Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Quick history

As the title says, my husband and I have been trying to conceive our second child for a little over two years with no success. For you to understand my story I have to go back a few years to when we first started trying for our first child. It was 1998 and I was turning 21 that summer. I had just started taking the birth control pill at the urging of my family who thought that having a child that early in our relationship would be a mistake. The pill made me sick and I had to stop after one cycle but my period never came back on its own after that. Fast forward a few months after our August wedding and our doctor prescribed Clomid to induce ovulation, it worked and I became pregnant only to miscarry at six weeks. Then everything went to hell, I started bleeding and never stopped. Doctors tried everything from the Depo shot to pills given to women during menopause, nothing worked. In 2004 I was fed up with my doctor's attitude toward my bleeding problem and decided to look for a new one, I then found my current family doctor who referred me to the most wonderful and competent OBGYN I had ever met. She had a suspicion that my problem was not only in my uterus and she was right, after tests and meeting with a hematologist, I was diagnosed with Von Willebran'd disease, a bleeding disorder. A few months later, she retired and referred me to her colleague who is equally as wonderful and competent as she was. By then I had been on birth control pills for six years straight. It was discovered that I had a uterine fibroid that was pressing on a blood vessel and it needed to be removed. I was taken off birth control, had surgery and a month later I was pregnant with my now three year old son. You would think that it would be easy to get pregnant now... Wrong!

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