Early Scans - help!

[FluffyBumpkin]

I’m hoping some knowledgable person sees this and can shed some light for me....

This year I’ve had 2 consecutive MMC - awful. The last one was in June. I bled for 7 weeks following my medical management and had scans to check everything was ok which it was... I normally have a 28 day cycle and ovulate about CD14/15. But since the last MC things took a couple of months to settle down. I had a normal period at the start of August (the 3rd) and had sex a couple of times that month. I felt a bit icky end of August (28th) so took a pregnancy test and it was negative. My period came the next day.

It only lasted 4 days, was heavy and stopped abruptly. On CD10 I started testing with an ovulation kit and got peak fertility signs... for 7 days. I knew something was off so on the off chance I did a pregnancy test and it was positive. I called the EPU and they got me in for bloods and a scan. They dated me as 5.5 weeks and all you could see was a black sac and a white circle type thing. My HCG was in the 5 week range. That was 9 days ago.

Because of my fears and anxiety about MMC I booked a private scan expecting I would be about 7 weeks (if I was 5.5 last week). Today I had the scan at a clinic and they pointed out the fetal pole and a heartbeat and said “yep, perfectly normal 6 week pregnancy”. I was like... wtf. I told her what the EPU said last week and she said that sounded like a 4 week pregnancy if there was no fetal pole and that I was measuring 5.6 today. She said “we don’t go by last period, we go by what’s on the screen.”

I am so confused and Dr Google is not my friend. It blew my mind I had had a period and then been told I was 5/6 weeks pregnant. But now to be told I’m no further on stage wise... but I can see the pregnancy has progressed and the private sonographer told me everything looks fine. Is there any chance she was working off fetal age rather than gestational? Am I destined to lose this pregnancy too? I have another scan at the EPU in 2 weeks but I am so worried. Can anyone advise me? X

It's quite difficult to date pregnancies from such early scans. I had an early scan and was told the pregnancy only looked to be 4 weeks, but I was adamant that was impossible and it had to be 5 weeks. 2 weeks later I went back and I was dated at 7 weeks, so I was right about my dates. Good luck I hope you get a good outcome

Thank you for taking the time to reply. X

I had IVF so we knew the exact date of conception. Went for a scan at 6+6 and they dated me at 6+2.
Only a little way off but shows early scans are not very reliable for dating.
Everything was fine and I'm now 31+2

It's really hard to accurately date a pregnancy before 12 weeks because they're so small. That's why our scans for dating are at that stage.

I'm currently 33 weeks pregnant. Had an early scan due to 3+ miscarriages at what should have been almost around 7.5 weeks. Was dated 10 days later than LMP put me. When I had my 12 week scan I was dated 2 days off LMP dates (I wasn't 100% on conception / cycle date) so caught up nicely.

It's quite common for early scans to put you out by 1-2 weeks. My midwife told me that's a normal time frame during those early scans

Good luck!!

Shit I'm actually 33+2 😳🙈 damn baby brain!

Like other people have said it's so hard to accurately date a pregnancy that small. At my early scan at what I believed was nearly 7 weeks the CRL was 3.6mm which if you think of it on a ruler is tiny so must be incredibly hard to measure accurately. Even 0.1mm can put you back of forward a couple of days. The number of weeks according to size wasn't given on my scan report but they did plot size based on my dates from last period & it was way off the bottom of normal which indicates it was measuring behind what I believed. By the time I got to 12 weeks I was dated exactly where I expected to be & due date was a day off what I anticipated. She's now nearly 9 months old! Seeing a heartbeat at this stage is so much more important than the size so the fact they've seen one is hugely reassuring. I have no idea if this is true but logically I don't imagine that the baby grows by exactly the same amount every day, it probably has growth spurts just like they do when they're out.

Easier said than done but try to relax, it sounds like everything is progressing just fine.

Good luck, I really hope all goes well for you

Aw I’m glad to hear your pregnancy has been successful. Thank you for sharing and good luck x

Thank you everyone, these stories are reassuring. I guess I just need to hope for the best and wait and see x

Hey! So I found out I was earlyyyy pregnant, few days later I started to bleed, went for a scan the next day and was told I probably miscarriaged for had a eptopic pregnancy, I had bloods a few days later etc etc...
Came back for a scan because my tests came back I was still pregnant and they saw a sack (5weeks so no heart beat yet)
She was happy that that was normal
BUT she found another sac which didn’t look like much better on the screen.
She printed the photos off and went “oh there’s a little yoke in there”
But the sack is a lot smaller than the other one she didn’t even call it a second pregnancy because she thinks it’ll just fade away.
Anyone else experienced This?
I’m so tired of the uncertainty
One minute I’m happy and the next I’m being told to think the worst.
I can’t help but feel sad or concerned for the second little sac even though I’ve had the great news I have misscarred (yet)