Just a few details before I tell you my story, I'm 21, hubby is 24. My LMP was Aug 12, but my cycle is 35 days about. I have asthma and this is my first pregnancy.
I'm about 9 weeks pregnant, but had some very slight spotting over the last week, not continuously just occaissionally like every second or third day there'd be a small amount of sometimes brown sometimes red bloody discharge only when I wipe not enough to stain my knickers.
On Saturday evening, whilst visiting family, I passed a tiny clot, perhaps about 3mm, and got worried so the husband and i headed off to the local A+E where after seven hours waiting we were seen by a gynae doctor. After an determining that i wasn't dilated at all she performed a vaginal ultrasound and found the baby, and after a bit of re-adjustment found a strong heart beat in the little angel, although she mentioned that baby looked a little small at first, from the second angel at which she saw the strong heartbeat, she mentioned that baby looked at least 6 possible 7 or more weeks. She reccommended that i have a follow up visit at our local hospital just to make sure everything was ok with our little one. She also mentioned that I might bleed for a few days as there was some blood still in me, but there was over a 90% chance that baby would be grand. I did pass some blood on sunday evening, but none since. As you can imagine, Hubby and i were elated that all was well with our baby.
Its now wednesday and I've just come back from another (internal) ultrasound scan at an Early Pregnancy Clinic. This time the doctor i saw said that the heartbeat was very slow and that the baby only seemed around 6-7-ish weeks and that this was quite worrying. He told me to be "cautiously optimistic" as the baby was quite small and that he thought the heartbeat was too slow for the age it was. He was concerned about my dates, and told me that it "could go either way", and booked me in for a follow up scan next week. I bled a little bit again after the scan but no more than before and it appears to have stopped now.
As you can imagine, we're absolutely devastated. Although this baby wasn't planned, we've already fallen in love with him/her. I've never heard of this kind of thing before, of the heartbeat slowing so suddenly. My husband is convinced that the doctor just didn't get the ultrasound in at the right angle or misread it or something like that.
Has anyone else been through this and come out with a healthy baby? I've never heard of finding a healthy heartbeat and then it getting slowed down. Is it worrying that the baby is so small when I'm supposed to be 9 weeks? Can internal ultrasounds or sex damage the baby?
I'm terrified that something might happen to our baby.
Help...!
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