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Thank you so much ladies. Well my beta came back and it was 6.5. That is a positive, but about as low as it can be and still considered a positive. I go back on Monday to get another beta. Eek.

I wanted to give a quick update on how this pregnancy is coming along. Since I last posted, I had 4 additional HCG tests. The results of my 4th Test were not good. They look for your reading to double every 2-3 days but in my case it only rose 35%. A slow rise like that usually indicates a pending miscarriage. On top of the bad test result I started spotting that night. I was pretty sure it was the start of another miscarriage.

The spotting has all but stopped and I had my final HCG test yesterday. I can't believe it but the number quadrupled! (I took this test 4 days after my last one). I'm not out of the woods yet but this little baby still has a chance. I have my first ultrasound on Monday so they can date the pregnancy and see if everything is on track. Until then all I can do is wait and think positively.

New Update: I ended up having my first u/s on Friday. I thought I was about 5 weeks along by then but I'm not sure on any of my dates. She couldn't see a sac or anything on the ultrasound, but did confirm my lining was pregnancy thick.

At that point, given my low and Betas and the u/s results it was likely to be one of 3 possible situations:
A chemical pregnancy, ectopic, or just very early in a normal pregnancy. They took another Beta and she booked me for a follow up u/s today. At this point both of my arms are bruised from all of the blood tests. Ugh

Then last night I felt some cramping and a gush. I want to the bathroom and saw red bleeding with some clots. I thought it was the beginning of the end for this baby. I went to bed and cried myself to sleep.

Well today I had my 2nd u/s and to my surprise, they found a sac measuring at 4 weeks 4 days! That explains my low Betas and the u/s results from Friday. The weird thing is it means my first BFP was at 7 DPO which I didn't think was possible. Of course I didn't think you could get a BFP with such a low Beta either, so who knows.

The bleeding stopped about an hour after it started which the dr said was a good sign. So now I'm back to being cautiously optimistic about this little bean sticking around. My next u/s is in 2 weeks where I hope to see a heartbeat.