Miracle of Baby #2

After I had my miscarriage in February 2020, I was told a couple of times that this is a good sign that your body is ready and you will probably get pregnant really fast. Well, fast is relative, because that took about 20 months to happen again. 

In the back of my head, I was worried about my thyroid in being one of the issues of my miscarriage. Obviously it could be a host of reasons but it was lurking back there and I wanted to address it. I got my blood tested and even though it was in the range that I wanted it to be, I said, "can I please just have the smallest dose as a placebo?" 

What took me a long time to realize is that I guess I felt like I needed to do everything I could the second time as I did the first. I just wish I got on the ball with other practices much sooner. I was religious about tracking my cycles but still nothing happened for about a year. 

In the craziness of the move in May 2021, I called my midwife to say we were moving and to move my prescription over (I realized later that this is a very simple solution on its own without calling a doctor.) She asked how the trying was going and kind of hammered about Vitamin D and C. And she wanted to know if I wanted to be referred to a fertility specialist. On the fly, I said I wanted to wait 6 more months. I am so glad I followed my gut. Not that fertility specialists wouldn't have been helpful, I just wanted to see what more I could do in the next 6 months. 

And I was curious if changing our housing situation from being stressful all the time to more relaxed state would help. Well, a new stress just got added in June when I became the primary president but that's okay. It was pretty crazy for those first few months but soon it really only occupied a couple days of the week instead of 24/7. Austin started taking Vitamin C in June. Last time we tried to just up our Vitamin C content through bell peppers but 3 yellow bell peppers a day is a bit much and so I just had him supplement. His sperm count is on the lower end and even though there's not much you can do to increase your sperm count, vitamin C can help sperm quality (according to this study.) And the fact that the midwife said something about it too gave me the push to do it. And I upped my vitamin D content. 

But the last thing that we did last time that we still hadn't done this time around was see a chiropractor. Back in 2015 when I saw a chiropractor for my back, he mentioned that a couple who spent thousands of dollars on fertility treatment got pregnant as soon as the husband got adjusted. I know, I know, chiropractors are not all powerful gods that heal everything and that there are just things that don't align but it did intrigue me. Also, because my mother had similar success after multiple miscarriages. 

When I got pregnant the first time it was soon after Austin had seen a chiropractor a handful of times while I had seen him for a while. I kind of nudged Austin to set up an appointment here. And the chiropractor that Austin saw found out we were trying to get pregnant and said he heard that once the wife gets adjusted, then there's success. Well, I thought I was fine but maybe I really needed to be nudged to get an appointment because I soon started getting weird numbness, tingling in my fingers. It was like a burning sensation that would not stop. I wondered if it was something neurological that adjusting the spine could help.

And sure enough, the second cycle, not even a month after starting to see a chiropractor, I get pregnant. A miracle! Seriously. Will this work every time? Who knows but so far we are two for two! I have definitely learned my lesson to not wait so dang long. 

On my 5 weeks, 6 days (the same day I miscarried on my second pregnancy), I noticed my temperature had dropped on my Oura ring. I was starting to have a love/hate relationship with this ring. I was grateful for the information but I was worried every time I pulled up my body temperature. So when I found out that it dropped that day, my heart dropped too. I might have cried all morning just waiting for the cramping to start but it never did. Then my temp when up the next day. It was so weird how it happens like that. It's almost like there's a 50/50 chance on that day that either the baby will stick or not. I'm not sure but I'm just so grateful that it stuck this time! 

I've seen the heartbeat a couple of times and so far everything looks good. So happy for another June baby!