May 2, 2012

It never crossed my mind things could go so wrong. We went back to do another pregnancy test on April 24, 2012 and to our horror the hCG level did not double. It went up from 321 to 460. I went in every morning every two days for the next  2 weeks to see if the hCG level got back on track but it was erratic at best. They were concerned it could be an ectopic pregnancy. Today we hit the 6 week mark and went in for an ultrasound to see what was going on. They found a very small early gestational sac. It was barely visible on ultrasound. There was no fetal pole or yolk sac. The doctors said it was most likely due to chromosomal abnormality and there would be no viable pregnancy. They performed a Karman biopsy to confirm implantation had occurred (it had) to rule out the ectopic pregnancy possibility. It was a horribly painful procedure with no pain contol. I told myself I would never do another one again! The procedure plus stopping the progesterone was enough to trigger the miscarriage. We figured we'd hit rock bottom and things could only get better from here.