Reijel's Mom
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My husband and I were happily anticipating our first baby, but at an ultrasound this week we found the baby had died about 2 weeks ago.
Our first pregnancy was an ectopic. We didn't even have time to get excited about that one, but this one we've known about for 5 weeks. We saw the baby on an ultrasound at 7 weeks 1 day and everything was great and as it should be.
During an ultrasound it was revealed that I do have a diagnosis of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (cysts on my ovaries). I'd always suspected this but this was the first time that the cysts were seen. I had told my doctors about these concerns prior to the pregnancy and they'd sent me off for some testing and reported that my levels came back normal.
My doctors didn't seem concerned about my pregnancy and the PCOS diagnosis, they just considered me lucky to get pregnant relatively quickly. But all the 'net research I've done on PCOS indicates that women with the syndrome have a much higher rate of miscarriage.
Now I'm feeling a little angry/sad that I didn't question my doctors more. Quite possibly there was nothing wrong with our baby (everyone always tells you it's natures way of taking care of something that wasn't developing normally) but rather it may have been something with me, and I really want to be on top of all of this next time.
I'm not throwing a pity party for myself, I just want to see if others have had similar experiences that I can learn from and be a little more proactive next time.
Thank you in advance.
Our first pregnancy was an ectopic. We didn't even have time to get excited about that one, but this one we've known about for 5 weeks. We saw the baby on an ultrasound at 7 weeks 1 day and everything was great and as it should be.
During an ultrasound it was revealed that I do have a diagnosis of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (cysts on my ovaries). I'd always suspected this but this was the first time that the cysts were seen. I had told my doctors about these concerns prior to the pregnancy and they'd sent me off for some testing and reported that my levels came back normal.
My doctors didn't seem concerned about my pregnancy and the PCOS diagnosis, they just considered me lucky to get pregnant relatively quickly. But all the 'net research I've done on PCOS indicates that women with the syndrome have a much higher rate of miscarriage.
Now I'm feeling a little angry/sad that I didn't question my doctors more. Quite possibly there was nothing wrong with our baby (everyone always tells you it's natures way of taking care of something that wasn't developing normally) but rather it may have been something with me, and I really want to be on top of all of this next time.
I'm not throwing a pity party for myself, I just want to see if others have had similar experiences that I can learn from and be a little more proactive next time.
Thank you in advance.