I had my D&C on the 29th of March I was 10 weeks pg. I thought I was coping well with it but over the last 2 or so weeks I've been quite emotional and everything is coming bubbling to the top. I feel that I really haven't been able to grieve the loss of my little on and I haven't had anyone IRL that I can talk to about it.
I should be in my last trimester getting ready to welcome my LO in a few months not sitting here missing my baby that wasn't to be. I cry or can't read pg annoucments it's just not fair.
I'm now crying writing this....why is it so hard to move past this. We're going to be ttc in Oct, how am I going to cope with been pg again and stressing that the same thing is going to happen.
I just want to talk to someone and have them understand that yes it was a blighted ovum, but it was still my baby, I still had hopes and dreams for them.
Ok I'm going to go and collect myself and head off to bed, thank you for reading my ramblings.
Oh sweetheart I think you are becoming emotional now because you should be coming to end of one part of the journey before meeting your baby. Like you said, you should be now in your last tri and that's hard and I think that the realisation has hit you now. Allow yourself the time to grieve. As for fear, maybe speaking to a counsellor will help you and give you some tools for coping there. I think that until your baby is in your arms you will have some fears and that will be normal. again and please, allow yourself the grieving time because in your heart you are still travelling the 3rd tri.
Hugs hun, you are emotional as you have reached another date in what should be a happy journey, I have been there and the pain eventually eases but never forgotten. TTC is hard as I know I stressed during both my pregnancy's about having another blighted ovum, or of something else.
Ramble on here as much as you need we are all here for you.
Amanda, I hope you get a good nights rest, I hope you feel a little better for getting that out.
I know how it feels to have no one in real life understand the pain, fear or sadness.
Thinking of you xxx
Last edited by STARRYSKY; August 12th, 2010 at 08:26 AM.
You are human - we don't all follow the same emotional curve
I've been waiting for this, so please just feel it and allow it to do its thing, and when the feeling begins to fade then let it go till it comes back in, like the waves of an outgoing tide lapping at the shoreline.
It feels like there has been so much loss this year, for some reason, and it's really hard to read about - and what good's a community if you just skip to the happy bits? So, I follow some of the losses that are closer to me and feel a bit of what's happening, knowing that I can never know just what you're going through, even if I'd suffered a loss of my own - cos we're all in unique circumstances where our babies mean something different and something quite significant in a tailored way. Not sure I"m making much sense in the wee hours, just so you know that I have thought of you and shared just a little bit of your loss
Sadley there are more of us here that understand than we'd like! Yes ofcourse it was you baby and with that your dream! Its one of the worst thing that can ever happen to a person, and sadly it takes a life time to get over!
How will you TTC and be pregnant... One day at a time and a lot of support from the girls here on BB! No pregnancy will ever be the same again but its not all bad and you know, even though there are days where you think you cant breathe from the pressure of it all...it is worth it to find the strength to go again!
So sorry you are facing this journey, no one ever asks to walk it but you are not alone! Now or ever
Ohh my dear Amanda, I know only to well the sadness that your feeling. I never thought that I would be able to move on, and TBH in parts I still havent. It really does take a life time as Tanstar said. As for becoming pg again, its a strange feeling of completeness and the feeling of not being able to breathe leaves andyou end up with all the emotions of fear, anxiousness etc all mixed into one. Im not going to say you wont be going to the loo every second and holding your breathe each time hoping and praying not to see the dreaded spotting etc, as you more likely will keep checking. Im also not going to say that the thought of an u/s send shivers throughout your body, as the fear of getting told something is wrong again raises it ugly head, yet the powerful emotion of seeing that flickering HB on the screen brings relief. Once you feel that bub move and hear the little HB etc the anxiousness will slowly start to disappear and some joy will replace it. The fear though will more likely still be there, but it will lessen up until your bub is in your arms.
I have to wonder why I put myself through the stress of pgcy, but it is the driving force of having that precious little prize at the end. Your bub in arms. Somehow at the end of it all, to have your bub in arms everything you go through inbetween makes it all worthwhile, itms. Yet your lost angels will always and forever be apart of you and will be with you always never to be forgotten. TBH, I too have been waiting for this from you.
If you ever want to chat hun, you know where I am. Loads of hugs
Last edited by csab; August 12th, 2010 at 10:06 AM.
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