Hi everyone
Sorry for the long post!
This is my first pregnancy, I was having some light spotting and cramps around Christmas (around 6 weeks pregnant according to date of last period), so I had a scan at what should have been 7 weeks and 2 days, and they said that the foetus was measuring 5 weeks and 2 days, there was a flicker on the scan which they said could have been the heart beat, and the CRL was 2.7mm. They brought me back two weeks later for a second scan (today), and the bleeding has gone from light spotting to basically a light period (but not really any cramps).
I went in expecting them to say that it was a miscarriage, and the sonographer said "I'm sorry but there's no heartbeat", which wasn't really a surprise. We went in to see the doctor afterwards and he asked if I understood what was going on. I said "there's no heartbeat so I guess it's a miscarriage", but the doctor said it wasn't, it was a "pregnancy of unknown viability", and I need to come back in another two weeks to check for further progress. He said that if today's scan was my first scan, they wouldn't really be worried because it could just be too small to detect a heartbeat since it's below 7mm.
He also said that the CRL is now 4.8mm, and he wasn't too concerned about the fact that it hadn't grown much, but surely if it's only grown from 2.7mm to 4.8mm in 14 days, and there's no heartbeat at what should be over 9 weeks by now, that's very unlikely to be viable, surely?
Has anyone else had a similar experience? The next two weeks of waiting are going to be rough, and my head is just all over the place at the moment. Is there a chance that it'll work out? I was mentally prepared for it to be a miscarriage today, but the sort of optimism of the doctor has somewhat thrown me off, really.