I posted this in the EC forum and someone sugggested I do it here as well...
so I went to a specialist yesterday about my huge 13 centimeter uterine fibroid. This is the "little" nasty that caused me to have a high risk pregnancy and go into preterm labor 3 times and deliver my little one at such a small birthweight.
The doctor (surgeon to be exact) basically said I would have to have a myomectomy (sp?) to have it out which would mean no breastfeeding for a couple days and possibly no lifting my baby for 2-4 weeks due to the incision....it also means every pregnancy from here on out would be a c-section because the fibroid is part of the uterine wall so after they remove it they have to take my uterus out and repair it and put it back in...
implications:
1)I can pump a bunch of milk until I can nurse again, but will nursing resume regularly or will she just end up weaning? We nurse at night in the family bed too which would be a serious disruption for her. I love feeding her and nursing her and I don't want to lose that early...
2)Who will potty my little one until I can lift her again??? What will become of ECing??????????
3)Last but not least, I never wanted to have any of my future pregnancies end in c-sections. I wanted to have all of my babies au naturale like I had Vivian. This last fact depresses me the most.
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I am really really sad about all of this and very worried. He basically said it is up to me when to have it out, but we have to act before my estrogen starts up again and the fibroid starts getting bigger once more.
The other option is to leave it in there and let it create the same problems for each pregnancy, which is really not an option actually...:::sigh:::::
so I went to a specialist yesterday about my huge 13 centimeter uterine fibroid. This is the "little" nasty that caused me to have a high risk pregnancy and go into preterm labor 3 times and deliver my little one at such a small birthweight.
The doctor (surgeon to be exact) basically said I would have to have a myomectomy (sp?) to have it out which would mean no breastfeeding for a couple days and possibly no lifting my baby for 2-4 weeks due to the incision....it also means every pregnancy from here on out would be a c-section because the fibroid is part of the uterine wall so after they remove it they have to take my uterus out and repair it and put it back in...
implications:
1)I can pump a bunch of milk until I can nurse again, but will nursing resume regularly or will she just end up weaning? We nurse at night in the family bed too which would be a serious disruption for her. I love feeding her and nursing her and I don't want to lose that early...
2)Who will potty my little one until I can lift her again??? What will become of ECing??????????
3)Last but not least, I never wanted to have any of my future pregnancies end in c-sections. I wanted to have all of my babies au naturale like I had Vivian. This last fact depresses me the most.
:I am really really sad about all of this and very worried. He basically said it is up to me when to have it out, but we have to act before my estrogen starts up again and the fibroid starts getting bigger once more.
The other option is to leave it in there and let it create the same problems for each pregnancy, which is really not an option actually...:::sigh:::::
