KIM ALLISON

My name is Kim Allison, I live in Dayton Ohio. I was 21 years old and 20 weeks pregnant when I found out I had a molar pregnancy. I am married to Rick for almost one year now. This would was our first pregnancy and our first child.

Throughout my pregnancy I thought everything I was experiencing was normal. I did not let myself get to excited about being pregnant, I wanted a baby sooooo bad, yet I didn't want to let myself get "attached " to the idea until I was past my first trimester. At 12 weeks I had an ultrasound and saw my "baby bean". My dr suspected twins, I was measuring larger than where I should have been. We only saw one baby, and one heart beating very fast and something tiny moving around very very fast..At that point I let my guard down, I was very excited. We heard the heartbeat a few weeks later, " Nice and strong", little did I know that I had another little bean who did not quite make it. That one had formed a complete molar pregnancy. I had twins with one normal fetus and one cm. My dr said that this is very rare.

At 20 weeks, I started having really bad swelling in my lower body, I could hardly move, My blood pressure was dangerously high.....I went to labor and delivery and they could not find a heart beat, an ultrasound was performed, and the baby was gone. I had a d&c and spent a few days in the hosptial because of the preeclampsia I had developed.

My hgc levels are falling and I am currently close to zero......I'm less than 10 right now 5 weeks post d&c. My dr tells me I probally won't have any problems with my future pregnancies and I should go on to have normal healthy babies....My dr wants me to wait to try to conceive until I have several zeros on the quants....The waiting period has go to be the hardest part of this whole mess. I am not a patient person so dealing with that alone is rough.

I am so glad I found this group. It helps me on a day to day basis to see I am not alone in this. Some of these women are currently ttc and some are pregnant after there molars, and some have had healthy beautiful babies after their molars. So I know there is HOPE. I pray to God for that day when I am holding my baby in my arms, I know God will answer my prayer.