At 6+4 I went into my intake appointment, by the direction of the receptionist of my midwifes office, and they ended up doing a confirmation and lab work and telling me to go in for an early ultrasound for dating confirmation and to ease my anxiety as I was VERY anxious of a miscarriage! So at 7 weeks I went in for my dating scan. They saw a tiny little baby with a little flicker of a heart beat. But they decided to go back to the baby after taking the other measurements. She couldn't find the baby again. So they reset my appointment for the following week. I ended up having a bit of bleeding so my midwife after hearing my experience said thats really unusual. Once they see the baby they should be able to find the baby again no problem. So at 7+4 I went back in for an ultrasound. This time it took 45 mins to find the baby and the baby only measured 6+5 and heart rate was on 76! So this indicated a "non viable pregnancy" my re scan would be followed up in 10 days. I was so emotional and shed lots and lots of tears in these 10 days. I had days where I just knew everything was going to be ok. And days when I just knew I lost the baby. There was a night where I lay awake crying to God and I was spoken to in my heart and I felt God was saying "you worry for nothing my child" I was greatly comforted by this. But I did still have about 2 days where I thought I lost the baby. By the time I went in for my 3rd scan I had great excitement and comfort and I just felt the baby is going to be fine. I went in and baby was measuring 9 weeks exactly (back to my original due date) The heart rate was 164!!!!! Pure elation! I was still on and off sick sick sick until about 11 weeks. Since 11 weeks I have started feeling much better! I am 12 weeks tomorrow and I just got to see the baby on a hand held scan at my 11+4 midwife appointment because of course they couldn't detect the heartbeat.
The ultrasound technician theory is that my uterus is apparently a bit stretched out from my previous pregnancy which is fairly normal, but it was dipping way down deep and the baby implanted in the very very back bottom corner against the uterine wall. So they just don't think the ultrasound waves were able to properly reach back that far and get accurate measurements. I believe this certainly couldve been the case, but I keep my trust in God. I since have had a great peace over this pregnancy and my faith in those 10 days was greatly tested and it only strengthened my faith in God. I feel reassured and I am so grateful for that scare. It was a beautiful experience in the end.
Sums up first Trimester in bed!!!
Kisses for baby around 6 weeks
Right 10w with Bryn Left 10+5 with this baby
Hot mess real life shot today in my jams. 11+6 loving that bump!
