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Coming together

Posted by joyfulintent , 14 January 2010 · 526 views

Things are much, much better. My body has healed a lot. In fact I have begun to POAS again, to watch the HCG leave my system and, surprisingly, it has done so quite quickly. Tuesday there was a faint positive, today almost nothing. Odd to think that it fades so quickly when it came in so strongly when K was the size of a poppy seed. The bleeding has...

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Hour by hour, day by day

Posted by joyfulintent , 08 January 2010 · 1052 views

The pain does start to ease. Thank God as I'm not sure it's possible to stay sane for long in the place I was Monday/Tuesday. Thank you all for your wonderful support and comments. I've never been more grateful for this site and the fantastic community here. The fresh hell last night was that my milk came in. I should probably be able to s...

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It's over

Posted by joyfulintent , 06 January 2010 · 1071 views

Well, we did our best but it wasn't to be for us. Katherine Lillian was born and died on 4 Jan 2010 at 24w5d. I'm home now and we're starting to come to terms with all manner of pain, physical and emotional. We will try again but this battle is so hard.

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Hospitals

Posted by joyfulintent , in bedrest 01 January 2010 · 842 views

ivf, icsi, 24w, pprom

So, I'm not sure I mentioned before my fear of hospitals. Odd because at school I was very much on track for medicine but then itchy feet took me to Britain for university and somehow I ended up doing a degree in history and politics before getting into business after graduation. But I'd always thought of the path I didn't take and whether m...

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Christmas drama

Posted by joyfulintent , 29 December 2009 · 772 views

We've been so lucky so far. Success on our first IVF after a year of trying and a miscarriage in 2008. The first trimester I had a lot of scary clots due to a subchorionic hematoma but it cleared up at 12w and since then things have been plain sailing. Well, until Dec 23rd. I had a bit of mucus that had during the 22nd become tinged with blood so we...

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