Another milestone crossed

Our ultrasound this morning showed one embryo, well placed, with a heartbeat!

He was very quickly able to find the gestational sac and see a heartbeat when he put the ultrasound wand in, which was good, because after looking at my ovaries, everything had shifted a bit and he had a heck of a time getting a good view again. It probably took 10 minutes for him to get the scan right so he could see and measure the heartbeat. Was stressful even though we'd see it earlier, and it would have been agonizing if that's how things started.

The heartbeat on first measurement was 108 bpm, and on the second measurement was 110bpm. He likes to see 110-112bpm (although looking online, 108-110 seems just fine).

Measuring 6w1d +/- 2 days, and today is 6w3d. So in the range (although it always entertains me that they can consider something this tiny an accurate measurement -- honestly a pixel or two one way or the other really matters).

Our RE was more cautious sounding than he was in the spring when we had our first BFP. It was hard to read. I think it's because we lost our first pregnancy, so he'd rather be cautious but optimistic and have everything work out, than glowingly optimistic and have us face another loss.

He wants us to have another ultrasound in 7-10 days. I'll be calling my ob (my ob/gyn was my pre-IVF RE) to see if he can get us in early next week (Dec 13-15) -- if not we'll go back to my IVF doc for this next scan. (In the spring, he recommended the next ultrasound be 2-3 weeks after the 6w3d one, with my ob. So I'm sure he's recommending an earlier one to help us get through the anxious next few weeks.)

I'm stressed about doing the next ultrasound with my ob, because that's where we had the 9week ultrasound in May where we found out the embryo had stopped growing. But I'm glad we'll only be waiting a week or so to get some confirmation of what's going on in there.

So far so good...