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Close Call

This isn't exactly my story about pregnancy but my mother's.

After having two miscarriages, one where she almost bleed to death, she thought she might be pregnant but feared for the worse, knowing that after having two miscarriaes your odds of having another miscarriage highly increases. She went in for an ultra sound and her doctor found nothing. He suggested an artificial abortion to avoid the spontaneous miscarriage her body would surely have once it realized it wasn't really pregnant. He didn't want to risk having her bleed to death because of her history so they scheduled the appointment for a week later.

My mother was heartbroken because it seemed like the odds of ever having a baby were decreasing and she feared she might never have the family she dreamed of. The next week they arrived for the scheduled abortion broken, but ready to go through with what they knew had to be done. The doctor hesitantly suggested one more ultra sound just to make sure nothing had developed, but warned not to expect anything. My mother half heartedly agreed, not really allowing herself to hope for the best only to be let down again.

Suddenly, much to her surprise, the doctor cried out that there was a heartbeat, that there was a baby! She could hardly believe what she was being told. If the doctor wouldn't have checked again, if they had refused his advice to check just once more, they would have unknowingly gone through with the abortion. By what could only be a miracle she was pregnant with her first child.

Years later she told me this story and I was shocked, almost sick to my stomach to know that I was that baby that was almost aborted. I am now a pre-med student and I hope to go on to be an OB-GYN, and I am truly so thankful just for everyday, to be alive.

For anyone out there trying to get pregnant and struggling know that anything is possible, know that miracles touch our lives everyday.

Sara

glutten free!

Hi, I was not tolerant to glutten, I use to get all blotted everytime I ate pasta, white rice, bread, and other products with glutten. My belly was hurting, and I felt great amount of discomfort. I went to the doctor thinking I had an intestinal problem, but they never did a pregnancy test , they just sent me to get an ultrasound, you figure! I had period symtoms, but not period. The night before my test from ultrasound came back, I was going to the bathroom so many times, I was thinking the room tempature was very cold. But I took a home test, and it came positive. All this time my belly was full, it was not the glutten, but a baby forming inside my belly! I never experienced pregnancy sickness so I felt I was in another planet when I found out it was not glutten... after 2 weeks of knowing my breast went from 34 C to 34 full D. In 2 more days I am going for a dating ultrasound, How come my baby didn't show up in my previous one? Was it to small? you figure...

Isandra

Pregnancy

Well my story is not very different from most of you.

Like all am also desperate to have a baby but alas each month just brings disapointments for us. We do all we can, time it out take leave from work...it's been ayear of trying after my first natural abortion. I was too weak and tense to carry it and it got aborted naturally...

i still feel guilty about it and feel it's God's punishment that i don't conceive now. Every month after the pms, we build new hopes and they shatter at the end of the month. I get very depressed and lose all hopes...this has affected my life very badly.

I just hope God hears and listens to my prayers and helps me.

k

K

Honeymoon suprise

Since I was young I always dreamed of getting married and having kids at a young age.

I graduated high school when I was 17. I met a man named Chris right after my 18th birthday. We moved in together soon after. After living together for almost two years we started talking about marriage. december 3 I decided to tell my mom who i'm very close to that I knew Chris was getting me a ring for Christmas.She was happy.

Well it turned out that Chris gave me the ring that night and we decided to just go for it. We got married 16 days later on December 19th 2003. Back in October I had gone off my birth control knowing that we wanted to try for a baby. My doctor told me that since i had been on the pill for so long that it would take at least 6 months for it to be out of my body. I never thought much about it.Having planned the wedding so fast and with family from all over coming to see us, I hadn't realised i was so stressed.

Well after the wedding was done and over with we could breathe. My best friend my husband and i were at walmart the night of January 9th. My friend bought a pregnacy test as she was late. It had two in it. As a joke i took one as she took hers. She came out and said hers was negative. I told her i was sorry. I never even looked at mine and threw it away.

She asked what mine was and i said i knew it was negative so i didn't look. She grabbed it out of the garbage and said "It's posiative". I went numb in shock. I walked out of the bath oom with her.

My husband was waiting for us. He asked what Amber's was and we said negative. As tears of happiness started to fall i turned to him and said, "but honey wer'e positive". He was soo happy.

We went to the doctor's the nexted week and from the date he was born they said he was a honeymoon baby..(so girls no matter how long the doctors say it will take, they can't garantee it.I was off the pill for less then 3 months and i got pregnant)

K

not being a mum-to-be when i was a mum-to-be!!

I did numerous pregnancy tests when I thought I was pregnant first time round, my periods were irregular too which didnt help!!. However.. I tested lots of times and eventually got a postive result when I was 16 weeks(four months!!).. Imagine my shock at that.. just goes to show.. a negative result doesn't always mean not pregnant!!

lulu