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Pregnant after 35
lattemom
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Intro and help please
lattemom
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I've been lurking for weeks now. I always meant to post an intro but never had time. I really hate to post an intro and ask with the same post. I am latte mom, 35., I have a 4 year DD. I am currently 7 weeks pregnant. Last Friday, I had an appointment with my OB and a transvaginal ultrasound. There was no hb on us and I was measuring about a week behind. Also, the sac was low in my uterus and my uterus was enlarged on the ultrasound. The OB said she wanted to repeat the ultrasound in a few days. She also did labs and started me on progesterone. I went back yesterday. Still no hb on ultrasound but the sac was not as low. The ultrasound tech told me I should have had more growth and she thought I was experiencing a miscarriage. We then had to wait an hour to see the doctor. We waited in the room and when she came in we were expecting her to tell us what the ultrasound tech already had. However, she said she wasn't ready to throw in the towel yet. My beta from Friday was 12887 and my progesterone was 44.2. She redrew my beta yesterday and scheduled me to come back next Tuesday for another ultrasound. Her office cAlled with my Beta results. They were 13667, so still rising but not doubling. The nurse asked if I had been having any bleeding (no) or cramping (some but not bad). She said to just keep my appointment next week but to call if I started bleeding this weekend. Her tone seemed like she experts me to miscarry this weekend. I really don't know what to feel right now. I'm trying to prepare myself for the worse. However, since the beta did rise I wonder if I still have some hope. I also wonder if I was maybe originally pregnant with twins based on my progesterone levels and one has vanished and that is why the beta is rising but not doubling. I don't want to have hope if there is none but I am nervous about having 13 people over to my house tomorrow if I might miscarry at any moment. Any help, positive or not, would help. And again, sorry to post an intro and ask for help in the same post. I don't know anyone IRL that has dealt with this.
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Re: Intro and help please
Also, I am very sorry about your losses.
I had a miscarriage last year at 7 weeks. It was very light at first (actually always remained lighter than a normal period) so I kept thinking the whole time there was some mistake and it was just heavy spotting. No HB, and the sac measured 5 weeks when it should have measured 7. I learned that the size of the sac begins to decrease and is usually a week ahead of when the pregnancy was no longer viable. So for me, the pregnancy ended at 6 weeks, I started to bleed at 7 weeks, and that is why it was measuring 5 weeks.
So though I hope beyond hope that this is not the case for you, it sounds like since you were at 7 weeks, and measuring 6 weeks, that the pregnancy may have just become not viable, and that may be why your beta is still rising - your body hasn't fully realized it yet to begin the true miscarriage process.
If this is a miscarriage, I will offer that I was 35 when mine happened, and I was convinced that my fertility was somehow damaged and I'd never get pregnant or maintain a pregnancy again. Now I am 36 and 22 weeks with an extremely healthy, developing baby-in-tow (and it happened with one night of sex at ovulation b/c my husband was traveling for work that whole month - so we only had one shot - so no problems with fertility) ... so though it is sad and seems terrible at the time it is happening, I just feel like it wasn't the right time for that baby and it is right time for this one.