Re: Sorry Dr Shanahan - just one more question.

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Dominant has no medical meaning other than it's bigger than any other folloicle seen. Usually, ovulation occurs once the follicle/cyst is 18-20 millimeters in diameter. If you don't ovulate one month, medically no big deal. If it becomes a reccurent failure to ovulate, Mother Nature is giving you a message to use some medical therapy.

Good luck.

> I am unsure what that means and whether that means I can
>still ovulate this cycle.

I'm unsure too based upn the terminology used.

> I know that it turns into a corpus lutuem
>after ovulation. I am becoming very impatient. The reason I am so
>anxious is that my previous pregnancy fourteen months ago was mismanaged
>and I was induced at 41 weeks too strongly after a previous Deep
>Transverse Arrest labour followed by a Violent and precipitate labour.
>With this history two doses of Prostins was not indicated. My labour
>then lasted less than two hours from first contraction to delivery and
>my baby was shot out with the cord around her neck as well. She was
>born flat with apgars of 2 4 and 5 with 8 at 20 minutes. She was
>intubated immediately and was breathing spontaneously at 20 minutes. She
>began tonic clonic seizures at 2 hours old and was airlifted to a large
>hospital. She stabilised and has had no seizures since. Her head
>ultrasound was clear but CT showed blurring over basal ganglia
>suggestive of a acute event. Her development is delayed somewhat but
>she is otherwise very healthy and happy. So maybe you can understand
>the importance of another pregnancy for all of us and particularly for
>Joanna who would alsono doubt benefit from a little brother or sister.
>Sorry to be so long winded. I have some people telling me yeh go for
>the Clomid but my husband and own GP are keen to let nature take its
>course. However that Mother Nature has let me down before!!!!!!
>
>Many thanks Olivia

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