Baby has stopped growing but still heart beat @ 98bpm

Re: Baby has stopped growing but still heart beat @ 98bpm

• kmcp member

  May 2012

  I am so sorry you are going through this but glad you have found this board as a resource.  I had a similar situation; although yours sounds more drawn out than mine.  I started spotting at 6w and had 2 u/s that week (ER at middle of week, dr office at end of week) that showed on target growth and strong h/b.  But because I continued spotting, I had a 3rd u/s at the end of 7w where they saw that growth was a week behind and the h/b was 100.  A week later at my 4th u/s there was no h/b.  I scheduled a d&c for the following day because I was emotionally exhausted and just wanted to try to move on. 
  

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  BFP #1: 4/7/12. EDD: 12/2/12.
  Growth on target with h/b at 6w3d. No h/b at 8w4d. D&C 4/27/12.
  BFP #2: 2/28/13. M/C 5w1d.

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• tracyfromnh

  May 2012

  I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks 4 days with a heartrate of 92, I had another 10 days later and the baby only grew to 6 weeks (i should have been measuring 8 weeks) and heartrate dropped to 70 (at this point I knew in my heart it was gone, DH was so hopeful that things would turn), another ultrasound 4 days later and babys heart stopped.  It was so hard knowing that the poor little thing was declining while in my belly.  In the end I chose Mistoprostol instead of waiting to pass it naturally (I didn't want it to happen at my disgusting bathroom at work) or having a D&C.  That was in January.  Now I have a pregnancy that just isn't developing, I have a gestational sac and yolk but no fetal pole, and again I should be 8 weeks, so next week when i have my final ultrasound to confirm I will do the Mistoprostol again.

   I'm so sorry you have to go through this, it's absolutely awful, don't pay attention to the stupid things people say, most of them are trying to help.

  I'll send you lots of prayers that your little one has a growth spurt.

  

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• kelly321 member

  May 2012

  I'm so sorry you're going through this. I had a blighted ovum, so there was never any fetal pole or heartbeat, but it also felt pretty drawn out. I really hope for your sake that things turn out well, but if not, then we're here for you. And as someone else said - just try not to take it to heart if people say things that hurt you. They usually mean well and just don't know what to say.
  

   

  
  BFP1: DD1 born April 2011 at 34w1d via unplanned c/s due to HELLP, DVT 1 week PP
  

  BFP2: 3/18/12, blighted ovum, natural m/c @ 7w4d
  BFP3: DD2 born Feb 2013 at 38w4d via unplanned RCS due to uterine dehiscence
  

  
  

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• Dandelion321 member

  May 2012

  I am so sorry you are going through this. It is truly the worst feeling to be so uncertain about what is going on with your precious baby.  I have a very similar story, but I hope that yours has a positive outcome.  At my sixth week ultrasound, things looked good, but my RE was not able to see a heartbeat.  He said that it could just be too early and I scheduled another ultrasound for the next week.  At seven weeks, there was a heartbeat but it was slower than than it should have been (doctor said between 70-90).  My baby was also measuring a week behind.  Thankfully he did not want us to have to wait a whole week again, so we went back four days later to see where things stood.  The heartbeat was still slow and when I asked if there was any growth, he actually told us that it had gotten smaller.  That was SO incredibly hard to hear, but of course I knew then that things were not going to end well.  He told my DH and I to prepare for a miscarriage, but to come back four days later.  We did, and that's when we found that the baby had no heartbeat at eight weeks.  I had the choice of waiting to miscarry naturally or schedule a D&E.  I chose to have a D&E just two days later because I did not want to go through any more uncertainty about when the miscarriage would start or how long it would take to complete.  I feel that for me, it was the best choice.  I am only beginning to heal emotionally, and I found that reading other people's stories on this board helped me start to get through my loss.  Take care.

  

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