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28-1-2011 - My Third Pregnancy

My mood while writing this blog:
Ecstatic

Update: March 2010
We are now back trying to conceive again. My cycle took three cycles after surgery to normalise and I use Fertility Friend.com to chart my cycles. And although I have learned a lot from this the obsessing that happens might be keeping me from catching my egg. If I don't conceive by June I will begin some fertility tests.

Update: July 2010
All blood tests revealed excellent ovulation and my hubby has "super sperm". So I am now scheduled to have another procedure at the end of this month called "Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy Dye Studies and Division of pelvic adhesions". I have had quite pronounced symptoms of pain since my ectopic surgery 7 months ago and they want to have a look at what is going on in the pelvic cavity with scar tissue and the condition of the remaining fallopian tube. This will tell us if IVF is necessary or not. Wish us luck. I have been very down lately with month after month of failing to conceive and am ready for the next part of this difficult journey.

**UPDATE** August 19th 2010
We did it! After 21 months of TTC and charting and just one week before my scheduled Lap and Dye surgery and adhesions surgery we got another BFP!!! I had given up trying. I postponed my surgery as I went on holiday and this cycle we conceived. I had three days of insomnia, thirst and hot flushes and thought something was up so scrambled around for a pregnancy test at 2am in the bathroom cupboard and wouldn't you know it got a BFP!!!!! Hubby was away and I waited till he got home to tell him. I started getting faint positive HPT's at 10 dpo and they got darker very quick. Fingers crossed it sticks this time and has settled in the right place. We are truly blessed. Having my first ultrasound on September the 9th and should be 6 and a half week then. Can't wait!

Baby two at 13 weeks.
Oh what a dear little love! I just can't believe it!!! Looks perfect in every way to me. Heart rate was 158bpm. Dates have moved forward by 4 days. Kicking and jumping and sucking thumb. So much going on for just 13 short weeks. Nuchal translucency and blood work put me in the high risk category for Down's Syndrome. By age alone I am 1:245 and then I came back at 1:230. Anything higher than 1:300 is high risk. But I am not sure about having an amniocentisis or not.

14 weeks

Well at 14 weeks I had my OGTT, early I know, but I had GD last time so they are checking me early. At the end of the test I started bleeding and spent the day in hospital. Fortunately bubba was still fine on an ultrasound but they haven't found a cause. Had to have my Rhogam injection and told to rest. I am petrified. Bleeding slowed down and stopped at 3 days but I had some right ovarian aching type pain and blood tinged egg white mucous so I have no idea what that is about. Still have nausea and vomiting and my stomach has popped overnight. Weight gain so far has been 1.2kg (2.6 pounds) and I am nearly 15 weeks. My baby is now the size of a navel orange!

21 weeks

Well I have finally passed the half way point. Phew! It's been a long time coming. We had a amnio at 17 weeks after some stressful incidences involving bleeding, a mix up of my afp results which came back higher than what they first reported to me, and pressure from a doctor at my hospital to have it. I will never have one again regardless. It is just not worth wanting to know earlier and I probably could not have made any decision other than to keep the baby regardless of the results so just seemed so pervasive, painful and unnecessary. They could not get the needle in. The sac kept 'tenting' away from the needle. They also had very little margin to enter as my placenta was wrapped pretty much round the front of my abdomen and baby was very close to the needle. All in all very stressful.

Thankfully, since all of that stress and anxiety, it has been smooth sailing since. The 19-20 week ultrasound showed a normal healthy active baby.

I don't yet have GD and blood pressure has been lovely and normal. Bubba is very active now. I started to feel little flutters at 18 weeks. But now there is lots of kicking and turning going on. This pregnancy has been both similar and different to my first. Similar weight gain and nausea, yet other symptoms are different. With my first I had upper right pain near my ribs from 13 weeks. This has not happened again this time. My spine has been less forgiving this time with regular back aches and head aches. The pelvis already feels like it's falling apart making a horrendous cracking sound when I roll over in bed and I have so long to go. Last time this started happening much later. Also hormonally I coped much better this time. There were less mood swings than last time where I was confused by my own emotions. I have gained 4kgs (nearly 9 pounds) since getting pregnant. The weight gain will explode now as it did last time. There is something about me and my rapidly growing body in the second trimester! We have picked out one name regardless of the gender. Just have to come up with some middle names now. I think this name will stick. It appeared out of nowhere a little like the name of our first baby which also just came to us.

25 weeks

This baby is a very active little munchkin. have been able to hear the hear rate since about week 23 with my stethiscope. Heart rate is always around about 140bpm. Just started having the upper right quadrant epigastric pain. I developed this at 13 weeks last time and had tested but it didn't involve the gallbladder. It always comes after eating. It is more of an annoyance than anything. It is tender to palpate and goes away after food is digested. To me it feels like the duodenum is inflamed. Other than that energy levels have been great. Very different to last time. I have my OGTT again in 2 weeks. I pray that I don't have gestational diabetes this time. Dont like my chances being overweight and older! Fingers crossed.

27 weeks

I am finally in the third trimester. Yay! And wow - I had another 75 gram glucose tolerance test this morning and by this afternoon I got the results. I DON"T have gestational diabetes with this pregnancy. I just can't believe it! I kept asking the doctor if those were actually my results. (Fasting 5.0, 1hr 10.1 and 2 hr 7.1).

This means I wont be injecting insulin like last time. I wont be monitoring my blood glucose all day. I wont be writing down every carb that enters my mouth. I wont be weighing food portions. I won't be having ultrasounds every two weeks and fetal monitoring every week. It also means I wont be induced prior to 40 weeks but might go up to ten days over if that is what this bub wants to do.

This will be the pregnancy I always wanted but missed out on last time...one that is relatively stress free and natural with minimal medical management. Hopefully labour gets to happen when it happens. What I will do is eat a reasonable low GI diet from now on. I want to try and minimise any unnecessary weight gain as it is so hard to get it off and I am still 15 kgs overweight from my first pregnancy. So I have loads of work to do to eat really well and exercise everyday.

This time, I have gained only 40% of the weight I had last time and it isn't through great diet or exercise. There is no rhyme nor reason for why this has happened. My practitioners have said "Well done you must have made some great lifestyle changes". But the reality is I haven't. So when they say things like this I get quite annoyed as the assumption is always that women have total control over it. But I really didn't. I can't take the credit for not having GD this time! The misconception is that women who get GD are overweight and eat crappy food and are sedentary. But it just isn't always about that! With my first I did everything possible not to have to have insulin but I just had no control over the hormones or the rapid weight gain and it had nothing to do with my diet or exercise it was just unstoppable. In the second trimester I gained one kilo a week. I just ballooned. I actually have many more risk factors for GD this time.

I am 3 years older, I will be 36 at delivery and I was 10 - 15 kgs overweight when i conceived this one.

I just don't know why it has spared me.
What I will say is these pregnancies have just been so different. It is almost like the genetics of each baby are different and this placenta's hormones aren't interfering so much with my own insulin requirements. The only other differences between the two that I can articulate are that I lost a lot of weight prior to my last pregnancy and didn't keep it off for long enough before getting pregnant and this lead to very rapid weight gain in the second trimester (14 kgs last time versus 5kgs this time by 27 weeks). Somehow it might have affected me metabolically?? I just don't know. And I am not convinced that medical science knows yet either. I was also very highly stressed over the whole pregnancy as I was caring for my terminally ill Dad. This time I have none of that stress. He must be looking down over us and looking after us.
The Braxton Hicks have been quite intense already. I can't imagine going overdue. But you never know what the plan is. I just can't wait to meet this little one and yet I still have a long way to go. My stomach is yet to get stretch marks.... touch wood. I think I got my fair share last time. It will double in size in the coming weeks. I started swelling last time in the legs and feet at about 35 weeks and I still have all of that to look forward to. But the prospect of being able to go into labour naturally is incredibly exciting.

36 Weeks

I am having terrible Braxtons that come when I drink water, bend over, walk, I mentioned it to my midwife and she said I might have an irritable uterous. Pelvic pain hasn't been as bad with this pregnancy as my first but I am visiting the chiropractor so that helps. Blood pressure is okay but every now and then it is creeping up to 130/85 so will have to watch that. Sleeping is becoming impossible. I have insomnia most nights and toss and turn to get comfortable. Today I made my husband take a load of stuff to the tip and put the baby seat in the car so serious nesting just occured.

Lisey xxx

3 Comments on My Third Pregnancy

missing*my*2angels - Tuesday, 1 Feb
That is great news!!!! I hope everything continues to go well!!!

rubylove - Friday, 28 Jan
wow wondeerful news Lisey! My SIL was 120 pds and had GD during her pregnancy, so you're definitely right, it's not always people who eat crappy who get it. wishing you a wonderful 3rd trimester :) xoxo

min41 - Friday, 28 Jan
Great news hun, what a blessing. Hugs ***

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