low/slow hCG success story

UPDATE :

I had our healthy baby girl, Lucie, on 2/27 🩷

I wanna start off by saying I’ve made this post before, so consider this a ‘update’ to my last, but I also want to try to reach more people on here as I know how scary limbo is.

I see a lot of posts on here about low/slow rising hCG levels and I hope that this story can help those who are currently in limbo / beta hell.

I had very slow & low hCG levels at the beginning of my pregnancy - the first two betas even dropped by 1, and we were sure that I was losing the pregnancy.

Betas were: 6/17- 101 6/19- 100 6/21- 147 6/24- 381 6/26- 801 7/1- 2,340

We didn’t see a in utero pregnancy until my draw on the 1st, it was a gestational sack with a yolk sac inside, but I was measuring 5 weeks 2 days (initially thought to be 6w 1d according to LMP). I was relieved it wasn’t ectopic as that was my initial worry, however now I was worried about blighted ovum.

Went back for another ultrasound 10 days later, saw baby measuring 6w 6d (still 5/6 days off from LMP) with a heartbeat of 128.

I’m now 20 weeks pregnant with a healthy baby girl. NIPT and Alpha-Fetoprotien tests all have come back low risk / negative, and I’ve been feeling movements.

I don’t know why my hCG did what it did in the beginning, I’ll probably never know. But I remember that whole month feeling like agony. My at home tests took FOREVER to get darker, too. I was accepting a loss at any time, and sometimes it’s still hard to believe I’ve made it this far.

If you’re who I was a few months ago, I hope you see this and it gives you a shred of hope. I remember reading all the scary, non successful stories and just feeling like I was drowning. Waiting is painful, and I hope you have answers soon enough. I think it’s more common to find negative stories on this however because that’s primarily what people will post about. A OB I spoke to told me that although it’s rare for a pregnancy to be viable if hCG isn’t increasing by at least 60%, it DOES happen. And I always reminded myself that no matter what it was out of my control. I took extra vitamins and just did what I could, but if my body couldn’t carry my baby I knew it ultimately couldn’t, and it wouldn’t have been my fault. As someone who’s had a ectopic before I know how painful it is to feel like your body is failing you.

Sending love to anyone that’s in my spot ❤️‍🩹