Re: Have you ever had a pg like this survive?

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7 prior mc's statistically decrease the chance of a successful outcome. But to quote Samuel Clemens, "There are 3 kinds of liars: Liars, Damn Liars, and Statisticians." IOW statistics don't apply to the individual, it is 100% one way or the other for YOU.

>The u/s equipment didn't have a heartrate monitor on it, he did it with
>his watch and visually counting the beats.

This is not a very accurate way of doing it. Hang in there. Actually, that is all that you can do.

RDB

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>Deena
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>At Thu, 21 Dec 2000, R. Daniel Braun, MD wrote:
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>>At Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Deena wrote:
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>>>I'm 7.5 weeks pregnant, 39 dpo - very sure of dates. An ultrasound 1
>>>week ago showed a 4mm CRL, should have been 5mm. Today it was 6mm CRL,
>>>should have been 8mm, and the heartrate was only 90 bpm. My dr. gave
>>>me a 50/50 chance, but I suspect he just hated to give me bad news
>>>before Christmas.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Deena
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>>Measuring to mm is not very accurate. It is not unusual to be off by 1
>>or 2 mm on any measurement.
>>I don't know what to say about the heart rate except that depending on
>>how it was measured there could be errors. In general id=f one can see
>>a heart beat on ultrasound, that is a good sign for the pregnancy.
>>
>>RDB
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