Question: Left over hormones or am I pregnant again?
At the beginning of last month my husband and I found out we had miscarried our child at six weeks. It took about a week for my body to bleed out but then completely stopped and I felt a lot better.I had had a completely natural, early miscarriage. No d&c or anything like that. A little more than two weeks after the bleeding had completely stopped I began to ovulate again. My husband and I had sex and now three weeks later(typical of when you would miss your period of you were pregnant) I am starting to feel pregnant again. Heartburn, feeling sick to my stomach, dizziness, even a sensitivity to smell. Also when I was pregnant a friend of mine who has two kids taught me how to feel for the little “golf ball” in my lower belly that is my growing uterus. I can feel it now very clearly as can my husband and even a friend who didn’t know what they were feeling for so they couldn’t make it up in their mind. I took a pregnancy test tonight out of curiosity and it came back that I was pregnant. I know that to get a positive test back you only need 21+ hormones in your urine. So my question is, could I be pregnant again or are the hormones that the test is picking up from my previous lost pregnancy?
Answer:
Answer by sanewarrior
nope
Hormones tend to drop pretty quickly after a delivery/miscarriage. This is why women after giving birth experience post partum depression because their levels are so high and then drop so quickly. It only takes about a week for the levels to go back to normal after a miscarriage. I would say that you are pregnant again. Congrats!
I think you might be pregnant again, but it would probably be a good idea to go to a doctor just to be sure.
Just think about it. If you had all those hormones from your previous pregnancy, you wouldn’t have started to ovulate again, and you would have had those symptoms that entire time. Your miscarriage was over a month ago, giving your body time to get back to normal, start ovulating again, and possibly get pregnant again.
Once again, I’d recommend you see a doctor just to be sure, since it’s kind of hard for anyone to diagnose you as pregnant over the internet.
Good luck, and congrats if you are indeed pregnant.