Oct 1, 2017
Gina, 20, Call Center Agent, young mom
Las Pinas City, Philippines
Eversince I had my period, I had a very irregular menstruation so I never bothered to check. Then in July, I felt small flutters in my tummy.
By that time, I was already a young mom for a 2 year old baby girl. And things weren’t okay with me and her father wherein I had to move out. Things were still messy, he was still a student, and I was an undergrad but working as call center agent. And was planning to work abroad.
In September 4, I took 3 pt’s that all said positive. And I told my daughter’s father about it. At first, we were both still in shock, because we were just starting over again with life, and we could barely provide for ourselves. But at the same time there was a feeling of happiness because we both love babies, and the idea of our daughter being a big sister was such a delight. However, we had to weigh out the pros and cons of it. And we came down to this heartbreaking decision.
It was the 16th of September when I started contacting project486. I was surfing the internet and stumbled upon an article regarding herbal method, it mentioned project486 as a plan b if incase the herbal method didn’t work. I went directly to them because I wasn’t sure if the herbal method was still going to work on me. And here on there, I communicated with Sir Alex and Sir John, whom I am very thankful of for helping me get another chance in life, they were very accomodating and they’ll make sure you’re safe in any possible way they can. After we talked about the details, I took my transV ultrasound and also ordered the meds.
We decided to start on a Thursday, which was the 28th of September, so that my partner would be able to accompany me on the 3rd day which would fall on a Saturday. It was a little hard for me during the fasting and the diets, because you’re resisting food and you had limited options. But I’m proud to say that I’ve overcome that hardship. Haha!
Fast forward to Saturday wherein it was misoprostol day. It was a bearable day for me, thankfully I didn’t get any side effects. Before I was going to take my last dose, I went to urinate first, and there goes my first discharge of clots and tissues. I was relieved that there wasn’t a tinge of pain with it. After that, later in the day the cycle would just repeat. Urinate and discharge. The hard part for me was cleaning the clots and tissues, because there were barely any flesh and almost everything was in small particles. I was afraid I might squish it.
Then my last discharge came around 9:10 PM. It was big lump of flesh that was covered in blood. I immediately cleaned it, and sent all the photos to Sir Alex & Sir John. Then later on, I was relieved when I got the text message that said that I was no longer pregnant. I had mixed emotions, I was sad that I lost one of the things that could bring me absolute happiness, and happy because we could continue all the plans we had.
On my day 4, even though it was supposed to be my rest day, we managed to go to church with our babies. And later in the day we also buried her/him. This part of my life wasn’t easy, but I can say that it was worth it. Again, I would like to thank everyone in project486. I hope you’ll be able to keep helping other individuals like me.