Definitely team blue!! With pics..and bump!

[traci]

Congrats on your boy maybe!! Really pleased for you. Nice little bump aswell xx

 

[kirstymichelle]

What a cute bump Maybe ! x x x

 

[Princess81]

Great bump and great bathroom too x

 

[daniph1]

As do I maybe!!! You have the pregnant woman stance down to a tee - hand in arch of back! you just wait! hehehehe xx

 

[maybe baby]

Thanks you lot!

Dani you make me laugh!

xx

 

[Amyrose]

Aw maybe I love your bump/bathroom lol x

 

[positivity :)]

congratulations on team blue!! Boys are best in my opinion

And...surprise surprise Ur one of those annoyingly glam gorgeous mums to be, not jealous at all

I'm still so so thrilled for you. Have you thought of any names?? Xx

 

[bewdleygirl]

Hi Maybe baby,

I'm new to the forum and stumbled across your story as I've been trying to find someone in the uk who has a similar condition to mine (a partial septum).

Firstly I just wanted to congratulate you on your pregnancy....it's so lovely to hear that you've had the corrective surgery and have fallen pregnant. I'm so pleased for you hun and congratulations on finding out you're expecting a boy

I wasn't too sure how this forum works and I couldn't figure out how to private message you, so please excuse me for tagging onto this thread. I'll keep it brief but I'm 36 soon and have been ttc for just over a year. I had a chemical pregnancy a year ago and then fell pregnant on my first round of clomid in march. Sadly I miscarried last week at 7 weeks pregnant. I just wanted to try and find other women who have been in a similar situation and I stumbled across yourself on this forum. I have what sounds very similar to what you had yourself (a small stumpy septum). My consultant has advised me to carry on trying and would rather not offer me the operation at this stage. The NHS seems very slow, so I was really interested in learning more about the private route that you took as I'm scared I may have to go through recurrent miscarriage before they'll help me. I really hope you don't mind me contacting you hun and if there's a way I can send you a private message or if you're able to offer any advice, I would be massively grateful. xx

 

[maybe baby]

Hi Hun,

No worries I'm happy to help...

Sorry you're having a tough time TTC.

Where our stories are different is that I didn't know about my septum until I went private, I actually had 5 chemical pregnancies and the nhs docs told me I was just unlucky!!

After number 5 I decided after not getting listened to I would see a private doctor who decided a hysteroscopy would rule out anything stopping proper implantation and I had the hysteroscopy that showed the septum and some adhesions around it too, the septum looked different from the rest of my uterus which was pink and spongey, the septum looked like chicken.

The septum has limited to no blood flow which is why the pregnancies did not survive but is a good thing if you have it operated on as it's just cut away to reveal the normal uterus with out the need for stitches and a a quick recovery.

I'd had my op within 4 weeks of my first private appointment and could ttc straight away.

They say you can get pregnant with one, it's just harder, I wouldn't recommend putting yourself through the stress, I'd recommend the op.

I would say that it does take an experienced doctor to preform hysteroscopic surgery, if it's not done properly adhesions and other complications can occur.

It was expensive for the private treatment about 5-6k in total, but although I sometimes think I shouldn't have had to spend that money, I really wouldn't have trusted the nhs to do my operation.

How do you know about your septum? Mine was never seen on 3 ultrasounds!

My private doc has a special interest in uterine septums and recurrent miscarriage, he's in Manchester and London if you want to look at his website..

http://www.lucianonardo.com/

Any questions just let me know.

I wonder whether you can get a treated with private health insurance as a gynaecological problem instead of fertility as fertility wouldn't be covered.

Xx

 

[maybe baby]

Forgot to add that recurrent miscarriage told me that I had to have 3 miscarriages confirmed by ultrasound for further testing!!

I never got as far as an ultrasound but I had a great gp that did all the recurrent miscarriage blood tests bar karyotyping which we were going to do before I got diagnosed with my septum.

Xx

 

[bewdleygirl]

Thank you so much hun for the info you've passed on...I'm so grateful

I didn't want to hijack your thread, so I've finally managed to figure out how to create a new thread so I've moved the info you've passed on over to here:

http://www.pregnancyforum.co.uk/try...um-uterus-any-advice-ladies-who-have-one.html

Thanks again for your help hun, it means a lot to me and you have made me feel so much more positive about the future with your success story.

I'll be checking back to see how you're getting on. xx

 

[maybe baby]

Hi Hun,

Firstly my septum was more pale pink/White in colour, I don't have any pics but on my notes it's about a quarter of the way down on the pics, if you think of the openings of the fallopian tubes it came down like a heart shape when my uterus should have looked like an upside down pear. I don't think mine was necessarily an easy to remove one, have a look on you tube as there are some videos there showing the procedure.

It's interesting they told you the baby hadn't implanted on the septum as my private doc told me you couldnt tell at my 6 week scan where the pregnancy had implanted, also how come they could see them septum when they couldn't see it before.

It's good that you have pics of your septum, you could perhaps just start with a private consultation around £175 and show him the pics, he may decide to do a hysteroscopy which isn't too bad and not painful (you're awake) at around £1000 I think...

Dr Nardo said I'd be pregnant in 6 months after the op and I caught on month 5! I pushed for clomid as my cycles were long but he didn't think I needed it really but let me to make things a bit easier.

I guess only time will tell whether you'll carry a healthy pregnancy to term with your septum but it's not likely to make it easy, some things you can do to help TTC are taking baby aspirin 75mg as it improves blood flow. I had a good idea that it wasn't going to happen with out the op after 5 early miscarriages, I would always test from 10 dpo as sometimes the pregnancy would fail before my missed period, my longest was just over 5 weeks and even then my HCG was only 30miu but I'd been taking progesterone.

Progesterone can help maintain pregnancies but the NHS won't prescribe it as it's not proven but it does have a lot of success stories, if taken from 3dpo it can help improve the endometrium to help implantation and after a BFP will maintain the endometrium til the placenta takes over at 12 weeks.

If you were to get pregnant without the op I'd make sure to be taking progesterone and baby aspirin and have regular hcg blood tests to monitor hcg levels.

Any more questions just ask..

Xx

 

[Vickyxx]

What a lovely pic, pregnancy really suits you hun

 

[XmichelleX]

Oh how cute! I miss my bump!! x

 

[Chazabell]

Yay a baba boy, such cute and amazing photo's.

Your bump is so neat too

xxxx

 

[maybe baby]

Thanks girls!!

Xx

 

[Lilelephant]

Yey congrats on team blue! So so happy for u! Have been following ur journey quietly