Scan dates help please. I'm desperate for some positive stories

[Frazzlerock]

Can someone please help me understand what is going on here?

According to Ovusense (temp tracking device) I ovulated on 6th Oct.

Tested 13 days later and got a strong positive, plus clear blue digi saying 1-2 weeks (3-4, right?)

According to LMP I should be 8 weeks + 3 days today.

Had a scan ten days ago (when I should have been 6+6 weeks) which showed baby measuring 3.6mm so my dates put back by 3 days to 6+3 and no heart beat could be detected. Fine. Baby too tiny and perhaps my egg took it's time to travel.

I have just been scanned again today for reassurance/dating and baby is smaller at 3.1mm but we have a heartbeat.
This sonographer said baby is no more than 6 weeks.

I really don't understand.
I understand that there can be errors in measurements but I should be nearer 8 weeks, not 6!

So that is an error of two whole weeks.

Basically I'd have got a really strong positive at only 13 days pregnant when most women haven't even ovulated by that point.

I've been advised to go to EPU in a week for another scan.

This is our rainbow baby, I cannot lose another 😢

Can anyone tell me this happened to them and it was just a lot of errors with it being before 12 weeks or something?

I need to cling to some hope that we'll meet this little ray of hope. I've waited 2.5 years for this 😢

I hope everything goes well at your next scan. Ironically I had another scan today and the baby is now measuring dead on the date from my lmp rather than the early scans.

I’ve had this happen to me twice - one with a good outcome (6 day discrepancy) and one without (12 day discrepancy) Saw the heartbeat both times, so it really is juat a wait and see.

Sincerely wishing you have a happy outcome.

@GoneForFood oh really? Eek that's worrying 😢 I do think that two weeks discrepancy is a crazy long time but I am trying hard to remain positive. I've been giving this baby a good talking to everyday telling him/her to hang on.

Plus symptoms keep popping back now and again to remind me all is well!

I knew really that it wasn’t going to work out - I had no symptoms at all plus it would have meant I got a bfp before I conceived if I had have gone by their dates.
But it’s millimetres we’re talking about here and chances are your first scan was measured inaccurately 🤞🏻

Well baby should have measured around 17mm (8+2 according to LMP and ovulation) on Tues, but only measured 3.15mm so that's 14mm difference. But I am clinging to the hope that my egg took a few days longer to travel and also my wonky uterus offering bad positioning.

Definitely getting very mild nausea now and then (not every day though), I've a constantly dry mouth, my boobs give me a little jab once in a while too (again not everyday)
I'm also shattered!

We've had two losses 2.5 years ago, in those 2.5 years that DP refused to try again I was an absolute mess. I couldn't really function very well day to day

This is our time now. It's going to be our year and the rainbow and happy ending we deserve. I simply can't go back to that hell again. So positivity all the way, it's all going to be fine next week 😊

Crossing everything for you

This happened to me. I had an early scan (nhs) expecting to be 8 weeks... and they couldn't find anything except the yoke sac. Was told to come back in 2 weeks but expect the worse.

A very long 2 weeks later, scanned and found baby and heartbeat, but only 6 weeks! Baby then actually ended up being born just after my original dates... so I do wonder how accurate these very early scans really are.

Everything crossed for you.

It sounds like the shape of your uterus could week be a reason for them not seeing baby properly. And measurements on early scans just don't seem to be hugely accurate anyway. I have everything crossed for you. Xx

Today is the day and, after feeling positive since I started ''tis thread (thank you btw), I'm freaking out again.
I've been awake since 3:30am. I'm now downstairs watching Emma Willis (trying to imagine myself giving birth in a few months time!)
I'm terrified

I keep getting awful flashbacks of our little one 2.5 years ago when we were told their heart had stopped beating, it was the exact same stage.

I just want to get through this scan and know all is fine then I can relax until the 12 week scan.

I keep telling myself that baby is absolutely fine but there is a louder voice in my head telling me it's not. I keep shouting that voice down with positivity.

I just wish I could shake this 2 week discrepancy thing. I wish I had no idea when I ovulated, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid if I hadn't known 😓

Oh bless you Frazzle, so awful having to wait. Praying for you and hope you get good news

Hey Frazzle
Don't get too hung up on the dates. They often don't give a final EDD till your 12wk scan. If you still have pregnancy symptoms, AND you have had no bleeding, AND they saw a heart beat , it seems very positive.
Good Luck today and hope you feel better after scan

I’ve been where you are.

I had a scan at 8+3 which dated me at 6+6 (with a heartbeat) but I knew it was impossible as I’d had a positive hpt at 10dpo (was tracking) and that would have meant I wasn’t even pregnant when I got the positive!

Unfortunately the mw/sonographer didn’t listen to me at all and just insisted I had my dates wrong but I knew better. They refused me another scan and I miscarried at 11+3 (by my lmp) but baby didn’t make it that far.

I think the whole process was a lot easier for me as I knew deep down it wasn’t going to work out, so it was kind of a relief when it finally happened. I just knew I wasn’t pregnant anymore so was waiting for it to happen. Mothers instinct is a powerful thing.

I had a thread on here at the time and heard both positive and negative experiences, so it really could go either way for you, and I’m really hoping that you get a better outcome than I did. My only advice is to prepare yourself for the worst news whilst praying for the best.

Will be thinking of you

@twoseven my boobs have gone back to normal it seems, which is a worry.
I still have a raging thirst though. Nothing much else to report but I didn't really have strong symptoms anyway.

But you're right, no bleeding and a heartbeat is good news.

In 3hours and 20 mins I'll be in there.

I'm trying not to get hung up on the two week thing but it just seems so excessive. I could handle a few days, maybe even a week but that's a lot.

I kind of wish I'd not bothered with scans and just waited for my 12 week one 😓

I had lots of early scans due to bleeding and previously losses. In my last pregnancy, the measurements were not consistent and he seemed to shrink, grow and then go backwards again. The EPU just said that it was very hard to date accurately before 12 weeks. Baby is now 11 years old! Good luck.

Good luck today. My measurements were a week out at an 8 week scan, but had caught up by 12 weeks.

Sending a great big virtual hug. I really, really hope its good news. Xx

Good luck op. I had a bleed at 9 weeks and had to have an emergency scan. I can understand how you are feeling. I burst into tears when I heard the heart beat. It is a good sign that they've seen it. I'm now 19 weeks. I'm still terrified every time I go for a scan. I hope you get good news. I'll be thinking of you xx

I think I'll do the same @hailstone1 I will be a sobbing wreck when we see the heartbeat today.
You're very lucky. At 9 weeks with our first loss I had a bleed and went straight to the EPU but our baby had died a couple of days before.

No bleeding this time. Just the huge dates discrepancy

2 hours and 15 mins to go....

Thinking of you, OP. I'll be coming back to check this thread this morning. Been thinking of you since you posted.

If it's any consolation, I've seen a few posts on here where scan dates haven't matched ovulation dates and people have advised that temping, OPK sticks etc aren't always accurate and more just a high likelihood of you ovulating then.

Really hope this is the case for you, or that baby was hiding last time.

Good luck today xx

Thank you Token

I figured Ovusense was a bit higher tech than the usual temping and ovulation sticks. It advertises 99% accuracy for ovulation and was developed for women with PCOS so I trusted its results.

But I can hope that I am in the 1% that it wasn't accurate for, or that this little baby was hiding last time

I will update later

Thank you all for your wishes and luck xx

This was my ovusense cycle for this 'month' - I'm 6 weeksish pregnant atm - I definitely didn't ovulate when it said I did because I had a positive pregnancy test a few days later! Hope this is vaguely reassuring that it's not always accurate

Oh and good luck! XXX

Thank you @Justincase87
This is mine if it helps with working out my strange dates!

My BFP was the day of my last temp at about 13/14 DPO and it was a very clear line