No, this isn't what happened with Calvin. It's really irritating that they tried to say that, because it's not true at all. She got several very dark and obvious positive tests with Calvin, then started spotting a few days later, but her blood tests were showing her HCG levels rising, and everything ended up being fine. Also, didn't it turn out that she found out (as in her dark positive tests) at barely 4 weeks pregnant? They didn't know that at the time because she hadn't had a "cycle" in a while, so she thought she was farther along. The whole drama that upset them stemmed from a crappy doctor who I believe told her she was "likely miscarrying", when he shouldn't have said that when her numbers were rising despite her spotting. Anyone feel free to correct me on this stuff, it's all from memory as I don't feel like rewatching these vlogs.CallieT wrote:Just because she had a negative pregnancy test, doesn't mean she was only 7 days post implantation, in my opinion. Isn't it true that some women don't have high enough HCG levels to register that early? And didn't she have low levels with Calvin, too? Especially since it wasn't a viable pregnancy, I assumed she was pregnant for longer just with low levels, indicating it wasn't going to be a successful pregnancy. But its been like 7 years since I've been pregnant so what do I know lolHelloSweetie wrote:Re: the body changes.
They weren't pregnancy related, they couldn't be.
She didn't get a positive until Mother's Day right? She had a negative test one week prior. So she was at most 7 days post implantation. The body changes she kept talking about could in no way be caused by a pregnancy that hadn't even happened yet.
*Edited to correct the math.
Also, if it was just all the snacking, would all her weight just go to her stomach like that? That seems unusual to me. I think it was a combination of eating more and early pregnancy bloating, not just one or the other would cause her to gain so much so fast.
As for the other HCG issue, I still just think that they could tell a difference between HCG levels right before your period vs HCG levels going into a chemical miscarriage. I know everybody always has some HCG, but would it really be so close together that you couldn't tell the difference? I think not, especially because (in my opinion, again going back to my 'the pregnancy test really did show up as positive just not on the camera otherwise she wouldn't show it to us' point) it was high enough to give her a positive pregnancy test, which a non pregnant woman probably wouldn't get even right before her period.
As far as the weight in her belly, Ellie is a slim person who has had 2 kids... not a fit person who works out a lot. The vast majority of women who have had children (especially more than 1, and also close together) can stick out their belly, despite the fact that they look slim. I am pretty slim and normally look like I have a very flat stomach, but after 3 kids I can push it out on command to look 3-4 months pregnant. Those muscles in that area just aren't what they used to be. The struggle. Also, despite her trying to push out her gut, to me she looks like she has filled out a little bit everywhere.
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