So we went in for our 5 wk first OB appt with the NP who was as kind as she could be. They said everything looked great. HCG had doubled, progesterone with great, did tons of blood work all negative except found I am a carrier of Beta Strep so they gave me antibiotics and said I would have to have an IV during labor. No problems, I can live with that.
Yesterday at 7w3d we went for our first ultrasound and they could only find the gestational sac, no embryo or yolk sac, just a perfectly round little gestational sac.
She said likely I would miscarry within the next few weeks. There is like .05% chance that I have a titled uterus so perhaps they could see the baby in the sac. It's incredibly strange because I have not had any cramping or bleeding. My breasts are incredibly huge and sore, I've had nausea, dizziness, emotional ups and downs, hot flashes and pretty much every typical symptom possible.
After spending most of the day yesterday crying I started looking online. Found several sites about misdiagnosed miscarriages, some crazy stories out there! So many stories about people waiting beyond 9-10 weeks before a D&C and later finding the baby. So that .05% glimmer of hope is there and probably will be I think until I actually see the miscarry.
Reality though, at this stage we should see development so we're trying to prepare our hearts for the inevitable. It's just hard not to analyze everything little thing and not feel like I did something wrong. We did blood work yesterday 12/29 and our HCG is at 15,000... the only thing we have to compare with was the early numbers of 12/1 at 23 and 12/3 at 55.
We go back in a week for another ultrasound and they will pull the hcg levels to see if it's decreasing. By week 7 the hcg should level off and is not multiplying as rapidly as in the first few weeks. I'll post here and on the blog to keep everyone up to date! Thanks in advance for your thoughts and prayers!
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