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

[miisyelly77]

hey shelly yes you could be pregnant:) i really hope for you that you are , i had a missed miscarage in aug last year and still havent gotten over it i think about it every day as my baby should of been around 10 weeks now im hopeing that i will fall again soon but my periods are acting up and im 18 days late at the min had bloods and urine done but all negative, so just have to wait for it to come. i would call your doctor and ask for a blood test as this would tell how much hormone you have, best of luck to you and ill be keeping everything crossed.xx

[renny320]

Yes you could be pregnant. I've heard other women say they got pregnant immediately after a miscarriage and I've also heard that you are more fertile right after a miscarriage because your body is prepared to support a pregnancy. However, there is still a chance the hormone could still be in your system. I heard that is one of the risks of trying to get pregnant again right away is that you could get a false positive. I just had a d&c due to a blighted ovum on Friday and I know how depressing and empty it feels afterward. If I were in your situation, I would be cautiously excited. I would be hoping to be pregnant but not wanting to get my hopes up too high in fear of it being a false positive. I would either wait and test again in a couple days to see if the test is getting darker or lighter, or I would go to my doctors office for a blood test and then another 48 hours later to see if the beta numbers are going up or down. I hope that you are pregnant. Good luck!