I'm 28 years old and live in North East England with my husband and our 6 year old son. I work with adults who have learning difficulties and my husband is a student Nurse. We've been together for seven and a bit years and married for one and a bit!
Our song G was born at 32+3 weeks gestation and we were very lucky, he had no long term health effects and today he is a happy, healthy, funny and beautiful boy. It was still one of the hardest periods of my life, at the time there was no investigation as to why my waters broke, it was recorded as spontaneous rupture of the membranes and I have always wondered if it was something I did, something I ate or drank that made my waters brake.
G at around one day old.
We started trying for a second child in April 2014 and it took much longer than I thought it would. I hoped I would be pregnant by Christmas, that turned into summer and I spent the months leading up to our wedding in December 2015 hoping we would have a pregnancy to announce. Last Autumn was when we finally faced up to the fact that something wasn't right and our GP referred us to the local Fertility Centre. After lots of hormone tests and a very fun trip to the GP with a sperm sample they couldn't work out the problem and sent me for a hysterosalpingography examination where they inject dye through the cervix and X-ray the uterus to see if there are any blockages. I was told on the day of the examination that I likely had a blockage at the entrance of my right ovary and today I went back to the Fertility Centre where they told me I likely have a condition called Unicornuate Uterus, meaning that part of my womb and my right ovary are either missing or not connected properly. This would be the reason my son was born prematurely.
I've been really affected by the stress of not conceiving, I'm quite a sensitive person and I've spent most of the afternoon in tears. I've never written a blog before but I'm hoping that by doing so I can hear stories from other women going through similar things.
Thank you for reading this far.
E x
