2014 April Rainbows

[morganwhite7]

WOW!!! That is great news to my ears

I am hoping it was just too early to tell, I was 4w6d for the US, which is usually too early to see anything. I am crossing every finger and toe!!!

But the bleeding did stop, only happened that one time. But it was a good amount. So time will tell, we are trying to get an ultrasound for next week so we won't have to wait til 7 weeks. But tomorrow I get another Quantitative hCG test so we'll see how that number grows

 

[vietmamsie]

Morgan, those are crazy high numbers! At 4 weeks mine was only 62, and at 5 weeks 1,140 something.

AT my 4 week scan there were just two tiny little spots on the US. The doctor honestly asked me if there were two lines on the hpt when I took it. I'm not an idiot! They said they didn't think it looked like a pregnancy. 2 weeks later I had a heart beat, and one of the little dots had grown into a pregnancy.

Honestly, normal doctors are not used to doing such early scans. I think fertility specialists would have a better eye on these early scans. Don't give up, it was just too early. Your numbers seem to high for an Ectopic for sure.

 

[Lisa85]

Morgan, being in limbo must be very hard! ill keep all my fingers and toes crossed for you as well! My hcg at 4 and a half weeks was like 639.
Try not to drive yourself crazy with Dr Google... you can really find anything going both ways. Try keep busy till the next blood test and scan.

 

[Mahoghani]

Ultrasound did not go well. I don't know if I should be worried or if the techs were just morons or both. They wouldn't let me see the screen and never showed me what they were looking at just kept whispering to each other. The only thing they said was that I was measuring "really small." Didn't tell me how small. Either didnt find a hb or didnt bother to show it to me. This chick actually tried to tell me I should get an hcg test that hcg is more acurate for dating in early pregnancy. I mean... seriously? It was a dating ultrasound. Thats the whole point. My midwife told me I would only have two scans and now I'm really upset that I wasted one. And how small? Are we talking like a few days behind or 3 weeks behind? The way they were whispering reminded me of how uncomfortable everyone was when they were avoiding telling me that Silver was dead. I am convinced the baby stopped growing and I am going to lose this one too and i just cant stop crying.. The ultrasound was hard enough. The last time I had one was to "confirm fetal demise" so I was already nervous and scared and they just made it worse. I am so depressed and I think being so upset is making ms worse.
My next appointment isn't until the 3rd. I'm not sure if I'm over reacting or if I should call her. Or if she'd be able to tell me anything if I did call her ?

 

[Lindsay109]

Morgan, sorry to hear you're still in limbo! Those numbers are really high for 5 weeks... I would also guess it's likely not ectopic with those numbers. Hopefully you'll get some good news tomorrow!

Mahoghani, I'm really sorry the ultrasound did not go so well. If I were you I would call the midwife, she may have a report from the ultrasound or perhaps could even call and find out. The 3rd is almost a week away and that's a long time to be waiting for news... I don't think you are over reacting. Good luck hun, I'll keep my fingers crossed for a positive outcome!

 

[Lisa85]

Mahoghani, i would also ring your midwife. Its not acceptable that they didnt give you more information. Good or bad news you need to know. i think at 9 weeks they should have been able to find a hb. My baby is measuring a few days behind but they said that was fine.
Im so sorry you are going through this. i would be going mental at them. ring them
Please keep us updated and we are here for you.

 

[IcePrincess]

Mahoghani that is what happened to me last jan at my us. They kept saying I was not as far along as I thought. I should have been 12 weeks. They flew out of the room and were no where to be found when I was dressed. They are usually not allowed to give out info about the scan. Mw called us a few hours later when she got the report. Sadly not good news. Fingers crossed and praying yours is better news. I would call if you don't hear from your mw tomorrow. Thinking of you

 

[Wendyk07]

Ultrasound did not go well. I don't know if I should be worried or if the techs were just morons or both. They wouldn't let me see the screen and never showed me what they were looking at just kept whispering to each other. The only thing they said was that I was measuring "really small." Didn't tell me how small. Either didnt find a hb or didnt bother to show it to me. This chick actually tried to tell me I should get an hcg test that hcg is more acurate for dating in early pregnancy. I mean... seriously? It was a dating ultrasound. Thats the whole point. My midwife told me I would only have two scans and now I'm really upset that I wasted one. And how small? Are we talking like a few days behind or 3 weeks behind? The way they were whispering reminded me of how uncomfortable everyone was when they were avoiding telling me that Silver was dead. I am convinced the baby stopped growing and I am going to lose this one too and i just cant stop crying.. The ultrasound was hard enough. The last time I had one was to "confirm fetal demise" so I was already nervous and scared and they just made it worse. I am so depressed and I think being so upset is making ms worse.
My next appointment isn't until the 3rd. I'm not sure if I'm over reacting or if I should call her. Or if she'd be able to tell me anything if I did call her ?

Omg! There is no way they should have left you wondering like this. It's cruel. Please call them. Don't wait a week Hun. X

 

[vietmamsie]

Totally agree with Lisa, CALL YOUR MIDWIFE> That is nuts that they didn't give you any information, or even let you look at the screen. Is that even legal?? I am upset for you. It reminds me of all the ultrasounds I have had in the past year and a half with doctors that spoke little to no english, the whispers, strange questions, doubts that I was even pregnant (Happened with this one and the one I lost in Feb). I am so sorry you had to go through this... I hope you hear good news from your midwife. By 9 weeks the baby should be pretty clearly there, could your dates be off? Why were there two of them? Maybe they were just in training and had no idea what to look for?

 

[morganwhite7]

Morning ladies.. My 2nd Quantitative hCG test is today, to see if things have progressed. I'm having a LOT more pain on the right today. Since there was something in my uterus, I am suspecting twins, one in my tube. They run in both sides of the family. So pray for me, will update with results, we aren't going til about 4

 

[Karinama98]

Twins run in my family too - two of my siblings had twins, so my husband was really hoping for a pair (for me thankfully it's only a single).

Hoping it is an egtopic twin pregnancy though. After what you've been through, you don't need this.

 

[c.m.c]

Morgan my last pregnancy was twins with one in the tube.

I hope your numbers come back good

Magohoni.....I hope you get some answers soon. How can they let u go and say nothing to u

 

[morganwhite7]

OMG c.m.c.

TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT!

I know they saw something in my uterus, that's why I believe that. Bc it ALSO feels ectopic, and twins run in the fam. Do they have to give you the injection (which ALSO kills the intrauterine pregnancy ) or do a laparoscopy??

I just want a bean to make it!!!

 

[Brieanna]

OMG c.m.c.

TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT!

I know they saw something in my uterus, that's why I believe that. Bc it ALSO feels ectopic, and twins run in the fam. Do they have to give you the injection (which ALSO kills the intrauterine pregnancy ) or do a laparoscopy??

I just want a bean to make it!!!

I am sure c.m.c is way more knowledgeable but I know that if you have an ectopic and one in the right place then you can still carry the one that is in the right place full term (I think the rates are a bit higher for miscarriage though). They have to use surgical means to remove the ectopic (might lose the tube), not the injection to protect the one in the uterus.

 

[morganwhite7]

Hoping it is early enough that the embryo hasn't grown much and would be easy to remove..

Off to the ER I will update later ladies, again, thanks SO MUCH for the support

 

[c.m.c]

With heterotopic s they will always do o laparoscopy and save the one in the womb.

Unfortunately I had a MC with the baby in the womb a week before I knew I had the ectopic in the tube.

To be honest I knew it was all bad from the start. I was sore all the time like a dull pain then at 5+6 I had excruciating pain that went away but a 6 weeks they saw a yolk sac and foetal pole in Womb. At 6+4 I had a bleed and it confirmed the MC

At almost 8 weeks I collapsed with pain. The ectopic was discovered and I had laparoscopic removal of it. It was attached to my sigmoid colon too.

Check that the sac they see has an echogenic ring around it. A lot of ectopics have a pseudo sac that is very convincing as a proper baby sac but it's not. With a proper sac it will have the echogenic (white) ring around it but most pseudo sacs don't.

I'm keeping my FX for you Morgan

 

[vietmamsie]

Twins! That could be it for sure!

 

[Lindsay109]

Morgan, I hope the ER is able to sort out what's going on! Good luck hun!

 

[Lisa85]

Good luck Morgan! i hope you can get a sticky bean in the womb. Let us know how you go!



AFM - My morning sickness is starting to ease now and i dont really feel pregnant at all other than being really tired. The horrible bloating is pretty much gone and what i thought was a early belly starting has almost gone back to normal. I would be worried if i didnt have a scan earlier in the week!

 

[Mahoghani]

Totally agree with Lisa, CALL YOUR MIDWIFE> That is nuts that they didn't give you any information, or even let you look at the screen. Is that even legal?? I am upset for you. It reminds me of all the ultrasounds I have had in the past year and a half with doctors that spoke little to no english, the whispers, strange questions, doubts that I was even pregnant (Happened with this one and the one I lost in Feb). I am so sorry you had to go through this... I hope you hear good news from your midwife. By 9 weeks the baby should be pretty clearly there, could your dates be off? Why were there two of them? Maybe they were just in training and had no idea what to look for?

My dates definitely could be off. I told them at my first appointment that my periods were irregular but my midwife said my uterus felt the right size for 7 weeks (this was two weeks ago). But I found out on the 28th last month, 4 week ago so even if I was super early catching the pregnancy I'd have to be at least 7 1/2 weeks by now. And they should be able to see something at 7 1/2 weeks right? Something measurable? What worries me is if I'm measuring less than that... If I'm measuring 6 weeks or 5 weeks then something has to be wrong. Right?

My husband says it looked to him like they didn't have their machine calibrated right or didn't know what they were doing. That it was fuzzy and looked more like static than an ultrasound. And they kept saying they couldn't see clearly. There was a student and the tech and then they brought in the supervisor. If their equipment wasn't working correctly I don't understand why they wouldn't stop and use another machine? Or reschedule me if another wasn't available? Something? And my husband says he thinks he saw her record a HB but she didn't bother to share? WTF!

I am calmer now but still very angry. I haven't called my midwife yet... Is it awful that I don't want to call because I don't want to hear bad news? I feel like I want to hang onto Bo (baby's nick name for now) being okay just another couple of days... I want to know what's going on but I also want it to be something good. And I'm not at all confident it's going to be good.

One way or another I am going to demand another ultrasound when I see my midwife. Especially because I'm getting the feeling they won't be able to accurately date the pregnancy from this ultrasound and that was the whole point of having one!

My husband told me we need to develop a secret code language to use in front of people. He said if he'd known what to expect from an early ultrasound or what I was feeling or thinking he'd have stood up for me and said something to them. Unfortunately I'm timid and avoid confrontation to a fault. Can't tell you how many times I've wished I'd screamed at someone after it was no longer an option. Even now I can't believe I just laid there and let them treat me that way.

Hopefully I'll have better news a little later. Will keep you guys updated. Thanks for all of the support. Really made me feel better to know I wasn't acting like a crazy lady.