Today was an emotionally challenging day, to say the least. This morning I was so excited for our first ultrasound. The parents joined us via Skype for their first glimpse of their little boy. But as the nurse practitioner started the ultrasound, she quickly fell quiet and kept scanning the same area over and over. We all stopped talking and all I heard was silence. Silence. No heart beat that we'd all been waiting so anxiously for. The NP said she couldn't find a baby in the embryonic sac, and advised an hCG blood test to see if my beta levels were still progressing as they should. My coordinator reassured me as they were drawing my blood that he could just be very small or hiding on the edge of the sac, I am only 7 weeks along after all.
After an entire agonizing afternoon of waiting my hCG results came back... at a number so high their machine couldn't measure it (over 25,000)! We're taking this as an encouraging sign, because it shows that there is continued development, as well as a great sized embryonic sac. I'm hoping that we just have a hide-and-seek champion, or a very shy little boy, on our hands. We have another ultrasound scheduled for next Monday. Every day counts this early in the pregnancy, so he will be much bigger, hopefully, the next time we try to look at him. As always, I'm grateful for my sweet, supportive husband for being my rock. Here's to positive thoughts!
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