1st Ultrasound showed fetus, 2nd fetus had disappeared

[ecam0709]

I am 5 weeks pregnant, and went in for an ultrasound and they found the fetus. I was scheduled for a 2nd ultrasound a few days later because I had been cramping a lot, but did not have any bleeding.

When I went in for my 2nd ultrasound they could not find the fetus. I had both an abdominal and vaginal ultrasound and both showed nothing.

Has anyone else experience this before?

[ecam0709]

They saw nothing in the 2nd ultrasound at all, whereas my first ultrasound there was a very visible 'black spot'. I had the first done on Thursday, and that night had cramping in my entire body, it actually woke me up in the middle of the night. The cramping stopped, and I did not have discharge.

I had the 2nd on Saturday and that's when they couldn't find anything. I had bleeding a few hours later, bright red, followed by 2 days of brown discharge. I am still having mild period like cramping which I read is normal along with the brown discharge.

My Dr. suggested scheduling a DNC, and I am not sure what to do at this point.

[AnnieBrooke]

My guess was that the embryo was reabsorbed by the body, but it seems quite fast for that to happen if the time difference was only a few days.

[ecam0709]

A few hours later I started bleeding period like amount, that was accompanied by cramping.

[Sheaby]

It sounds strange but 5 weeks is really early for them to see the actual fetus.  It is possible to miscarry that early and for everything to reabsorb back into your body - but I would wait another 2 weeks and have another U/S to confirm if it's viable.  Early pregnancy can play a lot of tricks, and nature can be very cruel.  Hopefully they missed it and your bean was just hiding!  Did they see a gestational sac in the 2nd U/S?