On April 8th we found out that we were going to have a baby! We were so excited and it started out going really well. I was feeling pretty good.
When I went to my first appointment with the doctor(April 22nd) he did an ultrasound and seemed a little worried. He said he suspected something called a Blighted Ovum. A Blighted Ovum is basically that I had been pregnant but the fetus had stopped growing. The problem with it is I would still feel pregnant. My gestational sack would keep growing and I would keep producing the pregnancy hormone. So the first step to check it was to do a blood test. When you are first pregnant your OCG levels double every 3 days. So they took my blood that day and asked me to come back on monday and have my blood checked again. That was a Wednesday. I think that was one of the longest weekends of my life! I had a really hard time waiting to see if everything was ok or not. I went in on Monday and had the blood test and when the results came back Tuesday morning I got a call from the Dr. He said that my levels had not gone up enough and to come in so we could decide what the next step was.
That afternoon when we went in he did another ultrasound just to see if anything had changed over the week. Nothing really had but to be REALLY sure he did a more in depth ultrasound. That was when he saw something. Just a teeny tiny little something in there. But it was enough for him to think it possibly wasn't a blighted ovum and that maybe I just wasn't very far along. He measured me and it looked like I was about 5 weeks along. So at that point he said we would just have to wait some more. He asked for us to come back in 7 or 8 days. I guess in the early stages of pregnancy everything changes so much every day. So he figured by the next week we could have more answers.
I was feeling fine that week until Saturday hit. I started having cramps and things like that and they stayed until my doctors appointment on this last wednesday. When he did the Ultrasound nothing had changed. In fact I had measured exactly 5 weeks and 5 days the last time we were there and this time it was measuring 5 weeks 3 days. So after all that waiting and hoping it turned out to be a Blighted Ovum after all.
So I started the (painfull!) process of trying to have a miscarriage. He gave me a medication that would make me have cramps that would hopefully get everything out so he wouldn't have to put me under.
Besides being in an enormous amount of pain for a couple days everything went fine. I'm feeling alot better already and hopefully when I go see the doctor this week he'll tell me everything is out and that we can start trying again. :)
I am pretty sad about the whole thing but for the most part I am just grateful that we can get pregnant at all. It has been something that we have wondered about. Jared took such good care of me and was so supportive. He really has made this whole situation so much easier on me. I haven't had to go to work since it all happened. He has gone to work everyday ALL DAY and worked for both of us. And then came home at night to take care of me some more. He is such a wonderful husband.
I have actually had a lot of support from all over! My family has let me hang out at their houses alot so I wasn't feeling so lonely and when I was in the most pain my mother in law and my sister both brought me food and things like heating pads just to help me get through it. We really appreciate everything everyone has done for us and all the love and support we have been given.
