We're Pregnant Again!

[boomhauer]

Some of you might remember - My wife had a miscarriage back in December. Well, we found out a couple weeks ago we're pregnant again. Wanted to wait until our first doctor visit to ask any questions.

Anyways, had the first ultrasound today. Unlike last time, everything looks completely normal this time. Dr. says she'll be 6 weeks along tomorrow. Only thing that made us nervous is that he said we won't be able to hear the fetal heartbeat until next week, as it's not there yet. However, he said that's completely normal at this point.

So, I'm gonna take his word (and some reassurances from some of you in the know would be GREAT), and wait until next week's appointment.

 

[kdibattista]

Congratulations and best of luck

 

[disneynutt1225]

Congratulations! Good luck to both of you.

 

[MsDisney23]

Congratulation's!

 

[smilie]

I am so happy for both of you boomhauer!

 

[zalansky]

CONGRATS! I do remember your post, I replied to it because I had been through something similar. I too, lost a baby (8 weeks along, the baby never developed a heartbeat and I too had to have a D&C) - and we went ahead and I got pregnant again right away. I spent the first few weeks of my subsequent pregnancy scared stiff the same thing would happen. I spent every minute thinking about it. I wanted to buy a fetal heart monitor. I held out and didn't and everything was fine, my baby girl was born perfectly healthy 9 months later.

My best advice to you would be, don't let your last experience cloud this one. I know it's hard not to compare. But try. Enjoy the pregnancy and all the little milestones as they come and try not to worry. I am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason and I look at my 6 month old baby girl now and I know why I had to go through the miscarriage in hindsight. If not, I'd never have this precious girl. Best of luck, God bless you both.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Congratulations and good luck!

 

[mickeyboat]

Congratulations and good luck!

When I was PG with Hannah, we had an early u/s (around 5 weeks) , and had to come back in a week for the fetal heartbeat. Hannah is 6.

Denae

 

[ahutton]

Wonderful to hear! As for some reassurance - in March 2001 I was in a similar place you just were. At about 18 weeks we lost the baby. Had surgery, lots of stress and in July of 2001 we found out we were expecting again. Pregnancy went fine, and yesterday that little DD turned 4 years old. It was very hard, emotional, stressful and everything else you can think to call it. But it was all worth it!!

 

[thelittlemermaid]

Congrats!!!!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Congrats! I hope we can all assume you and your wife and stepson have resolved the issues you were having.

 

[minkydog]

Have to chime in with reassurance and congrats. I lost my 2nd child at 15wks to a miscarriage and it was easily the worst and the best thing that ever happened to me. I thought I'd never recover. I was 35 and had very little hope that I would conceive again.

Well, two years later without warning DD showed up! And then two years after that her little brother came along! I hesitate to think that I might have missed these wonderful kids had that 2nd pregnancy fulfilled itself. I would surely have thought I was done. Now I have three great kids!

It's hard not to worry when you've been through the loss of a pregnancy, but you have to know that over 80% proceed without difficulty. We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you all.

 

[gradtchr]

Congratulations!!!!!

 

[LBAK]

Congratulations!!

 

[tink2020]

CONGRATULATIONS! Prayers for you and your wife for happy, healthy pregnancy!

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Congratulations!!!!

 

[sajetto]

Congrats!!!

 

[Freyja]

My best advice to you would be, don't let your last experience cloud this one. I know it's hard not to compare. But try. Enjoy the pregnancy and all the little milestones as they come and try not to worry. I am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason and I look at my 6 month old baby girl now and I know why I had to go through the miscarriage in hindsight. If not, I'd never have this precious girl. Best of luck, God bless you both.

My advice would have been the exact same. I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks 2 years ago and spent the first weeks of the next pregnancy thinking of all the things that could go wrong. When I was 6 weeks and 3 days a long the doctor could finally detect a heartbeat and I started believing that the pregnancy would bring us a baby.

Fortunately, I had a healthy pregnancy and my beautiful, healthy daughter will be 1 year old in a couple of weeks. Although I grieved for the baby we lost, I can´t help but look at my daughter and think that she wouldn´t be here if I hadn´t miscarried earlier.

Congratulations on your pregnancy. I hope it will be a healthy and joyeous journey, leading to a healthy happy baby.

 

[dizagain]

Congratulations to you both! How exciting for you! I, too, lost a baby last year at 9 weeks. We got pregnant again in early December and I'm 18 weeks along now. I'm still nervous sometimes about things, but every ultrasound has been great...can't wait for the big one in two weeks so we can take my DD's (10 and 12). Of course, I'm really nervous today as I'm deathly ill with this rotten flu virus and I finally broke down and called the doctor for suggestions for some type of relief...I'm feeding the kid Tylenol Cold and I hate doing it!! But, I can actually open my eyes for the first time in three days!

Good luck to your family!

 

[Pooh67_68]

Congrats