One Mum's Story: Rebecca Cross

I'd like to share my story. I was diagnosed with endometriosis and polycystic ovaries when I was about 20 years old after suffering from sporadic yet horrendous periods since I was 17 years old. I'd go months without one then all of a sudden be hit with heavy and painful periods lasting seven to ten days.

As I'd heard heaps of stories that it would be very hard for me to conceive naturally I'd just given up any hope of having children. I was in a committed relationship at the time and never used protection thinking that I would never fall pregnant but if by some miracle I did that I would be extremely happy. But I never did and after six years together we broke up. He then got another girl pregnant which devastated me. I went on thinking that I was unable to have any children of my own.

More years went by and I fell in love with a wonderful man. After a routine hysteroscopy to corterise the 15 cysts on my left ovary and the 20 on my right I was given a short course of the pill to try and regulate my hormones in the hope that just maybe I would fall pregnant. Three months went by and I had not had a period since the month before the procedure which I did think strange as I'd taken the two courses of the pill prescribed by my gynaecologist. But because of my past history I just thought nothing of it.

For those three months my mother had been suggesting that I was pregnant as I was putting on some weight and uncharacteristically holding most of it in the front as apposed to my thighs and butt where I'd normally hold it. I just dismissed it but one day I noticed that I was leaking fluid from my nipples and started freaking out as I had no idea what it could be. So I called my mum and asked her if anything like that had happened to her, she suggested I do a pregnancy test telling me that it was hormonal and a pregnancy would explain it. Still thinking it not possible I took a pregnancy test and sure enough it was positive.

Now I was totally freaking out. Thinking that I could only be a maximum of two weeks along but because I couldn't be sure I was sent for an ultrasound. My partner and I were so excited on the way there he kept singing 'we're gonna see the peanut' as we'd read that would be all we'd be able to see this early in the pregnancy. We were waiting for the lady to set up the machine when she suggested that if she can't get an image I would need an internal. She then put the ultrasound devise on my belly and wow what a shock we got when my baby had arms and legs already. She did all the measurements and told us that we were 15 weeks and 5 days along already. I nearly fell of the bed - we'd even missed the sea horse stage!

On the way home we traced back over the dates and realised that I must have been about two weeks pregnant when I had the hysteroscopy. So my cysted ovaries had managed to release a viable egg and in the small window of opportunity it had to be fertilised it was, not only that it survived the procedure.

We now have a six week old beautiful, healthy baby girl born 9 pounds 4 and a half ounces four days before her due date. And I couldn't be happier. So for all those women suffering from endo and PCOS that are told they'd never conceive naturally there is hope for you yet so never write it off.

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