Small for number of weeks

Hi all,
I had an early scan on Thursday as I’ve been having serious pain for a week and a half now. They have confirmed it’s not ectopic but the scan was “very small” and no heart beat found. They said it could be to early as I’m only 6 weeks. They have scheduled for me to have another scan on the 22nd but the waiting is horrible. If they can’t find a heart beat then they said it’s going to be confirmed as a miscarriage.

Anyone else been through something like this? Or any advice on how to deal with the next 11 days of waiting?

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Hi lovely I went for an early scan on Wednesday after some bleeding with a few clots. I measured 2 weeks earlier than expected, so I’ve got to go back same day as you. I measured as 6 weeks and they also couldn’t see a heartbeat. I feel you as it’s horrible waiting and not knowing but I’ve got everything crossed for you that everything is ok xx

Your pregnancy always goes via LMP that’s how the NHS calculate it. That’s the scientific standard for pregnancy. Untill a scan. You can ovulate later.

Usually anything up to two weeks out doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad but anything over two weeks weeks usually does.

I was 7-8 weeks by LMP and they found no heartbeat, not even the yolk sac. Just an ‘empty’ gestational sac was seen. I left bawling as they told me I had to prepare to miscarry. 2 weeks later, I still had insane cramping but no loss of blood etc so I booked a retest (internal) and they saw baby straight away. He just looked like a lil marble but was all there and I was only then measuring just over 7 weeks so turned out I ovulated late and just had horrendous implantation pains. My scan at 12 weeks then showed me to actually be 10 weeks but heartbeat was strong and from then, all was good. He’s now 5 months old and thriving 🩵

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All in all I would say the cramps/contractions were manageable up until the third gel where it became pretty unbearable however it was for a very short time a gas and air helped take the edge off. The worst part about any of it was actually the later cervix checks where after stimulating the cervix my contractions were at their most painful.

If I had to be induced again I would skip the balloon and opt for the gels immediately as thy had a quicker effect and I would have been out a lot sooner if I had done this to begin with.

One more thing, I’ve never believed when people say “you forget the pain once they’re here” but I can honestly say this is true. It’s been 4 days and I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

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