Chances of miscarriage after seeing heartbeat 7 weeks

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I've read seeing the heart beat after 6-7 weeks is a good sign and has a much lower risk of miscarriage. I've also seen alot of replies on old threads women commenting saying they still miscarried after 7 weeks. They didn't state tho if they had an early scan and saw a heartbeat so I'm just wondering if you miscarried after 7 weeks , had you seen the heartbeat around this time with an early scan or it was unknown. Thanks
Had an early scan at 7 weeks as standard with ivf pregnancies and saw a heartbeat. Still terrified I'm going to miscarry and I think I'm going mad that I'm contemplating paying for a private scan at 10 weeks . Previous miscarriage and long fertility journey just has my head wrecked

On one of my pregnancies I saw the heartbeat and all normal at 6.5 weeks, at 10 weeks I found out that it had stopped growing a day or two after that scan. It’s was fairly devastating tbh and made my next pregnancy even more stressful. But you just have to wait it out day by day, it’s so difficult.

Google it. I think there is a chart somewhere with the actual stats. I was always told the chances are good after seeing a heartbeat!

Stay positive and if you get desperate go for another scan at the half way point between now and 12/13 weeks. When you get to the second trimester you’re much safer.

Goodluck the first trimester is agony but it gets better! Think good thoughts, you have a little baby in there with a heartbeat…your baby is alive and growing, it’s real right now in this moment so try to just enjoy it. Worrying won’t change the outcome it’ll just make you miserable and stressed

I found this site quite helpful

Sadly any responses you get here will be unhelpful anecdotes - it doesn’t tell you anything that i had a mmc at 9.5 weeks after an apparently healthy 7 week scan, anymore than that i had two healthy full term pregnancies after 7 week scans either side of that.

one thing i did find helpful in my last pregnancy was this site, which reframes the odds as the chance of NOT having a miscarriage:
https://datayze.com/miscarriage-reassurer

If you google ‘Lies, damned lies and miscarriage statistics’ it might help you information wise but as pp have said…it’s anecdotal because no one can tell you if you will miscarry or not … a heartbeat at 7 weeks gives you good odds but you say you’ve had previous miscarriages and my understanding is that this may put you in a different category to the general statistics. IVF pregnancy so you are being monitored by your clinic? I’m 16 weeks now after a miscarriage and it’s a terrifying experience. I am not enjoying my pregnancy and just feel so anxious so I understand how you are feeling. I’m having scans every 2 weeks to help and have started feeling movements now and then too which helps.

I wouldn't bother with the 10 week scan tbh I'd wait until 12 weeks. The first 12 weeks are always the riskiest. I had a scan at 10+5 last time with heartbeat, baby waving and moving around loads. Had my NHS scan at 13+2 to find out baby had died at 10+6, a day after my scan. I'm almost 23 weeks in my next pregnancy now with no issues so clearly just luck of the egg/sperm!

There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to it, zero guarantees and no one can tell you what you want to hear.
If it’s going to happen then it will.

OR it will be absolutely fine, this will be your time and you will get your longed for little miracle at long long last.
I really really hope that it all goes well for you x

Just wanted to say I am in the same boat, OP, and sympathise. Had 7 week scan last week (after 3 failed IVF rounds, and years trying, I conceived naturally by surprise), which was all good.

but this week I got a call after my midwife’s booking appointment to say they detected a minor urine infection in my tests (I had no symptoms, so that was a nice surprise!) and put me on antibiotics (ones safe to take in pregnancy). Said it shouldn’t be an issue or big risk to the pregnancy but it has made me even more anxious.

I think everything in this period puts you on edge - especially when we’ve been through so much to get this far. My 12 week scan is in early January and it feels so long to wait. I am somewhat reassured by the stats but the truth is you won’t know for sure until the scan.

Getting an additional private scan might help, but I think I’d still worry after it anyway - and unless I have scans every other day I’m going to have to try and deal with the anxiety! I guess just have to try and accept that what will be will be - and there is actually very little we can control of it, so try and “enjoy” this bit as much as we can!

Wishing you lots of good luck x

Completely agree with this. I've had 3 IVF pregnancies so far. With the 1st everything was spot on at the 7 week scan, but a private scan at 11 weeks showed that the baby had died at about 9 weeks. With the 2nd, another spot on scan at 7 weeks and that baby is now nearly 2 years old. I'm now pregnant again and have just had to accept for my own sanity that what will be will be. I can either be an anxious mess thinking something will go wrong between scans or I can try and enjoy being pregnant whilst I am. Sending you solidarity - I know it's really hard 💐

We had the exact same experience. We went for our 10 week scan not expecting any problems and then they found out that it stopped growing a day or so after the healthy scan. So devastating. Have you had a successful pregnancy after this?

I wished I had got an early private scan. With my MMC I was scanned a little over 12 weeks and no heartbeat seen, embryo 6 weeks. I will never, ever wait that long again. Appreciate that things can go wrong between scans but bluntly I'm not prepared to continue a non viable pregnancy for over six weeks without knowing!