Hi All,
I haven't posted here now for probably 10 months...My wife and I had a bit of a traumatic time last year. Now I feel its time to share our experience, maybe to others if in the same situation:
Last year, around this time, my wife became pregnant with our second child. We were obviously very pleased, and already had a 15 month old son.
As with our first, my wife had very heavy morning sickness from about week 5, but we didn't think much of it, neither did the doctors.
It was at the 12 week scan that we found out that my wife had had a missed miscarriage at 8 weeks (or so we thought)...It was hard enough being told that, and very upsetting - especially as we were more or less frog marched through a waiting room full of pregnant women with my wife in tears (not hard to guess what had happened), to a side room to see a doctor.
We were told that we would have to wait for 2 days befor a dnc could be performed as there was no room on the ward, and were then sent home. Not a nice 2 days as I'm sure you can imagine.
After the dnc, we received the results about a week later. We weren't actually expecting anything as we thought we were simply another statistic. We were told that my wife had actually had a 'partial-molar' pregnancy.
A quick explanation is that basically 2 sperm fertilise 1 egg at exactly the same time. Instead of a normal pregnancy, a mass of malformed cells is developed, which can turn malignant (although this is quite rare, and fortunately didn't get that far in our case).
It meant that my wife had to be referred to a specialist hospital for ongoing monitoring for a minimum of 6 months. They check the HCG levels in the urine to make sure they decrease at the correct rate. Fortunately they did, and my wife got the all clear in December.
On the plus side, we just found out that my wife is pregnant again (6 weeks), and after just having a early scan (requested by consultant), they found a very tiny heartbeat. Its early days yet, but at least it looks like a viable pregnancy this time
Hope I haven't deperessed you too much, but wanted to share our story.
Thanks for listening.
Paul
I haven't posted here now for probably 10 months...My wife and I had a bit of a traumatic time last year. Now I feel its time to share our experience, maybe to others if in the same situation:
Last year, around this time, my wife became pregnant with our second child. We were obviously very pleased, and already had a 15 month old son.
As with our first, my wife had very heavy morning sickness from about week 5, but we didn't think much of it, neither did the doctors.
It was at the 12 week scan that we found out that my wife had had a missed miscarriage at 8 weeks (or so we thought)...It was hard enough being told that, and very upsetting - especially as we were more or less frog marched through a waiting room full of pregnant women with my wife in tears (not hard to guess what had happened), to a side room to see a doctor.
We were told that we would have to wait for 2 days befor a dnc could be performed as there was no room on the ward, and were then sent home. Not a nice 2 days as I'm sure you can imagine.
After the dnc, we received the results about a week later. We weren't actually expecting anything as we thought we were simply another statistic. We were told that my wife had actually had a 'partial-molar' pregnancy.
A quick explanation is that basically 2 sperm fertilise 1 egg at exactly the same time. Instead of a normal pregnancy, a mass of malformed cells is developed, which can turn malignant (although this is quite rare, and fortunately didn't get that far in our case).
It meant that my wife had to be referred to a specialist hospital for ongoing monitoring for a minimum of 6 months. They check the HCG levels in the urine to make sure they decrease at the correct rate. Fortunately they did, and my wife got the all clear in December.
On the plus side, we just found out that my wife is pregnant again (6 weeks), and after just having a early scan (requested by consultant), they found a very tiny heartbeat. Its early days yet, but at least it looks like a viable pregnancy this time
Hope I haven't deperessed you too much, but wanted to share our story.
Thanks for listening.
Paul
