 mystarI'm Sarah.
In 2001 when I was 21, I lost my mother to lung cancer & I got married to Mike, the love of my life. We've been together since 1999.
In that time we've been trying for a baby, and in that time I've had one first trimester miscarriage, been diagnosed with PCOS and then lost a twin pregnancy at 20 weeks gestation due to going into premature labor.
On March 21, 2005 I was lucky enough to give birth to a full term, healthy baby girl. We named her Brianna Aeryn and she is my star.
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Sunday, May 30, 2004
Well, the RE appointment did go well.
Dr. D was impressed with the weight I'd lost so far. He said that it would be good for me to lose about another 20-30 pounds, but that I couldn't let my weight loss get too "expensive". Basically what he meant was that I need to prioritize and decide if it's more important for me to get pregnant soon or to lose the weight soon. I know I'd like to lose it before I get pregnant, because then it would be (hopefully) easier to lose after a baby. But, the baby is the important part, and I think come August, we'll be ready to try no matter if I've lost any more weight from where I'm at now or not. For those of you keeping track, I'm at 195 and he'd like to see me around the 160's.
He did an ultrasound and thoroughly checked out my uterus. It looked good, fully sized and no abnormalities as far as shape or anything. (That was a worry, as my mom had an odd shaped uterus that made it hard for her to hang onto pregnancies). He said my lining was good and right on target for where I am in my cycle.
He measured my cervix and said that it was nice and long, so that was good. But he said just because it's long doesn't mean it's strong. We'll discuss that more in depth when I'm closer to pregnancy or actually pregnant.
He also checked out my ovaries and I had a lovely follicle in the left ovary that looked as though I'd ovulate any day. He asked if we were sure we wanted to wait until August, and maybe we wanted to try sooner... like this weekend :p
So, for now we're still waiting until August (for our peace of mind and to get all the crap done around the house that we need to) to try again. When we're ready he wants me to call him and possible go for a progesterone test to see if I am indeed ovulating. And we'll work from there, depending on wether my cycles behave themselves or not. In the mean time I'll see if I can lose any more weight.
He made it clear that he thought that since I was getting close to 30 (err, what! I'll only be 25 this year) that we don't want to wait too long, but not to make it harder on ourselves, what with anniversaries of due dates and birth/loss dates. That's another reason to wait till August. It was a year ago this week that I got a positive HPT, that I was offically pregnant with the twins, so I really wanted to avoid getting pregnant around the same time this year.
He also said that the spotting mid-cycle was nothing to worry about, that it might even be an irritated spot on my cervix, but it was nothing concerning.
But it went really well, he's a great doctor and I'm glad this appointment is overwith. So now we get ready to wait some more, but I'm doing it much more easily than before. I'm ready, and soon the time will be right :)
Of course I always think of questions to ask him after the appointment is over. So next time I call/see him I have to remember to ask whom I need to call if I go get pregnant, him or the doc I saw for my annual, or the high risk docs (they're all in the same office). And what will be done about my cervix, because he said himself, just because it's long enough doesn't mean it's strong. I hope they'll be giving me extra monitoring. But we're still not trying yet, so I'll have to remember to ask those questions (for my peace of mind) beore we do.
Posted at 12:18 am by mystar
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