Pregnancy Symptoms again?

On March 10th, I started feeling tender breasts and all of a sudden feeling low on energy. It was hard to even think I could be pregnant again after having to go through a painful experience. In January of 2010 I had what is called blighted ovum that resulted in a DNC.

Back in December 2009 I was pregnant with what I thought was a viable pregnancy but after having 3 ultrasounds with no sign of a fetal heart they diagnosed me with a blighted ovum. The most devastating news I ever gotten.

It seemed so unreal, I didn’t want to believe it and was in denial. After soaking in all the bad news, I agreed to have the procedure done, “DNC”. I felt so empty inside and just wanted it to be over and done with. We planned to wait a few months before trying again, but nature took its course. ☺

After thinking “what if I’m pregnant again?” and being 13 days late on my menstrual, I decided to go to Walgreens on my lunch break and get pregnancy test. I picked up a digital test, my heart pounded as I took the test. It was the longest 2 minutes of my life. I was so nervous and the thought of being pregnant so soon after what I had just gone through 2 months ago scared me. I finally looked at the test and there it was, it read “Pregnant”.

I was happy but didn’t want to get my hopes up until I knew it was a normal pregnancy. I immediately called my husband to give him the good news. We decided not to tell anyone I was pregnant again. I called my doctor to make an appt. I got in the following week and she immediately wanted me to go in for an ultrasound. I made the appointment for March 16th.

I went in praying that we would see something. As nervous as I was, I tried to remain calm as the tech didn’t say much. I didn’t see anything on the monitor but he finally broke the silence.

“Its to early in the pregnancy to see anything,” he said.

It felt like deja vu. I was sad and kept thinking it was another blighted ovum. He advised to come back in after a week to have another ultrasound.

Finally the day came of the ultrasound. I went in and as usual it was the same tech. He told me to lay down and he put that warm gel on my stomach and started to move his monitor. As he pointed at the screen and typed “fetal heart”, there it was, a tiny little heart beat. I was so happy, it measured only 6 weeks, 5 days.

It was so tiny but I was excited that it was a viable pregnancy. He gave me a picture of the baby. I stared at it for the longest time. I even took the day off work to go home and enjoy the good news and share the picture with my family.

I didn’t want to get overjoyed, I was still in the first trimester and a miscarriage was still a possibility.

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