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I ADORE MY SON DEVRAS JACOB CHRISTOPHER SO MUCH, THERE'S NOTHING MORE THAN I WOULD LOVE TO DO THAN TO MAKE HIM HIS OWN PAGE!!
LET'S GO BACK TO HOW IT ALL BEGAN........
WHEN I WAS 24, I GOT PREGNANT FOR THE FIRST TIME, AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED WITH POLYSCYSTIC OVARIAN DISORDER.
I READ ALL THE BOOKS ON TRYING TO GET PREGNANT, SO I KNEW WHEN I OVULATED, AND SADLY, HOW FAR ALONG I WAS WHEN I MISCARRIED ( 1 WEEK AFTER THE "CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR PREGNANT!!!" )
AFTER THAT, I SPENT THE NEXT 7 YRS TALKING TO DOCTORS, AND PLANNING WITH MY HUSBAND ON WHEN WE SHOULD TRY AGAIN.
I FOUND A GREAT OB/GYN, MARTHA REILLY, WHO MADE ME FEEL AT EASE THAT SHE WOULD HELP US GET PREGNANT!
I WAS CONSIDERED HIGH RISK, DUE TO THE FACT THAT I HAD PCOD, AND AM MORBIDLY OBESE. THERE ARE MAJOR COMPLICATIONS THAT COULD OCCUR SHOULD I CARRY TO TERM.
FINALLY, STARTING FEBRUARY 2005 WHEN I WAS 31(Click here to read my blogger while I was TTC) , I WAS STARTED ON 50MG CLOMID, WHICH MY OB INCREASED BY 50 MG EACH MONTH TO ENSURE I GET PREGNANT. ACCORDING TO MY TEMPS, AND OVULATION TESTS, I WAS OVULATING EVERY MONTH, JUST NOT GETTING PREGNANT. THAT WAS GREAT, FOR A PERSON WHO DIDN'T OVULATE ONCE DURING THE PAST 7 YRS!
I HAD A SET BACK IN JUNE 2005 WHEN MY OLDER SISTER PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY (click here to read letters I wrote to my sister after she passed...there's a strange connection between my letters and my TTC) , BUT , I PICKED MYSELF BACK UP, AND RESTARTED THE CLOMID JULY 2005. MY FINAL DOSE OF CLOMID FOR THAT MONTH WAS 250 MG, AND IT TOOK ME 3 WEEKS BEFORE I OVULATED...BUT, I WAS WAITING, AND IT WAS A MIRACLE, BUT WE TIMED TO RIGHT, AND 2 WEEKS LATER, I FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT!!!
THE PREGNANCY:
MY ENTIRE PREGNANCY ACTUALLY WENT VERY WELL. MINOR PROBLEMS LIKE I TESTED POS FOR GROUP B STREP DID HAPPEN, BUT THOUGH I HAD A 50% CHANCE OF GETTING GESTASTIONAL DIABETES DUE TO THE PCOS, I DIDN'T GET IT! IT WAS A GREAT PREGNANCY.....
BOY OR GIRL???
EVER SINCE I WAS 17, I ALWAYS DREAMPT OF HAVING A BOY NAMED DEVRAS JACOB. I MADE UP THAT NAME DEVRAS AT THAT AGE, AND IT JUST STUCK WITH ME FOR THE NEXT 15 YRS. IF IT WERE A GIRL, WE WOULD NAME HER MIRRAH KOLE MARIE.
