Sunday, September 24, 2006
still waiting . . .
Sunday morning. Still no period. I know something is going on in my body. I go from feeling crampy, to nauseous, to just having a vaguely weird "feeling" of some sort in my lower abdomen.
Yesterday, a couple of friends helped keep C and I occupied so we weren't just sitting at home, depressed. It was actually a wonderful day; we slept in, then two friends came over and we bowled one game in Harlem and then headed downtown to the festival in Little Italy where we walked around and ate. Then we headed back to our apartment and played board games, watched a movie, and baked cookies. It was nice.
Today, we'll try to keep busy as well. Then tomorrow AM, another blood test. Hopefully, the numbers will be much higher, and we can count a little more on a normal pregnancy.
If the numbers are still low, it is probably going to be a chemical pregnancy, in which case I will frankly hope that it ends as quickly as possible so that we can try again.
A chemical pregnancy is :
"A chemical pregnancy refers to pregnancy loss very early on. In a chemical pregnancy, it is thought that an egg is fertilized but fails to implant. As a result, your body does not begin to produce the obvious signs of pregnancy. Because a chemical pregnancy occurs so early in a pregnancy, most women never even realize they are pregnant. When they receive their period, they just assume they were a few days late.
Women who have been pregnant before, though, may notice that they "feel pregnant" prior to starting their period. Additionally, performing a pregnancy test, either at home or at your doctor’s office, will likely produce an initial positive result. However, this will quickly become a negative as your period approaches and you miscarry.
Just how common a chemical pregnancy is is difficult to say. Because they occur so early on, causing most women to not even be aware that they are pregnant, and don’t produce the same miscarriage symptoms as one would normally experience, a great number of chemical pregnancies go undetected. However, it is estimated that as much as 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage before a woman is aware that she was pregnant. "
Yesterday, a couple of friends helped keep C and I occupied so we weren't just sitting at home, depressed. It was actually a wonderful day; we slept in, then two friends came over and we bowled one game in Harlem and then headed downtown to the festival in Little Italy where we walked around and ate. Then we headed back to our apartment and played board games, watched a movie, and baked cookies. It was nice.
Today, we'll try to keep busy as well. Then tomorrow AM, another blood test. Hopefully, the numbers will be much higher, and we can count a little more on a normal pregnancy.
If the numbers are still low, it is probably going to be a chemical pregnancy, in which case I will frankly hope that it ends as quickly as possible so that we can try again.
A chemical pregnancy is :
"A chemical pregnancy refers to pregnancy loss very early on. In a chemical pregnancy, it is thought that an egg is fertilized but fails to implant. As a result, your body does not begin to produce the obvious signs of pregnancy. Because a chemical pregnancy occurs so early in a pregnancy, most women never even realize they are pregnant. When they receive their period, they just assume they were a few days late.
Women who have been pregnant before, though, may notice that they "feel pregnant" prior to starting their period. Additionally, performing a pregnancy test, either at home or at your doctor’s office, will likely produce an initial positive result. However, this will quickly become a negative as your period approaches and you miscarry.
Just how common a chemical pregnancy is is difficult to say. Because they occur so early on, causing most women to not even be aware that they are pregnant, and don’t produce the same miscarriage symptoms as one would normally experience, a great number of chemical pregnancies go undetected. However, it is estimated that as much as 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage before a woman is aware that she was pregnant. "
# posted by RebeccaL-O @ 7:44 AM 
