Miscarriage rate after heartbeat

[Beneli]

I know the miscarriage rate drops once you hear a healthy heartbeat. I had my first midwife appointment at 9.5-10 weeks (depending if you count me from scan due date or lmp). She couldn't find the heartbeat with the doppler (although she was sure she caught it very briefly a few times). At my 9 week scan I saw the heartbeat but wasn't given a rate. So, is it enough that I saw a heartbeat at 9 weeks or do I have to hear it and get a rate? I assume the tech wouldn't have shown me the baby and heartbeat if something was wrong. Super paranoid here!

Thanks in advance!

 

[azure girl]

No doubt you would have been informed of anything amiss at this point, most images take 3-5 business days to be read and the tech can usually speed the process along if they see something abnormal. As for your rate of loss, I have heard after nine weeks with a heartbeat that it s as low as .5% according to some sites, others may be up to 2.5%. Both are low numbers.
Source on scan report times: my father-in-law reads exams all day for a living. hth

 

[Claudia83]

At my first appointment, I was 6w4d with a bubs who had a strong heart beat (142bpm) and my ObGyn said the rate of miscarriage at this stage drops to 5%.

 

[Buzzymomma]

You want to see a heartbeat over 100, generally 120-180

(When it first starts beating it is slower though, 90ish.)

 

[4magpies]

I found this helpful.

https://sites.google.com/site/miscarriageresearch/miscarriage-general

After heartbeat is detected, risk of miscarriage is 9.4% at 6wks; 4.2% at 7wks; 1.5% at 8wks; 0.5% at 9wks

 

[Celesse]

Its the fact that the baby has a heartbeat that is important- not if you see or hear it. It starts slow and then gets faster around 5-6 weeks. By 9 weeks its been established for a long time.

Identifying a heart beat proves that the baby is capable of developing vital organs. Prior to finding the heartbeat you don't know if the egg and sperm are capable of growing into a baby or not. If the embryo has a massive genetic abnormality it won't have the information there to grow properly and making something as complex as a working heart is a good indication that the baby is able to grow everything else.

 

[Gizzyy]

I saw my babys HB at 6 weeks ish and I'm hoping this means it will stick!

 

[stouffer]

Don't worry about the midwife being unable to find it on a doppler. Here they won't even try until 16 weeks and when I had my first scan at 10 weeks they just looked for a beating heart and didn't measure the rate or anything.

The fact that the baby's heart is beating and it's developing normally is enough to know all is well.

I looked up statistics at 9 weeks and if a heartbeat is found at 9-10 weeks the risk of miscarriage is less than 1%.

 

[4magpies]

Yeah I didn't hear or have heartbeat measured at either of my early scans. You could just see it flickering away.

I first heard it on my home Doppler at 9 weeks and it took a lot of finding!

 

[Starry Night]

I'm 11 weeks and my OB refused to even try to find a heart beat with the doppler. She said it was too early. So the fact yours could even find a trace of heart beat is a good sign.

I've been on both sides of the coin where a good heart beat ended up with a m/c anyways and where a good heart beat resulted in a baby. So you really just have to wait. But the odds are very much in your favour! Try to relax and enjoy!

 

[kerri28]

I went from a 50% chance because of the SCH to a 20% chance then once they recorded a heart rate at 7+1 he said my chances were less than 5%.

 

[sproutly2003]

I found this post very reassuring. I have a scan on Saturday, I'll be 9 weeks, and praying for a strong heartbeat.