Hi there, I've been told I am going to miscarry. Yet there is still a heartbeat...
My gestational sac has grown nicely and is measuring 26mm (mean sac diameter). There is a fetal pole present with a heartbeat. Yet the fetal pole has not grown for the past week and is measuring just 3.7mm. I have had no spotting or pains. My HCG level is at a good level and doubling. Heartbeat is present and has been present for the past 3 weeks. According to my own dates i should be 8 weeks. At scan 1 I had just the yolk sac present. At scan 2 fetal pole and heart pulsations were present. At scan 3 fetal pole and heartbeat was present. The scans wee spaced at weekly intervals. The sac has grown 11 mm in the past week, and heartbeat is present, but fetal pole does not appear to have grown since last week. Is this pregnancy still viable?
Hey lovely people, sadly my little one didn't make it. I went for a scan today which showed that the heart has now stopped. It put in a strong fight, with its little heart continuing to beat for three weeks after it stopped growing. But I am glad that it can now be at peace. I miss it so much, and no baby will ever replace it. I kept positive, talked to it and trusted my body and God to know what was best. This approach came from your great advice. You are the best, friendliest, most responsive forum I have found. Your kindness and positivity have been invaluable and made such a difference throughout this difficult time. If I ever have another little one on board I'll come back to mamasource for your great advice. Thankyou, and all best wishes to you and yours, C. xxx
You have a lot of info... what does the doctor say? If he/she is not concerned, then don't worry. Every pregnancy is different. Call the doctor.
If you have a heartbeat... then think positive.. good luck!!
Hi C.,
I would wait it out. I have heard of people waiting because when they went for there visit there was no heartbeat. They have a healthy baby today. I would wait and see. What is going to happen will happen. I would bleed everymonth for 6 months during my pregnancy with my son. Like I had a period.My doctor told me I may miscarry. Guess what, I have a beautiful baby boy who God willing, will be turning 2 years old in June. :)
As long as your hormones are doubling and there's a heartbeat, wait it out. A good sign of miscarriage is when the hormone levels stop increasing (that's what happened to me, but I also never had a heartbeat). So stay positive! If you end up miscarrying, then it wasn't meant to be this time, I'm sure you will get pregnant again soon. But for now, don't let the doctors tell you you need a DNC or something of that nature. Plenty of miscarriages are misdiagnosed and healthy babies are born. Best of luck!
This seems like a wait and see kind of situation. So much is happening and in early pregnancy and it is tiny and hard to see. If there is a heartbeat then the tissue/embryo is still alive and it is not urgent to have anything removed for fear of infection.
If the yolk sac is growing and your levels are increasing, I would get a second opinion. Sometimes they see a bleed in your uterus that could cause you to miscarry. Wait it out a few weeks. If it is growing well, you should be able to see a little baby on ultrasound in a few weeks. If you are indeed miscarrying, then you will start to cramp and bleed at some point. If by 10 weeks you haven't had any bleeding, go see your OB. good luck to you.
My experience with pregnancy and doctors is that they have too much technology to scare the hell out of us, but don't always know everything! My pregnancy was stressful and unpleasant because the doctors have all this technology and want to test for everything especially when over 35. they find things that normally they wouldn't. They thought my son had all kinds of things wrong when Iwas pregnant and made me go for ultra sound after ultra sound, doctors and more doctors. Don't stress and go with your gut. I knew everything was fine with my son. He is happy and healthy at 4 1/2 months. He's small for his age and was very small at birth (4.9lbs) which was due to my placenta not growing for some unknown reason. BUt everything the doctors thought didn't happen.
Good luck and I hope you don't have to endure your whole pregnancy like that.
C....EXACT same thing happened to me. She is now 5!! They just said she was tucked away tightly up there. Your numbers are good and doubling...stay positive. I will keep you in my thoughts....
I found this on Wikipedia, hope this helps some:
The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy. It is usually identified at 6.5 weeks with abdominal ultrasound imaging, and 6 weeks with vaginal ultrasound imaging. However it is quite normal for the fetal pole to not be visible until about 8 weeks. The fetal pole may be seen at 2-4 mm crown-rump length (CRL), and heart motion is often detected when it is seen. In the embryo, the heartbeat is seen as a regular flutter, which should be first evident at 5 mm CRL. If the embryo is less than 5 mm CRL, it is possible for it to be healthy without showing a heartbeat, though a follow up study in 5-7 days will almost always demonstrate the heartbeat
I can only imagine what you must be going through right now. Just remember that doctors can't predict the future. You'll hear stories from women who had normal healthy pregnancies, and when they went into labor the baby was stillborn, and the doctors have no explanation for what went wrong. Or in my case they told me that there was a very large chance that my baby would be born with Down's syndrome or some other nurological problem and he's 100% healthy. Also, I recently heard about a woman who was told that her baby would only live a few hours, days at best and the baby just turned 3 months old. (look up Faith hope blog) We just never know, we place our trust in a loving, merciful God and pray that all will be as it should be.
try to just think positive. and dont read too much on internet it will make you crazy. no one knows if you will miscarry. my baby's heart beat came kind of late and Docs got really negative right away since they see so many sad stories. everything turned out fine. it is not over til it's truly over. Pregnancy is a long difficult road. so hang in there and be positive.
