Re: Seeing a heartbeat

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At Sat, 31 May 2003, anonymous wrote: >
>Dear Doctor,
>I am on my fourth pregnancy -- 8 weeks today.
>Wed. night I experienced a minute amount of brown spotting -- so the
>doc gave me an u/s the next day which was great.
>It showed the heartbeat and the baby to be doing very well...
>
>What is the brown spotting usually attributed to?
>It had been four days since my husband and I last had intercourse....so
>I don't think it was that.
>
>I have three children, 10, 3, and 2.
>
>Also...do my chances of anything going wrong drop significantly once a
>strong heartbeat is detected and everything is on target?
>
>Thanks in advance....
>
>--
>"Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry!" -- Padre Pio da Pietrelcina
>

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