Pregnancy

Aurshia,

I am so sorry for your loss. Pregnancy is such an unpredictable thing. It might be possible that something was wrong with the fetus since conception and your body's hormones resonded to conception enough to show up on a pregnancy test. How ever if the baby never really developed your boby could have reabsorbed it without you even knowing it. This happens sometimes with a blighted ovum where your body computes that you have a baby but in reality you have a placenta and amniotic sac but the baby has never developed.
Sometimes these resolve so quickly that it is believed that more of them occur than people realize.
I am sure you are disappointed and I certainly wish you did not have to experience this.
I wish you well with your future pregnancies.

J. Dirmeyer
Midwife
The above is just an opinion.

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I got a false positive due to a cyst on my ovary. Apparently, the cyst emits chemicals that the over-the-counter test interprets as the fetus hormone. If you read the insert of the pregnancy test kit, it does say that certain conditions (including ovarian cysts) can interfere with the accuracy of the test result.

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I have no idea what happened. Did you ask your doctor?

Could it have been a false pregnancy? I have heard of this before where the body and home tests say you are but then your not. Do another test and if it says you are I would go to a doctor that will explain everything. God bless.

I've had 3 blighted ovums and one chemical pregnancy. I know it's emotional, but just put it behind you, wait a cycle or two, and try again. PS... I do have 2 wonderfully healthy kids.

I'm confused....did you take a hpt? Or did you get both results at the doctor's office? I'm surprised they didn't explain why this happened. I'm sorry I'm no help at all, it just dosen't make sense.

You may have experienced a blighted ovum. Here is a good site that explains more about it. They can triggers a positive pregnancy test. Keep in mind that, even in a doctor's office, the initial test they do is a just a pee test...not much more than you can do at home. The blood test to check HCG levels is done as a follow-up.

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/b...

Having experienced several miscarriages, I know how terrible this can feel. Feel blessed, as much as you can, that this happened early on. I have a friend who didn't get a blighted ovum diagnosis until she was 5 months pregnant.

Like someone else suggested I think it could have been a "chemical" prenancy. I had that one time (but the only way I knew it was b/c we were going through infertility treatments and my doctor caught it after a cycle). I also have had a miscarriage--at 11 weeks. After that I heard that miscarriages are more common than we might think and only because of early pregnancy tests do we even know that we are pregnant so early on--not like our mothers who were several weeks into their pregnancy before it could be confirmed by a doctor.

I know it can be a frustrating and saddening situation but keep talking with your doctor and keep trying! Good luck!

Sometimes there is what they call a chemical pregnancy. It just means your hormone levels went up so the test cam eout postive but there wasn't an embryo. Keep trying and Good luck