As I logged in to the hospital on-line website this morning to check all my blood tests results were ok after the first midwife appointment, I wasn’t worried. My bloods have always been ok (apart from the menopause related numbers obviously), so I was thrown when it said my glucose levels were raised and they…
We had the first early scan today with our consultant and although everything’s seemed fine apart from the bleed just after new year, I had a slight feeling that all might not be ok. Maybe I still don’t want to get my hopes up too much as we’ve been so lucky so far to fall…
Our consultant has told me that the HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hormone which is produced by cells that surround a growing embryo) and progesterone levels were increasing nicely now from the 2nd early pregnancy test after the low progesterone reading 3 days ago (good progesterone levels are essential for sustaining a pregnancy), so that put…
We got the early pregnancy blood test results yesterday from our consultant and my progesterone levels are low. So I’m really worried now as progesterone helps to suppress contractions in the uterus to keep it in a relaxed state so there’s a high risk that I could miscarriage if my progesterone is too low. It…
I’ve been having discussions over the last couple of weeks with Mr M about what we tell people when we announce we’re pregnant. We’ve definitely decided that we won’t tell people it’s an egg donation baby, as we want to wait until we can tell our child about it and not risk them finding out…
I went to work on Friday but left at lunchtime as I had some bleeding. I know it can happen in the first 12 weeks, but I just don’t want to risk anything. I think I’m all calm and relaxed about this now, but I still have to keep testing to make sure the time…
I’ve been thinking today how you take your fertility for granted when you’re younger. You never think you might not be able to have children if you should want to (unless something awful happens medically of course), and worry more about getting pregnant than not being able to get pregnant. But knowing what I know…
So, it was with heavy hearts that we went back to see the consultant today. Stupidly over the last two days I've been hoping that maybe the test results will come back differently and there'll be a different prognosis, but I think I knew really that that wasn’t going to happen. And it didn’t. The…
My GP at work couldn't have been more brilliant through all this, especially compared to the GP at my local doctors. It just goes to show it really does depend on who you get to see. I've been having blood tests (which kept having to be re-done) and waiting for appointments since late last year,…
I've been seeing an acupuncturist to see if it can help with my fertility. I'm not sure if or how it works but I'm willing to give anything a go. My periods are so all over the place I thought if they could work on balancing everything in my body, and then do some specifics…
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