Loss today, due to Acrania

feeds@yuku.com (angelava) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:34:42 GMT

I am new and desperatley looking to talk to others who have gone through this. Here is my story

Well it is quite an ordeal that I've been going through. I cried more yesterday than I think I have ever cried in my life, most of the day actually. Today I gave my baby girl Ava Grace back to God, at 19 weeks gestation.

Insurance will not cover termination unless it is fatal to me...so the only choice I had that we could afford was to go to an abortion clinic. I...

Please help - does anyone know about this place?

feeds@yuku.com (bamarach) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:50:37 GMT

Hi - I am a mother who made a heartbreaking choice about a year and a half ago, and I've perused this site often, but never joined. I now have a close friend who is in the same predicament (severe hydrocephalis, 19 weeks along). They have a termination procedure scheduled for tomorrow morning at a hospital but have just been informed that their insurance won't cover it. So now they're considering going to Atlanta, to the Atlanta surgi Center, which appears to be thouands of...

did you name your baby?

feeds@yuku.com (littlebirdoz) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:38:52 GMT

My baby was diagnosed yesterday with spina bifida. My husband and I have been agonizing about what to do since then. We have decided to terminate the pregnancy. I have asked my husband if we can name the baby but he thinks that is weird and said it would make it harder for him. Did anyone else have this experience? I feel like he is a person and deserves to have a name even though he is only 17 weeks. I hate referring to him as "the baby" and "he". thanks

Losing everything

feeds@yuku.com (HeartbrokenDad) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:28:17 GMT

My wife and i waited before attempting to have children. She is 38. When we finally got pregnant we pinned all our hopes and dreams for the future on our baby. We began buying books and a crib and my wife's baby shower was on the calendar. We had an amnio and everything appeared normal.

on the 28th week we had a sonogram. suddenly everything went wrong. a long string of doctors came and went peering into the computer to look at the sonogram - and something seemed wrong....

Periods after TX

feeds@yuku.com (babyorbust) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:06:34 GMT

I had to terminate my pregnancy in January 08 due to a diagnosis of spina bifida. It is now April 10th. I bled for 5.5 weeks after the procedure, then 16 days later had what seemed like a period (no lining though, mostly blood) and then it stopped for 4 days, I spotted for 10 and now I have had nothing. It has now been 5 weeks since that weird period.

I am really anxious to try again as I am 34 and have had 3 miscarriages, and the spina bifida pregnancy. However, I need my periods...

Hi - New Here

feeds@yuku.com (Sadlp) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:44:55 GMT

We've been dealing with infertility for a few years, I have very bad endometriosis and my husband had low sperm count. After many surgeries and treatments we tried IVF. This was our last resort as it was very expensive and neither of our insurances covered a cent. But what do you know, it worked the first try. We had three days of bliss and excitement then my betas wouldn't double. I had 5 betas done and we were told I would miscarry each time, even the ultrasound showed no fetal...

My First Post

feeds@yuku.com (rbconley) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:09:56 GMT

My name is Robin. My husband and I tried for five months to get pregnant and were starting to get worried...

new here...wish I didn't have to be here... :(

feeds@yuku.com (shamlin4) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:53:44 GMT

My dh and I have two beautiful, healthy boys, and I am 19 weeks pg with boy #3, who we just found out last Thursday has Down's...we have opted to terminate, and I am scheduled for a D&C on Wednesday morning...I feel like I have no one to talk to, as I don't want to be ostracized for making this choice...I don't think anyone can judge until they've been there, but unfortunately, people do.

Turners syndrome prognosis

feeds@yuku.com (abygal80) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:40:56 GMT

Hello everyone, I am a brand new member. I am 13 weeks 5 days and last week I was told my baby girl has 45,X, otherwise known as Turner Syndrome. 98% of babies with Turners abort in the first trimester, and those who make it to the second trimester usually abort due to sever lymphedema or cystic hygromas. My baby has a cystic hygroma on her neck which was the reason they sensed a problem at my nuchal translucency screening. I had a CVS which was where I received her diagnosis. At my...

bottled water caution

feeds@yuku.com (branmuffin23) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:18:18 GMT

Hi All,
Did any of you hear the story on NPR about 2 months ago about bottled water?
We're all concerned about water usage (especially those of us in the desert). If you drink a bottle of water (any size), you are actually consuming almost twice as much water as you drink... because the plastic containing the water actually takes almost that much to make. So if you drink a one litre bottle of water, you are actually consuming almost 2 litres. In addition to that, consider all...

new

feeds@yuku.com (mmackiew) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:49:24 GMT

hello. my name is maci and i am new to this site..........a little bit of a background about my situation. Last April we found out that we were pregnant and were shocked to find out that they were identical twins. I miscarried the twins at approximately 7 1/2 weeks. After time had passed, we found out this November that we were prengnant again. We were so excited yet scared at the same time. When we made it passed the first trimester, we were so excited. We got a doppler to use at home...

new--faced with AHC

feeds@yuku.com (afterthestorm) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:15:29 GMT

Hi. I finally found this site through google. I have searched searched and searched for something like this and am surprised there are not more support boards like this, as I am sure many have had to make a decision like this.
This is my current situation...
I have not yet interrupted my pregnancy. I am 13w5d pregnant. I went in for my 12 wk NT scan almost 2 weeks ago to be referred to a perinatologist b/c my dr's sonographer saw something "off" with the...

Telling the sex

feeds@yuku.com (ffnurse) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:55:13 GMT

We recently found out the sex of the baby, and I immediately wanted to tell my close friend. My husband however, doesn't think we should tell people. I want to get a marker at the cemetery in remembrance, but he doesn't want people to know it was a girl. I am stuck between respecting my husband and having closure. Please help.
ffnurse

mortality

feeds@yuku.com (branmuffin23) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:48:34 GMT

Hi all,
I've read through the A Heartbreaking Choice website and comments. None of it seems to pin down what I'm going through. I think my situation, has spurred some sort of midlife crisis. I have no children. I've always thought that I would be fine, whether I had children or did not have children. I'm a very independent person, and yet, for the first time in my life I feel lonely.. For the first time in my life, I "need" a child. And for the first time...

Out in the Open

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