After developing Pregnancy Associated Cardiomyopathy during my last pregnancy we were told to avoid another one. Our son is now 15 months old and the shock of my life happened when I found out yesterday I was pregnant again. I spent most of the night awake, thinking, crying, smiling, crying, worrying and just overall running through every emotion imaginable. We wanted another child and were going to think about looking into adoption in another couple of years, and out of the blue two little lines showed up on a pregnancy test.
Our son JD is our only child but he was our 4th pregnancy. Because of the multiple miscarriages the doctors put me on progesterone suppositories for the first 13 weeks of JD’s pregnancy. I hated them, they are messy and made my moods CRAZY. Today I was told I needed to start them again. On top of the hormone I have appointments with my OB and my cardiologist within the next 2 weeks.
I have a feeling this is going to be a bumpy ride. I don’t plan on saying a word to anyone as long as possible since it is such a shock but since I’m in school to be a massage therapist I do have to let the school know. It may mean people find out much sooner than I’d like. I pray the heart failure stays away and that we won’t have to deal with the cardiomyopathy this time around but I guess we’ll see how things go.
