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Kat
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Kat asked in Pregnancy & ParentingPregnancy · 1 decade ago

A 4 week pregnancy scan and nothing?

Ok, first of all, I am really confused why my doctor did a 4 week scan. she said it was because I was breastfeeding and I could be further along, but I told her when I ovulated, so whatever.

She did a 4 week scan and we saw nothing. I am supposed to go back in at 7 weeks. What should I expect? With my first child the earliest scan was at 9 weeks and we got a really good picture of my peanut. At 7 weeks, what did yall see, or should I have seen a sac at 4 months?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    At 4 weeks your baby is still no larger than the head of a pin. Most doctor's office ultrasounds do not have the detail to see ANYTHING that early. Fertility clinics frequently have a stronger unit.

    With the baby I lost we had a scan at 5 weeks 5 days and saw nothing but a blobby, two weeks later we saw the fetal pole with the heartbeat - but it was still just a blobby with a speck in it. At this stage of development the embryo still doesn't look like a baby - more like a lumpy worm. A very tiny one. At 10 weeks he looked more like a baby though it was a very short scan (side note: don't ever get your ultrasound buddies to scan you until you've had the "official" scan - they might find something bad - mine did as I mention below and I've felt terrible ever since that she was the one who found it).

    At 14 weeks 5 days, when we discovered his anomaly (he didn't develop a skull - I had snuck into ultrasound again to get them to peek at the baby) he looked exactly like a baby - arms, legs, face, belly, heart, etc, and we were thinking he was a boy. Sadly I never got to hold him.

    Good luck with your pregnancy, and do NOT worry about not seeing anything at 4 weeks. Doctors never pay attention to us when we tell them when we ovulated, even when we chart temperatures and other body signs as well. The NP at my OBGYN office didn't believe my charts and wanted to think I was 18 weeks pregnant, when I was, in fact, just over 5 weeks pregnant. After she examined me she sure believed me.

    Source(s): Personal experiences, working in the imaging department, lots of reading.
  • 1 decade ago

    I took an ultrasound to confirm my pregnancy at 7weeks and saw a little peanut

    Source(s): personal experience
  • I had an ultrasound on Wednesday and it showed me at 6w6d. ( 7 weeks on thursday). But yea, it measured at that. They were even able to hear the heartbeat! measured at 154bpm

    Source(s): 7w2d with baby #2
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    YEAH WELL I WENT WHEN I WAS 4 WEEKS AND YEAH THEY COULDN'T SEE NOTHING NEITHER. I SAW MY BABY AT 12 WEEKS THOUGH

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  • 1 decade ago

    Its too early.

    Source(s): Nurse Practioner, MSN
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