baby3: Here's my story, due in jan, but born feb 2.02.02....

I like the way the last poster did everything on a date line so here i go, i will try to make this concise and to the point in most parts:

September 1996
My 1st born, daughter madisyn is born just about 1 year after my marraige, i had no fertility problems , easy conception, easy pregnancy, kind of hard labor, but she is healthy and beautiful.

October 1998
I become pregnant again, easily for the 2nd time, and i am very happy, i find out i am having another girl, good thing i saved all the baby clothes from my daughter. Unfortunately i also find out the day of my amnio, right after my husband says, oh no another girl, another wedding to pay for, and we laugh, that this baby girl has something severely wrong with her and she probably isn't going to make it to term.

February 4, 1999
Today i almost died, literally, after having a D&C. Lets just say the dr screwed up big time, i almost bled to death, and had 2 transfusions and had to stay overnite in the hospital. Not good. All i can think about when i get out the next day is when i can try to get pregnant again, this loss is has caused my heart to become so heavy with grief and loss.

October 1999
I start to see an RE at my HMO due to the fact that i am not becoming pregnant again. He tells me at our 1st meeting, that i am getting old and my eggs are probably old, and my ovaries aren;t functioning like they should. So after 6 months of clomid, i get an hsg test done, and lo and behold , major scarring of my uterus is discovered. I have surgery scheduled to try to correct it somehow in April of 2000.

May 2000
My RE suggests we know start iui's with injectable drugs, and then after 3 or 4 of those , if success is not achieved, then we should try IVF as our best bet. He said the surgery went well on trying to fix the scarring, but it has left my uterus with a diminished lining of only about 6mm, hardly close to whats needed to obtain a normal pregnancy,

December 2000
I try my 1st ivf, it fails, but there is some hope, i did have a postive beta at 1st which implies i did have implantation. I asked my re if i should try it again, she says yes.

January 2001
Over the web i have found enormous information on my condition called ashermans syndrome and met an online friend who invites me to join her group of other women from around the world who also have the same condition. Through a special woman i meet, she tells me of her excellent RE who she used to become pregnant. I call him.

P.S. I forgot to mention that in these last few months of 2000, several doctors tell me to adopt or use a surrogate because it is highly doubtful i will ever conceive again on my own, or carry a pregnancy to term if i do become pregnant.

April 2001
I start ivf in late april with my new RE. My embryos are the best possible, comparable to a woman who is much younger than me my RE says. My lining is still only 6mm, so he says if i don;t get pregnant this time, its not due to age or eggs.

May 2001
I become pregnant with very high betas. 2 embryos implanted but one did not make it, so at 3 months along, i have a major bleeding episode that scares me to death., but the one embryo is still ok. My pregnancy progresses along ok, with morning sickness of course.

February 2002
I am due on january 29, but on february 1st, we go in for a late birth appt, and find out my baby is breach, labor and delivery is full, so they can't try to turn him yet, my doctor schedules me to come back the next day.

February 2, 2002
My little boy, Max is born by c section at 6:32 pm, he couldn;t be turned, he was standing straight up. This is actually a blessing, as my uterus had placenta stuck all over it, and it had literally be picked off in pieces , and i am lucky i didn;t hemmorhage. The doctors tell me NOT to get pregnant again, it could result in hemmorhage, and injury to me.

So there is my story, i always wanted 3 babies, but my 2nd one is up in heaven looking down at me, and i was able to give all those little girl baby clothes to many friends who had girls. It is very sad for me still, and i am promising myself to send off my ribbon of remembrance to inciid this week, in her memory.
Thanks everyone for this great board and all the great support i have received on IVF WAITING ROOM, BETAS, DUE IN JANUARY , AND DUE IN FEBRUARY BOARDS...

judy (baby3)

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