First ultrasound

I had my first ultrasound this morning. At first, it was the typical stomach type, but then the dr decided that she also wanted me to have a vaginal ultrasound. The news was not negative, but I'm still trying to hold on to some sort of caution about it all. It's just so difficult since I have been having more pregnancy symptoms than the other miscarriages!

The ultrasound tech said that the gestational sac and the yolk sac looked normal, but they couldn't find the fetal pole. Based on the size of the sacs, they hypothesized that I'm not as far along as I would have thought when using the date of my last period. Therefore, we're going to go back in 2 weeks for another ultrasound so they can see the fetus' size and shape. At the same time, we're going to see a dr for the first time (possibly the dr that we work with the entire pregnancy).

We've decided to use a high risk dr since there is the history of the 2 miscarriages and also because of the history of Down's. The likelihood of having another baby with Down's by the same method as before is *very* slim (less than 1%) b/c what happened that time was a rare genetic mutation, but the likelihood of the baby having Down's b/c of maternal age (38) is 1 in 180. Still not great odds, but I'm hoping that we've had enough bad luck to last us a lifetime!