This was our first appointment. It was way earlier then the doctor normally sees women who are pregnant but due to my pregnancy history they needed to see me earlier to determine the baby was in the right place.
Since I had been bleeding there was fear it was either ectopic again or miscarrying.
This was the first time I would meet my doctor Tracey Johansen. I liked her instantly too. She's spunky and honest and very kind and understanding as well.
The appointment was really a "Viability Appointment" to see if this was a viable pregnancy. She took blood for another HCG test and did an ultrasound.
The ultrasound showed a yolk sac in the uterus but she could not see a fetus. I asked what this meant and she said that the good news was it most definitely was NOT ectopic since it was in the uterus and not the tubes. As for not seeing a fetus... she said there were two possibilities; Either this was a faulty pregnancy with no fetus which means I would eventually miscarry. Or it was just to early to see the fetus because it was too small still. She said that the ultrasound equipment they have in their office is not as sensitive as the ones that the actual Ultrasound place uses so there was a good chance their equipment would see a fetus. I asked her about the bleeding and she said that at this stage it could mean either a miscarriage... or it could mean nothing, that some women just bleed their first trimester for no reason. But there was no way to tell for sure at this point.
So she advised we wait a week to give it more time to grow and she then scheduled us an appointment with Seattle Nuclear for a real ultrasound. A week... sigh... you have no idea how long a week can be.
So we went home trying to just be happy that it wasn't ectopic, but still worried that there was no baby to be seen and... I was still bleeding.
The next day (8/22/2002) we got the HCG levels back... they'd gone up again to 11,000!! We still dared not get excited yet.
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