Hello… long time reader on here but have never posted so please be nice.
I am, by my calculations, 7 weeks pregnant. I went to the EPU (UK based) last week and they saw a fetal pole measuring 1.5mm which put me back by about a week and a half which I knew wasn’t right. Fast forward to today and I have been rescanned a week later. Fetal pole is now 3.6mm and a heartbeat was detected.
The unit discharged me because there was growth; however, everything I read says it should have grown by 1mm a day; not only 2mm in a week. I am measuring out massively, but that aside I am more concerned about the slow growth. They also said the gestational sac hadn’t grown much but that they were less worried about this because they had now seen a heartbeat.
The sonographer said my uterus is retroverted and that baby is very tucked up to the uterine wall which Google (I know, I’m desperate) tells me could affect the measurements but surely not out by a good 5-6mm or so.
They’ve sent me off on my merry way quite happily because there’s growth… and I feel sick with worry. It just doesn’t match the science around growth at this point. Husband is on the “think positive” side of life and I know I am frustrating him by not being the same but instinctively I feel like I’ve known from the start something was off. Zero symptoms and with my son I was violently sick from 5 weeks onwards.
I guess I’m just looking for some reassurance from anyone in a similar boat? Thank you x