Hi... long time forum stalker, yet to be mum. 4 pregnancies (for sure, 6 possibly) but so far they've ended in miscarriages. This one... God I really hope this sticks. (Please.)
Just FYI I don't curtail on descriptions. I did care work so I'm pretty clinical in my descriptions.
Right now I'm 10dpo and cd26 - it was the 23rd of May when I miscarried and it was only 5 weeks, so I'm 2 cycles past.
This... it started cd21 (5 days after conception) the day before that, I was tasting faint metal - i knew what was coming. I had pink in my mucus when I wiped on and off that lasted two days. On the second day a drop of red showed up in my pants. Cd24 I saw a drop of red in the toilet, yesterday I got a sharp pain that lasted half a second and when I wiped, there was a little bright red.
Today I wipe and there's bright red sometimes.
I've had thrush like symptoms despite the bio-live drink. I itch and I never itch. It's been intermittent for 5 days.
I've thought about using my finger to examine where my cervix is but I'm nervous I will aggreavte the wall and cause a bleed.
I keep the GP updated. I've been referred to recurrent miscarriages (for Queen Charlotte nonetheless so the best of the best for the most part).
I take a probiotic that has the naturally occurring folate and now I'm taking a multivitamin that has normal folic acid amount and iron (I'd be interested to know if anyone wanted to go the natural route for the folic acid? I have been pretty nervous about the overload of folic acid and the body's inability to metabolize it... so I'm eating spinach, bananas, smoked salmon is something I am craving a LOT...) I use a heat pack to stimulate circulation. I want to start doing yoga and maybe some gentle walking, but I'm scared. Like I feel safe staying in bed but I need to get things done. Im trying to help this one stay.
I really want to increase my progesterone to help the uterine lining because the last time the wall was only 5mm.
(This may not be a popular opinion but my partner had received the covid vaccine the last time I miscarried, the day we conceived and I blame it entirely. I caught covid in December and it affected my period so significantly the tissue was alien. A friend of mine had the vaccine and the same cycle miscarried. I do not trust the vaccine.)
I just, I don't know how else to help this baby. I want this baby and I can't handle another miscarriage. The last one was a roller coaster and the period that followed felt like it ripped me in half.
I never bleed enough to warrant a pad and I would appreciate any success stories from mums who might have had this experience but birthed a healthy baby anyway.
Please little one, stay.