Sorry I’m advance for the TMI photo but I had a missed miscarriage recently and had medical management in hospital.
I had some brown spotting and had scan at 8/9 weeks showing a strong heartbeat but baby was only measuring 6 weeks 6 days. This was a worry but I tried to convince myself that things would be fine. I continued to have very light spotting here and there (always brown) and ended up getting another scan at 11.5 weeks and sadly there was no heartbeat and baby was only measuring 7 weeks 5 days. However from what I’ve seen online, what I passed looks more advanced that 7 weeks 5 days. It was growing very slowly so the dates don’t necessarily indicate how far along I was if that makes sense. A midwife at the pregnancy support unit estimated that the heart may have stopped beating around 9-11 weeks. So here is my quandary, the midwives insisted that the embryo was measuring 1.3cm on the scan. I told them that what I passed certainly seemed bigger than that, I know it’s in a sac and there are clots etc etc but even still. I had an abortion as a teenager at 7 weeks pregnant and quite clearly remember what that looked like and this was certainly bigger. The midwives were really dismissive when I asked about this on the phone and they have told me that they can’t see any foetus in this image. Now to me, I know it’s started to deteriorate away but I can see a face (Two eyes, nose and mouth) at the top and at the bottom (you will need to squint for this) I can see the little stump that develop in to a leg. You can’t see it on the photo but at the time, I could also see a tiny little hand. I’m aware that grief can make us see things that aren’t there but I am quite a rational person and feel that I am not being believed. I know it’s difficult to judge size based on a photo but hopefully the hospital bedpan and sheets of toilet paper can provide some scale. Can anyone else see a foetus when looking at this image? If you had to guess, what gestation to you think this little bean is? Thanks in advance