Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! 2

ashli_2

Congratulations Marie MGC.

Does anyone know how early an ultrasound can pick up a heartbeat? I may book a private scan as I'm not sure if I can handle another 8 weeks of constant terror! :rotfl:

twi1ight

Svsandy - I'd just explain all that to the gp. Say you had a very short cycle with only a few days bleeding an are unsure. They will probably recommend you have the scan earlier because the dates are uncertain. I was referred for an early scan because my cycles are long, however it's not ending up as that early for me. Bear in mind that you only get 1 dating scan. So if it ends up being at 8 weeks, they don't do another one at 12 (as far as I know)

Apricot

twi1ight wrote: »

Bear in mind that you only get 1 dating scan. So if it ends up being at 8 weeks, they don't do another one at 12 (as far as I know)

That was right for me twi1ight I had my dating scan at 9 weeks and am now 16 weeks and my next scan is not until 15th March which is a huge amount of time!

SVsandy

Thanks twi1ight. I will mention it. Just wondered what people on here thought about it. I hope I am further than I thought I was. Can't wait to meet the little one but I know I have ages to go yet.

Sequeena

Apricot wrote: »

That was right for me twi1ight I had my dating scan at 9 weeks and am now 16 weeks and my next scan is not until 15th March which is a huge amount of time!

Mine isn't until March 21st

twi1ight

I believe it's around 8 weeks ashli.

galvanizersbaby

ashli wrote: »

Congratulations Marie MGC.

Does anyone know how early an ultrasound can pick up a heartbeat? I may book a private scan as I'm not sure if I can handle another 8 weeks of constant terror! :rotfl:

It is around the 6 weeks mark but this early it may be necessary to do an transvaginal scan to detect fetal hearbeat.

HTH

twi1ight

Oh yeah, maybe it's 6 weeks. I was probably wrong with 8

carolineb23

Hi everyone can I join? I'm 6+1 today and had an early scan this morning due to an ectopic pregnancy last March. Thankfully this one is in the right place and matches up with my dates going by LMP (26th december), got to see a little flickering heartbeat this morning which was amazing!
Mariemcg, would you not be 6 weeks based on lmp of 27th dec? That's only one day after me!
I've got a booking in appointment this Friday, no idea why it's so soon, I wasn't expecting it to be for another couple of weeks but hey ho!

SVsandy

carolineb23 wrote: »

Hi everyone can I join? I'm 6+1 today and had an early scan this morning due to an ectopic pregnancy last March. Thankfully this one is in the right place and matches up with my dates going by LMP (26th december), got to see a little flickering heartbeat this morning which was amazing!
SVSandy, would you not be 6 weeks based on lmp of 27th dec? That's only one day after me!
I've got a booking in appointment this Friday, no idea why it's so soon, I wasn't expecting it to be for another couple of weeks but hey ho!

I had a period on the 16th Dec and then another one on the 4th Jan (very short one) whereas I usually have 33 days in between.
Sorry to be ignorant but what does LMP mean?