Flicker of Hope

**babyhopes** · 04-18-2012, 11:31 AM

It feels so weird posting in here! I dont want to jinks myself, but dont want to offend anyone
in the TTC tearoom.

So whe went for an early scan yesterday, because of the brown spotting.
New gyni as we are moving in 2 months time and if everything goes well I will be giving birth in Paarl and
not Cape Town.

Firstly the gyni said, not to worry about the brown spotting, she said it looks like old blood.
She could only see the sac at first, but then said that my bladder is too full, I must go and empty it again.
She did an internal sonar. We could see the flicker of the baby's heart. The baby is still too small
to measure and the heartbeat could also not be measured, but she said that it's probably just too early as I was 6 weeks on the dot yesterday (she thought I might be less that 6 weeks)

We were so greatful to see something. I started to panic when she couldnt find anything and thought the outcome is the same as last time, but GOD is GREAT and faithful and he knows how much our hearts desire
this baby. I promised GOD to raise this baby for him and I will always keep this promise!

I have another sonar next week to see if everything is going well.
Gyni put me on cyclogest. She said there is no use in going for more beta test as what she want to see now is that the baby is growing and nothing else.

Have any of you experience the same with your first scan? Surely a heartbeat (even if its small) is a good sign?

Please continue praying with us.

Thank you for you support x

**Minette** · 04-18-2012, 12:35 PM

That sounds like good news babyhopes. I hope all goes well this week and that next week you will hear a clear heartbeat. Praying for you.

**Heatherss** · 04-18-2012, 12:59 PM

Sounds good. I also had brown spotting at first for quite a while in my first trimestor, and then at week 8 red blood which freeked me out but dr r said that it was a side effect of the blood thinners I was on to prevent miscarriage. I also did not have a heart beat that early and had to wait for the next scan. Hang in there.