So Monday's beta was spectacular. I was flying high, feeling great, feeling confident......... then as always seems the case with me, disaster strikes. Thursday afternoon as I was standing at the counter peeling potatoes for dinner I started to get a backache and feel really crampy. It made me nervous so I decided to lie down but went to the bathroom first. I was bleeding. BRIGHT red blood, and as much as if I was on the heaviest day of my period.
Needless to say I was devastated as was M. I bled for the next 5 hours or so pretty heavily and even passed some small clots. When I called the clinic they basically said it could be a number of things. I could be losing a twin. I could have a SCH (subchorionic hematoma) which is basically a "pocket" of blood that gets trapped and can "let go" and you can have heavy bleeding without necessarily losing the pregnancy. Or of course I could be miscarrying. The RE felt it was still too early to get definitive results via u/s so a blood test was scheduled for Sat am (today).
By Friday morning the bleeding was pretty much gone. I had a few spots here and there but by the evening it was gone completely and has not returned (crossing fingers and knocking on wood).
Today's news makes me optomistic. My beta is 12,029 which is a perfect increase from the last beta. We will be doing another test Monday which if we are still increasing well will make me feel MUCH more relaxed. It will still be a week of pins and needles until the u/s but I am trying to stay optomistic.
For now just praying the bleeding stays FAR, FAR away!
