Luckily my doctor is a big softy and is easily persuaded with a few "pretty pleases" and I got him to do a quick and dirty look with the fancy GE equipment in his office. There wasn't much to see, other than a big circle with a little white ball inside of it. He explained to me that it was all as it should be, and what I was seeing was the gestational sac and yolk sac - where the baby would shortly be growing. He wasn't able to identify the fetal pole quick yet - and I was a little disappointed to find that there wasn't a heartbeat to be seen (although one of the nurses Judi swore she saw a little flicker!) They called me a few days later to tell me that my hormone levels looked fantastic - HCG was 28,000 and progesterone was 26 - and that they wanted to see me back in 7-10 days to check on progress. I was assured that those levels were fantastic and that in a week we would see so much more and definitely find a heartbeat.
When I returned in 7 - 10 days for my follow-up ultrasound on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, we finally saw evidence of an adorable little baby blob. And that little baby blob had a heartbeat of 118 bpm!!! We weren't really sure what was what, but the doctor assured us that all looked as it should. The little hand cursor is pointing to the start of the baby, and the white circle is the yolk sac. I was technically 7 weeks 1 day, and the baby measured Crown to Rump (CRL) at 6 weeks 5 days. I was worried that the heartbeat was too slow, but the doctor was pleased to see anything greater than 100 bpm at 6 to 7 weeks. My doctor said that everything we saw was normal for the early weeks and wanted to see us back in 2 weeks to confirm growth.
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