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Saturday night my wife, 6 weeks pregnant, started spotting while on a trip far from home. I took her to a local emergency room. This hospital had a high risk pregnancy unit, and they sent for one of their ultrasound machines. We not only saw a fetal heartbeat, but a less-developed twin w/o heartbeat.
Back home at the clinic this morning where we had IVF, (she's 41, I'm 53), they couldn't find the heartbeat. The doctor said it might be too small, and were to come in for another scan on Wednesday. Nurse I spoke to about the scheduling wasn't optimistic. "To confirm loss of pregnancy" were her words.
Question: could it be that the hospital had a better machine/operator? My wife said that the clinic's machine had an older CRT type screen, the hospital's was a flat panel. Could it be that the first one has stopped growing, but that the second one's heart might yet start? I'm fixating on the equipment difference right now, telling her that must be it, so as not to put her through what she went through Saturday night between finding the spotting and thinking Twins! Not if there's still a chance. Any thoughts? I'd really appreciate it.