Ambiguous 6 week ultrasound

That's right, I'm only 6 weeks by u/s. So the good news is that it's not ectopic but that's about all we know. 6 weeks is right around when the heart usually starts beating so it wasn't totally apparent that pregnancy #5 is progressing as it should. The ultrasound technician took her sweet time even getting to that part, I might add. While she was first measuring my ovaries from about 100 different angles I was thinking to myself "did you NOT hear me say that I had 3 miscarriages and I'm a little anxious to see a heartbeat?!?" Finally when we got a look at the blob there was no heart beat visible to me, sadly, and I started to freak out a little inside. But she said she thought she could see some cardiac activity and measured it at 82 beats per minute. At first she wasn't sure if it was mine or the baby's but did eventually conclude that it was baby's. So we wrapped up and I cried a little while we were waiting to see Dr. H, thankfully it wasn't too long.

Dr. H came in and said basically what I already knew. Based strictly on my last period I should be 11 weeks along but since I was still breastfeeding it is totally possible and even likely that the dates are off. He said 6 weeks is a terrible time to do an ultrasound because it's right on the border of when you should see a heart beat and when you shouldn't. Long story short he ordered another one in a week and then we'll know more. Next week we'll be looking for growth at the very minimum and hopefully a more reassuring heart beat that even I can see.

So I am frustrated. I think everything is fine, 6 weeks makes sense based on how I'm feeling and some of the other evidence such as when I stopped having so many migraines. But it still would have been nice to have a definitive YES everything is fine and not have to suffer through a long 7 days (or more) of wondering. I asked Dr. H if he could give me something to make me just go to sleep and wake up in a week and he just laughed and suggested Unisom might help if I'm not able to sleep.

Anyway, it might be kind of quiet on here. I suppose I could (and should) blog about Seth. Someone was telling me it had been awhile since they saw any updated pictures. Thankfully work is crazy busy so the days have been going by relatively fast. Adios!