Not to scare you or anything ... Just want to give you my experience.

They're usually able to hear the heartbeat at 10 weeks pretty good. Sometimes they're not able to find it, it's very common.

I had to go to the er with my second pregnancy because I was cramping, fainting and lightly spotting. They couldn't find a heartbeat, either (at 8 weeks) and they decided that they were going to schedule an ultrasound the following week. I went in, happy go-lucky, feeling pretty good and they told me that the heart wasn't beating and I was in the process of miscarrying. So, I ended up having a d & c a few days later.

With my next pregnancy, I was a nervous-wreck. I always thought that I may be miscarrying and I was just a total mess! I had a normal pregnancy (aside from all the hell I was putting myself through) and gave birth to a healthy boy :-)

i wouldn't worry too much about it until the dr's give you a reason to. You may want to ask for an ultrasound, though, just to be on the safe side. Good luck!

They couldnt pick up the heartbeat with this pregnancy at first but the dr was persistent, i'm a little bigger and never lost my jelly belly from elisa so he said sometimes when you are bigger could take an extra week.

I had first gone in at 11weeks and went back at 13 to check again and it was there so it could be a matter of different things stay hopeful!!!

Thats alittle weird to me....Usually they will do an ultra sound if they cannot pick up the babies heart beat at 12 weeks.....?? I am thankful that my dr will not let you leave until he finds it......I had to have a d&c at 12 weeks because he couldnt find it with the moniture, but he wouldnt let me leave without finding it so he did an ultra sound............

It is true that your baby could just be hidding...But I would have thought your baby would have been big enough to see. I have ultra sound pictures of my baby @ 9 weeks.

So, I guess I am just conffused.........Sorry

love, tammy

Sometimes they just cant get the heart beat--like previous writers have said--they should have done a ultrasound then. When do you go back.??

Dont worry just yet. Keep up pos attitude and wait for next visit.

Good luck

Hey tammy,

I found out after that I should have stayed until he found the heartbeat but there are still some things that I am naive with when it comes to pregnancy. I had the same problem a few weeks ago but its because I was lying on my back and had something to do with cord being pushed on (so the heartbeat was slow) dr had me turn on side and we heard it but its just a scary expierence altogether.........

Anyways im leaving it at that
take care hun let us know what happens with heart beat

jess

Hey diamondsz,

i am glad you heard your babys heart beat finally.........Yaaaaa........ :lol:

ya I am really thankful my dr is like that, I have already lost my baby. I had to have an emergancie d&c in august because when he did the ultra sound my baby had already passed on at 12 weeks......It was really hard for me, but am thankful to my dr for not letting me leave without knowing what was going on........ We are trying to have a baby at this time, no luck yet though.........

Love, tammy

My doctor could not hear the heartbeat at 9 1/2 weeks but he did bring the baby up on the monitor and it was moving. That was why we could not get the heartbeat so early because it is so small that the doppler needs to be right on top of that heartbeat. I hope to hear it at my next appointment. He told me before even doing it at 9 1/2 weeks there was a 50/50 chance of hearing it. I would ask for an ultrasound immediately just so your nerves are settled if nothing else.

anything new on the baby's heartbeat??

Let us know

i am 10 weeks pregnancy, but the doctor told me the baby have no heartbeat, i have bad experience on my first pregnancy too. is this to earlt to see or.... who can help me?