HI Mrs Wag
I just wanted to add for what its worth that if you saw the embryo with heartbeat at 6.6 then it is a partial molar pregnancy. A partial molar is usuall 2 sperms penetrating the egg and leaving the embryo with 69 chromasomes instead of 46 (23 from each parent) These babies can unfortunately develop and I have read some poor parents who get to 23 weeks, unfortunately not one has ever lived outside the womb.
A molar pregnancy is different in that the egg is 'damaged' I believe and has no nucleus so can never produce an embryo and therefore never see a heart beat at scan.
Unfortunately outside of sheffield and the big centres who study miscarriage, smaller hospitals dont know enough about it and just say molar and of course as the placenter grew and grew by the time your little one got to the pathology section they probably just cant find feotal tissue and have given it the blanket caveat of 'molar' pregnancy.
This happened to me in that at 6.2 I saw embryo and heartbeat and at 7.5 nothing just a snowy mass, D and C then off to pathology and they say molar, I keep correcting them saying partial.
Now the positives for you, God love you its awful.
It is said that you are less likely to have another partial molar, there obviously are risks but the percentage is lower, I believe that my eggs are older so they show abnormalies now and that egg had a thinner skin and let two sperm penetrate.
Sheffield will send you an envelope to put the Date of last period on and the date of your sample you use FMU and send it off, 2 weeks later you will recieve another with the result of your last one. Once your result is below 0.15 you will be monitored for a period of time. this is determined by when you reach below 0.15. If you reach it before 56 days of your miscarriage/D & C they will monitor you for the remaining months that will make a total of 6 months from D and C, if you take longer they monitor you for 6 months after a normal result. They will advise you to use barrier contracteption till you reach normal and then you can take oral chemical contraception after that for the duration of your monitoring.
Hope that helps. I had my D & C on October 17th and returned to normal after 8 weeks, I have had 2 normal periods . And whether I am an idiot or a desperate woman I have not used contraception this year. Please anyone I do not wish to be judged and understand the risk I am putting my self under but in my mind and my age they are worth it at my age. Again please no judgements. I would not advise you to blatantly ignore this thoroughly researched advise, I just made my own decision.
I hope you heal quickly and return to normal quikly these weeks where you still feel pregnant are so cruel.
Bex
i cant stop smiling lol xx
Its really help me understand more about what is happening!
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