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Story of the MacCabe Addition!
Well as most of you now, I have recently had a miscarriage and it was a very traumatic and emotional experience for me! I was starting to get over it by cleaning out all the of baby paperwork I had received from all of my appointments and putting the things I could not part with into a shoe box in the closet so I would not have to look at it unless I wanted to. I don’t think I will ever be completely over it, because it is an experience I do not want to forget, but I have learn so much from it that I feel I am able to be over it enough to deal with it and move on with my life.
I want to thank all of you for all of your prayers to help me get through this and the prayers have helped a lot along with all of the support from other ladies who have experienced the same thing at some point in their life.
So after my D & C I thought that would be a good time to start charting my menstrual cycle so I could figure out my cycle length and when I am ovulating and such, so when we were ready to try again it would be easier for us. I was actually surprised to see that January and February were like clock work because they have not been for some time now and that made me happy. So I figured out what the cycle length was for January and February, so I counted to see when I should expect my March one and I didn’t come on the day I had thought, so I was like “well maybe I miss counted and the months are off” I will wait a couple more days to see what happens. So 4 days went by and then I started feeling off and not like normal so I decided to go to the store and pick up some pregnancy tests just for the heck of it to see.
So the next morning I took the test not expecting anything to come out of it I just wanted to know and at first there was only one line when I look so I was like ok that is fine and then I got dressed and looked 1 minute later and there were 2 lines I was like no way that is not possible. I started taking prenatal vitamins at that point just in case because I wanted to take them ASAP. So I once again took it to show Elijah and then we went and took a different brand. A digital one this time which was really cool it shows pregnant or not pregnant. So I took it and waited and it said “Pregnant” I was excited but very nervous at that point.
So off to work I went and I called the Ob-gyn’s office and made an appointment and expressed my concern and they told me they wanted to go get blood work to check my HCG level and my Progesterone level. So the blood work came back and I was in fact pregnant and my progesterone level was good, but not exactly where they wanted to see it. So they wanted to repeat my blood work 4 days later to see if the levels doubled like they should have. Well, my HCG hormone doubled but my progesterone level went down, so they put me on a progesterone suppository. Then they wanted to do an ultrasound to make sure everything was going ok. So April 3, 2009 I went to the office and had my first ultrasound and the technician said that everything she is seeing looks good and that she is not surprised that she isn’t seeing the baby or the heartbeat because I am calculated to be only 5 weeks and that is normal. So then I met with the doctor and she wants to repeat the ultrasound at my first appointment which is scheduled for April 24th, which at that point I will be 8 weeks and should be able to detect the heartbeat.
Well as most of you now, I have recently had a miscarriage and it was a very traumatic and emotional experience for me! I was starting to get over it by cleaning out all the of baby paperwork I had received from all of my appointments and putting the things I could not part with into a shoe box in the closet so I would not have to look at it unless I wanted to. I don’t think I will ever be completely over it, because it is an experience I do not want to forget, but I have learn so much from it that I feel I am able to be over it enough to deal with it and move on with my life.
I want to thank all of you for all of your prayers to help me get through this and the prayers have helped a lot along with all of the support from other ladies who have experienced the same thing at some point in their life.
So after my D & C I thought that would be a good time to start charting my menstrual cycle so I could figure out my cycle length and when I am ovulating and such, so when we were ready to try again it would be easier for us. I was actually surprised to see that January and February were like clock work because they have not been for some time now and that made me happy. So I figured out what the cycle length was for January and February, so I counted to see when I should expect my March one and I didn’t come on the day I had thought, so I was like “well maybe I miss counted and the months are off” I will wait a couple more days to see what happens. So 4 days went by and then I started feeling off and not like normal so I decided to go to the store and pick up some pregnancy tests just for the heck of it to see.
So the next morning I took the test not expecting anything to come out of it I just wanted to know and at first there was only one line when I look so I was like ok that is fine and then I got dressed and looked 1 minute later and there were 2 lines I was like no way that is not possible. I started taking prenatal vitamins at that point just in case because I wanted to take them ASAP. So I once again took it to show Elijah and then we went and took a different brand. A digital one this time which was really cool it shows pregnant or not pregnant. So I took it and waited and it said “Pregnant” I was excited but very nervous at that point.
So off to work I went and I called the Ob-gyn’s office and made an appointment and expressed my concern and they told me they wanted to go get blood work to check my HCG level and my Progesterone level. So the blood work came back and I was in fact pregnant and my progesterone level was good, but not exactly where they wanted to see it. So they wanted to repeat my blood work 4 days later to see if the levels doubled like they should have. Well, my HCG hormone doubled but my progesterone level went down, so they put me on a progesterone suppository. Then they wanted to do an ultrasound to make sure everything was going ok. So April 3, 2009 I went to the office and had my first ultrasound and the technician said that everything she is seeing looks good and that she is not surprised that she isn’t seeing the baby or the heartbeat because I am calculated to be only 5 weeks and that is normal. So then I met with the doctor and she wants to repeat the ultrasound at my first appointment which is scheduled for April 24th, which at that point I will be 8 weeks and should be able to detect the heartbeat.
(I will keep everyone updated on here after each appointment)
Please keep us in your prayers and baby MacCabe also!!!
