Miscarriage doesn't mean you did anything Wrong!

This is what I am repeating to myself!  The doctor explained that really a miscarriage is your body's way of ending a pregnancy that was not going to be good. There are several types of miscarriage but one of the most common and the one that has occurred for us is the blighted ovum. This is when your body creates the gestational sack in your uterus and the baby begins to develop but when the chromosomes started to combine in the sperm and egg then multiple, the genetic abnormality occurs and stops or delays the development of the embryo. 

The blighted ovum seems to be the earliest to note but can take the longest to miscarry naturally because the body is still creating the pregnancy hormone and thinks everything is great. In my case I still have a level of 15,000 HCG at 9 weeks so regardless of the baby's stop in development at 5 weeks 3 days, the body is still pregnant and will still recognize this hormone and create all the pregnancy symptoms in the body until the products of conception are removed. 

Wow - I never thought I would know so much about the female anatomy! I also learned that while HCG is important to know, the ultrasound is the more definitive test for viability!