8w6d

So I tried using my doppler twice last night - one time for about an hour with no luck so I wasn't feeling very well going in for today's appt.  Luckily dh came with me, however we then had to bring dd which even though the staff at the RE's like, I don't because I know other women there may not want to see children at a RE's office.  Ususally when I go it is very early in the morning so no one is there which isn't a problem, but today I took the latest appt so there were three people sitting there when we walked in.  Hopefully none of them were there to confirm a m/c or get a negative beta.

Anyways, everything went well with the u/s.  The baby is measuring on track and has a 177 hb.  I got to hear it with the u/s and also got to see the baby briefly wiggle around and wave its arm bud.
I am so relieved since this is a major milestone day for me.  My first pregnancy we found out at this stage the baby had died weeks before even though I still had major pregnancy signs and no spotting or bleeding.  In fact I had way more symptoms my first pregnancy than I do this one.  Not sure why that is, but I guess it shows you you can't rely on symptoms to gage how viable a pregnancy is.

So now our risk of loss is dropped to 3%.  Of course I don't like reading into stats since I lost ds at 21 weeks when the chance was less than 1%.  However I am trying to hold onto hope that this baby will make it since everything has been looking great with it all along.

I have a 13 days wait now until my next u/s unless I start majorly bleeding which I hope doesn't happen.  I still have the SCH, but the tech says it appears smaller and like it is resolving so hopefully by my appt on the 20th it will be gone.