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Can someone help here? We're on our second pregnancy. Our first baby was stillborn and we are desperately hoping that this pregnancy works out. We went in for a 6wks 2days sonogram after a bit of spotting, but the nurse could only find a gestational sac in the uterus. The doctor dated the gestational sac at 4wks 4days and seemed unconcerned since my wife has irregular menstrual periods. The sac looked healthy, demonstrated no involution, but it seemed many days younger than what we had calculated as the gestational age of our baby. To add to our concerns, two weeks ago we went in for a quant_tative HCG test and came back with 589 as our number. According to the dates of the doctor, this would have been when the baby was 2wks, 6days. This seems like an impossibility. Still, we had some more blood drawn on Thursday and had some promising results; HCG had doubled to an appropriate 5545 for a 4wk4day gestation, which again seems rather high to me. We went for another beta-HCG to test again, but they're telling us to wait a few weeks to get a sonogram. Does anybody (particularly medically inclined folks) have any sense about what might be happening here? Obviously our biggest concern is a blighted ovum, and my wife is walking around in a terrible depression. We've had so many terrible losses this year, I just hate to bear another.