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Re: Can't Find Heartbeat

From: Amanda (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:03:53 -0600 (CST)

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Hey there!! Is the doc using an ultrasound or a handheld doppler (like a microphone?) The heartbeat can't be reliably detected using a hand-held doppler until AT LEAST 10 weeks, and usually 12-13. If you had a transvaginal u/s now the tech should be able to see it, but it is impossible to hear it now using just a handheld dopplar. If you have not already had one, ask the doc to do an ultrasound to make sure that the heart is beating, but don't expect to be able to hear it for another month or so. If you have been having ultrasounds, it is possible that your dates are off - docs base the length of your pregnancy on a standard set of averages, and most of us fall outside those averages - meaning that your wife could have ovulated later than what the doctor is assuming.

Good luck! - Amanda

At Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Planco wrote: >
>Hi. I have got a question in relation to the embroy's heartbeat. My
>wife went to the doctor's 2 weeks ago and they could not find a
>heartbeat, the also concluded that she was about 5 weeks pregnant then.
>We went to the doctor's again today (7½ weeks now) and the doctor still
>could not find the heartbeat. The doctor was saying that the egg was
>too large for its size (???? don't really know what that means) and the
>embryo still too small to detect the heartbeat. My question is:
>
>1) Could the doctor have miscalculated the term of the pregnancy?
>Meaning its maybe not 7½ weeks?
>
>2) And also what could be the cause for not being able to detect the
>heartbeat? I have been searching the internet and have been unable to
>find something on this issue.
>
>The doctor had asked us to go back again next week to check for the
>heartbeat again, and .... I am getting rather worried. The doctor had
>said that there was little to worry at this time but if she was unable
>to detect the heartbeat by next week then the likelihood of a
>miscarriage was high. Is there anyway of lowering this "high"
>possibility? And also does the slow growth of the featus complicate
>matters in the later stages of the pregnancy?
>
>Please help.
>
>David

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