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[Leinzlove]

Renae: That's a good goal. Its the day of a faint but obvious line. Personally, I tried waiting that long to test and I usually caved at 7 or 8dpo.

I my SHBFP! I can't wait for us all to have our SHBFP's!!

 

[jmandrews]

angel. Those months will fly by, you'll be back before you know it.

JmAndrews- Conor was due on 17th

Haha wow he was way too happy in there

 

[lesh07]

congrats leinz....I hope we are all too join you soon. xx

 

[Leinzlove]

Thanks Lesh! You will... this brand new cycle. Get that eggy! Happy BD!

 

[jmandrews]

Just wondering what is the difference between a MMC and a MC?

 

[Renaendel]

With a miscarriage you start bleeding and that is normally the queue that the pregnancy is terminating.

In a missed misscarriage people find out at a scan that the bundle of potential stopped growing a few weeks earlier. Unlike a typical misscarriage women are given medications to start the process or have to have a d&c to remove it. The body should have terminated the pregnancy but for whatever reason it didn't.

 

[Leinzlove]

In my MMC. I went to my scan and baby had no HB. My HCG was still rising but slowly. I had 3800, then 4100 two days later.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

With my mmc my hcg rised and a week after baby's heart stopped it was 37 717 at 7+4 weeks. My body didn't know that baby died. I still had hcg 3 weeks after d&c left in my body.

 

[Leinzlove]

WOW! That's high for 7 weeks? Mine was only 3800 at 9 weeks. But baby only measured 6 weeks.

 

[confuzion]

Same as these ladies have said. With my first MMC, hcg was around 3000 at 5 weeks. Then it went up, but not by much, stopped going up and started coming down after it hit 5000s. 8 week scan showed fetal pole with no heartbeat. They didn't do measurements but definitely small for dates. Maybe around 6 weeks.

My second MMC. hcg was over 14,000 at 5 weeks. Only had it measured that 1 time. Then at my 10 week appointment, we found that my baby measured 9 weeks with no heartbeat. My hcg was measured to be around 31,000 at that time. Which means it had definitely been dropping for a while. I waited for my body to get the hint for two weeks. The day before the bleeding happened, my hcg was 5,000 or so. It took a little while after the miscarriage for it to come all the way down.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Yeah leinz, it was high and gave me false hope for 2 weeks. Should have known. We saw everything except the heartbeat, but obgyn confirmed on the day of d&c that the heart had to beat to get to 6+1 weeks because I asked him about it. I went for a scan at 7+4 and then again at 9+6 with bloods done at 3+5 weeks (hcg 79) and then again at 7+4 weeks (hcg 37 717).

 

[Leinzlove]

My Dr. gave me false hope... Said my dates were probably just a bit off. But I knew I didn't see a HB. Knew there was no chance my dates were off. I went to the lab for bloodwork and cried non stop, didn't even care I was in public. There I saw people leaving the hospital with new babies. It was awful.

 

[Squig34]

I hope you all are right. I had to pee tonight and the little devil in the back of my head was like . Not going to happen at 3 dpo. New goal is to make it to 9.

Ha ha Renae - you know you are TTC when going to pee, no matter what the stage, seems like a waste if you don't POAS!!

Yes I love Angel's SHBFP acrynom too

Leinz - yes, hopefully we will all be close behind you with our SHBFPs! We're on now for Christmas babies I think!

 

[Angelbaby_01]

The reason my doctor wanted to wait 2 weeks is to give me the benefit of the doubt which I appreciate, because there is no "what ifs' now, I knew for sure then, but did wonder about late implantation etc. At my 2nd scan it was confirmed and I was ready for what had to happen.

 

[Leinzlove]

I'm sorry hun! Did you have a D&C?

The bleeding started for me 3 days before my follow up scan. I was so relieved at that point that it was just OVER!

 

[Angelbaby_01]

Yes, went in 10am for scan and was booked in 11am at hospital for procedure at 1:30pm. I knew that if I had a mmc then I would opt for d&c because I couldn't go through all the physical pain again. The first time was horrible and not even the strongest pain killers helped. Physically the d&c was much better.

 

[Leinzlove]

I'm so sorry hun!

Mine felt like labor for a bit. It was painful physically. I tried without first AF. I O'd on CD32 and AF arrived at 8dpo. I was so mad, all that time and I didn't even make it to testing.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

I'm sorry leinz. With the first loss I suffered loads of bleeding every few weeks on and off for months and had recurrent infections which funny enough is gone since my d&c. Retained tissue? Will never know, but I didn't get proper care at that point. Luckily now I have a great doctor and even have his cellphone number for emergencies after hours when I am pregnant again.

 

[Leinzlove]

That's good. I hate that you didn't have proper care. Loss is just AWFUL!!! I was lucky I fell pregnant with Z the next month.

 

[Angelbaby_01]

You will never suffer a loss again. This one is sticky. Xxx