Answers at last

Finally the doctor called me back with the results of the pathology tests from the last miscarriage on June 19th. Much to my surprise, the cause WAS NOT chromosomal. It was considered a blighted ovum. The baby would have been a girl. It turns out my chromosomal test came back normal BUT it showed I have active parvo disease (Fifth disease) and the doctor believes that was a very probably cause of the demise of this pregancy. WOW-that was totally unexpected.

I am relieved that it was not chromosomal in a way. I still consider both my miscarriages to be flukes. This pregnancy was never right from the beginning with very low HCG numbers which concerned me. I don't know how I contacted the parvo. I don't work with kids or as a health care provider. I am a systems analyst with an office job. More than likely my daughter was a carrier and I did not know it. Neither her nor I were sick with rashes or any other tell tale signs of this virus. I guess all in all this pregnancy was not mean to continue to the end.

I am not giving up. I am feeling good that the third time will be a charm in 2006. Both miscarriages this year would have been girls. The baby I lost in Febrary was 9 weeks 3 days. Up to that point everything was normal and I felt good. Baby measured on target and at 7 weeks we had a heartbeat of 143. I was due Sept 10th and my birthday is Sept 5th. I always wanted a Virgo baby and had a strong feeling that one was a girl (I was right). We were totally floored when strong pains made me go to the doctor just to see if everything was alright and he discovered there was no heartbeat. I came back the next day, just to be sure, praying for once they would be wrong. They weren't and I had a D&C the following day. That loss really really hurts. For girls names we were down to Gia, Gina (husband's favorite) and Gianna (my favorite). When the other baby baptized was announced as Gianna, my face went pale and I started to tear up.

My daughter still claims she HAS a sister. I tell her maybe someday and she insists she already has one. Very strange. I feel so sad when she she starts talking abot that.

Well I am two days into my diet and so far so good. I am trying to make positive changes in my life and feel it is about time my luck changed for the better!! It's my time now!