After taking the positive pregnancy test, I called and set up an appointment with my doctor's office. My husband came into the appointment with me. The doctor kept asking when the first day of my last period had been, and I kept having to explain that I hadn't had a period in a long time (when was it? Last May maybe) since I hadn't had a period since before I got pregnant before and it was ectopic. So we had no way to date this pregnancy. As we had no idea on dates and needed to make sure that it wasn't ectopic again, she immediately booked me in for an ultrasound at the hospital. Once again I was booked for a vaginal scan as they are clearer in earlier pregnancy than abdominal scans.
We went to the hospital and were shown into the exact same room where we had been scanned last time before I was rushed into surgery. I was terrified of having a similar experience again. Luckily, this time the sonographer could tell us almost immediately that it was not an ectopic pregnancy. This pregnancy is in the right place and everything (so far) looks healthy and normal. And (here's the big surprise) I was already 9 1/2 weeks along!!!! That means that we conceived just 2 1/2 weeks after the ectopic pregnancy surgery! So that was definitely a shock, but we're excited.
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Monday, 11 October 2010
Pregnant?!
After the last post, I feel like I should backtrack a bit and explain...
I'd mentioned before that I hadn't restarted my period yet after having an ectopic pregnancy end several months ago. I knew that it would take a little while for my cycle to get back to normal, but hadn't expected it to take more than a couple of months. So I was putting things away in the bathroom cupboard one day, and found a pregnancy test. I took it. As we have used contraception 100% of the time, I was expecting to just rule it out. Instead, after a very long minute, the test came up positive!
It was one of the tests that dates as well, so it said that conception had occurred over three weeks ago (the longest time on the test). I was in shock. I wanted to be excited, but part of me was scared that it could be something residual from my last pregnancy or (even worse) that it could be another ectopic.
I called my husband to tell him, and then immediately called to set up an appointment with my doctor. At this point I was still just kind of literally in shock because I didn't know exactly what was going on or what to expect and how to respond.
I'd mentioned before that I hadn't restarted my period yet after having an ectopic pregnancy end several months ago. I knew that it would take a little while for my cycle to get back to normal, but hadn't expected it to take more than a couple of months. So I was putting things away in the bathroom cupboard one day, and found a pregnancy test. I took it. As we have used contraception 100% of the time, I was expecting to just rule it out. Instead, after a very long minute, the test came up positive!
It was one of the tests that dates as well, so it said that conception had occurred over three weeks ago (the longest time on the test). I was in shock. I wanted to be excited, but part of me was scared that it could be something residual from my last pregnancy or (even worse) that it could be another ectopic.
I called my husband to tell him, and then immediately called to set up an appointment with my doctor. At this point I was still just kind of literally in shock because I didn't know exactly what was going on or what to expect and how to respond.
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