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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who have had one, I'm curious - what's it like to have a "normal," "natural" pregnancy?  Like, one where you find out you're pregnant b/c you miss a period?  Obviously you don't do all the injections, ER, etc.  But do you still do beta tests?  Ultrasounds at 6 weeks (or whatever it is)?  If you've been pregnant both "naturally" and via IVF, did you worry equally once you got past BFP stage?  I'm really just curious.    [/quote]

I did 9 IVF cycles with an ectopic and 2 miscarriages as a result of those cycles. I was considering other options when I discovered I was pregnant naturally at 43. I only discovered it when I POS to get my period started to do a saline sonogram to see I could/should do DE (thought fibroids had grown back).

Since I was still technically under the care of my RE when I got pregnant naturally, I did all of the typical monitoring I did with my other pregnancies. The one key difference on my natural pregnancy was that my first beta was exponentially higher than any other pregnancy (2300 on 18dpo vs. under 300 at the same time for the others) and doubled solidly. The RE u/s were all picture perfect and the h/b was high. I think the solid start set me up to feel much more confident and more relaxed about my natural pregnancy. I am not sure how I would have felt not doing the monitoring with my last pregnancy. Since I knew the deal, I might have worried that things weren't going right and I would have no way of knowing. Whatever the case, I delivered a perfectly healthy boy 2.5 years ago.[/quote]

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