I need to tell someone!

So we were told when I gave birth to my first child that we could not have any more babies. I have severe gestational diabetes I had a severe incompetent cervix I was hospitalized three times with preterm labor and it was just a mess.

I then got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and I had an iud placed in May and said fine I don’t want anymore.

People continued to ask and continued to tell me after I said that I couldn’t have any more that I would change my mind, proving my point that people don’t listen to first time moms or moms in general when they talk about having more children.

Anyway I’ve gotten super great control over my diabetes and I am on an insulin pump and as of right now my A-1 C has dropped 3% in three months. My diabetes doctor was like “Hey I see you are on the IUD if you change your mind and would like to have another baby I’m giving you permission to” and I was like what? Totally unsolicited I did not ask for permission so it was kind of weird. I ignored it and then a week later my OB called me because she’s been trying to get me to come in to have my strings tested to make sure my Iud is where it’s supposed to be.

While confirming my appointment with a nurse practitioner she jokingly says so have you changed your mind yet on having anymore kids? And I was like I don’t know why people keep asking me that because no I was told I couldn’t have any more kids, well the doctor that told me I couldn’t have any more kids wasn’t even my doctor he was a nicu doctor and I didn’t realize that until this conversation. (I knew he wasn’t my OB but he was in the delivery room and came back and talked to us after I gave birth.)

So my OB said well I see that your A1c has dropped and I see that you have great control now that you have an insulin pump, and now that we know how your body is while pregnant and we have some more control over things prior I think we should give it another try if you really want another one. (When I switch to her while I was already a few weeks pregnant we had talk to her about how many kids we wanted before the shit storm started. She knows that I wanted two kids close in age as close as physically possible without damaging or hurting my body.)

So I talk to my husband about it for over three weeks we got a sign off on my therapist psychiatrist diabetes doctor PCP and my OB to have another baby. So after much thought we decided what the hell why not give it a try! It took us two years to get pregnant with our first so I was supposed to have my IUD checked on Friday last week by the nurse practitioner and then have an additional appointment on the 22nd with my OB.

So I changed the appointment the day before and had them remove my IUD and then I was told to get ovulation tests and that I probably wouldn’t see a period until next month and then after I get my period to start tracking with my ovulation tests, well I got my period two days later! I had period cramps before I went and had my IUD removed. I did not get a period for September and my period for August was half ass at best. So I knew that I was technically already about to get my “period” by the means of the IUD so when they removed it I had told them this and they said that it could start as early as a few days and anything outside of spotting would be considered my period.

Well I’m now On cycle day 3, and they confirmed it’s my period! The cramps stopped before my iud removal, and then I didn’t have anything not even any blood till Sunday. I called the on call doc and they said yep! It’s your period!

Fingers crossed ladies! Let’s hope I get pregnant quickly! 

(Sorry for how long that was we decided to only tell a select few people!)