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Sep. 14th, 2012 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideOn Wednesday, I went for the blood test to confirm the pregnancy. Although, I'd been feeling really crampy the entire week, and no period, so I kind of knew anyway. They called back around 4 and told me "congratulations!" and informed me that my beta—the hcg level—was 3935, with progesterone at 18.9. Beta levels are tricky, because if they're too low, it means that your pregnancy probably won't last. At day 18, which I was then, mine should have been around 300. At nearly 4000, that's pretty much unheard of, even if you're having twins.
Dr. Google informed me that one reason for a rapidly rising beta was a "molar pregnancy," which is when the zygote doesn't have human chromosomes. But it also doesn't self-eject. It just keeps growing inside you like an alien tumor, throwing hormones all over the place.
Naturally, I freaked out and called for an ultrasound ASAP.
I went yesterday. I'm at nearly 5 weeks* and I didn't think he'd be able to tell anything for sure, but I went anyway. He asked if I was excited and I told him, "Well, I'm really nervous about the super high beta number" and he asked why. O_O I said, "...Molar pregnancy?" And he said, "Oh yeah. I forgot about that."
Umm.
Anyway, not twins. He only found one little zygote in there, but he said that sometimes the second one hides for a few weeks. Still, he thinks it's just the one, and said, "Just remember that the thing you're worried about has a less than 1% chance of happening." I asked him about Down's Syndrome, which is also associated with high beta numbers (but mostly in the second trimester,) and he said, "Chances are about 1 in 300. Or maybe 1 in 100." :/ I asked if that was something he could see, or just statistics, and he said just statistics.
Later, in the office, I asked him what he thought about the super high beta, like if there was a reason for it, and he said, "Maybe you're just off to a really great start."
Yeah, I'll take that.
He doesn't' think I need another beta (I've only had the one,) I go back to see him in 2 weeks, and then, in his words, "I kick you out and you go to your regular OBGYN."
So, that was that, and that's all I know so far. I'm pretty much cautiously optimistic. I know it's still early and could go either way right now, so I've only told the few people who knew what I was doing. Obviously Mom, Chrissie, Tim, Spencer and Meghan. My boss, Raquel, Lee, David and Clyde. I'm going to wait to tell Chris in person (he's not even on FB.)
And that's where we are right now.
*It's not five weeks, goddamnit, it's three. I hate this "you're pregnant two weeks before you're pregnant" thing, like every woman just walks around in a state of potential pregnancy. So insulting.
Dr. Google informed me that one reason for a rapidly rising beta was a "molar pregnancy," which is when the zygote doesn't have human chromosomes. But it also doesn't self-eject. It just keeps growing inside you like an alien tumor, throwing hormones all over the place.
Naturally, I freaked out and called for an ultrasound ASAP.
I went yesterday. I'm at nearly 5 weeks* and I didn't think he'd be able to tell anything for sure, but I went anyway. He asked if I was excited and I told him, "Well, I'm really nervous about the super high beta number" and he asked why. O_O I said, "...Molar pregnancy?" And he said, "Oh yeah. I forgot about that."
Umm.
Anyway, not twins. He only found one little zygote in there, but he said that sometimes the second one hides for a few weeks. Still, he thinks it's just the one, and said, "Just remember that the thing you're worried about has a less than 1% chance of happening." I asked him about Down's Syndrome, which is also associated with high beta numbers (but mostly in the second trimester,) and he said, "Chances are about 1 in 300. Or maybe 1 in 100." :/ I asked if that was something he could see, or just statistics, and he said just statistics.
Later, in the office, I asked him what he thought about the super high beta, like if there was a reason for it, and he said, "Maybe you're just off to a really great start."
Yeah, I'll take that.
He doesn't' think I need another beta (I've only had the one,) I go back to see him in 2 weeks, and then, in his words, "I kick you out and you go to your regular OBGYN."
So, that was that, and that's all I know so far. I'm pretty much cautiously optimistic. I know it's still early and could go either way right now, so I've only told the few people who knew what I was doing. Obviously Mom, Chrissie, Tim, Spencer and Meghan. My boss, Raquel, Lee, David and Clyde. I'm going to wait to tell Chris in person (he's not even on FB.)
And that's where we are right now.
*It's not five weeks, goddamnit, it's three. I hate this "you're pregnant two weeks before you're pregnant" thing, like every woman just walks around in a state of potential pregnancy. So insulting.
