This is a highly personal topic, and I'm not entirely comfortable blogging about it.. I did already touch on the issue, recently opening up about the fact that I've had trouble carrying a pregnancy past the first trimester. And after blogging about my own health problem - and that is what it is - I received so many e-mails from women who thanked me for being honest about this sensitive topic that I've decided to stick my neck out even further and share this next part of my journey. I hope that telling my story helps other women going through the same thing. Because this is tough, and those of us who have experienced it can maybe support each other and demystify it, and make it easier for others who are also living through this desperate, Googling-madness phase of an early, tentative pregnancy-following-loss.
With my first three pregnancies, more than a decade ago. I never even saw the doctor until I was about 10 weeks along. And between the day of the positive home test and the first doctor visit, it never occurred to me to wonder whether the pregnancy was real, or whether it would "stick." I was pregnant. Plain and simple. Now, however, the positive home test is followed almost immediately by trips every two to three days to the high risk OB, where I have blood drawn so the doctor can follow my (hopefullly) rising HCG and progesterone levels.
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