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vikki
Age: 38
Country: AU
Province/region: Australian capital territory
City: Canberra
Partner: Alan
Children: Yes, 6
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Due date: 09 0 ,0000
Occupation: Homeschooler
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PhotobucketWell, were to start! Photobucket

I have 6 children. Katherine 19, Heather 16, Michael 8, David 7, Declan 5, Jasmine 3. I have also lost 12 babies. One of them was Declan's twin. So I guess you could say, I've seen alittle bit. But we're still here and we have a happy family

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PhotobucketMy hubby is a Barrister ( In America they are called Attorneys but here only Barristers do court work, Solicitors do the preliminary "stuff"). He is the best Father that anyone could ask for. He takes such good care of all of us and gives so much to the children. He's always playing with them, reading them stories ( with all the voices) and talking to them all the time, telling them all sorts of things. I truely think that the children are his best freinds!

He also takes such good care of me. I feel truely spoiled! He's very domesticated! Every night before I fall asleep he whispers "I'm so glad I found you" I have heard that every night of our marriage. I'm soooooo lucky, God has been good to me.

I've done a sqillian different things, like running an Acting school, an online buisness, Modeling, I've been in hospitality, stockbroking and realestate but I'm now happily just homeschooling my little people( still with my online buisness). Much fun I have to say! :-)

I'd love to hear from anyone that cares to "chat" so do stop by my page.

PhotobucketThe Story so far

( strap on your seat belts, it's a long ride! :-))

I have had 12 miscarriages and 6 healthy children. The first miscarriage was 18 yeas ago and I still remember that vividly. Kyle was 17 1/2 wks. I never found out what happened to him. I lost ALOT of blood, my vains collapsed and they had to revive me. I'm lucky to be here. The only reason I survived, I'm sure, is that my daughter was in the hall at the time of when I "died" and she suddenly burst out screaming "Mummy don't go!" At that I sat bolt upright! Took the nurses and the Doctors quite by surprise!Photobucket Well anyway, then I had 3 healthy children. Then came Mary, who I lost at 16 1/2wks. She was lost to Toxoplasimia. There was nothing that could be done to save her.Photobucket I lost 2 more after her. Then I fell pregnant with twins! One of them didn't make it. Lost Jo at 13wks. PhotobucketWe were very afraid for little Declan and I had to have alot of rest. During that pregnancy, we had the devistating fires in Jan 2003. We had to evacuate our home and we didn't know for a couple of day's whether our house was still standing. Here I am, supposed to be taking it easy and I was driving out of town to our in-laws and had gone into very early labour. I used my WHOLE ventelin and that calmed the contractions down! So Declan was able to keep from being born untill ONLY 3weeks early!Photobucket QUITE the accomplishment! We then lost 2 more little ones. Never having a reason for them.Photobucket The first ultrasounds would show healthy babies but then things would go wrong and I'd loose them. Then we had little Jasmine, Photobucketperfect and healthy, well mostly, she had silent reflux but that was treatable, so she's good now.:-) In 2006 I had an ectopic pregnancy. This little one got OUT of the tube and had lodged in my abdominal cavity. While I did have pain, I didn't pay much mind to it, as it was high up and I just thought I had eaten some bad chicken! ( along with I have an EXTREEMLY high pain threshold)I didn't even know I was pregnant! The week I found out, I had just finished a film shoot. That was the hardest shoot ever, I had to play a very calm nurse and all the time I was thinking I was dying from food poisoning! Anyway, I went to the Doc' because my stomac suddenly swelled and I was somewhat alarmed. I had taken a Preg' test the night before and was pretty excited but confused as too the swelling, I knew I had been busy but was I that pregnant and hadn't noticed? Well no, I wasn't that far along. Turned out that I had been internally bleeding for probably two weeks and the swelling was from the amount of blood! They had me in surgery within 2 hours of the ultrasound! The Doc' was so amased at how much blood I lost, he took photos! My GP couldn't understand how I hadn't suffered a heart attack from blood loss. But I guess I have more to do on this world of ours. I became pregnant again and all seemed to be ok untill 13wks.Photobucket I lost the baby at home and then hemeraged and collapsed at home. My daughter had to ring for the ambulance ( my Hubby had gone to the shop and didn't know what happened untill he walked in to find Heather with the phone!) The Ambulance guys were great, they stabalised me enought to get me to hospital but once getting there the placenta started to tear the uterine wall and I started to hemerage angain. They had me in emergancy surgury so fast, I barely remember much of what happened. PhotobucketSince then I have lost another 3.Photobucket The thing is, I'm healthy, everything seems to work properly, so there wasn't any obvious things that these loses could be attributed with. It has only been the last loss that we have FINALLY found out what is Wrong. Along with having a low progesterone, I have Thrombophilia. You can have this to varying degrees from 40-80 which is nothing to worry about to Mmmm interesting. I came back with a level of 160, showing that this is why I have been loosing my babies. This is a clotting disorder. Clots attack the placenta and blood flow can not get through, so the baby has nothing to survive on. THERE IS A REMEDY!!!!!!!!!Photobucket All I need is 20mg of CLEXANE per day ( in needle form, ahhhhhh) for the duration of a pregnancy untill 37wks. And for the progesterone, I have pessories for at least the first trimester. SO I have a script for Clexane ready and a bottle of Natural Progesterone in the fridge waiting for the IF/WHEN we fall again. My Doc' thinks its a WHEN as we have never had a problem with our fertility. I am very greatfull that my Ob' was human enough to say " I DON'T KNOW WHY this is happening to you, BUT there is a new Doctor in town that has experience with reacuring misscarriage so maybe she can help!" Well help she HAS.Photobucket I first saw her on March the 6th and here we are a month and a half later, with ANSWERS.Photobucket I thank God every day.

So that's it I guess.Photobucket

We'll see what God has for us. Hopefully more little people :-)Photobucket

Have a great day and keep well. I wish you all the best from Down Under!Photobucket

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This is memory for my 12 Angels that are waiting for me.

angel prayerKyle 13.2.90Photobucket Mary 19.9.01 Photobucket Trinity 6.1.02Photobucket Casey 15.5.02 Photobucket Jo 15.3.03Photobucket Micah 22.12.03(Declan's twin )

PhotobucketAngel 14.4.04Photobucket Halo 14.9.06angel prayerPeter 25.12.06angel prayerDemetrius 6.6.07 Photobucket Angel II 15.1.08

PhotobucketBarbara 17.2.08

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Work from HOME

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If your interested in working from home with a product that is not only BRILLIANT for the whole family but for those of us TTC AND PREGNANT AND LACTATING, I may have the answer for you. Do as much or as little as you like, no pressure, YUMMY product Full of Antioxidents and Folic Acid. Come and visit my web page @ www.mymonavie.com/vikkifreckelton

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I can help you build your own online buisness no matter where you are AND it helps the conservation of the Brazillian forrest!. I'm in Australia, you could be in the States or Canada or Scotland just to name a few. There are contact details on my site if you have questions.


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**MOLAR**SURVIVOR!! - Tuesday, 15 April
hi Vikki, how have you been doing? I am still waiting to get to zero. I am at 3o right now and get my next results on the 16th. I am really hopeing that after waiting 3 1/2 months of waiting to hit zero this will finally be the day. How is the ttc going with you?


lv2bamommy - Tuesday, 15 April
It's so easy to get frustrated. There are days when I just want to give up and say it just wasn't meant to be. But then I spend time w/ my nieces & i know in my heart that I was meant to be a mommy. It's what I've wanted since I can remember. Keep your chin up! Sending good thought s your way!!


mommyrock - Tuesday, 15 April
Hi Vikki, I went to my OB on Thursday and she sent me to someone that does internal medicine. She (IM) wanted me off every supplement including the MonaVie and progesterone due to hidden ingredients yet take a prescription drug for migraines. Then I went to see a cardiologist to wear a 24 hour halter monitor. I told my husband I don't feel comfortable getting off everything especially the MonaVie and Progesterone, so I haven't. He was like you should have taken a bottle of MV to her and let her try it for a week. Anyway, I was talking to a friend of mine who is very much into alternative medicine and she has the exact same things going on as I do and she said it is hormonal. It makes complete sense, the most sense of everything else. I'm going to call my chiropractor and tell him what my friend said to see if we can find out about the hormones. I will let you know what he says.


lv2bamommy - Monday, 14 April
Hey Vikki!! my dear AF showed up on Saturday, so we will try again next month! I live in Washington State. It's so cold up here for this time of year. It's been a long winter. I have to get to work, but, I will talk to ya more later!!! ~baby Dust~


spencerbaby1 - Sunday, 13 April
wow 9 cats? yea i live in canada and they don't enforce the cat limits. but maybe if you are moving in they might. not sure


lv2bamommy - Friday, 11 April
I know what you mean about the needle! It kinda goes along with the WHite coat phobia thing!!! Especially having to give it to yourself. I hope this works out for you. I took a HPT yesterday, BFN! So now I'm waiting for AF. I think I will go in after she leaves. Did you have this problem throughout your six children? Or is this something that just started happening? I'm thinking good thoughts for you, and spreading lots of baby dust your way!!!!


missy08509 - Thursday, 10 April
Thanks for the info on my question


lv2bamommy - Thursday, 10 April
I can't tell you how grateful I am to have found this web site. Just knowing that I am not alone helps sooo much. My freinds and family have all been so supportive but, don't really know what we are going through. I look forward to taking this journey with so many wonderful poeple :-)


lv2bamommy - Thursday, 10 April
Bless your heart!! Thank you so much for sharing with me. I will definetly talk to this Dr about both. I have to admit, I have a bad case of "white coat phobia" (Afraid of Dr.'s) I'm extremly nervous. Please keep me updated. ~Baby Dust~


lv2bamommy - Wednesday, 9 April
I'm so sorry for your loss. The last one is always just as devistating as the first one. I would love to talk to you more. I am going to see a new Dr. & I wanted to try to get as much info as possible before I go. A few years ago my Dr ran a bunch of test and everything came back negative, wich is good, but we still don't know what is going on. I don't think he tested my progesterone levels at the time though. Love to talk to ya soon!! Thank You!!!!!


mommyrock - Wednesday, 9 April
I called the alt dr b/c of my headache and I felt like I was choking and there was popcorn popping in my chest. He took me off of the liver support tonic for a couple of days and then he said he would restart me on it at the lowest dosage. He thinks that my body was so toxic (I have food allergies I just found out about and any nutritionist would fall over looking at my diet, it was bad) that the tonic jump started my liver and it started detoxing on its own. He said that the toxins in my blood that are trying to get out of my body won't go to the baby but regardless, he doesn't want my body to start detoxing itself. He wants to wait until after I finish breastfeeding to do the detox. I am hoping with the MonaVie that I won't have to detox. I am sleeping so much better too.
Oh I do hope everything goes well for you with the progesterone in being able to keep the baby when you get pregnant. When will you guys know when you are pregnant? Please keep me updated.


mommyrock - Tuesday, 8 April
Vikki, I drink MonaVie too and I love it, my body does too. I'm going to start selling it May 2nd because I absolutely believe in the product. My Alt Dr. tested it with my body and was amazed that I needed it. He said he doesn't believe in things like it so he was surprised.

To your question. I am on a very low dose of natural progesterone. I was prescribed it after a threatened miscarriage (baby is still with us) a few weeks ago. My liver is not functioning properly and so the alternative doc is treating me for that while my ob is treating me for the pregnancy. I have an appointment with my ob in a few weeks and so I am going to share everything with her and have her talk to the other doctor I am seeing. My main concern is keeping this baby. I just started a liver tonic that is supposed to help my liver but I feel terrible today. I'm getting ready to call to see what is going on. I don't want to detox because that would kill the baby.


*kate* - Tuesday, 8 April
hey and thanks for the info! we arent trying yet but we want to start in bout 5 months or so! and would love a lil girl just want to find out as much as i can about conciving a girl so we can have a better chance! are you ttc?? speak soon
kate


sunny3 - Monday, 7 April
well you can buy the carseat in a travel system which is a stroller/carseat. and then you can just buy a base and the carseat clicks in


katnwes - Sunday, 6 April
Hi Vikki! Thanks for checking in on me! Everything is going great... I started a new job a few weeks ago, and have been too exhausted at the end of the day to log on to the computer, so I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. We have an US scheduled for April 22nd, so we get to find out the sex for sure in a couple weeks! We were told we're having a boy at 12 weeks, but not to bet the bank on that since it was so early. We'll see! One of my husband's friends told him that his wife will do a free 3D U/S for us when we get to 26 weeks, so that was some exciting news too! I can't wait for that!
How is everything going with you? I read about your latest diagnosis with the Thrombophilia... It sounds like that answers some questions about your m/c's. Maybe not the best news, but now that you know, you also know how to treat it, which is wonderful! Do you have any plans to TTC with this new info?
I hope you're doing well. Let me know how things go! I'll be keeping you in my thoughts.


One.Day.Late - Thursday, 3 April
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on a beautiful family and i dont at all take ur comment on my poll the wrong way. my friend actaulyl said the same thing she felt HORRIBLE when she started working again, she missesd her daughter so much that it was depressing her throughout the day unfortunalty she has to work they need the second income. thanks so much for ur opinion it really did help!

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bigbellyjess - Thursday, 3 April
Vickie, why don't you have a diaper party!!!!! It is almost like a baby shower but people don't look down on you because it's you 2nd third or even 6th baby shower because it is a diaper party. I know people who have done it and they bring like two packages diapers!!!!!! sometimes people bring an additional gift as well.


minkymoo78 - Tuesday, 1 Apr
Thanks for your message. I am letting the tears flow. Each day gets easier and I feel quite positive that I will conceive again in the near future


ja312sta - Wednesday, 26 Mar
Hey Thanks for teh advice it was very helpful. I actually had a designer come over yesterday and she can do 100% for $500 which is our budget!!! I am so excited!!! Thanks again you advice was so helpful.


lizzie287 - Wednesday, 26 Mar
Thanks very much for the info! I kinda thought that socks would be a good idea, just wasn't positive. Thanks a lot :)


mlmmdjm - Tuesday, 25 Mar
Thank you I feel like that picture fits. I had the D&C yesterday and to be honest I'm not sure how I feel. I hadn't cried all weekend and thought my faith and hubby had helped me to cope faster and easier. That all came to an end when I asked for one more scan. I wasn't expecting a different outcome, my heart just needed to be 110%sure. Seeing my little bump again was probably the wrong choice. It brought me right back to Wednesday. I've decided to just let myself feel what I feel, nothing more nothing less. Thank you for your support, it's sometimes a stranger's words that make more sense than anything else.


frogmom - Sunday, 23 Mar
Hi Vicki
thanks for your words of encouragement! You have had an amazing journey as a mother and with your pregnancies.
take care
pam




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