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Low Progesterone

I have low progesterone and I just wanted to read some stories about women who have had experienced the same thing and what their outcome was.
I am 8 weeks and have been taking progesterone injections for about two weeks now.

marta

My Last Son: Wasn't Sure He Would Make it...

I was 6 months when I knew things just were not going right. I could not keep things down, not your normal morning sickness. I would eat and drink and a second later it was up again.

My husband called my doctor and wanted me at the hospital… that’s when the terror began. I was there for a week and they did not know what to do. I was lonely my husband was at home with our other two… one was having his first b-day with out me and Christmas, New Year’s too, without their mommy.

I went in pre-term labor at 28 weeks they stopped it, but the doctor came to my room and said he was sending me to another hospital because he didn’t know what to do anymore. I got to the other hospital and I couldn’t understand anything that was going on.

I spend 3 weeks there, until I got to go home… I had to go back to the hospital on my birthday, to have a tpn put in my chest. I spend 2 weeks in the hospital. When I went home and had a home nurse the rest of the time, they warned me, he might only be 3 or 4 pounds and would have problems.

I was scared he would not make it. I lost 30 pounds during my pregnancy and I am not a big woman to begin with. When he was born he weighed 9 pounds and 16 ounces. No one could believe it.

He is now 3 years old now.


Tracy

Shocked...

I can hardly believe our dumb luck! As I had previously posted, my husband and I were waiting for my period this month to have the necessary testing done that may help my specialists determine if scarring on my uterus was preventing me from carrying my pregnancies beyond my first trimester.

Well, I had taken two pregnancy tests...one prior to my period being late and one on the day I should have started. Both negative, disappointed but ready to steer our course for the next phase of our journey to have a child of our own.

A week has past and no period...anxious and annoyed I figured my body was reverting to my irregular cycles again. My husband insisted I take another pregnancy test and maybe after it is negative we give my specialists a call.

To our shock and amazement it was POSITIVE!!! I can not describe the myriad of emotions I am feeling at this moment. We are, of course, hopeful and excited but also waiting to celebrate until I reach my second trimester in September.

We have traveled this road all too often, only to be disappointed and grief stricken. We did it this month the ole' fashion way...without the use of hormones! Not to mention my EDD is my husband's B-day. I hope this all means very good things will come for us. Please keep us in your hearts and minds as we painstakingly wait out these very important next few weeks.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement as always. Good luck to all of you that are waiting it out with me...I continue to say a prayer daily for all of you.


Karen

Undetected Pregnancy

My name is Eula I am 31 years old, and from the very first day that I have suspected that I was pregnant to no avail doctor visit after visit it was confirmed that I am not pregnant. I have taken numerous pregnancy tests and an ultrasound because I just knew I was pregnant. I have one child so I know what pregnancy feels like.

I do not understand what is going on maybe this is a miracle waiting to happen because I still feel the same way but people think that something is wrong with me. I feel so alone and so scared because I don't want to go into labor and never have had any prenatal care; it's considered child neglect. But what can I do when a doctor cannot detect if you are pregnant or not?

In the meantime people keep asking me, “are you pregnant?” Sometimes I say yes and sometimes I say no because other than the kicks that I feel no one will really know until I give birth.

Eula Veasy

My blessed angel

I hope my story serves as an inspiration to someone out there. In July 2006, I found out I was pregnant for the fourth time. I have had two m/c's and one beautiful son. I was 32 and didn't have a second thought about taking my AFP.

About one week later, I received a call from my doctor's office informing me I had a +down syndrome test. I was assured not to worry because my chances were 1 in 750 or something along those lines. My husband and I kept a + attitude. Although, deep down inside I knew what was going to come. I was then sent for a 4d u/s and that doctor suggested an amnio due to my baby having ventricular megally.

My husband wanted to do it just to be 100% sure. The doc even asked for us to do a fish test, which returns the results in 48 hours. My husband and I agreed. The results came back + for trisomy 21. Later, I realized the doc wanted to give me time to abort if the test came back. Devastation and fear swept through most of our family so much that even devout Christians brought up the "A”: word. My husband fell apart. There was fear, anger, resentment, silence and nearly divorce in our home. My in-laws were very supportive. Until then, we only had a civil relationship. I prayed and cried and cried and prayed. I almost wanted to believe that my test was a false + because someone always has a story about it.

I had 5 more months to prepare for my d/s baby... but I didn't. I only prepared for my baby to be born! His day came and I was in tears. Hospital staff thought I was crying out of sadness yet, I cried out of bliss. I loved my baby! Everything was perfect, and then he went to the nicu due to his undetected heart condition. That's when I fell apart. I prayed and cried a lot again. God answered my prayers, he didn't and won't need surgery.

These days, my munchkin is well. He has some intestine issues we’re working through and are praying for the best.

I feel special to have a baby with ds. It's like being apart of a special community. Everyone knows each other... A second family!

With all the pressure to abort your "defected fetus", stop and think about it... You are carrying a special angel from God!

christina