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countrymom
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Posted: March 07 2015 at 4:41pm \| IP Logged

My Amish neighbor has been trying to have a baby for 3 years. She finally conceived but lost it at 2 mths. I am buying her Fertility Cycles and Nutrition. I am wondering if anyone has any good links or books that discuss progesterone therapy to sustain a pregnancy. Apparenty she was taking it when she conceived, but stopped when she got pregnant.
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Posted: March 07 2015 at 5:19pm \| IP Logged

Caroline at The Modest Mom just has gone through a similar thing and now has been using progesterone in her current pregnancy. She has several very interesting and informative posts that might be helpful:
Modest Mom progesterone posts

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Posted: March 09 2015 at 12:38pm \| IP Logged

If you're on progesterone (and we're not talking about the herbals like wild yam) then you should be staying on it until the placenta is able to take over.. it's like around 2 months I think.

But anyway I do have a friend who needs extra progesterone to sustain pregnancy and she has a doc that will prescribe it. But a lot of them act like it's no big deal and won't actually do anything to help a pregnancy, some to the point of refusing to prescribe it.

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Posted: March 09 2015 at 5:50pm \| IP Logged

Even the wild yam should be continued according to my dr

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Posted: March 10 2015 at 12:36pm \| IP Logged

I was on progesterone with two of my pregnancies. It isn't something to take lightly and I was monitored closely for the first three months of those pregnancies. I know for one of them I got frequent blood tests to make sure my levels were in the right place to sustain the pregnancy.I don't remember if for the other one the tests were as often but I had experienced two miscarriages before that one so they were being extra careful. It had to be tapered off correctly to make sure the pregnancy continued successfully. I did have low progesterone levels which were verified.

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Posted: March 10 2015 at 6:27pm \| IP Logged

I should probably just give her the phone numbers of the NAPRO dr.'s in our area.

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