No Heartbeat at 7w 3days - help please !

[RR2006]

Hi

I am really hoping someone can help. At my 6 week scan I had twins - by 7 w 3days, one had perished. The other had grown (was 1cm), had a sac and fetel pole, but no visible heartbeat. I am due back next Tuesday to see if anything further has happened. I know that no heartbeat is not a good sign at this point, but I was wondering if any of you had experienced this, and gone on to have a healthy baby ? My symptoms seem to be calming down a bit too, and all in all I am feeling heartbroken.

I am / was pregnant through IVF, so no question about my dates, sadly.

Can anyone help ? Thank you

Oh i dont know RR but .

I hope it works out. There is a chance it may just be too early to see the heartbeat yet, but I suspect that the person conducting the scan would have told you this.

Fingers crossed for you.

hi rr

i went for a scan as i was bleeding,i was 12 weeks.i was told that i had been carrying twins but one had died.i was so distraught and thought i would lose teh other.

i had quite a bad pregnancy (have had with all 5 of mine) but baby was ok.she grew normally and was born 2 weeks early.

i hope everything goes ok for you at your next scan,and try not to worry too much.

xx

oh RR...nothing helpful to add, just wanted to offer you support.

Isn't it a good sign that they could see the sac? I was told it was at my 9 week scan. Was it an internal scan? Otherwise it would be very difficult to see a heartbeat this early.

I really really hope that you come back to us with some good news. Take care of yourself. There are always plenty of lovely people here if you need to talk.

I had a no heartbeat scan at 8 weeks with low hormones and told to go back a week later but to prepare myself for the worst. 1 week later strong heartbeat and now have a beautiful dd. Had 3 problematic pg's and 2 mc.

With DD1 they didn?t see her heartbeat only the fetal sac and pole. Went back following week convinced of the worst and they picked up a strong little heart beat. As impossibly hard as it is, only time will gibe you an answer. I don?t know the statistics on this but I do know from experience that it is not without a hope just yet xx
hth

(that was 7/8 weeks and retested at around 9)

Thank you SO MUCH for your words - I know that I will not have any answers until Tuesday, but its lovely to know that I have not been alone in this
R

Good luck RR2006 xx

RR, just to add....having been part of a big IVF community over the years of conceiving my dds, I've learnt that twins - regardless of whether only one has got this far or not - are often a couple of days 'behind' at this stage, so heartbeats can take a little longer to show up than the average singleton.
Wishing you loads of luck on Tuesday, xxx