High HCG Levels early in Pregnancy = Multiples?

[mkmoro311]

My Dr's office just called to tell me my HCG levels were 190,791 which is very high for 9 wks pregnant and should get an ultrasound to see if I am having multiple babies!  FREAKING OUT!!!!  I am having a home birth with no plans of having an ultrasound and no plans for twins!  I have been soooooo sick with this pregnancy, I was at the dr's to get on some nausea meds, thats how bad it is.  ANY THOUGHTS!!!!!

[moona]

Wow... Does your midwife handle twin births?

[SGVaughn]

not to sound scarey but molar pregnancy?

[slippy]

Best site for pouring over betas is betabase.info. Good luck!

[StephandOwen]

Unless I'm missing something, the betabase data only goes to like 6 weeks and some odd days. The average beta at that time (for a singleton pregnancy) is 15,361. The highest reported (for a singleton pregnancy) is 131,472. For twin pregnancies the average at 6 weeks some odd days is 28,820. The highest reported for twins is 189,191. Since those numbers are still 3 weeks before what you tested at, I think 190,000 is still possible for a singleton. Or twins. LOL! No way to know without a thorough ultrasound!

[Magali]

Originally Posted by SGVaughn 

not to sound scarey but molar pregnancy?

I didn't want to bring it up...but yeah.

[Heart.Revolution]

Originally Posted by Magali 

I didn't want to bring it up...but yeah.

This happened to me. It was the first sign my pregnancy wasn't normal :(  But on a good note, I went on to have a healthy pregnancy and now have a 5 year old son and I'm also currently 6 months pregnant!