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Can someone help poor little Nbg make sense of her scan!

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Nbg · 17/04/2007 14:00

I am very confused by the whole thing now. I thought the scan would get me excited but I'm just left clueless.

Just to give you a bit of background knowledge.
Had a normal period on 16/1 for the normal 5 days. Had another period on 10/2 which came at the right time but was very very light and lasted 3 days.
MW thought it could have been an implantation bleed so I would be now 14/15 weeks. She said if it wasnt a bleed and just a period I would be now 9 weeks.

Now the scan has put me at 7 weeks and 3 days. So I'm now left wondering if somethings not quite right. If the light bleed was a period why am I not around 9 weeks? Is it because the baby isnt growing properly? I just cannot see how I can be only 7 weeks going on period dates.

They want me back on the 15th May to do a proper dating scan and she said only then will they give me a correct due date.
I did get a picture and you can see the outline of the baby's head and body but it has a tail rather than legs.

Help me!

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Twinklemegan · 17/04/2007 22:59

Hi NBG - I agree with some of the others about dates based on LMP having a large margin of error. Personally I'd say the fact that you had a very light period before ovulating this time means that your cycle went a bit doolally for a while. When I was pregnant, I knew DS hadn't been conceived at the time the initial due date made out. Lo and behold it was put back a week when I had the 12 week dating scan, to pretty much exactly what I thought.

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