If you’re “fortunate” sufficient to attain an ultrasound this week, you’ll in all probability be capable to see your child’s heartbeat. It’s ridiculously thrilling, contemplating it largely seems to be like some flickering pixels on a TV with actually crappy reception. After seeing the heartbeat, your danger of miscarriage shoots all the way down to 10 to fifteen%. It’s not as nice as getting out of the double-digits (at 10 weeks your danger is simply 3%), however nonetheless. Within the crapshoot of fertility, take the sighs of reduction each time you may get them.
I noticed my very own little Quasimobryo’s heartbeat on Monday, and pumped my fists within the air and advised my husband to get my toddler’s large melon head out of the best way of the display. My physician tried to get a greater thought of the child’s gestational age by measuring the head-to-rump size (which in these early days is extra like “head-like-bulge-to-tail-like-tadpole-bottom), however got here up with a measurement of solely 5 weeks, 6 days.
I’ve determined to go forward and ignore this age, as a result of 1) it might be very, VERY unlikely to see a robust, apparent heartbeat at that age, 2) ultrasound measurements are very, VERY unreliable, notably early on, and three) I don’t wish to consider I’m going to be pregnant for that many extra weeks.
