I had a Mounjaro baby

00:00:00: Hey guys, my name is Carla and this is my podcast by Stay Calm Baby Mama.

00:00:06: it's about my pregnancy journey, postpartum babies growing up parenting and everything in between.

00:00:14: Today's episode is about my pregnant journey and my birth story.

00:00:20: I would like to start with how i found out that was pregnant so... My baby wasn't planned!

00:00:26: My husband and I had been trying for a baby few months prior.

00:00:30: um.. It wasn't working.

00:00:32: So I took the pressure off, decided to go back on the pill and thought you know what?

00:00:36: I'm gonna make myself a little bit happier instead.

00:00:39: And I want to lose some weight now.

00:00:40: Now I am not very good at losing weights.

00:00:44: I love my food.

00:00:46: I do like exercise.

00:00:47: I walk for dogs.

00:00:48: I ride my horses.

00:00:49: I'm not shy of hard work but there's always been around a stone or so that have always just been a little heavier than I would like generally around a size twelve, and I would prefer to be in between the ten-and-twelve.

00:01:03: So i thought you know what?

00:01:05: I'm going try these menjaro injections!

00:01:08: And here goes our story... so I started on Menjaro.. ..and I'd probably been on it for maybe six weeks I would say.... ...so I think I started at the April and actually got pregnant around the first week of May..... ....so definitely hadn't done that very long.

00:01:26: At the time the NHS were saying that Manjaro can, in a very small percentage effect any contraception you are taking.

00:01:37: Of course I said wouldn't be me!

00:01:39: No it's not gonna happen to me.

00:01:41: we've been trying to have a baby and its not happened.

00:01:44: That was NOT the case.

00:01:45: so i did end up pregnant.

00:01:47: We DID NOT know that I was pregnant.

00:01:50: I had been taking lots of pregnancy tests prior to this and i kept saying to everybody, no!

00:01:55: I must be the virgin Mary if...I'm pregnant.

00:01:58: I'm definitely not

00:01:59: pregnant.".

00:02:00: So it started to get quite unwell ,i was losing weight.

00:02:03: so i'd lost about three stone within about nine weeks starting the injections.

00:02:10: .So i was losing quite a lot of weights but also really poorly.. getting these horrible sharp pains in my stomach, um sort of... In the middle of my stomach that would radiate through to my back.

00:02:23: I was nauseous all of the time never really sick!

00:02:28: Really really nauseous.

00:02:29: so i wasn't eating..I was barely being able to drink because things were just making me feel really poorly.... I'd could sleep for days ,i wasn't being able work properly..... So i just felt generally terrible And that's when my journey started with the doctors.

00:02:46: So I'd been to and from The Doctors a few times.

00:02:49: they had said, well i think it's time you go into hospital have some scans because there were querying maybe gallstones or pancreatitis.

00:02:59: so...I've actually been in and had a scan an internal abdomen.. I can't exactly remember what is was called.

00:03:08: oh!

00:03:09: It has an ultrasound scan.

00:03:10: everything looked fairly normal, so they said go home if things get worse come back and see us.

00:03:16: Things did get worse!

00:03:18: And I'd basically stopped eating completely because every time i ate or thought about food...I was actually being sick..and the pain was

00:03:26: terrible!!

00:03:27: I was sleeping such a lot that my family were really quite worried....that there was something really wrong.....so we shipped back off to the hospital and they said okay It's been a good few weeks now.

00:03:39: so I've been experiencing these symptoms for about six weeks, i would say.

00:03:44: So they said it is time that we get you in for a CT scan!

00:03:49: and one of the last things they do before they send you up for the scan is take a urine sample.

00:03:54: Of course, that urine sample came back when I was pregnant.

00:03:57: so the way we found out my husband and i were on our way to the CT scan, wondering about the corridors... On our way into the scan this lovely nurse comes running behind us saying stop!

00:04:09: We're like what happened?

00:04:10: And she said it's positive.

00:04:12: My husband and I looked at each other really like What's

00:04:14: positive?!

00:04:15: and she's like, I should be waiting for the doctor to tell you this but... You're pregnant!

00:04:19: And we looked at each other.

00:04:20: There was a big pause.

00:04:21: then we kind of went oh okay.

00:04:26: so they then took us down and said right now that we know that your pregnant.

00:04:29: you actually can't go in with the cc scan because We need to know what the effects are for the baby.

00:04:35: So go away think about things see how you cope, obviously need to stop the injections and come off of your contraception.

00:04:43: And see how you get on!

00:04:45: So we actually went inside in Nando's had this conversation instead right?

00:04:49: This is happening.

00:04:50: y'know We're gonna be parents at that point.

00:04:55: I was ten weeks pregnant by then found out um so yeah it was a real shock to the system and as soon as we'd found out that we were sat in Nandi's having a discussion about this me barely able to eat anything.

00:05:10: but then knowing I was growing a little life, like you must eat.

00:05:13: You've got to eat something because its not just private baby scan because I said, i need to know as much information about this.

00:05:24: As I possibly can?

00:05:25: Because I was worried to death that me being on manjaro and on contraception...I didn't know it could cause an abnormality a deformity anything!

00:05:34: I could be doing something completely wrong and that's harming my baby.

00:05:38: And I didn't even know that I- I was doing it so..i booked the private scan straight away just for some peace of mind because I couldn't actually get in see a midwife or the NHS scans until twelve weeks and I was actually late getting my scan, it between twelve to fourteen weeks.

00:05:54: The private scan came around.

00:05:56: that's when things really hit home.

00:05:58: It got a little life inside of you.

00:06:03: Not great timing for us but... there is never a right time and actually it has made my husband and I grow up such a lot.

00:06:11: It's actually been fantastic, we stopped spending money on holidays and been left to be more practical.

00:06:17: so we bought our house three years prior to this!

00:06:20: And it had no central heating We didn't mind because we just had the log burner and made everybody sweat when they came into out-house Because the logburner heated our house.

00:06:30: So we had to get really warm in front room To heat rest of the house As soon as we found out that were obviously having a baby, I said right this winter's got to be different because A baby cannot be sweating in the front room or will just stop using it.

00:06:45: So We had an air source heat pump.

00:06:47: as you can hear my little girl is awake again now so she may Be joining us for the rest of this podcast?

00:06:54: Yeah That was My Finding Out Pregnant finding out i Was pregnant story.

00:07:01: So things did actually start to get a bit better for me thereafter.

00:07:04: I think the combination of The Menjaro and my contraception, everything was just fighting against each other and it was making me so poorly...I continued to have some sickness and nausea but that was baby-related likely rather than the pancreatitis they were initially thinking..so i tried to look after myself got back on prenatals.

00:07:29: Generally, my pregnancy there was pretty smooth sailing.

00:07:32: Not so much for my husband because I did develop the pregnancy nose and... The smell of my husband repulsed me!

00:07:39: I didn't know that it was even a thing!

00:07:41: It's been a big learning curve for us both.

00:07:44: I had to change his washing powder as he wore his work clothes which always smelled the worst.

00:07:52: I was getting used to eating a lot of spicy food because i did enjoy spicy food and it didn't really have any cravings.

00:07:58: but i did eat more sweet things than normal.

00:08:01: I'm more a savoury over-sweet, but through my pregnancy i definitely enjoyed sweet treats mostly jelly sweets!

00:08:08: A lot of sugary jelly sweets...I did enjoy these um..but then we kind of get on into the bits that weren't that great.

00:08:16: so I had an anterior placentis, for those of you that don't know.

00:08:21: That is where the placenta sits on a wall in your stomach and it's sitting infront of baby.

00:08:25: so...the babies basically cushioned.

00:08:28: Nothing wrong with that!

00:08:30: A lot women do have anterior placentes but i was told very early-on not to feel my baby until at least twenty four weeks.

00:08:38: now some guidance out there says its actually wrong.

00:08:42: you should be feeling things before that, but it might just feel a bit more cushioned so you might not feel as much.

00:08:48: I started feeling my little girl at around twenty three weeks.

00:08:52: all i could describe her as was flutters.

00:08:55: imagine the butterfly sort of flapping around...that's kind of how it felt to me..was maybe a butterfly flying around in my belly.

00:09:01: um that is any way i can really describe it!

00:09:05: So i had that for about a week and then at all for a few weeks.

00:09:11: So I did have my twenty four week appointment with my midwife and i've mentioned this, she said okay well now you're over twenty-four weeks!

00:09:20: I think it's time that you get... what do they call?

00:09:30: It is time to go to your MAU and then put on... not scintigraphy.

00:09:35: Postpartum brain.