Ultrasound today: measuring at exactly 7 weeks (technically I'm 6 weeks 5 days). Heart rate at 144 beats per minute. I was, and this is a rarity, speechless. I also couldn't hold back the tears.
Doctor Superman seemed surprised, however, that I was at work last week (due to the bleeding). At the time he'd said, "take it easy" - I didn't know that he meant not to go to work. This time he again told me to take it easy, that this is a critical time, etc. I didn't think to ask him about the photo shoot I have scheduled tomorrow - I'll be on my feet for one to two hours. So, now I don't know if I should cancel or not.
I am equally thrilled and stunned. We're still far from being out of the woods yet but we've graduated. I have to make an appointment with a regular (albeit high risk) OB.
Not that long ago, when I told my sister that we were moving on to adoption (which we still want to do) and to stop harassing me about getting pregnant again, she e-mailed me back and said, "Miracles do happen. Who says they can't happen to you?" In a couple of weeks, I'm going to e-mail her, with these words, and these words only: "Miracles do happen . . . " She'll instantly know. I am sure of it. And I can't wait.
Exhale, exhale, exhale.
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Moving on from Recurrent Miscarriage (soon to be OUT of the Rabbit Hole)
IComLeavWe
About Me
- Ali
- After four miscarriages, I welcomed home my baby boy in the fall of 2008.
Our son was born in the fall of 2008 after four miscarriages. Currently trying for numero dos. Homozygous MTHFR (A1298C). Treated with folate and vitamin B6 and B12 supplementation. Diagnosed with Idiopathic Recurrent Pregnancy Loss in August 2007. IUI in January 2008 with clomid. Started on heparin January 18, 2008, switched to Lovenox April 10th. Oh, I'm also Rh-negative.
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e-mail me at alicerabbit at gmail dot com
MTHFR info
- All MTHFR, All the Time
- Ask a Geneticist!
- Ask another Geneticist!
- Join the fun! Calculate your BMI!
- Miscarriage Causes - MTHFR
- MTHFR and risk of fetal loss
- MTHFR Community Board Discussion
- Study - Genotypes of the C677T and A1298C . . . as cause for SA
- Study - MTHFR associated with ovarian follicular activity
- Study - MTHFR is associated with recurrent miscarriage
- Study - MTHFR not predictive of recurrent fetal loss
Timeline
- 10/19/2018 Possible BFP - neg test the next day
- 1/26/15 BFP
- 8/22/12 - BFN (10PIUI)
- 8/12/12 - IUI
- 8/12 - begin looking into adoption options again
- AMH = .1 Dx 7/12
- IVF #2 Cancelled - converted to IUI 8/12/12
- FSH (9) 2007
- 1/6/06; hcg 35,194.1 prog 10
- FSH (6) 2008/2007
- FSH (16) October 2011
- FSH (23) 5/15/12
- IUI #6 1/22/12
- Began taking Clomid: 2/22/11
- IUI #2: 2/5/11: FAIL!
- Began taking Clomid - 1/26/2011
- Surgery - laparoscopy and hysteroscopy - 11/29/2010
- Consult with RE November 2010
- Had our baby boy - fall 2008!
- Came off of heparin as of September 25, 2008
- Switched back to heparin - September 22, 2008
- Switched to lovenox - sometime during summer 2008
- Graduate from RE to high-risk OB/GYN - March 12, 2008
- Official positive preg test - Feb 1, 2008
- Began heparin therapy January 18, 2008
- 2nd cycle w/ Clomid PLUS IUI! - January 2008
- Green light to start trying again - 11/30/2007
- Seriously thinking about adoption - November 2007
- Surgery - laparoscopy and hysteroscopy - 11/19/2007
- First Consult with new RE - October 2007
- Diagnosed with MTHFR - January 2007
- Fourth BFP 8/8/2007 (chemical) - est. due date 4/24/2008
- Third BFP 8/03/2006 (miscarriage) - est. due date 4/27/2007
- Second BFP 7/19/2006 (chemical) - est. due date 4/01/2007
- First pos pregnancy test (BFP) 12/3/2005 (miscarriage) - est. due date 8/15/2006
Adoption on the Radio
ART and Adoption Articles and Sites of Note
Podcasts
Blogs I Read
- A Cop, A Nurse, 3 Dogs and Maybe Baby? (YES! BABY!)
- A Half Baked Life
- A Little Pregnant
- After Words (formerly BrooklynGirl)
- Apron Strings (formerly The Oneliner)
- Barefoot and . . .
- Delinquent Eggs
- Desperately Seeking Baby
- Everyone Else But Me
- House of Miao
- Inconceivable
- Izzle Pfaff!
- julia (Here Be Hippogriffs)
- Karen Cheng: Snippets of Life
- Maybe Mama
- Me the Bumblebee (password protected)
- Missed Conceptions
- No Matter How Small
- Relative Choices: Adoption and the American Family (NYT)
- The Conceivable Future
- The Geek Nature Preserve
- The Mind of Olivia Drab
- The Sartorialist
16 comments:
Awesome!! Hooray!! Yippee!!
Congratulations!!! Wowza indeed! That is wonderful news :)
but don't forget to inhale too!
congratulations - i'm happy for you.
I'm SO.HAPPY. So very happy. :)
Sounds very promising indeed.....
Keep on exhaling :)
J
Very good news. I'm rooting for you!
I'm glad you've got here and are feeling fairly positive (even if only at times)
It is so difficult to believe it will work out when all you've had before says otherwise. But it can.
Hang in there, I'm so pleased all is well xx
fantastic news, Alice. Congratulations!
Hooray for miracles! congrats!!!
Yes. Yes. Yes. They do happen. I remind myself that every day when I look at Lily. I'm so very happy for your good news!
Yay for miracles. I am a huge believer in them. So excited for you.
Thanks for sharing the wonderful news. Miracle indeed! Congratulations and so happy for you.
Hello~ I just found your blog and would like to follow you! Congrats on the great scan!! Are you doing injections? (I also have one MTHFR mutation with mmc). I am adding you to my blog!!
I AM soooo excited for you.
Thank goodness -- some good news in this blogosphere....
Pam
Fantastic news! Just popped by for the first time in ages. Please post again soon, I want to know that it is still OK.
Thank you all for your great, encouraging comments. I don't actually know anything yet - I won't see the doc for quite a few days . . . which is, of course, terribly, terribly difficult!
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