Meet Sam Redhead, Yorkshire, UK
*Trigger Warning*
Sam's story-
"2008 I suffered a neonatal loss of my daughter, Kaitlyn, who lived for 4 weeks . Never in my life did I ever think I would ever have to go through something so traumatic.
Following on from this, I suffered many miscarriages. After my 5th child, I chose to get sterilized. Involved in this 13 years, I was also suffering abuse from my ex husband. I ended the marriage in 2018 . A couple of months after I got talking to my childhood sweetheart, whom I never stopped thinking about , we got married. One year later, I chose to have a sterilization reversal.
I quickly got pregnant after it...but it ended in a chemical pregnancy & implantation failure...fast forward to 5 months later...I was pregnant again and this one turned out to be heterotopic, which luckily ended on its own.
Nov 11th, 2022
Jumping for joy at the sight of another positive pregnancy test, things were going smoothly. I had progesterone. Up until I got to my scan , the sonographer said they couldn't see anything. My heart was in my mouth at that point. The hospital took my hcg readings and the levels were 5.5k. Because of this, they started to treat it as a pregnancy of unknown location.
I went back the next day for a repeat ultra sound, and they found the sac; it was the right size etc for my gestation .
They said to come back in 10 days to re-check . A few days after, I started to bleed quite heavily with grape like clots ...they brought my scan back and there it was , half of my womb was covered in grape like clusters. The gyne told me he was 100% certain it was a molar pregnancy. The next day, I was rushed into surgery for removal. But after surgery, I continued to bleed , so back for another scan where it was found that there was retained products. I then went back for a hysteroscopy , ultrasound guided erpc, and had the rest removed. Before the second surgery, my hcg level had dropped from 100,000 to 10,000.
Forwarding on to the middle of January, I noticed tests fading, so I sent my first sample to Sheffield Molar Hospital, and on Friday the 3rd of February 2022, I had a very interesting phone call; this confirmed that I was clear & negative, no signs of choriocarcinoma or pesistant trophoblastic disease (PTD). I was absolutely delighted to hear this! I thought it was never going to end!
There's that empty space that iI long for with my husband our baby 😪 together. Every pregnancy announcement kills me inside, just wishing it was us, just once to feel that again with someone who adores me.
I hope my story can help others overcome this awful experience & see light at the end xx"
Sam's story-
"2008 I suffered a neonatal loss of my daughter, Kaitlyn, who lived for 4 weeks . Never in my life did I ever think I would ever have to go through something so traumatic.
Following on from this, I suffered many miscarriages. After my 5th child, I chose to get sterilized. Involved in this 13 years, I was also suffering abuse from my ex husband. I ended the marriage in 2018 . A couple of months after I got talking to my childhood sweetheart, whom I never stopped thinking about , we got married. One year later, I chose to have a sterilization reversal.
I quickly got pregnant after it...but it ended in a chemical pregnancy & implantation failure...fast forward to 5 months later...I was pregnant again and this one turned out to be heterotopic, which luckily ended on its own.
Nov 11th, 2022
Jumping for joy at the sight of another positive pregnancy test, things were going smoothly. I had progesterone. Up until I got to my scan , the sonographer said they couldn't see anything. My heart was in my mouth at that point. The hospital took my hcg readings and the levels were 5.5k. Because of this, they started to treat it as a pregnancy of unknown location.
I went back the next day for a repeat ultra sound, and they found the sac; it was the right size etc for my gestation .
They said to come back in 10 days to re-check . A few days after, I started to bleed quite heavily with grape like clots ...they brought my scan back and there it was , half of my womb was covered in grape like clusters. The gyne told me he was 100% certain it was a molar pregnancy. The next day, I was rushed into surgery for removal. But after surgery, I continued to bleed , so back for another scan where it was found that there was retained products. I then went back for a hysteroscopy , ultrasound guided erpc, and had the rest removed. Before the second surgery, my hcg level had dropped from 100,000 to 10,000.
Forwarding on to the middle of January, I noticed tests fading, so I sent my first sample to Sheffield Molar Hospital, and on Friday the 3rd of February 2022, I had a very interesting phone call; this confirmed that I was clear & negative, no signs of choriocarcinoma or pesistant trophoblastic disease (PTD). I was absolutely delighted to hear this! I thought it was never going to end!
There's that empty space that iI long for with my husband our baby 😪 together. Every pregnancy announcement kills me inside, just wishing it was us, just once to feel that again with someone who adores me.
I hope my story can help others overcome this awful experience & see light at the end xx"
