Early reassurance scan?

[Nicolelinda96]

Hi guys. My dates are saying I’m almost 7 weeks pregnant, but due to an early mc/ chemical and when I actually had sex, I believe I’m more like 5.5. I’ve been dubious about early scans due to
The fear of not seeing much and feeling even worse before my 12 week one, but I’m finding waiting 6 weeks completely unbearable. I got a 3 plus on a clear blue the other day, which indicates my urine hcg is over 2700, so I was thinking that in a couple of weeks it should be high enough for a heartbeat to be seen?

What are you guys views on this?

Im so sorry you suffered a miscarriage. I did too with our first baby so 2nd time we got an early scan at 9 weeks and it was so lovely seeing baby wiggling around aaw heartbeating away. Weve done it again with this pregnancy and has made me feel so much better. Waiting for the 12 week scan was too far away for us.

Its definitely worth the money in my mind but I'd wait until 8-9 weeks so you see something on the scan. Best of luck hun

@Nicolelinda96 Very similar situation to me, I completely empathise ❤️

We booked a private scan for 7 weeks where I was measuring 6+5 and saw a lovely heartbeat. Everything is in the right place and it reassured us massively. I am soooo glad we booked it! I wouldn't hesitate booking, especially if you are a worrier! Waiting for that 12 week scan is long!!

Let us know if you book one x

@Nicolelinda96 go for a scan, it isn't worth the worry, although I'm sure there's nothing to worry about 😊💕 I've had 2x early scans, last one was on Monday and everything is perfect ❤️ I got mine due to some light spotting early on, so they allowed me to go in to the emergency early pregnancy ward.
I'm a massive worrier so was beside myself, honestly I'm not sure this feeling will go away! Not even when they are here lol. Although getting a scan definitely takes the edge off.
Also re the pregnancy tests, I'd recommend you didn't keep doing them, you will find they likely go lighter as your HCG increases as it's too much for them. That's what mine did and again just causes unnecessary worry. If your not heavy bleeding or having servers cramping you'll be just fine 💕

My view is that it wouldn’t reassure me much. You’d have to scan every day for reassurance. They say that after you see a heartbeat your chances of miscarriage drop considerably. I’m a run of the mill person and I saw a heartbeat at 8 weeks. All measured fine, even saw it do a little wriggle. It stopped growing at 10.5 weeks. The sonographer said that before twelve weeks what you see one day may be totally different to what you see the next. When I got pregnant again I didn’t bother paying for reassurance scans. I would only go to EPU if you have bleeding, even then I wouldn’t do an internal scan.

In my personal opinion, I would do whatever you feel content in doing. Everyone's experiences and opinions are different, so what you feel best.

I've had a miscarriage, followed a chemical, followed by 3 more miscarriages. I'm now 10 weeks pregnant and I've had a scan with my fertility clinic, I then had a private scan, was meant to have another scan with fertility but they've cancelled due to staff shortage, so I've booked another private one for tomorrow because waiting for my 12 week is simply to long for me. And that's what keeps my sanity and my mind at ease, but someone else might think that's crazy.

Sending my love and nothing you do is right or wrong x

So basically scans before 12 weeks are pointless because you could have a healthy baby one day and a dead one the next?

Genuinely feel so trapped and depressed. I suppose I could fork out for weekly early scans?

@Nicolelinda96

So basically scans before 12 weeks are pointless because you could have a healthy baby one day and a dead one the next?

Genuinely feel so trapped and depressed. I suppose I could fork out for weekly early scans?

I really would take that comment with a pinch of salt. It can happen yes, but from what I've heard it's extremely rare. Please don't take that and run with it because you'll drive yourself mad

@Nicolelinda96

So basically scans before 12 weeks are pointless because you could have a healthy baby one day and a dead one the next?

Genuinely feel so trapped and depressed. I suppose I could fork out for weekly early scans?

That’s what I was told at EPU. I wouldn’t do weekly scans. There’s not enough research into effects of frequent scanning on babies. Plus these private scanning places are not always run by medically trained people and if they are they’re still only interested in selling you gender reveal tat and more scans. Miscarriages are not rare but they are entirely natural in most cases. Chemical pregnancies are also very common. I had 4/5 before my first healthy pregnancy. They show you’re fertile and nature’s weeding out non viable pregnancies. Normal. Early testing has a lot to answer for. With my last pregnancy I just had to resign myself that it wasn’t in my power. Of course you can book a scan if you want to but you can’t go through the pregnancy pinning your emotions on scans. At some point you have to say what will be will be

I had weekly scans with my second baby (medically necessary, not private) and it provided me with reassurance for the rest of the day, basically. Then another six days of not knowing. I think you just have to accept the not knowing and worry.

I think if it was going to be a chemical I’d have likely started bleeding by now. Chemicals are very common, yes, but it’s very unhelpful hearing about how you had 5. Because my brain immediately goes “of course it’s a chemical. They are too common for it NOT to be. You really thought you’d get lucky second time round? “

@Itsbeen84yearss I really get your strong opinion on this, I really do. But the OP has asked for advice and guidance. Not to be scaremonger. None of us are blind to the fact things gone wrong in pregnancy, but every pregnancy and journey is different. Lord knows, I've been on 5 of them and each one was a different rollercoaster from hell. But I strongly believe you're letting your experiences be set in stone and that be the outcome for all. That isn't the case and I really am sorry for your heartache

@Nicolelinda96 please do what you feel best and comfortable with. Especially in these early stages x

@itsbeen84years

You really haven't been very soothing at all

I would have an early scan

I had one at 6 weeks at the EPU it was a distressing experience yes there was a heart beat but the sonographer was terrible

Went and had a scan at what I thought was 9 weeks and I was 10+1 privately and the sonogrpaher was so reassuring
Have my neuchal scan on Tuesday and it's really helped me cope having that scan at 10
Weeks
I would have one around 9 to get some reassurance but go to a place where they are qualified sonographers not just some sort of imaging person at a backyard type clinic

Xx

Thank you so much for all your reassurance. I’m seeing my midwife on the 12th and I will have a chat with her about what she thinks about scanning a little earlier.

I’m sorry I didn’t mean to scaremonger. Not my intention

I’m considering booking a scan for around the 17th. My dates according to last “period” (early miscarriage /chemical bleed) I’m
Almost 7 weeks, but everything else (when I had sex, test progression) is saying I’m no more than 5.5. I only got a positive on a frer 11 days ago and it was lighter than the control line, but has subsequently become a serious dye stealer and 3+ on clear blue, so I think that indicates I was about 12dpo with that first test and am now 23dpo.

That would make me 7.5 ish at the scan, so I’d expect to see a heartbeat.

OP, I recommend this site on here a lot because it helped me manage first trimester anxiety after miscarriage:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/expectingscience.com/2015/08/26/lies-damned-lies-and-miscarriage-statistics/amp/

One of the statistic sets it reviews is the chance of miscarrying after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. It breaks down your risk of loss according to speed of heartbeat at different points in pregnancy. Having that information might help you decide how reassuring you can expect to find a scan. Conversely it may just make you more anxious, depending on your character, in which case ignore this advice!
Either way, I wish you lots of luck with your pregnancy.

Those stats are somewhat helpful. But is one of the studies saying that there’s still 9.4% out of 600 and something women that went on to miscarry after seeing a heartbeat at 6-7 weeks? That’s loads?

I completely understand your worries. We lost our first pregnancy at 7 weeks 1 day, this was found at a later scan. We had seen the baby with a good heartbeat at 7 weeks measuring perfectly so this really did shock me.

We're now almost 7 weeks with an IVF baby, scan has shown all looks perfect and we have another scan at the unit in two weeks time. I have accepted that absolutely nothing can stop me from worrying and ultimately what will be will be. It's a rubbish situation to be in and I know everyone handles these things differently, I really hope things go well for you.

Something that did help me was a very experienced matter of fact midwife who said something along the lines of "if a baby is meant to come believe me it will". I know it's daft but I actually liked it

It may be helpful for me to have a scan at 7.5 weeks then another at 9? Then finally my 11-12 week scan? I think I would find it excruciating to wait between 7 and 11-12 because I’d be convincing myself that my baby had died between them. So I think another at 9 might help.

I’ve had two pregnancies.

My first we had an early scan at around 8/9 weeks as we wanted to tell our families over Christmas a few weeks later. Unfortunately there was no heartbeat and the baby had died at about 6 weeks. It was obviously really upsetting news.

I’m now pregnant again (20 weeks) and we had an early scan again at 8 weeks. I knew a heartbeat at 8 weeks was no guarantee that it would make it to 12 weeks and it was still in the high risk zone, but from my point of view its just such a long time to wait to the 12 week scan and I didn’t want to get there and find out something had gone wrong early in the pregnancy and I’d then spent another 6 weeks thinking/ hoping everything was fine when it wasn’t. I just wanted to know that things were ok up to that point.

The wait from the 8 week to 12 week scans did feel like a long time!

If I was pregnant again I would have an early scan around 8 weeks again, but I think I’d try to keep it to one.

I am 14 weeks and had an early scan at what I thought was 8 weeks (though showed I was 6 1/2 weeks) so I’m so glad I waited until 8 weeks to see the heartbeat.
I had a miscarriage with my first pregnancy, it was a blighted ovum so no baby actually started growing, just the sac. The early scan with this pregnancy showing baby’s heartbeat was definitely a huge reassurance for me, even though I knew it was no guarantee, I just needed to see if a baby was growing. I then waited for the 12 week scan and though the last couple weeks I was definitely getting desperate to have another, I’m so glad I went for that one early scan.
I think despite it being far from a guarantee everything will be okay, it’s still such a huge reassurance and what’s needed to get to that 12 week scan.