PAL after Recurrent Losses - come join us!

[Mrs Reineke]

Google is HORRIBLE Hope!!! I need to be banned!!

 

[Hope39]

I rarely Google, Ive got enough to worry about without adding to it unnecessary xx

You should Really try not too otherwise you won't enjoy any of your pregnancy x

 

[SweetV]

blue - I'm glad that the bleeding has slowed down for you and that your symptoms are strong

Hope - My mom had her "period" through almost her entire pregnancy. I was a bad bladder infection until she was approx. 6 months. Every 4 weeks she would bleed and I was a perfectly healthy baby. Fx that's all it is.

Dairy - Glad to hear you are feeling confident enough to stop testing!

Mowat - sorry to hear you aren't feeling that great! I hope you start to feel more prepared in the upcoming weeks.

loeylo - Yay for good scans! Congrats on 8 + 2!!

Tasha We all have days that we want to do nothing. Fx baby is having a lazy day. Glad the scan went well.

Mrs R. - Stay off Dr Google! He never has a good diagnosis!! My ob didn't do gender until after 20 weeks as well. With the high risk clinic I will have scans bi weekly from 12 weeks so I'm thinking they may be able to tell me early.

afm bit of a freak out this morning. All plans of I am going to make this a normal pregnancy went out the window and I found myself on the phone with the high risk clinic at 7 am. I go in tomorrow for bloods and if all looks good a consultation later in the week. i think it's a great opportunity to talk about my work issues and see what they think as well as getting reassurance that I obviously need. Feeling a lot more confident this afternoon!!!

 

[blueblue]

Tasha - glad your scan went well, hope everything is ok with the growth scan this week

Loeylo - congratulations! That's great news.

Mrs R - stay away from google! I find it is sometimes reassuring, but if you are anxious anyway, the bad bits will stick in your mind.

SweetV - glad you are feeling better about work issues.

I had a show of red blood last night which disappeared and later went dark, it always freaks me out when it's red. Hoping everything will be ok at scan this week, I've never had 2 good scans in a row and really hope this time breaks the spell

 

[Oasis717]

Blue I really hope your next scan goes OK, wishing you luck, I had a small bleed at 9 weeks with my youngest and a scan that day showed he was fine, its hard not to worry I know xxxx

 

[blueblue]

Oasis - thank you, I hope everything is going well for you x

 

[Oasis717]

Thanks hunni, I'm in limbo really no symptoms but tests aren't getting lighter ATM, will test again this aft, I hate not knowing its so hard isn't it! Xx

 

[dairymomma]

Tasha-how are you doing today? Any movement from Rudy yet?

blue-red is never an easy sight to see but I saw lots of it with LO. I had so much of it that I broke down in full out snot-nose, ugly-face, red-eyed sobbing in front of my mother in law and 2 of my sister in laws because I was so scared. I think it made them realize just how hard the pg was for me at that point because the next week they made Dh take me on an all day date (we even went to a FANCY restaurant-5 course meal fancy) and cleaned my house from top to bottom while we were gone. PARL is hard enough but when you add bleeding/spotting into the mix, it makes for a pressure cooker of emotion. It's okay to have a wobble. We understand.

MrsR-I agree. Stay away from Google. I made the mistake of looking up molar pg and caused myself unnecessary grief. I've since stayed away and just let myself start enjoying my pregnancy. We've all learned that any number of things can go wrong during pg and it's not good for you or baby to worry about every single one of them. You'll only worry yourself sick. So step away from Dr. Google and just settle in for the long haul.

AFM-I did do my last FRER this morning but only because I wanted to get rid of it. There's still progression so I'm happy. Don't even feel tempted to buy more. Beta today and doubling from last week would put me at 240 yesterday so I'm FX it's around 300 today. Can always hope its higher though, right?

 

[blueblue]

dairy - thanks for your wise words again, I think I'd go crazy if I didn't have all the amazing ladies on here who understand what PARL is like. I've learnt so much from here and the RM thread. I'm glad your HCG levels are rising well

Hope - I hope your scan went well today.

 

[SweetV]

blue - I hope your scan goes well for you

oasis - my symptoms seem to come and go. It's a weird feeling to wish to be sick/tired/hormonal, but with pal those symptoms are comforting.

dairy - I have one FRER left too and keep thinking I will just use it. I think it's good until next year so I'm just going to hold on to it for now.

Tasha - also waiting on an update.

afm: had my betas done this morning at the high risk clinic. I know they are going to ask me to come back in 2 days to check the numbers are increasing but I think I will hold off as long as I can. I'm already stressed waiting for today's numbers and counting the days until they will give me an ultrasound. I promised myself I wasn't going to do this.

 

[Tasha]

Dairy, fingers crossed for 300+

Sweet, it's easy to promise yourself but so hard to do. We want this so bad.

No movements, heading towards 48 hours now.

 

[floridamomma]

Blue praying it's nothing. I had blood with my oldest. She's 8 and a handful.
Dairy hoping beta is high
Tasha hugs I'm sure the lo is just resting. Do you have a tilted uterus?
Oasis fingers crossed for you hon
Afm I saw my ob for my first prenatal visit. I have a scan in 2 weeks and a appt in 4. I'll be 10 weeks at the scan. Feeling ok as I was going to pay for a private scan next week anyway. So in just chugging along

 

[SweetV]

Tasha - you have another scan tomorrow? I know they said with A. that he was kicking my placenta and that's why I could feel him infrequently.

Florida - I hope your scan goes well and that the 2 weeks flies by.

 

[Mrs Reineke]

Good morning ladies,

Tasha, you have another scan soon right? Hoping baby is just resting and or kicking in a direction you're not feeling. Please update us when you know more.

florida, I'm glad things are going smoothly for you.

Hope, yeah I need to ban myself from Google. Going to force myself to do that.

SweetV, that would be great if you got to find out the gender sooner rather than later!! I'm sorry you're worrying. I totally know how that feels!! Just so you know, my betas did not double in about 62 hours and I'm now 14 weeks. I completely panicked and figured that meant I would mc any day. I went from 802 to 1250 in 62 hours. I was terrified. But here I am at 14 weeks and 1 day. So don't freak yourself out if they don't increase like you want them to. If your doctor isn't concerned, you shouldn't be either. But for peace of mind I hope they skyrocket!!

blue, you are so right when you say it's only the bad things I remember from Google. It can tell me my risks of certain things are minimal and I'm like "but there's a risk and it will happen to me!" LOL!! I'm praying your next scan goes great again and you can relax and know baby is growing.

Oasis, I tested WAY to much when I found out I was pregnant and I wish I hadn't because I freaked myself out. I had those digital ones that give you the weeks estimater as well and I got to 3+ and then a day or two later took another one and it went back to 2-3 and I was sure I was losing the baby. Well here I am at 14 weeks 1 day today and baby has been just fine. You know you're pregnant...you can't trust a test to tell you anything else.

dairy, thank you...that's what I'm going to do. If your # doesn't double perfectly, don't panic. As I told SweetV, mine did not double and they were taken 62 hours apart and I freaked out. But I'm 14 weeks 1 day today and everything has been fine. So your betas won't always be perfect and it doesn't mean anything is wrong.

AFM: STAYING OFF OF GOOGLE!! It's only freaked me out more because all I see is the bad stuff when if I was to really pay attention, my odds of having something bad happen are extremely low even with my blood clotting disorder because it's a minimal one. So I need to relax and trust that if my doctor and blood doctor feel it's not enough of a concern to put me on actual blood thinners, than that's the best choice for my situation. Plus my doctor is going to check to make sure my levels don't increase because I am pregnant and if they do, then we'll go from there. I have to trust that my doctor will do what is the very best for myself and my baby. So I need to stop looking things up. Thank you ladies for your advice and support. I'm a MAJOR worry wart, if you haven't figured that out by now!! LOL!!

 

[Hope39]

Thanks hunni, I'm in limbo really no symptoms but tests aren't getting lighter ATM, will test again this aft, I hate not knowing its so hard isn't it! Xx

Do we have another poas addict joining parl

I don't know how you ladies do it, i find being pregnant torcherous enough as it is without the added stress

My motto use to be that poas wasnt going to prevent me from having a mc so what was the point in stressing myself out over lines

Well i have had my scan and happy to report little one was doing just fine, no idea where the bleed was coming from so all good here

 

[3chords]

Hi all,

Is it ok for me to join? I feel like I am going crazy and not many people I can talk to.

I had one early loss in September 2013, to me a chemical because it happened just before 6 weeks and I never even had an ultrasound. Then last July we had a MMC diagnosed at just over 10 weeks. That was devastating because we saw a heartbeat at 7 weeks. My symptoms had gone but I was trying to convince myself that it happens to some women as they approach the end of the first tri. They think the baby died sometime around 8-8.5 weeks.

Today I am just 5w5d. I have better beta numbers than I've ever had. And this embryo (or embryos?) are PGS normal - we had their chromosomes sequenced. 85% of miscarriages are for chromosomal issues so I hope and pray that this time we have a sticky.

 

[floridamomma]

Welcome 3chords. Having normal genetics helps a whole lot. Have you had any testing done? Good luck and hoping this us your rainbow baby.

 

[blueblue]

sweet - hope the betas are going up. I also get stressed re: hospital.

Tasha - hope everything is ok with your LO

Hope - great news about your scan

3Chords - welcome, glad your betas are good, fingers crossed for a sticky this time

 

[floridamomma]

Mrs R don't say that �� lol. I'll feel like I'm not worried enough lol
Ob said I'm weaning off progesterone and steroids between 12-14 weeks. And she doesn't think I need lovenox after 12 weeks because I take baby aspirin. That's never done anything for me. She also said any benefits the lovenox will have will diminish by week 12. She said it's hard to tell what's necessary and what isn't due to all the meds Im taking.she also talked to my dh about fine thing that's been bugging him. He's white and I'm black. He's afraid the differences in our genetic make up don't match. My ob said it's Sort of like my body thinks the DNA is so different it's almost thinking it's a parasite or something. I would need immuglobin therapy if that's the case. But she doesn't believe it is. Way to make a girl feel confident. I don't need anything to start googling lol

 

[floridamomma]

Hope glad the lo is doing wellxx