It happened to me

spunkyprincessmande · April 2011

In one of my parenting magazines they have a little article about some freakish thing that happened to a mom or her child (child's hair got caught in the electric mixer, something fell on the child's head while he was climbing on the shelves at the store, etc.). Well, here's what mine would be.

Last week I took a pregnancy test and got a positive. Yesterday I started bleeding so we went to the hospital for bloodwork/ultrasound. Long story short: they found no gestational sac on the u/s and my HCG levels were 0. I was never pregnant. I got a false positive. So weird. We're completely shocked, to say the least.

SuperThat1006 · April 2011

I'm so sorry.

theprincessPAT · April 2011

I'm so sorry. I don't want to make this worse, but it sounds like you had a chemical pregnancy.

"A chemical pregnancy is the clinical term used for a very early miscarriage. In many cases, the positive pregnancy test was achieved before the woman?s period was due but a miscarrige occured before a heartbeat was able to be seen on an ultrasound."

LadyExtravaganza · April 2011

Oh, I'm so sorry.

AverysMom1118 · April 2011

I'm so sorry.

Marielle0430 · April 2011

I'm sorry

NoCode10 · April 2011

I'm so sorry.

J+MS · April 2011

theprincessPAT:
I'm so sorry. I don't want to make this worse, but it sounds like you had a chemical pregnancy.
"A chemical pregnancy is the clinical term used for a very early miscarriage. In many cases, the positive pregnancy test was achieved before the woman?s period was due but a miscarrige occured before a heartbeat was able to be seen on an ultrasound."

But her HCG levels wouldn't have been 0.

neferhathor · April 2011

like all the pp's, i'm so sorry. how are you feeling about it all?

Mrs.Honeybear · April 2011

J+MS:
theprincessPAT:

I'm so sorry. I don't want to make this worse, but it sounds like you had a chemical pregnancy.

"A chemical pregnancy is the clinical term used for a very early miscarriage. In many cases, the positive pregnancy test was achieved before the woman?s period was due but a miscarrige occured before a heartbeat was able to be seen on an ultrasound."

But her HCG levels wouldn't have been 0.

that's true. i had 3 CPs and with each one, my HCG levels still took like 2 weeks to get below 5 and i had to have BW ever 4 days to make sure.

spunkyprincessmande · April 2011

neferhathor:
like all the pp's, i'm so sorry. how are you feeling about it all?

Thanks. Uh, both DH and I kind of have mixed feelings about the whole thing. I was feeling a lot of guilt (M would still be a baby and not get the attention he deserves, the baby wouldn't get the attention it deserves, etc.) and very overwhelmed, but we had grown used to the idea. We've always wanted our kids to be close in age, just not that close. Embarrassed So, we're sad that I'm not pregnant, but grateful for the extra time with just Micah. He's getting lots of extra cuddles today, too! Wink