Baby measures too small for 7weeks

I just want to let everyone know that studies have been done recently that indicate doctors are not always using due diligence when telling people a pregnancy will not work out. This is a prime example. An ultrasound can be wrong, even bloodwork can be misleading. There have been terminations scheduled after only ONE ultrasound that turned out to be healthy pregnancies so please always err on the side of caution even when a doctor is telling you otherwise. There is no harm in continuing along a few more days or a week to see what is happening and having further testing done.

Awesome news!

Wow that's awesome zoey! So happy things turned out well!

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This is awesome news!!!! I'm so happy for you!!!

Thank you all!
Im slowly starting to believe it myself.
IT happened so fast wasnt prepared for antyhing but a Quick blood test yesterday.
I only parkerad My car for 15min Thinking IT would be the quickest in N out at the nurses station. Haha...

No matter what happens now in this pregnancy, please rememeber this IF you or anyone you know are told at 6 or even 7 full weeks of pregnancy that there is nothing there, or IF they are dated back for 2 weeks.

New ultrasound on Friday. Nervous... But can't wait

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

I just want to let everyone know that studies have been done recently that indicate doctors are not always using due diligence when telling people a pregnancy will not work out. This is a prime example. An ultrasound can be wrong, even bloodwork can be misleading. There have been terminations scheduled after only ONE ultrasound that turned out to be healthy pregnancies so please always err on the side of caution even when a doctor is telling you otherwise. There is no harm in continuing along a few more days or a week to see what is happening and having further testing done.

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Im so interested in those studies and esp the outcome of pregnancies.
Can you please post a link?

Zoey if you google misdiagnosed miscarriages there is a whole site about women who were effectively told they were miscarrying and actually had healthy babies. It is something that concerns me about countries routinely giving early scans without due cause, it seems to happen a lot where people are told not viable and actually there babies are fine.

Yay, so excited for you!!!! When I had my miscarriage I did a lot of research and I definitely read in multiple places that a heartbeat is often not seen until 7 weeks. If one isn't seen before 7 weeks, another ultrasound should always be done at the 7 week mark to check. It's only when the heartbeat isn't seen after 7 weeks 4 days that it's thought the pregnancy is for sure not viable.

Also interestingly enough Zoey, it says on that site that the UK's new guidelines are to wait 9 weeks, if the sac is growing, to diagnose a blighted ovum. Which means that even at 8 weeks the sac can seem empty and then a baby can appear at 9 weeks (which happened to the site owner and is told in her story). She also had a tilted uterus which apparently can make it more difficult to see the baby in the sac.

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So happy for you, Zoey! I'm going through this myself. 2 past losses just like you, so I'm also getting a lot of early testing done. At my 6wk4dy ultrasound they said I was measuring too small and the heart beat was there but very slow. So slow and so small they didn't bother measuring. :/ I'm certain of my conception date (TMI, but dh and I only dtd 1 time this cycle—hey, swaying girl!). So far my blood work has been meh-to-okay—hcg rising but not exactly double every 48—so I'm just playing the excruciating waiting game. I did more blood draws twice last week, so waiting the long holiday weekend (grrr) to hear the results. I have another scan set for 8wk3dy, but that seems like FOREVER from now.
They also said my uterus was measuring too large—possible fibroids—and that it was severely tilted. Funny that in my past three healthy pregnancies no one ever noticed or mentioned that.

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Im so interested in those studies and esp the outcome of pregnancies.
Can you please post a link?

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If you google it they will come up. It's very time consuming for me to hunt down and post links.

Congrats on the great news!!! Uk's waiting at least 9 weeks sounds better than going through what many do on here. Unless you need meds from ob to help sustain your pregos we should not see docs that early. It like waiting to poas it drives us crazy and some can get a + at 9 days and others at 18 days. It's a waiting game and we are all different. Nothing u can do. Congrats again!

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So happy for you, Zoey! I'm going through this myself. 2 past losses just like you, so I'm also getting a lot of early testing done. At my 6wk4dy ultrasound they said I was measuring too small and the heart beat was there but very slow. So slow and so small they didn't bother measuring. :/ I'm certain of my conception date (TMI, but dh and I only dtd 1 time this cycle—hey, swaying girl!). So far my blood work has been meh-to-okay—hcg rising but not exactly double every 48—so I'm just playing the excruciating waiting game. I did more blood draws twice last week, so waiting the long holiday weekend (grrr) to hear the results. I have another scan set for 8wk3dy, but that seems like FOREVER from now.
They also said my uterus was measuring too large—possible fibroids—and that it was severely tilted. Funny that in my past three healthy pregnancies no one ever noticed or mentioned that.

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Don't worry about the tilted uterus or the fibroids, that is not a dealbreaker.

Do you think it may be twins?

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She wasn't listening for a heartbeat, but at 7+0 and even 5+3 there def should be a heartbeat visible on the monitor

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That's actually incorrect. A heartbeat at 7 weeks is maybe average, and a 5+3 is pretty unusual -- we saw one at 5w6d for me, and my OB was flat out astonished. These are technically the early beginnings of the formation of the heart, not actually the heart -- not seeing a heartbeat until ~8-10ish weeks is OK. You also can't generally hear a heartbeat so much as see one that early, also.

Are you scheduled to go back in to check on progression?

While not as big, I was measured a full week behind when I went in at 5w6d, which even with an early "heartbeat" worried me. I just didn't ovulate when I thought I had (and I had based that on CM and cervix positioning and loose timing). Even the best of the best ovulation tracking isn't always accurate. Case in point, I had started out with a VERY faint BFP that slowly darkened over days. At the time, I thought I had been 14DPO as well -- nope, I had a very EARLY BFP at 8DPO based on the dating ultrasound.

I know how stressful and aimless this time can be right now. I'm here if you want to talk over PM.

ETA: Oops, didn't see this was a few days old. So happy to hear the good news!! Hopefully anyone with a similar story will see my response and the general discussion -- this is NOT an uncommon story! So glad it's happy!

No oops, it's very valuable and I like keeping these threads going and chock full of useful info for everyone. :)

I just wanted to check in and give a little update and a huge thanks to everyone in this thread. Esp to Atomic, you made this happe for me!

I had a baby girl in August.
She was born 5 weeks premature due to preeclampsia. But healthy as can be.

I can remember the feeling of loss and panic I experinced. I thought there was no hope, and can you believe after my first US she talked about scheduliga a d&c.' Don't even wanna think about it.

I think I conceived when I had those O pains. As I wrote before, she was born more than 5 weeks premature but at 46cm long she weighed 2465grams and didnt even need oxygen at birth. She could breastfeed from the very start and needed no extra attention what so ever. All this, and her size, makes me believe I really was right on the dates making her only a 4 weeks preemie.


For anyone who might read this thread, who might google or search and end up here.
Please stay positive even when you think all is lost.

Such a lovely update Zoey. So glad you didn't jump into the d and c, I think they suggest those things far too quickly when really they should wait and see if the pregnancy progresses. Your baby girl sounds like she is doing so well.

Thank you so very much for updating, Zoey!! I always like people to stay optimistic for this very reason and your experience will help so many other people!!

Hugest congrats on your baby girl!

also if you wanted to, if you were to update your old ultrasound thread where you had been told by some people on other sites that your baby was a boy at 11 weeks (which it is impossible to tell gender at that point) with your girl's birth, that also really helps.

People don't always believe me when I say 11 weeks is too early for gender but you are living proof of that. :)

Congratulations! I think some people also make early babies, both my friends boys were born around 35 / 36 weeks and were small but had no issues. I'm glad she is doing well :)