random update: life after the 17th of July

[erychan86]

Okay. I am writing this post right after the last one, but I will post it tomorrow because I don't want to make too many posts in one day, especially since the last one was quite dry. If you missed it: HERE is a full on summary of my 2017 so far.

My last official random update post was posted on the 17th of July and it was written in ah hotel room

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[erychan86]

Yay indeed! It wasn't easy LOL! But after the flight over there I wasn't expecting anything different!

The Thyroid apparently is something very important. Apparently if it's too high it gets hard to get pregnant, and if it's high during the pregnancy you risk a miscarriage so I don't know why they don't check it in the US. Everything could be good but you can lose the kid any time because of it... I think it needs to be quite high for it to happen though. Mine is in range but the doctor wants it lower to prevent a lot of problems during childbirth... it can bring to severe bleeding and other problems...

If the thyroid is high during pregnancy (like way over range) the kid can have neurological issues too and they have no way to see what's wrong sometimes for years... That's why the Doctors here want you to check the thyroid hormones even before you get pregnant, because the kid develops his thyroid between week 9 and 10 and sometimes we're not sure we're pregnant during the first months...

Did the iron pill made you feel a little bit sick? Because my stomach doesn't like it very much... I have to take it on an empty stomach to make it work better but after an hour I start feeling a little bit sick!

I really hope Eric will be able to convince her too... He's a calm guy but she ofter "bullies" him and treat him like an errand boy, so I hope he'll man up and make her listen... It's hard to do so if you are a sweet guy and your mom acts like a child crying and yelling... He's not able to deal with that... He's too sweet!

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Oh yeah, I knew some of that. My good friend Nat has a thyroid condition and she had loads of trouble getting and staying pregnant and that was why. I didn't know about the neurological issues though! That's crazy! Why don't they check this beforehand? I mean maybe they do and I don't remember lol I had a bunch of blood tests at the fertility clinic too. They made sure I had been immunized for MMR and also STI's.

I think it did, but I'm not 100% sure. Are you taking vitamin c too? I used to take an iron pill called ferrera-c or something and it had it combined because vitamin c helps the absorption of iron or something.

[erychan86]

I think I did just two blood tests in the US during my pregnancy... Here they want you to do them as regularly as the urines so every time you are about to go see the doctor, but it's quite cheap to get it done even if you go private! A full blood work here it's not even 40$ and urine is like 3$... If you go public it's completely free!

I'm sorry to hear about your friend Nat... Thing is thyroid can change during pregnancy so it's a good thing always keep it in check...

Yep, vitamin C too, and my diet also contains a lot of vitamine C so I really hope the iron levels will raise soon! I will see the blood tests results tomorrow... I was hoping for them to take a little bit longer so I could have them on Monday since my ob/gyn appointment is on Tuesday and I really don't want to see something on them and get frustrated...