Lederle记录在她的博客中,第一个迹象表明有问题她是持久后发现她的时期已经结束。“…一周后我“应该”时期已经完成我还发现和抽筋,”她写道。“我发现这种不同寻常的,以为我刚刚联系我的妇产科医师是安全的。我们聊天(pandemic-style)在电话中,她建议我来一些测试,如果我在家有一个怀孕测试应该使用它。我嘲笑这个想法因为我刚刚,认为除非圣灵感孕说有0%的几率发生我怀孕了。但是我还是到CVS中冲了出来,拿起一个怀孕测试。”
Lederle经验丰富,宫外孕的早期症状包括阴道出血或发现和/或降低腹部痉挛或强烈,持续疼痛。
测试证实Lederle,事实上,怀孕了,她写道,“我们是这样的快乐,但也知道事情不加起来我们没什么好兴奋的。”When she went in for blood work and an ultrasound that afternoon, the tests confirmed that something was off: Her blood tests indicated the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone that is released during pregnancy, yet there was no sign of a pregnancy on the ultrasound. Although her hCG continued to rise over the next two days and she began experiencing the symptoms of early pregnancy (extreme bloating, achy legs, painful breasts, etc.), the ultrasound was still mysteriously clear. "I was officially diagnosed with a 'pregnancy of unknown location,'" she wrote. "It will likely be the strangest diagnosis I will ever receive in my life. Turns out I was pregnant, they just couldn't find out where."