After waiting for my body to recover from the miscarriage, we decided to try to conceive again. There were a lot of fears to go along with this, but we had gone so far to make it to this point, we wanted to continue to grow our family. Was it even possible though? Was the last conception a fluke?
The next month I was one day late. I called the nurses at the Pope Paul VI Institute and they told me that I would need to go to a clinic to get a pregnancy test. I needed to go that day, because it was a Friday and I would need to possibly start progesterone immediately and couldn’t wait over the weekend to find out. My husband was working from home and so I asked him to watch the boys while I went to get a test. He told me that he was working so I would have to bring the boys. I should have known right then that I was pregnant, because my reaction was a bit “extreme.” I was pissed. I now had to pack up a 2 year old and a 4 month old, drive a half hour during their nap time, and get my blood drawn. I packed them into the car, and just to show my husband how mad I was, zoomed out of the garage. Until I hit the side of the garage with our brand new van. Crap. Luckily, he was much more calm about the situation :)
I got my blood drawn with both boys, came back home and waited for the phone call. A few hours later, I got the call saying that I was pregnant!!! This time my hormone levels were in the hundreds, not the teens, which was a great sign. I was absolutely shocked again, that I was pregnant. Dr. Hilgers was truly amazing...I had conceived twice in the 4 months after I had seen him.
Dr. Hilgers immediately put me on progesterone shots to make sure that I could maintain the pregnancy. Oftentimes it is low progesterone that can make someone miscarry, so I had the shots throughout most of my pregnancy. I also had blood draws every other week to make sure all of my hormone levels were where they should be. I was so pleased with the care and concern they had for my baby and me.
We were finally “in the clear” and began to tell people that I was pregnant. I heard a lot of people say, “that always seems to just happen!” I was confused. What did so many people think “just happened?” I know people did not mean to be stereotypical with this statement, but it drove me crazy! First of all, it was almost as if some people thought that is why we adopted. Whether we had fertility issues or not, we were going to adopt children. Also, my multiple surgeries, years of being a “lab rat”, shots, medications, blood draws, etc, is what made it happen, so it didn’t “just happen.” However, most of the time when I heard this, I would just nod and smile because that is much easier than explaining how it REALLY happened. And besides, I was pregnant! Silly comments couldn’t stop me from beaming!!!
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