Then, the technician keeps it in place, adjusting the wand as much as needed to get a good look at the inside of your uterus. It does take longer, which can add to the overall unpleasantness, but the technicians are trained to make you comfortable — at least, as comfortable as you can be with an ultrasound wand inside in your vaginal canal.
The good news? It could be going as fast as beats per minute or more! Aside from detecting a heartbeat, the point of a 7-week ultrasound is to take measurements of these fetal developments so your doctor has a better idea of where you are in your pregnancy. At 7 weeks, your baby should be about 5 to 9 millimeters mm in size and the gestational sac will be about 18 to 24 mm. At this point, fetal development is on a fast track and making large leaps in size from one week to the next.
The opposite is true for a sac that measures much larger than 24 mm. If the results are inconclusive, your doctor may ask you to schedule another ultrasound in 1 or 2 weeks to try again. That said, the 7-week ultrasound could also reveal a hard truth about the health of your pregnancy. If there are no signs of pregnancy or inconsistent signs, like a large gestational sac without any yolk sac or fetal pole, it may mean you have a blighted ovum or are otherwise miscarrying.
This is very common in the earliest weeks of pregnancy, when the risk is the highest. This may be done along with blood tests and a pelvic exam.
Figuring out how many babies are growing in your uterus is one of the main reasons for having an early ultrasound.
If your twins are fraternal — meaning, two different eggs were fertilized — there will be a separate gestational sac for each baby.
You may not be far enough along in your pregnancy for all these things to be detected. And remember that babies like to hide, especially when they have a sibling to hide behind! Multiple gestational sacs may not be visible until a later ultrasound. For more accurate pregnancy dating, health care providers can request an ultrasound. Careful measurements taken in the first trimester are even more accurate at predicting an embryo's age than ultrasounds performed later in pregnancy.
Using these measurements, a sonographer can pinpoint a baby's age to within a few days. As the baby-to-be grows larger, these measurements are less reliable at predicting a baby's age because of varying growth rates. Just like kids come in different shapes and sizes, in utero babies can grow at different rates, too. Along with figuring out your due date, your health care provider might ask for an early ultrasound for a variety of reasons: to confirm your pregnancy, to chart the baby-to-be's heartbeat, or to troubleshoot if you've been experiencing pelvic pain or vaginal bleeding.
You might already be familiar with ultrasounds from popular TV shows or from attending exams with expectant friends. These transabdominal ultrasounds are performed by placing cool gel across the belly and using a transducer, which emits sound waves, to generate a picture of your developing baby. Later in pregnancy, this method works well.
But early in pregnancy, when the embryo is still tiny, the sonographer will most likely need to do a transvaginal exam. With a transvaginal ultrasound, the sonographer places the transducer into the vagina. The transducer will not only be able to grab pictures of your growing baby, but it will also produce images with greater detail than with a transabdominal exam.
Early, accurate dating of a baby's age and expected delivery date might help your health care provider make decisions about how to manage your pregnancy. For example, for women who go into labor early -- or late -- your provider will have an accurate picture of your baby's age.
And this early peek might reveal possible genetic abnormalities. Accurate dating is also important for the timing and interpretation of some specialized prenatal tests, such as the quadruple screen, nuchal translucency measurements, and others used to assess the likelihood of genetic abnormalities.
By now, your baby's heart rate is even faster than it was last week, and his heart tube has formed small bulges. His cells are frantically churning out the building blocks for what will become 40 pairs of muscles and 23 pairs of vertebrae radiating from his spinal column. Your baby's limb buds are starting to grow; they look like tiny flippers at this point. His outer ears are beginning to take shape, and he now has joints in his elbows, wrists, and knees.
His eyelids are nearly complete too. A dating scan is generally done if you are: Uncertain about the date of your last normal menstrual period For women who have irregular menstrual cycles For women who have recently had a miscarriage and have conceived again quickly For women who have recently stopped using oral contraceptives or alternative forms of hormonal contraception For women who are breastfeeding and although they may not have resumed menstruating, have conceived again In any other situation, or for any other reason why confirming viability and the gestational age of the embryo is considered important.
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