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No Heart Beat at 7 Weeks Pregnant ~ is their some prayer they could be wrong???From: Julia (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:54:36 -0500 (CDT)
About 2.5 weeks ago - at around 6 weeks since last my period, I experienced some heavy bleeding for a day and my doctor ordered me to have my first ultrasound. The ultrasound showed a healthy foetus with a heart rate of 118. My doctor told me to go home and take it easy and dismissed the bleeding as a hematoma. About a week after that, I experienced another heavy bleeding episode, but then it abruptly stopped. The next day, my doctor had me go in for another ultrasound. A nice, older Dr. told me that the foetus measured roughly 7 weeks, but said "I'm sorry but there is no heart activity". He sent me to my OBGYN - and she simply said "sorry - this is quite common. Just go home and you should experience a miscarriage within 4 weeks." She also had me go to the lab - to check HCG levels and I am supposed to go back there once a week until she tells me to stop. It's been about half a week since this heartbreaking apointment. (My husband and I were trying to conceive for a year!). My question to you is: has a doctor ever been wrong about no fetal heart activity on an ultrasound??? (BTW, the ultrasound was vaginal) Is there some remote chance they could be wrong simply because the heart paused or the machine just couldn't detect it?? I still feel very much pregnant & my temperature is still high. And I haven't had any more bleeding. My friends are telling me that if my HCG levels continue to rise, I should go in for another ultrasound to make sure the baby is truly gone - before I have a D&C.
-- Me: 29 DH: 27 TTC #1 Since Dec/02 Charts: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/23baa
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