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My name is Jeanette, I am 29 years old and live on Long Island in NY. I have 2 beautiful little girls who are 4 years old and 7 months.

After waiting for about 2 1/2 years after my first daughter, my husband and I decided to have another baby. I had no troubles getting pregnant with my daughter and had a pretty uneventful pregnancy, so having a baby just seemed like something that was nothing really to worry about.

On March 2, 2000 I went in for my first ultrasound, I had my husband and my daughter with me because this was suppose to be something happy and exciting. I was told by the ultrasound tech that the baby’s heartbeat had stopped beating and that I would need a D&C. I thought that my world was going to come crashing down when I heard those words. We got through this with no help from a cold heartless doctor and planned to get pregnant again, after I had 2 normal cycles.

On May 24, 2000 I got my period and was so excited because we were going to FL and I would be ovulating right around the time we were there. My cycle this month however, was very weird. I had my period for 5 days it went away and then came back again but just very lightly, it lasted about 2 weeks. The whole time I was in Fl I kept having this horrible pain on my left side. I kept thinking that I must be ovulating, although I was still having this bright red staining.

When we got home, I did a home pregnancy test even though my period was still a week away and it came back with a very strong positive line. I was so happy because I thought that my hormones must really be kicking which meant a healthy pregnancy. The pain at this point had subsided.

On June 20, 2000 we go for our first ultrasound and I was told that I needed to go to the hospital for a stronger ultrasound, they thought that the “fetus” was in my right tube. I could not believe that this was happening to me again. At the hospital I had another sonogram and actually heard the baby’s heartbeat and just assumed everything was fine and maybe my doctor made a mistake. I was told to go back to my doctor's office. When we arrived there, we were taken right in and my doctor told me that I did have an ectopic pregnancy. It was at this point they also went on to tell me that my hormone level made it a viable pregnancy if it was in the right spot. Why I needed this information makes no sense to me.

I was given a shot of a drug called methotraxate. This is suppose to chemically take care of ectopics. I was sent home and told to come back in 48 hours for a blood test.

This morning at 6am I awoke in severe pain. I took 3 Tylenol and tried to go back to bed. I awoke again at 8am, I was having the cold sweats, passing a lot of clots and having pains that felt worse than labor. I called the doctor and they told me to come in at eleven. I told my husband to go to work (he does computer repair and support) it should have only taken him about an hour. About 10am I was having trouble breathing and I was almost passing out from the pain. An ambulance comes and takes me to the hospital where there is a team of people waiting for me. I have another ultrasound and I was taken to surgery almost immediately.

They took out my left tube due to the severity of the rupture. I lost more then half of my blood into my abdominal cavity and the lower lobes of my lungs collapsed due to the internal bleeding. I was in the hospital for 7 days, I needed blood transfusions, my incision was re-opened due to bleeding, and I was on IV antibiotics due to a high fever which they could not explain or find the source of infection. I was sent home with my incision open (a 5 inch bikini line cut) and had to have a nurse come change the dressing 2 times a day. My husband finally learned how to do this and it took about 7 weeks for it to heal.

This period of time was the worse time in my life. I felt like God for some reason was doing this to me, because I was not a good person. I remember crying to my Mom about why this would happen to me two times in less than three months. I felt totally alone and didn’t think anyone could feel the intensity of my sadness. It was around this time I found the ectopic pregnancy group. Just knowing that there are other women out there who have experienced the same thing as myself helps tremendously. I remember reading one of the members' story and being like "Oh my God, that could be me writing that." I hope this story helps and I try to believe that everything does happen for a reason.

On June 18^th of 2001, almost exactly a year later, I had a 9lbs 5oz little girl, who I believe was sent to me by my two angels.

My name is Kimberly, I am 31 years old. I had been trying to get pregnant for about ten years. Seven years from a previous marriage and three years in this marriage. Finally went to see a RE after my ob/gyn did a HSG test and found out both my tubes were blocked. They were somehow tucked under and attached to both ovaries.

The RE did a lab and unblocked the tubes, then started me on Clomid and HCG shot plus IUI (intrauterine insemination). As we also had a male factor of low sperm count and poor motility. After my second IUI I got pregnant,.but we knew something wasn't right from the beginning my first beta level was only 35, the second was 73, 3rd went to 85 but the fourth went back down to 72. But I wanted to wait till they could do a u/s and see where the baby was it was a long wait I was about 8 weeks along when the did a u/s nothing in the uterus.

However, they were pretty sure they could see something attached to the outside of my right tube. .The doctor gave me a choice between the metho shot or a lap I chose a lap because I just wanted it over with and he said it could take up to six weeks with the shot. Emotionally I didn't think I could handle that. It took us 9 more IUI's and I am currently 2 1/2 months pregnant, I'm due on August 28, 2002.