As I reflect on 2017, I have to admit I am feeling pretty split about this past year. The sucky part about this year aside from the political climate was the fact I lost my baby. On the brighter side of things, I’m ending the year with my dream home and about to celebrate with my dearest family and friends. Here’s a look back on my 2017.
January
Hosted our final New Year’s Eve party at our old house
Started seeing a chiropractor regularly. I go The Joint Chiropractic, and what makes it easy is there are multiple locations both by where I work and where I live.
Had our last family dinner in town with Joshua’s adopted family. They moved to Washington shortly after.
Me, Joshua, Danielle, and Adam helped Dani move out of our house and into her new apartment! Little did we know that 7 months later we would be moving into a house right down the street from her.
Did intake with the RN and got all my bloodwork done for pregnancy.
Easter Sunday we called/FaceTimed Joshua’s adopted parents to tell them I was pregnant. Later in the day we celebrated Easter at my parents house in which I surprised them with a special Easter basket to announce my pregnancy.
I had my first trimester screening at 12 weeks. Got to see my baby bouncing around and everything was looking good. Also had my next checkup with my OB and we heard the heartbeat.
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I also started watching all the Fast & the Furious movies for the first time as part of a challenge: my coworker would watch all the Star Wars movies if I watched all the FATF movies.
June
Had my Week 16 prenatal checkup with my OB. We heard the heartbeat just fine, but it was at this point that my baby supposedly stopped growing.
Met with my new primary care physician (PCP) to figure out why I was still coughing almost two months after having bronchitis. Not much they could do or determine since I was pregnant.
I went in for what was supposed to be my 20 week anatomy scan and instead found out I had another missed miscarriage. Later that week I had a D&E officially ending my second pregnancy. By far the absolute worst thing to happen to me all year. Five months later and a TON of testing, I still don’t have answers as to why it happened.
My coworker went to D23 and got me SHAG’s Pirates of the Caribbean prints!
My property finally closed, and I was paid the remaining money owed from when I first sold it.
Finished reading Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month, a book that was given to me by OB’s office back when I first got pregnant. It had some good info on dealing with loss as well.
August
Heard from my doctor who performed my D&E. Pathology report came back normal. No chromosomal abnormalities. Baby was a girl.
Saw my PCP and got full blood work panel done. Results came back completely normal. Got referral to see new OBGYN.
Started seeing a nutritionist. Was told that my diet needed to be gluten-free, dairy-free, and (added) sugar-free.
Met with my new OBGYN. I got tested for clotting disorders, autoimmune, and various hormones to see how my PCOS is doing. Joshua and I also got genetic karyotyping done, and I got the green light to go back on my Metformin.
Started seeing a therapist.
Got an estimate from our painter for painting the whole exterior of our old house. We ended up firing him in December due to lack of professionalism, dragging out the job, and not wanting to finish. That was a stressful experience!
We found a house we fell in love with and wanted to put an offer in. Our agent called theirs and it turned out the house was already in escrow. A week later things weren’t going well, so we we put in a backup offer. Unfortunately the buyers lifted their contingencies, and the house was set to close much to our dismay.
Went on family vacation up in Washington. Got to spend the whole week with Joshua’s adopted family in their new home.
Had follow-up with my OBGYN. All test results came back normal. My AMH levels were a little low, so I got a referral to see a Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE).
Celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. We had dinner at The Melting Pot.
I had my consult with the RE. Everything looked good and she had me do one more test. Results from those blood tests showed I’m not immune to rubella, so I had to get the MMR vaccine and wait three months before I can try to get pregnant again. Once I do get pregnant they’ll monitor me more closely and put me on supplemental progesterone and baby aspirin for a time.
Joshua and I went on vacation in Hawaii during the week of Thanksgiving. This was a means to be out of town during the week of both my due date and anniversary of my miscarriage. We had an amazing time!
The day after we got back from Hawaii we moved into our new home!
December
Had our annual work holiday party, and this year it was at Centro. We had a very good time if you know what I mean 🍸🥃 which is why there were basically no photos 😆.
We fired the painters we hired originally for our old place and hired the ones that did our new place to finish the job and paint the interior. Shortly after that was done we met with our realtor and put our house up on the market!
Celebrated Dani’s 25th birthday seeing her dance performance and then going out to a yummy steak dinner with the family!
We had our first official get-together at the new place. Since we were going out of town for Christmas we celebrated a little early with some family and friends.
We celebrated Christmas in Washington with Joshua’s adopted family. It was nice to getaway for a couple of days!
Had a belated Christmas with my family.
Ended the year with our annual New Year’s Eve party. This year we turned into a housewarming party as well.