Heartbeat Is Present and Everything Has Grown Except the Embryo!!?

try to just think positive. and dont read too much on internet it will make you crazy. no one knows if you will miscarry. my baby's heart beat came kind of late and Docs got really negative right away since they see so many sad stories. everything turned out fine. it is not over til it's truly over. Pregnancy is a long difficult road. so hang in there and be positive.

I can only imagine what you must be going through right now. Just remember that doctors can't predict the future. You'll hear stories from women who had normal healthy pregnancies, and when they went into labor the baby was stillborn, and the doctors have no explanation for what went wrong. Or in my case they told me that there was a very large chance that my baby would be born with Down's syndrome or some other nurological problem and he's 100% healthy. Also, I recently heard about a woman who was told that her baby would only live a few hours, days at best and the baby just turned 3 months old. (look up Faith hope blog) We just never know, we place our trust in a loving, merciful God and pray that all will be as it should be.

I found this on Wikipedia, hope this helps some:

The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy. It is usually identified at 6.5 weeks with abdominal ultrasound imaging, and 6 weeks with vaginal ultrasound imaging. However it is quite normal for the fetal pole to not be visible until about 8 weeks. The fetal pole may be seen at 2-4 mm crown-rump length (CRL), and heart motion is often detected when it is seen. In the embryo, the heartbeat is seen as a regular flutter, which should be first evident at 5 mm CRL. If the embryo is less than 5 mm CRL, it is possible for it to be healthy without showing a heartbeat, though a follow up study in 5-7 days will almost always demonstrate the heartbeat

C....EXACT same thing happened to me. She is now 5!! They just said she was tucked away tightly up there. Your numbers are good and doubling...stay positive. I will keep you in my thoughts....

You have a lot of info... what does the doctor say? If he/she is not concerned, then don't worry. Every pregnancy is different. Call the doctor.

My experience with pregnancy and doctors is that they have too much technology to scare the hell out of us, but don't always know everything! My pregnancy was stressful and unpleasant because the doctors have all this technology and want to test for everything especially when over 35. they find things that normally they wouldn't. They thought my son had all kinds of things wrong when Iwas pregnant and made me go for ultra sound after ultra sound, doctors and more doctors. Don't stress and go with your gut. I knew everything was fine with my son. He is happy and healthy at 4 1/2 months. He's small for his age and was very small at birth (4.9lbs) which was due to my placenta not growing for some unknown reason. BUt everything the doctors thought didn't happen.
Good luck and I hope you don't have to endure your whole pregnancy like that.

This seems like a wait and see kind of situation. So much is happening and in early pregnancy and it is tiny and hard to see. If there is a heartbeat then the tissue/embryo is still alive and it is not urgent to have anything removed for fear of infection.

As long as your hormones are doubling and there's a heartbeat, wait it out. A good sign of miscarriage is when the hormone levels stop increasing (that's what happened to me, but I also never had a heartbeat). So stay positive! If you end up miscarrying, then it wasn't meant to be this time, I'm sure you will get pregnant again soon. But for now, don't let the doctors tell you you need a DNC or something of that nature. Plenty of miscarriages are misdiagnosed and healthy babies are born. Best of luck!

If you have a heartbeat... then think positive.. good luck!!