Dear Diary: A Miscarriage :(
18:16These past week has been a nightmare, bleeding and checking out your symptoms and finally being able to confirm that I have indeed miscarried. But knowing gave me the relief, gave me the closure that I needed, helps me to move on. I am writing this post so that I will be able to also help other pregnant woman who are also confuse. I remember how I scanned the internet for answers and reading articles helped me a lot to configure that the symptoms I had are signs of miscarriage.
Firstly, my signs of pregnancy are as follows:
- Delayed period
- Positive result in pregnancy test
- Morning sickness (e.g. throwing up)
- Sore breast
- Feeling tired easily
- Spotting & Bleeding - When my spotting started, it was still quite a few that I can only used up 2 panty liners in a day. It went like that for two days. I was working and my trip was coming up that it was not an option for me to take leave. I did visited the doctor on the third day, they did ultrasounds but they cannot confirm yet if it's going to be a successful pregnancy or it will go to miscarriage. They told me that different women go through different stages. The OB told me not to travel because of the risk, and so I did not. During the ultrasounds, they can still the sac. One day when I went to the toilet to pee, there was a huge blood clot that came out. I was really scared at that time and I wondered if it was the fetus already.
- Dropping HCG - I made my research about the HCG. It means Human Chorionic Gonadotropin or the hormone that produced during pregnancy. The doctors here in Hong Kong did not measure my HCG at all and they also did not gave me any medicine, nor recommended bedrest. I was feeling anxious so I decided on my own to inform my workplace that I am going to work from home and they agreed. How did I know my HCG is dropping? I purchased a Clearblue pregnancy kit which can measure how many weeks you are. Remember that your HCG must be increasing and not dropping when you're pregnant. Here's a HCG table I found online:
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Clearblue pregnancy kit that shows I was 2 - 3 weeks pregnancy from conception |
Two days later I tested again and it shows I'm only 1 - 2 weeks pregnant from conception. The number of weeks reduced means my HCG was dropping. |
- No more morning sickness and breast feels normal. I just started feeling I am not pregnant anymore.
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