If I have a 12 week scan at 10.6 weeks....

[hopefully]

Will it have the same effect of confirming that I'm past the first trimester 'danger period', or should I wait for the full 12 weeks? I have no idea what the statistics are on this, does anyone know?

The only reason is that I've got a big family thing on the day I'm 12 weeks, and I can get a scan appointment for when I'm 10 weeks and 6 days, or not till after the family do, and it would be lovely to tell people. Particularly since I've got so fat they'll all guess anyway...

I would be happy with announcing after the 10.6 scan

The risk of misscarriage significantlly lowers after you see a visable heartbeat, which the sonographer will confirm at 10.6. So I would tell after that

Thanks for the advice. I think I'll go for 10.6 week scan and not bother trying to fit into too tight clothes to hide bump at family do!

I had a scan at 10 weeks, and everything was fine, but still suffered miscarriage at 10+4

But I was very unlucky, once a heartbeat is seen there is a 95% chance of success, and the chance if mc reduces significantly after 8 weeks and every day you get closer to 12 weeks it reduces more and more.

They might make you go for another scan after 12 weeks to properly date your pregnancy. They wouldn't take my 10 week scan as a dating scan and asked me to go back a few weeks later.

Good luck!!!

i had my dating scan with dd1 at 10 weeks and all was fine. i had told everyone before this though so it didnt make much of a difference.

I'm not going to have a nuchal measurement (I don't think, am weighing up the pros and cons at the moment), so that's probably not a problem, but definitely a point to consider.

I'm actually not offered a 12 week scan on the NHS in my trust (evil people), so I'm having a private one. The NHS don't seem remotely concerned about my dates, to be honest! They seem to believe me without question, the silly people.

It's so difficult to know what's the right thing to do, but I think I have to pick a time when I am going to decide to be positive about this pregnancy and tell everyone, otherwise I'm going to end up announcing I'm pregnant on the day I go into labour!

It is so frustrating. I'm expecting a call from the midwife this week and I'm going to see if I can beg one, given that I probably don't want the nuchal measurement done, so it will be a fairly quick in, 'yup, it's got a heartbeat and four limbs' and out case. Failing that, I will fork out the obscene sum for a private one. Grrr.

The earlier you have a scan the more reliable it is for dating purposes. If that is the only purpose of this scan ie not for nuchal measurement then it won't matter.

if it's a nuchal scan you have to have it between 11 and 13 weeks because that's where the data they have lies ..

Hi hopefully

Not sure if this is too far for you, but they do scans for around £50 and I think it's about 50 miles from you

www.firstviewimaging.co.uk/index.htm

HTH!

Thanks for that rainy - might give them a try rather than forking out £150 in harley st!

It depends what type of person you are. For me, probably because I've had a mc, I would go for the scan after 12 weeks, cos if you have one at 10+6 and everything is fine, by 13 weeks you will be wondering whether it is still fine, because often you still don't really feel pregnant. Then you might regret not holding on until 13/14 weeks cos an OK scan at 13/14 weeks really will mean things are on their way!

But like previous posters have said, there is a very high chance that if everything is OK at 10+6 then it will be OK for the whole pregnancy.

But if you are paying for it, make sure you get the most reassurance you can from it!

Ooh, just had good news, I actually do get an NHS scan (stupid misinformed doctor was wrong), and midwife reckons I should be able to get an appointment for when I'm around 11.3-11.5, therefore removing all problems! Thanks for the advice everyone, am secretly glad it'll be closer to 12 weeks than it might otherwise have been.

I had a dating scan last week and they put my dates back a bit so that I am now 10 weeks, the next scan I've been booked in for is my 20 week scan, should I be getting a 12 week one too? I always feel a bit of a prat about these things because I purposefully made sure I didn't read anything about babies at all when we decided we'd start trying, because I didn't want to get obsessed if it didn't happen immediately. Now I'm left with no knowledge what so ever.

my mate had a scan at 10.5 days and she still had to go bk for 12.5 day scan to get all the measurements.u r suppose to go bk.i would insist to them that u want to go bk.