2020 brought us a miscarriage, then an ectopic pregnancy with a burst tube, internal bleeding and emergency surgery with tube removal. We became pregnant again end of September- had labs done and hCG wasn’t doubling. They had me go right in to check for another ectopic, and US revealed an amniotic sac and yolk sac, no visible embryo yet. (I was 5 weeks 2 days.) Scheduled to come back in today (10 days later) to check for viability. I was so stressed with the pregnancy history and then the hCG levels and then my one symptom, breast tenderness, essentially going away. I was staring at the screen and the image showed up, and immediately the tech goes, “there’s your baby, and that flicker is it’s heartbeat!” 129/BPM, measuring at 6 weeks, 5 days. Right where it should be. I can’t believe it. I’m going to be a mom!

Hubby couldn’t be with me thanks to COVID, but the tech made this for him. He was waiting in the parking lot waiting for me and the news, I showed him this and his eyes immediately filled with tears.