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Possible Missed Miscarriage...
Ok so this is really worrying me and I would appreciate any advice you could give me. I had my last period on the 16/01/2011 and had a positive pregnancy test on the 20/02/2011 meaning by dates I should be approximately 9weeks gone. I went to the hospital on the 22/03/2011 as I had slight cramping (nothing major just minor cramps) and the doctor gave me an ultra-sound scan for "reasurrance". This gave me more questions than answered. According to the sonographer there is a "yolk sac" with a "baby the size of a grain of rice" but that measures more of a "5-6 week old baby than a 9 week one". This has worried me as it's totally out and now all sorts are going through my mind and I am questioning whether I've had a possible "missed miscarriage". Would she have known then if I had? I now have to wait another 2 weeks for a further scan and am just praying the baby has developed as it should have done. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Just a little update...i spoke with my GP on Thursday and he has explained it and made me feel a tiny bit more at ease (or at least its on my mind half the time it was!). Apparently i have a backward facing uterus and this can make it harder for them to get the measurements on the foetus until it gets bigger cause it appears further back than it should do, he also said that he and my midwife had looked over it and it appears to be 6 weeks so by my next sono they should be able to see growth and a heartbeat. i'm not much further forward in that i still don't know whats truely going on but he said "more times than not everythings fine and maybe i just ovulated later than the average" so only a week Tuesday til i find out properly and i'm more positive than i was...also my mam is going to come with me so i have support from her and my partner either way =)
Just rest and try to keep yourself busy. Like i said theres nothing you can do about it now so dont dwell on it. Accept it for what it could be and leave it at that until you go back,i know that hard but if it wasnt for me having that way of thinking i wouldve never made it through both of my miscarriages. keep us posted on what they tell you.
It's good to hear positive stories or I think I'd just sit and cry for 2weeks it's the waiting game that's killing me so hopefully my doctor spells out the results in lay-man terms so I understand what they saw :)
I didnt mean to be so positive. I had this happen to me as well and i did end up having a healthy baby. eveyone is different hopefully your outcome is positive. Good Luck.
I gave in and phoned the doctors to see if he could shed any light on what happened at the hospital and to see if I could have a hcg test. Awaiting a phone call back as he as requested from the hospital to see my scan report and see if the answers to my questions are there and that they just haven't gave me the answers I went for. Depending on what he gets I may be offered consecutive blood tests and he has assured me that the change in dates can be common as the maths of conception isn't set in stone for everyone so fingers crossed I get some answers when he phones me back. Thanks for all your comments and I hope I have some good news to reflect on this soon :)
missed miscarriage are scary because the pregnancy can stop several weeks before you know anything is wrong.
I had a blighted ovum which is very very different but I carried the empty sac until 12 weeks when I had an ultrasound and found out there was just an empty large sac.. The sac only measured 7 weeks.. But just gives u an idea of how long it can take your body to recognize that something is wrong. I ended up having a d&c and I had no warning signs that things were wrong... My symptoms were not hard core but i had alot of the early signs and vomitted like the day before my ultrasound still.
=( It makes it hard for me when people say dont worry if you havent bled or had major cramping..
I hope in your case, you are off with your dates and that there is some development in your pregnancy.. I would get your family doctor to do the 48 hour HCG test now so you dont have to wait it out as much. At 5-6 weeks, they should be doubling every 48-72 hours..
I had a blighted ovum which is very very different but I carried the empty sac until 12 weeks when I had an ultrasound and found out there was just an empty large sac.. The sac only measured 7 weeks.. But just gives u an idea of how long it can take your body to recognize that something is wrong. I ended up having a d&c and I had no warning signs that things were wrong... My symptoms were not hard core but i had alot of the early signs and vomitted like the day before my ultrasound still.
=( It makes it hard for me when people say dont worry if you havent bled or had major cramping..
I hope in your case, you are off with your dates and that there is some development in your pregnancy.. I would get your family doctor to do the 48 hour HCG test now so you dont have to wait it out as much. At 5-6 weeks, they should be doubling every 48-72 hours..
I don't want to be the downer, but I have experienced both a missed m/c and regular m/c and your story is just like my missed m/c. I was near 9 weeks when I had a scan done and baby measured 5w6d. A fetal pole and yolk sak was seen, however the pregnancy had ended. They did bloodwork just to confirm the findings and I knew my dates could not be off. I was told that it would take another 2-4 weeks at least before I miscarried naturally, as my body did not realize anything was wrong. I made the decision to have the d&c rather than wait for it to happen naturally as I was getting married in 4 days from that point. It was devastating. Again I am not trying to get you down, but do want to let you know what I think. Perhaps your dates were off. I became pregnant again with my youngest son about 5 months after that and feel that he was the one meant to be. I look forward to you proving me wrong in 2 weeks!
As long as they saw something thats enough to make me stay positive...think of it like this. theres nothing you can do about this right now so dont waste the next two weeks dwelling on something you have absoultely no control over. If anything happens its nothing you did wrong its just something that happens.
Thank you that's encouraging =) fingers crossed i see some development and can start to enjoy the pregnancy again.
It sounds pretty normal to me. I have had 2 miscarriages and 3 little ones at home and one on the way. Its completely normal not to see a fetal pole at 5 or 6 weeks by the time you go back you should see more since you would be around 7 or 8 weeks. If you would have miscarried there wouldnt have been anything there is kinda my point. I wouldnt worry for nothing, just be excited you get to go back in two weeks. more than likely youll see a little baby with a flickering heart!
No, she's literally just left me hanging for 2 weeks til i go back for a further scan on the 5/04 so hasn't reassured me any in the slightest. She didn't mention miscarriage at all but just because the dates and timings are so out i'm over analysing and worrying more than I had when i went in for the scan.
If they saw a yolk sac and a fetus at 5 weeks they will not be able to see much else. Its normal. But as far as the dates go im not sure why this happened. She wouldnt have known if you had a missed miscarriage because there generally wouldnt be anything there. But she found the sac and its measuring early and its normal notto see anything. did they check your HCG levels?
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