Follow-up

Thanks for all your emails, we do appreciate your thoughts and prayers. I got a call from my doctor today and my hcg has fallen to 18,000. This is "good" news, meaning my body is taking care of it on its own. I go in in a week, and probably will continue until my numbers are near zero. The prevailing theory is that the baby, if it was, was broken down by my body because it didn't have enough "stuff" to go through another pregnancy right away. We were warned by my doctor that this likely would happen if we got pregnant too soon. The other possibility is I had what is called a blighted ovum, the egg never develops at all.

We knew something was not right from the beginning, for those of you who know about my horrible pregnancy sickness, it just wasn't there this time. For the most part, I was able to function like a normal human being, not typical for me. I didn't have many other symptoms, either, so we were not shocked yesterday. The hard part is wondering if something is wrong with me, or if we just have had bad luck. It's not atypical to have two miscarriages in a row, especially if the second pregnancy follows too closely, so my doctor says it's not statistically significant until you have three in a row.