Question about my 8wk ultrasound

[Ashelen]

So I had my 8wk ultrasound...baby has a nice healthy heartbeat, measuring 8wks, looks great.

BUT...the ultrasound tech said there was a shadow she couldn't get a good zoom on, and she couldn't guarantee that there was only one. I don't want to bias anyone by saying where she thought she saw another baby, so I want to just put the pic up and see if any of you ladies see it or not. honestly I don't care either way.

Sorry about the quality of the pic...my scanner is MIA since we moved and my camera is being wonky.

Obviously the thing circled in bright yellow and labeled "baby' is the one that we saw clearly and got a good heartbeat measurement on....but do YOU see another baby, and where?

thanks ladies :-D

[waitn838]

do you have a doppler at home?

that is how i knew it was twins before it was confirmed :)

[waitn838]

i was just looking at my pics from my u/s with the twins and if you look at the second pic in my twins photo album you will see that the other twin just looks like a blob, even at 11 weeks

the first pic was from the vaginal u/s that confirmed twins

at least its only a week...it would have been worse if they would have said wait 2 weeks

im soooo excited for you :)

[smjmekg]

Aren't they all, well most of them, lol. I seriously dislike the entire peds department at the hospital here...I'm looking forward to moving, and maybe getting a civilian dr. My PCM (primary doctor) is never the one I see here. Well she confirmed viability at the very least...I'm glad you have another one next week.

[Ashelen]

I think it was more that she didn't want me to have to change, get back on the table, then have to change back...I'm not sure, but all my early u/s have included trans-vag as well. I guess they got a good enough pic to confirm viability, which is what my OB requested. The nurse was a bit of a pain.

[smjmekg]

Hmm...I wonder why she didn't go ahead and do the trans vag anyways...with Grey on your lap I would think that would have been easier instead of doing it on your abdomen...not to mention I thought they always did them trans vag before 12 weeks...I didn't think they could see baby with it being so low still...

[Ashelen]

Cass - definitely, I agree. But the reason they didn't was because I was holding Grey on my ribs through the whole ordeal..she was just trying to get a heartbeat and a tentative due date and get me outta there. I think she was irritated that I didn't have anyone to help me with the kids...sorry, lady, I was irritated too, LOL.

but the OB who's doing it next week is my regular OB, not the MFM's nurse so I am confident he'll do whatever it takes to clear it up.

Ter - that's so funny that you were thinking that...when she said that about not being able to confirm that there was only one baby, I immediately thought of you!!

KL - I'm sure I'll update on FB the moment I find out, LOL