7 week scan - normal?

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I've just had a scan at 7 weeks 2 days. Baby is measuring 15mm and dated at 7 weeks 6 days. Heart rate is 173 bpm. I also have a 4cm fibroid
This is my first pregnancy and just wondering if I need to be concerned?
Thanks

What’s makes you think there’s a problem? Was the person scanning concerned ?x

Hi,
Just that the heart rate seems a bit high and the fibroid - it wasn't there when I had a fertility scan in October, is it normal to appear that quickly? And can it cause harm? The ultrasound tech just said they would need to monitor it for growth but as this is my firsr pregnancy I don't know if I need to be concerned 😅

Congratulations on your pregnancy :) the measurement sounds great and as far as I'm aware earlier on it's the higher the better. I think it would be very unusual for a fibroid to appear and grow to 4cm in 2 months. Did they say what kind of location, is it close to the cavity or further out? I would get another scan to reassess the fibroid.

The higher the better for heart rate.

Fibroids can be really easily missed, it could be that the person doing your fertility scan missed it. Do you know the location of it? The baby sounds normal though, congratulations!

Thanks everyone, I feel better about the heart rate!

The fibroid was described as follows "at the fundus of the uterus there is a 47mm x 41mm x 36mm subserousal fibroid"

So subserosal isn't in the cavity, it's submucosal that you need to worry about the most. But the bigger the fibroid is the more likely it is to put pressure on a pregnancy. I was told by my obstetrician that as the uterus gets bigger and stretches in the pregnancy that fibroids tend to become less noticeable. It's hard as you're early on and midwives only tend to get involved at 10 weeks and consultants even later. Can you book into your gp and see what they say about getting a specialist to advise since this fibroid has been detected and it's big?