LittleAmazon
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Good afternoon ladies 
I found the forum when looking up whether I can eat chorizo when cooked (I can, yay!)
I found out I was pregnant 3 weeks ago now and am 14 weeks 5 days. I have endometriosis and was on the pill back to back to avoid menstruating, so that's how I went so long without knowing. Even the gynae who examined me when I was 9 weeks didn't realise. I was prepping for more surgery next May and was waiting to have a colonoscopy when they did a pregnancy test to be safe.
I'd miscarried in April (another unexpected one but sad all the same) and wasn't thinking to have a baby for years yet. I'll be honest I was not expecting that it wouldn't happen for me. My disease is aggressive so by the time we got to trying in a few years I thought nature would take its toll on my tubes.
This little sweetheart has come through a lot with me. An underactive thyroid that I only started treatment for 4 weeks ago, gabapentin, cyclizine to allay the nausea caused by codeine, the pill for the whole time until I got the test result, no folic acid, malnutrition on my part due to not digesting food properly (hence the colonoscopy) and a hostile environment created by the endometriosis itself. I have taken so many bad things to control the diarrhoea, to relieve the pain and symptoms of my endo, antibiotics and then a canesten pessary for the ensuing thrush (we tried this as my gi doc mused I may have picked up an infection during a hospital stay in September). And then my thyroid which I know is fatal to babies if untreated.
I'm in awe and in love.
The sweet irony of the endometriosis means I can detect baby's movements as the scar tissue around my womb causes me to feel pain. We watches baby stretch its legs the other week and I felt a corresponding pain.
We could also feel baby swimming left to right the other night, as my womb shifted under our hands from one side to the other.
My mum didn't want me and starved herself in her efforts to be rid of me, so she is not a port of call for me and my million questions. This forum is going to be very important to me in the coming months and years, so thank you in advance.
I found the forum when looking up whether I can eat chorizo when cooked (I can, yay!)
I found out I was pregnant 3 weeks ago now and am 14 weeks 5 days. I have endometriosis and was on the pill back to back to avoid menstruating, so that's how I went so long without knowing. Even the gynae who examined me when I was 9 weeks didn't realise. I was prepping for more surgery next May and was waiting to have a colonoscopy when they did a pregnancy test to be safe.
I'd miscarried in April (another unexpected one but sad all the same) and wasn't thinking to have a baby for years yet. I'll be honest I was not expecting that it wouldn't happen for me. My disease is aggressive so by the time we got to trying in a few years I thought nature would take its toll on my tubes.
This little sweetheart has come through a lot with me. An underactive thyroid that I only started treatment for 4 weeks ago, gabapentin, cyclizine to allay the nausea caused by codeine, the pill for the whole time until I got the test result, no folic acid, malnutrition on my part due to not digesting food properly (hence the colonoscopy) and a hostile environment created by the endometriosis itself. I have taken so many bad things to control the diarrhoea, to relieve the pain and symptoms of my endo, antibiotics and then a canesten pessary for the ensuing thrush (we tried this as my gi doc mused I may have picked up an infection during a hospital stay in September). And then my thyroid which I know is fatal to babies if untreated.
I'm in awe and in love.
The sweet irony of the endometriosis means I can detect baby's movements as the scar tissue around my womb causes me to feel pain. We watches baby stretch its legs the other week and I felt a corresponding pain.
We could also feel baby swimming left to right the other night, as my womb shifted under our hands from one side to the other.
My mum didn't want me and starved herself in her efforts to be rid of me, so she is not a port of call for me and my million questions. This forum is going to be very important to me in the coming months and years, so thank you in advance.
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