Good afternoon all,
I had lots of pain at the beginning of my pregnancy so was in and out of EPU, at 6 weeks and 3 days they found a heart beat and said baby measured 7mm, but CRL is not necessarily accurate until 12 weeks.
I went for a private scan at 7 weeks + 6 days with hubby as he didn’t get to see the babies heart beat before, the lady measures us at ahead at 8 + 2 days at 17.9mm, although one of the pictures said 16.9mm, I looked this up and this actually said accurate for 7 weeks 6 days .
I had cramps on Friday night and me being highly anxious panicked, no EPU open I messaged private scan lady and she invited me in for a free scan, very kind, babies heart beat super strong, I had a tiny bit of implantation bleeding outside the sack which explains the cramps, then she quickly did the CRL measurement as in so quickly, she didn’t say anything and then just before I left she said ‘Just one thing, baby is measuring 20mm, we’d have like to have had a bit more growth, so I think we need to air on the side of caution and rescan in 2 weeks, but you will have to pay’, I’m then in a state of panic and quickly say yes to rebooking as I don’t want to lose my baby, she also said ‘we wouldn’t want something to happen to your baby and you only see that at 12 weeks’. However 20mm is actually accurate for 8 weeks and 4 days, she never changed the due date last time so by her measurements my baby is too small for 9 weeks and at the bottom of the scale.
She managed to see baby over tummy on my 7+6 day scan but had to do an internal for the cramping scan as my uterus has tilted forward- can this effect measuring?
I calculated my time from EPU to my private ultrasound and baby is growing at the same rate as that time and is still having a healthy heart beat, it’s just under 1mm a day.
I am now super confused and anxious that this is the beginning of the end, my husband is convinced she is doing it for money as I am so anxious I will go back.
What do you all think?
Panicky first time mum!
(P.S I have health anxiety so everything is stressful for me, I also lost my grandad this year and feel baby is a gift from him so struggling even more.)