I just wanted to give hope to anyone who may be going through the same situation I am going through... I am 7 weeks 1 day today. I had my HCG measured as follows:

3 weeks 4 days: 39

4 weeks 4 days: 574

6 weeks 4 days: 5,001

7 weeks: 7,678

In between week 4 and week 6 blood draw I had an ultrasound that showed a gestational sac, no yolk sac or fetal pole. I was estimating to be around 6 weeks then, ultrasound measured me at 5 weeks 2 days based on gestational sac. I KNOW my exact period date due to tracking on Glow so that concerned me.

My doc has been concerned my HCG is not doubling. I have been concerned as well as everything I have read seems to end in blighted ovum or miscarriage.

The nurse called me this morning to tell me the doc was concerned with the way things were rising and he wanted to do an ultrasound. When I checked in they had scheduled me to meet him afterwards- immediately I knew this was not good. He would give me options to help terminate if things had not progressed as they should.

This morning I went into my ultrasound expecting them to tell me everything quit developing and I had a blighted ovum or was experiencing a miscarriage. As I laid there with the intern scanning over my abdomen I was trembling. It took about 20 minutes and then I heard the lady who was training her tell her to measure the fetal pole, then the yolk sac... and finally, she asked me to hold me breath. She was measuring my baby’s heartbeat. ❤️💙 114 beats per minute. In shock I asked “there is a heartbeat?!” I can’t even tell you the emotions that overcame me. The baby is measuring 6 weeks 2 days; however, my doctor is keeping my LMP due date of January 24, 2019 since I track it every month. Yay!

When I checked in they had scheduled an appointment with the doctor after the ultrasound so I expected it would not be good and we would be discussing options if my body didn’t naturally do what it needed to do. Instead, both his nurse and himself walked in smiling and congratulating us. He said he has maybe one case like this every year to every year and a half where HCG doesn’t rise as they would expect it to. While I am glad that I prepared for the worst I am SO thankful it ended with the best possible scenario for now.

I scoured the internet for low rising HCG success stories and there weren’t many. I am cautiously optimistic right now and will be going in next week for an ultrasound to check heartbeat. All I can say right now is my baby is a fighter and I hope and pray we welcome a healthy baby in January 2019.

UPDATE: one week later baby’s heartbeat is up to 140. We’ve made it to 8 weeks. Still cautious, but very optimistic 💙

UPDATE: At our 10 week appointment our sweet baby did not have a heartbeat. 😞