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[wookie130]

Hey, Laully! I wonder why you're stopping the progesterone at 12 weeks...the placenta doesn't start really taking over progesterone production until around 14 weeks, so it would be best if you could stick with them until at least 14 weeks...staying on them until around 16 weeks is the ideal, really.

Insufficient progesterone can be caused by many things. A lot times, it's insufficient estrogen that throws women out of balance, causing a "weak" ovulation, and then insufficient levels of progesterone are achieved. It's a delicate balance! A level of 15 while pregnant is actually a good level, Newly. I realized it dropped slightly, but your levels will actually vary from day to day, and usually our progesterone registers higher in the early morning, for whatever reason. Supplementing is a good idea, of course, and it will hurt NOTHING, and it could actually help a lot!

 

[petitpas]

Hi laullypop! :wave:

Mandy, I know you! Fantastic news that you are so close to holding your baby in your arms. I wish you a beautiful birth (both my sections were magical - I loved them)

Newly, I'd also go for the vag ones as I believe the absorption is better. The ones I was given here in the UK can also be used up the ahem back passage, if you prefer. In order to prevent cervix irritation my consultant advised me to give it a try. After umming and aahing I did. It was great! No mess (the vag ones do melt out into your panties something rotten) and no having to lie down and wait as they just stay in. No spotting or bleeding, either.
I don't know whether I needed them as I never had my progesterone tested; they were given to me as a belt and braces method.

 

[Squig34]

Congratulations Mandy- you'll be holding your rainbow so soon!

Congratulations & good luck Laully.

 

[Hope39]

I'm so excited for you Mandy, this little one has been a long time coming

Do you know what your having?

I loved my c sect experience too, I was just so excited and overwhelmed that I was about to have a baby, i think I kind of went into shock once I was holding him, all very weird to think that the little boy I was holding was mine and he was going to come home with me

It wa also such a relief too, you just be excited too xx

 

[mandy1971]

Thankyou ladies.. I wanted to post in this page for years...I couldn't wait till delivery date ..!!
It's a little boy we are having..it still does t feel real and I don suppose I'll relax till I'm holding him.. Pictures to follow soon.. 2 weeks 4 days till the eviction ��
Much love to you all.. Xxx

 

[Tasha]

Congratulations Mandy so very pleased for you xx

 

[wookie130]

Mandy, I'll echo what the other gals have said about their c-sections...I had two (17 months apart), and I LOVED THEM! A planned c-section can be a very joyful and miraculous experience...I can say with 100% honesty that they were the most joyful moments of my life. To hear those first cries from behind that curtain as the baby emerges is a feeling that cannot be put into words! Good luck, and I'm so thrilled that you'll finally be holding your rainbow!

 

[laullypop]

Thanks ladies!
Wookie- I will mention this to my midwife and dr when i see them next. I honestly don't think it will change anything because it was such a battle to even get this much but all I can do is try. What's odd is that they wouldn't test my progesterone when I asked but prescribed the progesterone twice a day eventually!

 

[petitpas]

Laully, that's quite common. To see whether you have an issue with your progesterone they would have to run several tests and could never be quite sure. It's easier just to prescribe and be done with it

 

[hopeful23456]

congrats Mandy!! I had a c section too, went great!

 

[nessaw]

Congrats mandy and laully. X

 

[floridamomma]

Hi all. Stopping in after a year away. Possible bfp after using Pom last 12 months. Weren't trying and I believe af is due Saturday. I got a faint bfp on a blue dye clear blue. I've never had a false positive so I'm hoping that isn't that the case here. My dh knows because I was utterly shocked. Crossing my fingers that tomorrow and Thursday's test darken up. I don't want to admit it but I'm really hopeful that I am! Congrats to all my lovely bnb friends who have been blessed with beautiful rainbows. I haven't commented but i do check in every one and again.

 

[dairymomma]

Laully-I've always stopped mine around 13-14 weeks due to personal preference (I usually have enough of my prescription left to last me til then and why waste the pills?) but my doctor has said the placenta takes over between 9 and 10 weeks so stopping around 12 weeks is plenty fine. I've never had an issue after stopping it then either but doctor's opinions vary so much as I've found. Also, progesterone isn't harmful to a pregnancy even if you don't need it so if you feel better being on the progesterone longer and your doctor/midwife okay it, then it's totally fine to take it.

AFM-I'm home from my appt with the hematologist. Not too impressed with him actually. He won't give me steroids because I'm apparently at risk for calcium deficiency due to multiple pregnancies?? (This even though I've been on a calcium supplement off/on over the years due to me not eating alot of dairy.) He doesn't think my history of blighted ovums points to anything but bad luck. He's ONLY looking at clotting and nothing else-no autoimmune, no egg quality, no hormone levels, no nothing. He also kept interrupting me and pretty much made me feel a bit silly for waiting to have 10 miscarriages before getting the referral-even though I had NO CAUSE to think I had a clotting issue! He is taking my MTHFR seriously though and is rechecking me for some clotting stuff that either got passed over or needs to be redone but I wish he hadn't been so obnoxious about things.

Anyway the plan is we can start ttc anytime here and once I get a positive test, I have to call my OB for the progesterone prescription, hCG and progesterone level checks, and to schedule an early dating scan to check for viability. I also have to call this doctor for my lovenox and folate prescriptions, and once viability is confirmed, I am on lovenox til 35 weeks when I switch to heparin til delivery. I'm not happy about being on the injections for the entire pregnancy as there was hope I'd only need them in the first tri but if that's what it takes to get to term, then by all means, I'll do it.

 

[newlywedtzh]

Okay ladies. Had a scan today. We have a gestational sac at 5 weeks. Talked to the doc he said it's exactly what he expected to see with my hcg levels but everything I read said there should be a yolk sac? The doc put my risk of mc at this point at 15% no more than the rest of the population which is hopeful. Will get a call with progesterone levels later today. He also wants me to start taking baby aspirin as a precaution even with nursing. The agony of the uncertainty

 

[newlywedtzh]

Hi Florida! Fingers crossed for you! A lot can change in a year!

 

[dairymomma]

Newly-you may not see a yolk sac at 5 weeks. When baby actually implanted, where the baby is, the angle of the ultrasound wand, etc. can all affect what you'll see at this point. My doctor won't even consider scanning me before 6 weeks, preferably closer to 7, at the earliest because of this. He (and I) would rather wait that extra week/week and a half before scanning so we have a definitive answer as to whether or not it's another blighted ovum or a viable pregnancy.

Florida-Congratulations! I must have cross posted and missed your update.If this is another pregnancy, are you going to try something different this time?

 

[floridamomma]

Thanks ladies.
Dairy- no as nothing has ever been found with me and the regimen didn't help. So it looks like I'll be on my own if I get pregnant. The specialist said my only option is ivf or surrogate. The acupuncturist said I should a do a 9 month regimen of herbs and things but this was a surprise. I've retaken tests and I feel like I'm getting only faint or evaps so I have no clue what's happening right now. No line progression. I may call my gyn to get blood hcg tested. Dh isn't no darling right now. He refuses to even try after we planned on ttc in June so if I'm not pregnant not sure what's going to happen with us. So much changes but so much stays the same it seems.

 

[Mitchi]

Great article on miscarriage on BBC breakfast this morning-did anyone see it? New research centre opening in Birmingham (prof Quenby involved).

Fingers crossed for you Florida- maybe get your hcg done to give you some answers. xx

Newly- I couldnt see a yolk sac at 5+5, But I'm now 24 weeks. Stay positive!

 

[newlywedtzh]

Well since I'm a google fiend I found something that made me feel better. I read you should see a ges sac after 1000-1500 hcg and a yolk sac once you reach 7200 hcg. My hcg was 3000 something and progesterone was 20.5.

 

[newlywedtzh]

Mitchi can you direct me to the article ? I'm in the us