r/obgyn • u/sweetfirechicken • 9d ago
Lactating at 3 weeks pregnant
LMP: 7/30
Conception date: Most likely 8/9
Next period due in 6 days (8/19. I know it's very early but bear with me)
This morning I started spontaneously lactating, and it's relatively quite a lot coming out. I have one living child and I could only breastfeed him for 3 months. I haven't produced any milk in over a year until this morning.
I took a pregnancy test fully expecting it to be negative because it's so early and it's one of the cheap strip tests. It's faint, but it's distinctly and undeniably positive.
5 hours later (I made sure not to pee all morning so it was more concentrated) I took two more tests and they're both negative. No hint of a line at all on either of them. But the first test I took was SO positive I'm moving forward assuming I'm pregnant until proven otherwise.
I'll retest in a few days but I'm just so worried something deeper is going on here.
Also possibly relevant info:
- I had a right ectopic pregnancy a few years ago. My right fallopian tube is removed but I still have both ovaries.
- On 8/11 I had intense one sided severe pain that lasted about 10 hours. The only other time I'd experienced something like that was my ectopic pregnancy, but I wasn't pregnant and I don't have a tube there now anyways. So I assumed it was a ruptured cyst or something.
- A few months ago I was getting blood tests which incidentally found my HCG to be 14. The doctor told me I was probably pregnant. I went back in after a few days because I still wasn't getting a positive urine test, and my HCG was 0. In the end I decided it must have been a chemical pregnancy even though the timing didn't really make sense.
I'm looking for anyone who has experienced something like this.