A milestone achieved!
TW: successful (so far)
Hello my friends that have saved my sanity. I wanted to share an early milestone win for myself. After 4 back to back losses in 12 months, we did a 6 month break (last MC was an emergency sitchy where I lost a heavy amount of blood).
During that break we tested everything, which I will work on a list, but I would say probably 50 vials of
Blood has been taken from me.
We moved to IVF as I’m 39 and if you’ve read my posts, I tell a story of a great fertility doc who said, if we want more than 1 and with our age, it’s worth considering IVF just for the banking embryo factor.
So we did IVF with the kitchen sink protocol.
Today I celebrate 10 weeks (well 9+6). We had only ever made it to 8 weeks in prior losses. And so this is a massive milestone to pass.
I’m happy to answer everything, or I think my profile it open and you can search all the things I’ve written
Am I out of my PTSD, paranoia - LOL fuck no. Your girl here is swearing like a fire hydrant before every scan. But I wanted to celebrate this milestone 💙
Things I have learned
- read the book IS MY BODY BABY FRIENDLY by Alan beer
- don’t trust your regular OB (sorry) they are great but they deal more with babies and pregnancy. They aren’t verses well in RPL
- test yourself, don’t wait for someone or more to happen. Wher possible go and test as much as you can yourself.
- advocate and get mad. If someone got pneumonia 4x in a year the doctors would be going catch investigating. My babies are worth more than that. They deserve every extra request and if you don’t want to. You aren’t the right doctor for me.
EDIT: added more