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I am pregnant with my first baby. Last week, Thursday December 11, 2008, I had my first vaginal ultrasound. I was 6 weeks 2 days pregnant. A stalk was visible and the tech said she could see a heartbeat but it was really hard to visualize (I couldn't see it, but my husband swears he could for a second). She measured the heartrate at only 81 bpm. Also, the baby measured just under 6 weeks, so it was around 5 days behind in growth from what they told me it should be at. Well, with everything I've read, I knew this was not really good news. I was scheduled for a followup ultrasound, which took place yesterday December 18, 2008. Yesterday I was 7 weeks 2 days pregnant. The baby measured 7 weeks 2 days (which means the little bugger grew around 10 days worth in 7 days). I could clearly see the heartbeat and it looked pretty fast. I'm laying there thinking we're going to have good news, but the tech said she measured the heartbeat at only 89 bpm. I was crushed. The doctor said there's still hope b/c the baby is clearly growing well and is obviously hanging on. Plus, the doctor said she'd never seen a baby grow like this with such a low heartrate?????? But that heartrate just doesn't make sense. I went home that night and tried to show my mom (who's a nurse) and my sister (also a nurse) my flicking my finger what the heartrate looked like to me as I was watching it. They measured it to be 127 bpm. When my husband got home I asked him to show them as well without my help or input so it wouldn't skew his memory. He indicated physically what the heartbeats had looked like to him and they measured it to be around 125 bpm which means we both basically saw the same thing. Now I'm set for a third ultrasound in two weeks, January 2, 2009. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....Please help with some words of reason, whether good or bad...I can take it.