sandooch
01-24-2007, 11:52 AM
Some of you may remember that I posted a thread a couple weeks ago asking for prayers/good thoughts for my sister, Elizabeth, who just announced she was pregnant. She is 41 years old and had miscarried 6 months ago and several years before that.
Well, last week she started to spot, not a lot, but any spotting while pregnant terrifies you, especially after you've already been through 2 misscarriages. She went home to rest and the spotting stopped. The next day she went to see her doctor and he did a vaginal ultrasound. Being that she was only at 5 1/2 weeks, the doctor only saw the sac, no fetal pole or heartbeat yet. He told her that it was still early in her pregnancy to see anything and to come back in a week for another ultrasound. He also had her do 2 blood tests, 2 days apart to make sure her HCG levels were still doubling (thank God they did).
Today is the day she will get another ultrasound done, so we are praying to see the baby and to hear the heartbeat. Please, could you keep her in your prayers/thoughts? I will let you know what happened with this ultrasound as soon as she lets me know.
Thank you! (((HUGS)))
Edited to add:
Meet my little 8-week-3-day old nephew or niece!!! I went with my sister to get her ultrasound done today. The bleeding has completely stopped (the doctor finally put her on bed rest for 3 weeks), and we got to see and hear the heart beat, which was at 167 beats per minute. The baby was the size of an 8 week and 6 day old so everything looks great. Thank you all again for your prayers. I wanted you all to see how they have helped my sister's little baby grow big and strong.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/sandooch/mexicanbean8w3d.jpg
I know it's hard to make heads or tails of this image (pun intended), but the head is at the bottom of the picture. The head is extremely large at this point, larger than the body. If you look close, you can also see the little hand right above the head.
My heart just melted when we got to see the heart beating! :D
Well, last week she started to spot, not a lot, but any spotting while pregnant terrifies you, especially after you've already been through 2 misscarriages. She went home to rest and the spotting stopped. The next day she went to see her doctor and he did a vaginal ultrasound. Being that she was only at 5 1/2 weeks, the doctor only saw the sac, no fetal pole or heartbeat yet. He told her that it was still early in her pregnancy to see anything and to come back in a week for another ultrasound. He also had her do 2 blood tests, 2 days apart to make sure her HCG levels were still doubling (thank God they did).
Today is the day she will get another ultrasound done, so we are praying to see the baby and to hear the heartbeat. Please, could you keep her in your prayers/thoughts? I will let you know what happened with this ultrasound as soon as she lets me know.
Thank you! (((HUGS)))
Edited to add:
Meet my little 8-week-3-day old nephew or niece!!! I went with my sister to get her ultrasound done today. The bleeding has completely stopped (the doctor finally put her on bed rest for 3 weeks), and we got to see and hear the heart beat, which was at 167 beats per minute. The baby was the size of an 8 week and 6 day old so everything looks great. Thank you all again for your prayers. I wanted you all to see how they have helped my sister's little baby grow big and strong.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/sandooch/mexicanbean8w3d.jpg
I know it's hard to make heads or tails of this image (pun intended), but the head is at the bottom of the picture. The head is extremely large at this point, larger than the body. If you look close, you can also see the little hand right above the head.
My heart just melted when we got to see the heart beating! :D