

She knows I had depression as a teen and I explained that I would always refuse anti depressants as the GP gave them to me when I was 13! I think my surgery give them out like sweeties when they can be seriously addictive.

Today was my first experience of 'keeping a better eye on me this time' and I'm not bowled over. Hope it gets better!

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sayitwithsam · 23/09/2010 09:28

Small bleed this morning. Over an hour trying to get through to the doctors before I got an appointment. Keep everything crossed for me, I can't go through losing another baby.

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sayitwithsam · 23/09/2010 13:08

She said it was an erosion and wouldn't cause a miscarriage. 6 weeks down, 34 to go but I don't know if my nerves can stand it!

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