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I don't know if any of you (besides Fawn) knew I was pregnant. I wasn't announcing yet and the rule was that if anybody told anybody else they might have to be the ones to update their friends if I miscarry. I think I'm prone to miscarry. Luckily, I am one of the few women who seem to be able to handle the emotional upset more easily.

I started bleeding 3 weeks ago and got an ultrasound in which they told me that it was too early to tell anything except that the gestational sac was implanted in the uterus and it's size indicated that I conceived a week later than I was pretty sure I ovulated (I called my Creighton counselor to find out if I was predicting my ovulation wrong).

Over this weekend I started bleeding more and passing blood clots, so Monday I called my OB/GYN and asked if they could move my ultrasound up fromt Thursday to as soon as possible. They scheduled an emergency ultrasound that morning.

In the ultrasound, we saw that the gestational sac was still there, but there was no fetus inside the sac. They called it a "blighted ovum" and said that sometimes when the fertilized egg splits, it forms a sac and starts a placenta but for some reason it never starts growing a baby, so there never was a baby inside me, just the growing sac. They did their whole, "don't worry, it's not your fault, there is nothing you could have done, schpiel".

So I went home and told everyone I was definitely miscarrying and told them I no longer needed people to help me watch my daughter while I stayed on bed rest and pelvic rest.

Last night I started bleeding heavily after a bath, soaking 3 pads in an hour. They had said if you soak more than one in an hour come to the Emergency Room, so I did and they gave me a few bags of saline, and said my blood pressure was low but not life threatening. I said I didn't want a D & C and I didn't want the medication they wanted to give me for the pain, because the pain wasn't too bad. After about 4 hours, the doctor did a pelvic (OW!) and said I was still bleeding from the Os, but it wasn't a life threatening amount and I could go home if I wanted to.

Today I'm bleeding only a little, have no cramps, but I'm still kind of tired and weak.

We can try again after one healthy cycle passes.

Hopefully I'll be able to post again this year that we are pregnant again.

Oh and the really good news is, now that I've had three miscarriages, my OB/GYN is willing to start tests to find out if I have low progesterone (which I suspect is the problem) or any other conditions which lend themselves to repeated miscarriage.

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jennimac I'm so sorry to hear that. It sounds like you are handling things well tho. I send you tons of positive healing energies for you and your family.

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Lotsa Purkley hugs for you!

This place is so much better than Neo when it comes to communicating!

I am glad you are here.

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Thanks you guys. Wow, I'm touched that so many people responded so quickly. So many of you come here so much more often / consistently than I do!

*HUGS* Jenni, that is terrible news, but I am glad to hear that you seem to be doing well despite the ordeal you have been experiencing. As for you not being a frequent presence on the boards, you're here enough and have made your mark in all our hearts.

My prayers are with you that things get figured out and that you are able to carry full-term soon.

That is some terrible new to read . .but I wish you and your family lots of luck and love . . and no more miscarriages