It has been such a crazy and stressful 1st trimester. On 7/19/21, I had written:

Welp. After about 2 weeks since my last ultrasound, my second ultrasound showed that there was only 3 days worth of growth. Tech and dr couldn’t tell if the flicker seen was a heartbeat or my breathing, but they don’t think it’s viable and it is a missed miscarriage. They want me to abort it. This would be the second miscarriage in a row. Not sure if I should wait longer or just get it over with. Idk, does anybody know of someone who started off with a slow grower but miraculously got caught up to speed? The only thing that’s bugging me is the lack of confidence for the flicker/heartbeat that was seen.

The OB who told me of its low viability above was not my personal OB. He was the only one available to report the ultrasound findings for me. I saw my personal OB on 7/20/21 and she told me:

“Sorry I’m late. I wanted to make a point of seeing the ultrasound images myself before I talked to you, so I was in the ultrasound room looking at them. I wanted to see them on the machine itself.

“I don’t want to give you any false hope, but when I looked at the video, I saw a flicker that was definitely not there last time. So I don’t want to terminate — I never want to terminate — unless I’m 1000% sure it’s not viable. I have seen pregnancies start off slow and pick up after some time.

“So I want you to get your betas taken every 2 days for the next week. I want to see what the trend is. If it’s trending upward then you’ll most likely have something. Even if it’s plateauing, I’ve seen it jump up after that. Either way, let’s do another ultrasound in 2 weeks to confirm where you’re at.”

Got my blood drawn that day and it came back with 42,274.

Meanwhile I saw the report for my ultrasound was posted that night and it was written by ANOTHER OB, who marked it as a viable IUP with a new EDD.

I am so confused. Got my blood drawn again today for another level check. Results won’t be in until late tonight. The different opinions are driving me crazy. I am anxious for my next ultrasound. I reeealllly hope for viable pregnancy 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼