MISCARRIAGE

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Hi Robyn,

I have been on a very similar journey to you. I also was diagnosed with PCOS and had lots of trouble conceiving. Was placed on clomid to make me ovulate.

Well I conceived on the first month of taking clomid. Was extremely sick with morning sickness and at 12 weeks was sent off for an ultrasound. Being my first baby I didn’t know what to look for. Saw things and kept asking "is that my baby?" with getting no response. She excused herself and went to get a doctor. He came and looked and sat down to tell us how sorry he was but that our baby had died several weeks earlier but my body was not expelling the baby and I would need a D & C. I was devastated! They let my husband and I grieve in an office till I went back to the ward. They were amazing.

The name of 'missed abortion' was given. I hated that. I would never abort and this was a death so it was not what I was expecting. Telling people was hard.

The following year I conceived again and again had a 'missed abortion' discovered earlier now due to my history.

The third year of our marriage I conceived again and could not believe when it happened again! Feeling like a total failure was an understatement. I had an extremely supportive family and friends which God put in my life. But it was hard going.

In 1993 I conceived again. Scared we watched every sign like hawks. Like all the other pregnancies I was extremely sick. 6 week ultrasound was good!

12 week ultrasound was great. 20 week ultrasound was amazing ( after being admitted for bleeding and early labour!) 30 week ultrasound was mindblowing and 35 week ultrasound showed us my little girl born 2 weeks later. God was good.

In 1996 through clomid I had a son. Not without its problems but he arrived (Pre eclampsia).

My family was complete!

THEN....... When my son was 1 I was put on an experimental drug to treat PCOS. It helped immensely. They told me that one of the side effects was increased fertility. Having never had to worry about that we went on with life. In 2001 my second son was born after being conceived naturally. Now my family was complete.

Every Christmas we put 3 extra family decorations on our tree to remember our precious babies. They are part of our family even though they are in heaven with God. They now would be 16, 15 & 14. Wow.

I am going to buy myself a box. I know it was a long time ago but it still seems like yesterday. My love for them has not passed like the years and I look forward to seeing them when the time comes.

Visitor - Ann