12 eek scan bad news

[step88]

i have just been for my 12 week scan at 13 weeks. they could detect a bag but couldnt see anything inside. they then did and external examination and found a little patch inside the bg they wernt sure if it was the remains of a miscarrrage , wether the baby had stopped developing or wether i have miscarried then fell pregnant and it is 4-5 weeks old. there was no geart beat detected and i have to wait a week to see if it grows then make the decision.. help please?

[step88]

thankyou for your feed bak.. x x

[AndieA]

& to confused3rdtimer

i am so sorry to hear what you are both going through at the moment, I hope and prey it is not worse case scenario for you both,

I don't know if i'l be any use to you but i'm here to talk if you need to, see i have gone thru 2 m/c most recently last august when i went for my 13wk scan and they said my baby had died around 10 weeks. It is the worse feeling in the world and i found having as much info as possible helped me come to terms.

Again i am now pregnant at the scary 10wk mark and am dreading my 13wk scan, Again sorry for rambling and i'm here if u need a chat xxx

[confused3rdtimer27]

i am so aorry to hear what you're going through. on monday the 27th june i had a scan at what should have been 7-8 weeks. it was emergency scan as i'd had some slight bleeding. there was a very visible sac on the screen but no baby. the sonographer said COULD be baby but it  the sac itself was only measuring 5-6 weeks. they said i might have my dates wrong and said to come back in two weeks for another scan which will be on the 12th july. they did two blood tests 48  hours apart which showed my hcg levels had dropped from 12700+ on sunday 26th  to 12300+ on tuesday 28th july. that's all i've been told!! all i can do is sit and wait around for another 6 days, it's torture and there's so much conflicting advice and so many different stories out there it's hard to know what to think feel or believe. i've had no bledding or any signs of misscarriage which makes it harder to accept that there's a  possibility there's something wrong. i understand completley how you feel. and
i sincerley hope that, for both of us, that it IS just a case of wrong dating it's  hard to try and accept that i may not even be pregnant anymore. my thoughts are with you. best of luck. x

[Elaine Brown, MD]

Hi!
I'm sorry that you didn't get good news on your scan.  Unfortunately, it sounds like you may have blighted ovum.  This is a (unfortunately) common condition in which a sac develops along with all of the pregnancy symptoms, but no fetus ever develops.  A blighted ovum is destined to miscarry.

If you were my patient, I want to do a transvaginal ultrasound for better visualization of what is going on.  Its extremely hard to have to wait a week, but better to do that than to rush into a D&C too soon.  There is a slim chance that the small patch that they saw could be something positive growing--I hope so!

Good luck!
Dr B