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My wife and I went in for our first ultrasound yesterday at 6w4d (after having some early betas that were slow rising) fully expecting to get some bad news (ectopic or blighted ovum) but staying hopeful that maybe we’d get lucky this time around considering her more recent hcgs were rising normally. To our surprise, we saw a little baby in there with a strong heartbeat measuring where it’s supposed to be!

Obviously we still have a long way to go but are much more encouraged than we were and our doctor has no concerns at this point. We’re all staying cautiously optimistic!

I’m posting this update to give others who might be in the same position some hope. Everyone is different and some of these really early betas might not give an accurate picture of what’s going on.

I’ll provide additional updates (good or bad) as they come!

Wife’s HCG started rising slowly initially and today jumped up to nearly 1700. While we wait to hear from her OB and have another beta scheduled in 2 days, I wanted to see if anyone had a similar experience of a slow rising HCG ending up with a viable pregnancy. We’re keeping ourselves guarded in case things don’t work out but also keeping a glimmer of hope. TIA! Here’s the betabase data:

48.3mIU/mL
4/23/2026 15:30
DPO13

67mIU/mL (101.7h doubling time)
4/25/2026 16:00
DPO15

94.7mIU/mL (96.2h doubling)
4/27/2026 14:30
DPO17

1,659.2mIU/mL (40.7h doubling)
5/4/2026 08:30
DPO24

Latest doubling time: 40.7 hours