m/c question

i had an u/s at 5.5ish weeks and we saw a heartbeat and the baby measured right on target. i started bleeding 3 weeks later, had an u/s and found out my baby had died about a week before.

i heard the statistic recently that once you have seen a heartbeat you have only a 5% chance of miscarriage though.

saw heartbeat on 8wk u/s on a small office machine at the mw's office....they wanted a better u/s to date it so at 9wks another u/s with no heartbeat and went on to m/c naturally at 12 1/2 wks.

Seems like most obs don't do u/s until 20 weeks unless there is a history of problems or uncertainty about the due date. And I've also heard that seeing a heartbeat does mean that the chances of m/c are really small.

When I had my m/c I was about 8 weeks along and I started bleeding. I had only knew I was pg about a week. I went to the doc and they did a ultrasound and couldn't find anything. They did blood work that showed I was 8 weeks. They believe a baby never formed. They did do a d&c and found no baby. But I was for sure pregnant from the blood work.

When I had m/c I had never had an u/s. I was 9 weeks 4 days when I started bleeding. They did do an u/s that day but the baby had already passed, so I didn't know when the baby stopped growing.