Baby measuring 2 weeks behind.

At my first appointment I was measuring 3 days ahead, one week later (last week) I was measuring 3 days behind, we could see the heart pumping but we couldn’t hear the heartbeat. Today I’m 7w5d and we had another ultrasound and I’m measuring 5w6d so 2 weeks behind (make it make sense), the heart was pumping and we could detect a 93 pulse on the monitor but she couldn’t hear it.
She practically gave me the prepare for miscarriage speech and things just don’t add up. How can for one week a baby become smaller but yet progress with the heartbeat?
My daughter was the same… she was always measuring behind and small and she was a small 7lb baby that just ballooned to a tall (96%) slim baby when she was born.
Has anyone else experienced this and had a healthy pregnancy and baby?

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At this stage it's very rare to hear the heart beat but it is very promising that you can still see it. I would take the growth as a bit of a pinch of salt, especially at an early stage as it all depends on positioning as to what they can measure so the chances are the baby hasn't got smaller it will be the angle they are at, how full your bladder is etc. are you booked in for another scan? X

yeah I have to do an ultrasound once a week till they discharge me (it’s a fertility clinic) it was an IUI so I know the exact day of conception.
It’s weird one week to be 3 days ahead, next week 3 days behind (ok so baby didn’t grow much) and next week to be 2 weeks behind? So I guess by their calculations the baby has shrunk by 4 days :D I really believe it’s the way the baby was sitting. I feel good with this pregnancy and hasn’t been worried at all till now…at my 4w blood test I had 1.2k HCG and 2 days later it was 5.6k so my numbers were up there (first pregnancy was just 200).

93 is very low for this gestation 😔 at 7w5d mine was around 140. You also shouldn’t try to hear it until after the first trimester. I think I was 15 weeks along when I heard his heartbeat for the first time with the Doppler

I didn’t try to hear it. I’m under the care of a fertility clinic where I have to go once a week to monitor the pregnancy from week 4 till a healthy viable pregnancy is confirmed and they can’t release me to my obgyns care. Most times obgyns can’t even hear a heartbeat till your 8-12w appointment which is why they often don’t want you there earlier than that. With my daughter they confirmed the heartbeat at 8weeks with 150. It starts slow and then around 8-12weeks it sky rockets.

I was getting scans every 1-2 weeks at the beginning because of how early I found out. I thought I was further when I went in and my uterus was empty. I ended up being 3w4d, I went in the next week at 5w1d and saw the gestational sac and yolk sac. Then we finally saw the embryo and saw the heartbeat at 7w1d (just checked the paper work). A heartbeat can be detected that early, but it’s usually higher, like 130-160. Mine was 150 something

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