i hope you dont mind me gatecrashing i lurked on here to congratulate dm who has graduated from ttc, we were both on aug thread together, golds please dont panic yet.honey, honest, with my dd2 who was born in July last year, I had a bleed at what should have been 7 weeks preg, quite heavy too, was rushed to hospital and scanned, was convinced of my dates too, but scan showed nothing, not a sausage, they did an internal scan and that showed atiny full stop sized sac, had I got my dates wrong?? no I tols them I am convinced, even if I conceived late in my clycle I should have been at least 6 weeks, preg was positive, I was throwuing up everyhwere, hcg levls suggested a preg of about 7 weeks so they said, there is no baby, you have a molar preg or an ectopic, ectopic was ruled out so they sent me home to be rescanned in a week. they told me it was def a mole where you have no baby but just a placental growth which can become cancerous, they give me info on it, told me it caused abnormally hcg levels, i went home heartbroken, dh and i told everyone there was no baby, 2 days later hcg confirmed a supposed abnormality as they hadnt doubled as they should, we prepared for surgery etc and I spent a week crying and just wanting to be rid of the monster I thought was inside me, i week later scan......low and behold...a tiny 6 week and 6 day old fetus , was just visible!!!!!!!!!everything looked normal, the baby had been just a bit to small to show on the scan, my dates had been out by about a week and a half!!!!!!!!!, I had lotsof scares during my preg and didnt really relax but shes fine, healthy and happy, sometimes medical science does get it wrong, I have said this to others and they have lost their babies sadly..I lost one a month ago, but it isd possible that if you are just a day or so under 6 weeks your baby will not show on a .scan. I still have that precious first pic of emily when she was a peanut!! i will keep my fingers crossed that it is just that you xonceived a few dayslater, good luck honey.