Has anyone else had experience of difficult early scans with a retroverted uterus? Due to an ectopic earlier this year, I have had scans at 5, 6 and 7 weeks and none of them have been straightforward.
The 5-week one didn't show a lot but did indicate it was in the right place and not an ectopic (thank god!). The 6-week one showed a week's worth of progress but was still to early to see more than the yolk sac (they picked up some bleeding and prescribed me progesterone). Sadly, the 7-week one showed that while it was again a week's worth of progress in terms of size of yolk sac (and the bleeding had stopped), there was no sign of foetal pole and heartbeat. I'm pretty certain of my dates and the maximum number of days out I could be is 2 (making Friday's scan 6+5). Obviously I know this spells very bad news in terms of it being a viable pregnancy but the sonographer and nurse said they can't yet 'call it' and I need to return in another week for a further scan. This leaves me in limbo yet again. I spent the last two days pretty devastated with the knowledge that this is my third loss in 8 months but today (probably stupidly) I've started wondering if there is any glimmer of hope still.
All three scans have been a bit tricky in terms of a retroverted uterus (which I know is fairly common but mine seemed to be causing them a lot of issues during scanning). The first two scans – despite spending quite some time looking – they couldn't see anything on the ultrasound scans and the transvaginal scans took a while to pick things up too. The third scan she just went straight to transvaginal because she said there wasn't really any point in doing the the ultrasound at this stage.
I just wondered if anyone here been in a similar situation and whether the outcome was good or bad...