A Little About Me:
Hello everyone! My name is Amanda and I am 23 years old. In the past 5 years my life has been somewhat difficult and thrown off course but I believe it is that way for a reason. My husband and I met during college. We got engaged in June 2008 and I started going to the doctor for abdominal pains in September 2008. Over the course of the year of seeing a doctor I was taken off of my depo provera birth control and placed on Ortho Tri Cyclen to regain my periods and to help force my body to ovulate. It took a year for the doctor to realize what was wrong with my body and she still didn't find the cause of the pain. In November of 2009 I was told that I was entering menopause and that my hormones were very very low and there was a chance of hell freezing over before I would ever end up pregnant. The doctor told me that there was nothing they could do to help me. I left the office that day feeling so low. Who at the age of 21 years old enter menopause??? Also I had just gotten married and my husband and I wanted children. The doctor told me not to even try because I would be very upset and could enter into depression. She had found that I couldn't have children but she couldn't find out my abdominal pain issue. I had originally gone with the intention of making sure I wasn't developing endometriosis which my biological mother and her sister both had severly. But I didn't have that. Despite what my doctor told me, my husband and I tried anyways. Two months later I was pregnant. At the time I didn't know it. I had missed my period for 2 months. I took a dollar test and had a very very faint positive. However, when I went in for my blood test it was negative. Two days later while at work I had horrid abdominal cramping to the point of hardly being able to walk, I bled and passed clots (one that was 2 inches in diameter) for almost 9 days. I laid in bed the first three days swallowing ibuprofen as often as I was allowed but the pain wouldn't go away and the bleeding continued. I cried and told my husband I wished I coud die. At the time I thought it was a horrible horrible period so I didn't go to the emergency room. Four months later I found out I was pregnant. I decided to see a different doctor. When I was 9 weeks pregnant I had bleeding. The doctor did hormone tests and blood tests. My blood test showed that I was RH- and my hormone levels came back so low that the doc said I had a 50% chance of miscarrying the baby even with progestrone suppositories. He said that because of my RH- blood type and the levels of my progestrone being so low that I must have been pregnant before but that I didn't get a rhogam shot. From that moment on I knew abou tmy miscarriage and I thought I was a horrible person for not getting myself to the ER because I was going to lose my baby for not getting the Rhogam shot. The second trimester brought on new hope until I started bleeding again. Then I got a urinary tract infection that was so bad I was urinating blood. I also ended up getting carpal tunnel. I was put on bed rest for two days. Then in my third trimester I started gushing blood. I went to the ER where I was admitted to the Maternity ward. I laid in the bed for 12 hours not knowing whether or not my baby was going to make it or whether I was going to bleed to death. The nurses couldnt figure out the problem and my doctor failed to come in himself until 14 hours had passed. An ultra sound showed there was nothing wrong with my baby or me. However, when my doctor finally came in he did a pelvic exam and found that my birth canal had ripped and that was the source of the bleeding. I was on bedrest for 2 more days. I also caught bronchitus, an upper respiratory infection, and the flu in the third trimester. At 37 weeks I had to go in for an ultrasound because I was measuring two weeks ahead of time. The doctor was overly concerned that I would have a 10lb baby. At the ultrasound I found that my baby was only 6lbs 12 oz. and I had a lot of fluid. Whew! Finally 40 weeks came. I had to set up induction. At 41 weeks I went in for my induction. Nurses told me not to eat. I didn't. 16 hours in to my labor I started pushing. I pushed for three hours, broke my tailbone, ran out of strength, begged to be sent home. My baby was supposed to be a Valentine's day baby. However at about 11:59 the doctor said that I had been in labor for too long, I didn't have strength, and he had realized that my baby was not only stuck under my pelvic bone but that my hips didn't spread during pregnancy, and he didn't think I was "built" to have a vaginal birth. So I had an emergency c-section that took almost an hour. When I went to the OR my pain meds wouldn't work. They almost put me under but finally got the meds to work. My baby was born at 1:01 am on February 15th, 2011. She weighed 7lbs 15oz, she was 21 3/4 inches long. She developed jaundice and thrush before we left the hospital. I am so happy to have Katheryn in my life. My doctor described her conception as a "fluke" but I think that she just didn't want to say she was wrong. So now that my baby girl is almost 13 months old the hubby and I want to make her a big sister. This is our first month TTC and my ovulation was supposed to happen yesterday. We used Instead Softcups. Now we just have to go through the TWW. Wish us luck
Baby dust to all!
Name: Amanda
Age: 23
Location: Adrian, MI, USA
Occupation: Cashier
Short Personal Description: I have lived in Michigan all my life. I am from a tiny little dent in the map called Morenci. I attended college in Adrian where I met my DH. We started dating on October 6th 2007, in March 2008 he gave me a promise ring, on June 28th 2008 we were engaged, on October 6th 2009 we were joined in marriage. We started TTC in December 2009. I quit college in order to become a mother and wife (best decision ever in my opinion). In November 2009 we were told we weren't able to have children but we wanted to try anyways.
Favorites: My favorite things are scrapbooking, spending time with my family, taking care of my home, reading, and listening to music.
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, reading, family day, sewing, decorating.
Color: Black and pink.
Food: Ice Cream, granola bars, pasta, steak.
Hang-out: At home with my family
Music: Alternative Rock. Blink 182, The Muse, AFI, Cold Play, Foo Fighters, etc.
Books: The Scarlet Letter, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Crucible, Ferienheit 451, Animal Farm, The Old Man and the Sea, Black Beauty, poetry, anything by Edgar Allen Poe, any classics.
Movies: The Greenmile, Twilight (yes I am a nerd I know), Lord of the Rings (even bigger nerd!), Harry Potter (Okay now I am just digging a deeper nerd hole!), The Last song, Forest Gump, Ever After, Sex and the City, Saw, Salena, pretty much anything. My all time favorite is Interview with a Vampire.
TV Shows: Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Cupcake Wars, Sex and the City, Big Bang Theory (Told you I am a nerd!), Two Broke Girls, Switched at Birth, The River...
Authors: Edgar Allen Poe, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Shakesphere, Anna Sewell, Tucker Max, etc. Too many to list lol.
Cartoon Character: Lenny from The Wonderpets lol
Digging Deeper:
Country You Wish To Visit The Most: France or England
Most Influential Person in Your Life: My Husband
Greatest Ambition: To be the most amazing wife and mother I can possibly be and to raise my children to be upstanding citizens that are respectful, honorable, hardworking, positive people.
Biggest Achievement: Becoming a mommy.
Grandest Wish: To have a large family
What You Can't Live Without: My family