Should I be worried about no heartbeat at 6+3?

[Bloomers58]

Had a TV scan this morning. Thought I was 6+2, am measuring 6+3, the scanner said she could see a sac, but no HB yet. The report says 'no embryo'. Does anyone have any success stories or similar finding outcomes they can share with me? Many thanks in advance.

Thank you 💗. Fingers crossed the nausea ramping up in the last 48 hours is all a good sign too.

No real experience of this but wanted to say I hope it’s good news

I’ve had lots of early scans, and from what I can remember, a fetal pole and yolk sac should be present when the gestational sac is 20mm, so your scan sounds completely normal at this point,
I believe the growth is around 1mm a day, so in a week there should be a big difference, try not to worry, I had a scan when a sonographer told me that everything was much too small for dates, that scan was for my lovely now 10 year old ds

Good luck for Friday. I'm sure all will be well. They don't always see a baby and heart beat at your stage.

Good luck.

I had the same at 6+2 after IVF last year. Sleeping baby beside me now.

@Hemingwayscats, where on earth did you get that idea about equipment?

Well there’s a yolk sack. That’s reassuring.
I found out I was pregnant but didn’t know dates due to irregular periods. So I went for a private scan. My sac was completely empty. So I went to my local epu 10 days later and there was a yolk sac. Then 2 weeks after that was an embryo with a lovely heartbeat! My son is now 4!
Sometimes it takes time to develop and your dates maybe a bit off . Good luck x

Good luck for Friday.

I've heard before of someone being about 6ish weeks and no HB yet.

I had similar with bleeding & saw a happy active bean on Friday 😊

I've been thinking about you. I know the waiting bit is horrible.

I've had something similar happen to me twice and both times they determined that i was measuring 2 weeks behind. First time round they saw a heartbeat at the following scan at about 7/8 weeks, I had a mmc at 12 weeks but they said the baby died at 8/9 weeks. Second time round resulted in a successful pregnancy, he's sitting downstairs chatting at the top of his voice as I type. It's excruciatingly hard waiting OP I do feel for you. All the best

Hi everyone.
Your comments ad thoughts are SO appreciated. Wow, what a lovely, supportive community this is. I cancelled tomorrow's scan. I'll be 6+6 and I decided I wanted to wait a but longer to give the bean more time to shine for me when I see it again. I will update as soon as I've taken another look. I am going to try and hold out until at least 8 weeks and hope the fact I feel sick and threw up in the car this morning is a good sign until then. Will keep you all posted. Your stories have been reassuring and gave me the courage to cancel the scan and trust that what will be, will be. xx

I am currently 6 wks and sending you lots of love. Terrified as first natural pregnancy so have booked a private scan but waiting until 8 weeks for same reasons as your update. Worried though something is up. This thread has reminded me it is early and to be patient

Wishing you a successful outcome. Ivf baby for me and I was refused a scan before 7 weeks as it way too hard to tell at that stage. Just over 7 weeks we got the heartbeat x

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. The morning sickness is a good sign, you're right. I hope the time passes quickly for you!

I think you're wise to hold off. Hopefully you'll be updating us soon with positive news. Wishing you all the very best

@Newmumatlast I'm glad the thread has been helpful and well done for holding off too. I had an early scan because I was higher risk for ectopic but I wish I'd held off another week or more.

Thank you everyone else for the encouragement. 7 weeks tomorrow. 🙂 let's see how long I can hold out!

Hugs and love to you and your little bean ❤

Good luck to you OP and well done for holding off, that is not an easy thing to do in such circumstances! 💕

Hi Folks. What do you think of this and any positive stories?

I cancelled my scan with EPU last Friday and instead had a private scan today, 9 days after my last private one where there was no embryo, only a yolk sac and a gestational sac suggesting I was 6+3.

I'm not feeling very reassured after today's scan. The. positive news is there is a heartbeat now, about 80bpm and the embryo is 4.9mm and the sonographer said it is therefore measuring about 6 weeks. I thought I was 7+2 at least. I know people can get their dates wrong, but I was on the opposite side of the country to my partner when it would have been conceived if it was only 6 weeks, unless my partners sperm lived for around 9 days up there and I got a positive normal CBDigital at just a few DPO?

What do we think? Should I be feeling at all hopeful?

@Bloomers58 could it be possible you ovulated earlier than you thought? Sorry you're going through this, hopefully you'll have a definitive answer soon x

Sorry ovulated later than you thought is what I meant to say!

When you're seven weeks along go to the EPU at the best funded hospital you can reasonably reach. I think they have quite a wide variety of quality of equipment, which impacts how early they can tell (though by seven weeks it should be very clear to tell either way). Really hope it works out for you

@Bloomers58 sperm can live up to 7 days up there. I don't have specific experience because my baby was conceived through IVF so dates were specific.

At 6+2 I had a scan as standard with my clinic to rule out ectopic pregnancy and there was barely a visible fetal pole. At 7+5 we could see a little fetus in there.