what to expect from a scan at 7.5 - 8 weeks?

[tenar]

Thanks everyone, I like to know what to expect with these things.

I'm having the scan partly because I've been bleeding a little and I'm worried, so the doc thought it was a good idea, and partly because my husband is about to go away for a month.

That means he'll miss my 12 weeks scan and the first meeting with the ob. I want him to see something that he can connect to, so he feels the baby is real. Also he's going to be seeing his family overseas and of course we want to tell them about the baby, but not if anything looks to be wrong at this stage (it would be awful to tell them and then have something go wrong, somehow worse than if we lived in the same part of the planet). His Dad will be so happy (elderly guy, we are his hope for grandchildren, etc), but I would hate to get his hopes up for nothing.

[Enchanted]

Hi Tenar,

I had an u/s at 7wks 4 days and all I saw was a little "bubble"!! I had bleeding too which is why they sent me for an u/s. The sonographer thought it was "too risky" to do an internal u/s as I had bleeding so they just did a "normal" one over my belly. They could see everything fine it just took a little longer as my little bubba was so teeny tiny!!

Let us know how you go

[sazzafrazz]

I had a vaginal scan done around 6+1/2weeks. There was only a tiny blob of a baby, sort of a jellybean shape and the egg sack which was still bigger than the baby at that stage. The measurements they took dated her as 2days older than what we knew she was but that is nothing unusual. The heart beat was FAST. around 165bpm or something I think but they didnt really say anything about it. I guess it was normal cause we didnt have to go back till 12weeks.

I was much the same as Kimbaz, I just wanted to know how many there were and that there was a heartbeat. I was satisfied with just seeing her on the screen!

Hope everything goes well for you!

[Malyna]

We got to see the hemispheres of the brain, the heart and the technician flicked the internal probe around and we say bubs moving stumpy arms and legs. We got to see the spinal cord. They are pretty tiny, but still lovely to see them. We had our scan at 9weeks.