Welcome to all the new mamas!
Thank you Mamamash and everyone for your kind words. I lost the baby on Wednesday, and have been sleeping, crying and grieving the past few days.
emily11megan, I couldn't agree with you more about the term "chemical pregnancy"... I cannot handle the complete lack of acknowledgement that there was a LIFE, a BABY, a little person that I would have given anything if s/he would have lived...
countrybound, I'm sorry I didn't get to respond before your lunch date with your friend. I can't take the time to answer right now, but I'll get to it when I can. And YAY for your hubby being on board for another baby!
I have learned a LOT in the last week or so from all my research regarding PCOS/blood sugar, etc and it's relationship to miscarriage. I had NO IDEA that the rate of miscarriage for women with PCOS is NORMALLY 50-60% (2 studies I saw said as high as 80%!!!) But it also gives me some answers and closure that it really wasn't my fault. I didn't skip progesterone cream too many times, eat something wrong, worry too much, not take enough vitamins, etc, etc, etc. (ok, now I'm crying...) In every study, though, the use of metformin brought the chances of miscarriage back DOWN to the normal level of around 10-11%! That's amazing! And when I consider that my last baby (twins until 10 weeks) is probably here because of metformin, I'm at least encouraged that maybe there is hope. 5 in a row has just about taken all my hope away. I have an appt scheduled with a female (thank God for female drs! lol!) on Dec. 19. She is known far and wide for being patient centered/focused, meaning you tell her your symptoms, and she will find a way to figure out why you're feeling that way, not just run blood tests, and say, "Nope! You're fine!!!" She also compounds her own completely non-synthetic progesterone, does charting to know what's going on there, and is very willing to use metformin. So, all that to say, I'm going to take this month off, since I won't see her until after O, and can hopefully gets some answers...
Thank you Mamamash and everyone for your kind words. I lost the baby on Wednesday, and have been sleeping, crying and grieving the past few days.
emily11megan, I couldn't agree with you more about the term "chemical pregnancy"... I cannot handle the complete lack of acknowledgement that there was a LIFE, a BABY, a little person that I would have given anything if s/he would have lived...
countrybound, I'm sorry I didn't get to respond before your lunch date with your friend. I can't take the time to answer right now, but I'll get to it when I can. And YAY for your hubby being on board for another baby!
I have learned a LOT in the last week or so from all my research regarding PCOS/blood sugar, etc and it's relationship to miscarriage. I had NO IDEA that the rate of miscarriage for women with PCOS is NORMALLY 50-60% (2 studies I saw said as high as 80%!!!) But it also gives me some answers and closure that it really wasn't my fault. I didn't skip progesterone cream too many times, eat something wrong, worry too much, not take enough vitamins, etc, etc, etc. (ok, now I'm crying...) In every study, though, the use of metformin brought the chances of miscarriage back DOWN to the normal level of around 10-11%! That's amazing! And when I consider that my last baby (twins until 10 weeks) is probably here because of metformin, I'm at least encouraged that maybe there is hope. 5 in a row has just about taken all my hope away. I have an appt scheduled with a female (thank God for female drs! lol!) on Dec. 19. She is known far and wide for being patient centered/focused, meaning you tell her your symptoms, and she will find a way to figure out why you're feeling that way, not just run blood tests, and say, "Nope! You're fine!!!" She also compounds her own completely non-synthetic progesterone, does charting to know what's going on there, and is very willing to use metformin. So, all that to say, I'm going to take this month off, since I won't see her until after O, and can hopefully gets some answers...
I hope this new doctor can give you some answers. 
hugs!! I really hope this new doctor listens and understands. PCOS sucks. I was diagnosed with a very mild case of it. Both my sisters have it (one had to get a hysterectomy due to it) and have both lost pregnancies. Stay strong. Grieve this loss, because that's exactly what it is!
AF is due on the 24th, so I'll wait to test until then. Well, unless AF gets here sooner of course.
and warm wishes that you are able to
trying to be patient. Not terribly successful with that.
But truly, this is my last TWW, either way.
and Fx for lots of BFPs!!!!!
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