What Do You Want to Talk About? and My Update.

Well, I'm back in touch with the electronic world! WOO HOO!

I've had a lot of great comments on the last few posts, so I hope we can get it rolling again. I'm happy to see us supporting each other and sharing our ideas and opinions.

I'm not really sure what to post about because you guys haven't told me what topics are of interest to you, so I'll just start by giving an update about what's been going on with me.

In the middle of all of the craziness of moving, I found out I was pregnant, and 2 days later confirmed that I was miscarrying again. The hard thing for me was that I just thought it was one of those really long cycle months, and we weren't even "trying", so I didn't expect to pregnant. I still get upset that I didn't find out sooner so I could have gotten help sooner! Maybe I could have made a difference and kept this one!

When my period still hadn't come on the last day I thought possible, I took a test, still expecting a negative. When I saw it was positive, I couldn't believe it, but knew I had to get to my Dr. right away. He told me I needed to get progesterone as soon as I got pregnant again, so I went in thinking they would write me a prescription and I'd be on my way. Unfortunately they said I had to have a blood test first and they would get the results on Monday and let me know if I needed progesterone. I wasn't happy about that, but there was nothing I could do. The next day I thought I saw some discoloration and called the on-call Dr. (b/c it was a Saturday). He basically said there's nothing we can do one way or another so just wait until your Dr. calls you on Monday. Again, not what I wanted to hear. I didn't see anything else the rest of the day, so I thought maybe I was just paranoid and spent the rest of the day laying in bed holding my tummy and promising that baby that if it would just stay in there I would take really good care of it. Unfortunately by Sunday, it was obvious it was over. On Monday the Dr.'s office called and told me my progesterone level was low, so they would supplement me. I told them no need, I had already lost it. They got me in with my Dr. the next day. We discovered from the blood test that I was already miscarrying by the time I found out I was pregnant. My HCG level was about 640ish, which is no where near it should be for being almost 6 weeks along. Also, my progesterone level was 4.something, which was normal for someone who isn't pregnant, so they said I would need a progesterone supplement. So he prescribed some for me to take from day 14 to 28, then take a pregnancy test, and if I'm not pregnant, stop taking it and have a period, then start again on day 14. Has anyone else done this? About a week after I started the progesterone I started spotting/bleeding for the next week. I'm not sure if I was supposed to be concerned about that, but I figured it was just a hormonal adjustment thing, or I hadn't expelled everything from the miscarriage. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? What happened? What did you do? This part is just all kinda new to me. So now we're just playing the "wait and see what happens" game again.
Anyways, I want to know what you guys want to talk about! Does anyone know more about hormone supplements, such as progesterone, or others? How do they work? How have they worked for you? How are things going for you in the growing people process? Any success yet? We want to share and draw strength from your success! We also want to support those of us who are having a hard time. Talk about anything. The next topic of discussion is up to YOU!