Hi ladies, I'd love to join too. I've been a member of some other ttcal groups but most of them are pregnant again or else their losses aren't as fresh and I keep miscarrying so feel like I need a new group.
My second DD turns two in 2 weeks and we've been ntnp basically since she was born. I have 17 months between my first two and I wanted a similar gap again, if not smaller. But my body has had other plans. My period didn't return til 13 months pp, then it only took me 3 cycles to conceive and my due date would have been just a week after DD2s birthday.
But at 10+3 I discovered the baby had stopped growing around 7+4 and I miscarried naturally that night. I went on to get pregnant again the next month and had a chemical just days before Chistmas, then in January thought I had another chemical but 3 weeks later discovered I was still pregnant. At 10+2 I realised I hadn't had any symptoms for about a week and to a pregnancy test - negative. 2 days later I had a scan and bloodwork and the bloodwork verified 0 hcg and scan showed an empty uterus, so somehow my body had reabsorbed the baby as I hadn't had any bleeding since I had gotten strong positives 4 weeks before (though I had 2 days of light spotting)
I was on a break for a couple months trying to look into an underlying cause, but despite not trying I found myself pregnant right away, had another weird bleeding/spotting episode but kept getting positives all throughout. I had 3 betas that didn't change, but still felt hopeful that either there was a lab error or the baby was getting off to a slow start as I had a really good gut feeling. At what should have been close to 7 weeks (Monday) I had an abdominal ultrasound and they couldn't find a baby but there were promising signs I was just too early to be seen abominably. But then on Wednesday I went to see a different GP to get a blood test through another lab since I had started spotting brown and my hcg came back at just 34
I'm still just spotting and I'm not sure if I'll bleed properly or not since this is pretty much what happened last time too, I think last time I just carried on thinking I was pregnant for anther 3 weeks when I wasn't.
Anyway, we will be going back to NTNP. Preliminary testing hasn't revealed any issues but I haven't been tested for what I consider to be the most likely suspects in my case, and can't afford to/don't have access to the tests at this time. I'm focusing on changing my diet (I've gone gluten free and mostly grain free except rice and quinoa, and I've reduced dairy and nearly cut out added sugar, as well as consuming bone broths and fermented foods to promote gut health) and I've also decided to start on baby aspirin in case of a clotting disorder being the culprit.
Oh and I've switched my prenatal to one that contains food based folate instead of synthetic folic acid and plan to take L-methylfolate and use progesterone cream next time I am pregnant as an MTHFR mutation being the culprit is a big likelihood since about 40% of the population is affected by it and can't convert folic acid to the usable form.
So I guess right now my focus is on my health so I'm in a better place to sustain a pregnancy rather than getting pregnant again asap.
everyone!
