During an early pregnancy ultrasound, we will peek inside your womb to see how your baby is growing and developing. Anticipation is a common theme among pregnancy. We wonder how our baby will look, we are curious about gender, and overall we want to ensure the delivery of a healthy child. Regular ultrasounds and prenatal care are the best way to detect and treat complications if they should arise. An ultrasound can be done in two different ways.
The first way we can do an ultrasound is transabdominal. A transabdominal ultrasound is administered over your belly and is the more known of the two. The other ultrasound is transvaginal, meaning into your vagina. This ultrasound will be done if it is very early on in your pregnancy. A transvaginal ultrasound will produce authentic images of your still tiny baby. Your doctor may recommend a transvaginal ultrasound for various reasons:. A transabdominal ultrasound is the type of ultrasound we all probably know, heard of, and possibly seen on television.
Your healthcare professional will put a cool jelly over your stomach to take a peek inside of your womb. When you come in for an ultrasound on your belly, you should have a full bladder.
A full bladder will increase visibility by tilting your uterus up and turning your intestines out of the viewpoint. Once you have some gel on your tummy, the technician will use a transducer to see inside your stomach. The transducer is a handheld device that will release sound waves to form an image of your child inside your uterus.
If you look over to the side during your ultrasound, you will see a video of your baby on the screen. The moment of seeing your healthy child on an ultrasound is a moment you will hold dear and remember forever.
This ultrasound is typically a transvaginal ultrasound, as an abdominal ultrasound will not reveal many signs of pregnancy development yet. At approximately 5 weeks, the gestational sac can be seen via transvaginal ultrasound. This is the structure in which the embryo will grow, and can generally be seen before the embryo itself is visible. Around 6 or 7weeks, an abdominal ultrasound will show the gestational sac.
A transvaginal ultrasound given at this time is likely to show images of an early developing embryo. At this point the ultrasound technician can see the location of the embryo in the uterus and if it is an the proper, healthy location.
It sounds less than fun, we admit, and it is a less-than-fun procedure: A technician inserts an ultrasound wand, called a transducer, a few inches into your vagina until it reaches your cervix.
Then, the technician keeps it in place, adjusting the wand as much as needed to get a good look at the inside of your uterus. It does take longer, which can add to the overall unpleasantness, but the technicians are trained to make you comfortable — at least, as comfortable as you can be with an ultrasound wand inside in your vaginal canal.
The good news? It could be going as fast as beats per minute or more! Aside from detecting a heartbeat, the point of a 7-week ultrasound is to take measurements of these fetal developments so your doctor has a better idea of where you are in your pregnancy. At 7 weeks, your baby should be about 5 to 9 millimeters mm in size and the gestational sac will be about 18 to 24 mm. At this point, fetal development is on a fast track and making large leaps in size from one week to the next.
The opposite is true for a sac that measures much larger than 24 mm. If the results are inconclusive, your doctor may ask you to schedule another ultrasound in 1 or 2 weeks to try again. That said, the 7-week ultrasound could also reveal a hard truth about the health of your pregnancy.
If there are no signs of pregnancy or inconsistent signs, like a large gestational sac without any yolk sac or fetal pole, it may mean you have a blighted ovum or are otherwise miscarrying.
This is very common in the earliest weeks of pregnancy, when the risk is the highest. The yolk sac nourishes the embryo and also helps produce blood cells during the early stages of pregnancy. The yolk sac is surrounded by a larger black area, known as the gestational sac. The gestational sac contains amniotic fluid and surrounds the embryo.
The gestational sac increases in diameter by 1. Patience is key during pregnancy. This is common and has everything to do with your human chorionic gonadotropin hCG levels. HCG is the same hormone that confirms pregnancy from urine on a pregnancy test. Your hCG levels should be around 1, to 2, at 5 weeks pregnant, but it may be difficult to see anything until hCG exceeds 2, This is less common than having the dates wrong and may be life threatening if not treated.
An ectopic pregnancy happens when fertilized eggs implant and grow on the outside main cavity of the uterus.
These pregnancies require treatment and may cause heavy bleeding inside the abdomen. Most ectopic pregnancies occur in a Fallopian tube. Falling hCG levels and the inability to find a gestational sac may also point to an early miscarriage.
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