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My name is Becky and I'm 33 yrs old, DH, Peter is 38. I have a 13 year old daughter in her first year at High School. We live in beautiful Sydney, Australia where we live in a house with a fishpond (more like a fishpond with a house, it's 40,000 litres)!!! I own/run a dance school with 370 students. I have two dogs called Millie and Tully (my second and third daughters) a cat called Mischa and about 200 koi fish (DH's hobby). All my life I have loved children and am so lucky that through my job I am constantly surrounded by them. I would like to have four more children as quickly as possible, DH would like just two! My DH and I fell pg in January of this year, although we weren't trying we weren't being too careful as we planned to start TTC in April this year. We were shocked but so delighted to be pg and astounded at how quickly it happened. My pg was a dream although I was very tired and sick. At 14 1/2 weeks I started to spot. My OB wasn't at all worried as we had just had an scan and everything was fine. To cut a long story short, after a six hour mini labour I delivered a tiny little boy whom we named Timothy, I was able to spend some time holding and stroking his little body before they took him away. It was without question the most devastating thing I have ever experienced. Against my OB's wished we started TTC two weeks later. I was suffering so badly I just wanted to fill the emptiness inside me. With hindsight this probably wasn't too wise, but you do what you do. AF has since visited us three times. One month we managed to get the faintest second line on the HPT but AF came three days later. My OB treated it as another M/C but I didn't. I became quite obsessive with TTC charting my CP, CM, temps, urine and saliva. Time, as they say, is a great healer of pain and as my pain subsides so does my obsessiveness (DH will disagree here!!!) If it wasn't so awful it would be quite funny that without trying we fell pg so easily and now that we really want to be pg -- NOTHING!!! I look forward to sharing the pain and the joys of these months with you. +++++++ thoughts to everyone trying to conceive. Becky |
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