Why does a Fetal Heart Stop Beating?

[Hopingforasign]

I just found out that I m/c for the second time.  This time the baby was 9weeks and fourdays.  I'm supposed to be 11 weeks pregnant.  I thought everything was find...but Iwas wrong. I'm going in for a D&C tomorrow.  

I'm just wondering...will the D&C lessen my chances of having a healthy child?  

Why did the heart stop beating when everything else was just fine?

Should I have my OB examine the fetal tissue?  She says that it will not really show anything.  She says that it is more helpful for us to just have a work-up done for myself and my husband...what will this entail?

Life is a nightmare right now...and I don't know what to do.

[debbie_s_m]

I'm in the same boat, i miscarried on

[DkLina]

Hey! Thx for a good site....... I just lost my second child, we went for a scan saturday and everything look find they baby way so cute and thusday we wnt for another scan and then heartbeet stop..... I was in 13 Weeks. My first time my sons heartbeet stop in week 20, he was so fine everything was good and they dont know why it stop...... I really want to have a child, but I am started to be affraid that it will not happend.... Nobody can say why it happens, so in my head it can only the me who does something wrong to my my babies heartbeet stop. ( It is with 2 diffent men, my firt husbend left me after I lost ouer son ) I really feel sad and dont know what to do anymore, I can try again but what if I kill one more child, it is hard enof to live with that I lost two. The doctores can not say anything, so it can only be my...... Thank for Reading and Sorry for my bad english, I am Danish Girl ( women )

[Curlslee]

Hi Annie,

This article is very helpful for me as I'm currently experiencing this right now. My Fetal stops showing heart beats at 8 weeks and 3 days. Doctor told us to abort the pregnancy as it's going to result in miscarriage anyway. But I'm still hoping for a miracle...

Thanks again,
Lucy

[doubleloss]

I am very sorry. I experienced the same thing. I went to dr. yesterday and found out my twin babies had no heartbeat. I was almost 15 weeks. I don't understand what happened as a few weeks ago the heartbeats were strong and they were moving around so much. I am absolutely devastated, angry, and hurt. I have a 6 and 7 yr old daughters and they just cry about the babies and ask for more babies in my tummy. My family does not know what to say to me. My boyfriend just thinks I should stop "moping" around and  get up and do something. Sometimes he acts like/says things like there was something wrong with me that caused it to happen. I see the dr. Monday. I hope for a mistake and that my babies are alive but I am not getting my hopes up. Sometimes I think I feel my babies moving after my dr. appt. yesterday and even today. Perhaps I am going crazy. But I wish the best for you. HUGS

[Twestbrook]

last thursday i got the devastating news that my babies heart had stopped beating. I should have been 9 weeks and had an u/s  2 weeks earlier and saw that amazing heart beating. I just can't understand how it just suddenly stopped. When i looked at the screen of u/s i knew what i could not see. I am waiting a week and go back in this Thursday for another scan. I am so upset!!!! I am praying to God for a miracle. I am dreading thursday

[Flickan]

a m/c is never easy. I think that technology is a blessing and a curse. We know so much sooner now about when we get pregnant. But it also means we are more often aware of when we lose the baby. I went through two m/c. I don't really share about the first one, because I feel responsible. That being said, it is a sad thing to go through the loss of a child. We will never replace those babies in our hearts. They will always be there with us. For some reason, they wouldn't have made it in our world, and our bodies knew that. Our bodies are looking out for our babies from the time of conception. I don't want to use the clinical term viable. It's so cold. Our babies wouldn't have made it, and to protect them, our bodies did what it could and when it couldn't anymore let the process happen. The blessing in all of this is that we are more fertile in the 6 months after a m/c. That's the reason my daughter is here today.