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@SouthPaw: How far along are you?

My first ultrasound was at 7 weeks. It was also transvaginal and we were able to see and hear the heartbeat. At this point the baby was just a teeny blob

Mine was at 7w, almost 8w. DH came with me. I am lucky and all my ultrasounds have been on the tummy. She just found the baby, saw and listened the heartbeat, and then measured the baby to see it is was measuring how it should. I think that it took many 10 minutes. Printed us off some pictures and then we were off to the next part of the appointment.

Just a warning, it doesn't look like a baby at all. Looks like a blob/bean. A woman I work with, her daughter cried at her first one cause she has no idea that it wouldn't look like a baby yet.

My first ultrasound at 6 weeks with my daughter was done in the hospital because I miscarried the baby before and I was bleeding. They "couldn't see anything" and told me my pregnancy was ectopic. We demanded a repeat scan the next day and there she was with a heartbeat- I cried a lot. You can bet your ass that doctor got a birth announcement for my "ectopic" baby girl

Good luck at your scan!

Ours was 7w4d. It was a transvaginal and baby looked like a little gummy bear. We didn't get to hear the heartbeat but we did get to see it flickering away on the screen. Even though he didn't look like a baby, it was amazing to see that there was in fact a baby in there! Oh and depending on how far along you are you may see a little circle that is the baby's yolk sac.

Transvag and DH came--I think we could hear the heartbeat? It was pretty early, like 6-7 weeks and just looked like a circle. The wand looks like a huge sex toy but doesn't hurt, it's just weird and not comfortable when they move it around trying to see all of your insides.

Warning: they put a ridiculous amount of lube on the US wand and you will leak a ton of it out afterward. Wear a liner or bring extra panties!

@tororojo: Ew, but good call.

I'm following this because I have my first appointment next Monday too. I'm hoping they do an ultrasound, but they didn't mention it when I booked the appointment.

@.twist.: I had a transvaginal one once (not preg related, I bruised my kidney) and it was a total surprise. Not at all a pleasant surprise, but also not uncomfortable, just weird. At least going to an OB you expect your lady parts will be looked at, I just thought they were going to look at my kidneys from outside- surprise!

@Foodnerd81: haha oh god that would definitely be a surprise! You want to put what where?? lol. To see my kidney?? I can only imagine. Also, totally off topic, sorry but how do you bruise a kidney?

@SouthPaw: I'm currently 6 weeks so only a week and a half behind you! Very exciting. Good luck and definitely give us an update!

@Foodnerd81: oh noooo! that would have hurt like a SOB!

@StrawberryBee: I'm going on the 19th! I am SO looking forward to hearing/seeing the heartbeat! They do u/s at your doctors office? That is so convenient, I have to go across the city to get mine done.

I was VERY nervous at our first ultrasound but it wasn't a typical one at all! I had bleeding early on, around 5 weeks, so I had called my doctor's office (I didn't have an appointment until about 6 weeks) and the midwife said I could certainly come in and get an ultrasound for peace of mind, but to understand that if I was miscarrying, there wasn't anything they could do, and it might even be too early to see anything at all. I chose to go in -- she was right, it was too early for a heartbeat, but they did see an egg sac and the beginnings of the fetal pole and therefore, most importantly to me, were able to tell it was not an ectopic pregnancy. (I had bad implantation pain and that combined with the bleeding, I feared the worst on that count.)

I went back again at 6 weeks for my regular appointment, and we saw the embryo already and a heartbeat! It was so amazing. But also nerve wracking because my bleeding had continued and intensified. So they had me back again one week later and by then my bleeding had completely stopped and baby had already grown a bunch. They weren't ever able to find a cause of bleeding -- there was no subchorionic hemorrhage or anything -- so just chalked it up to me being a bleeder

To me, each ultrasound has just been amazing. DH has been in every single one, and they've always given me pictures and pointed out things and told me what was going on (it's a radiologist at my doctor's office so she's qualified to interpret things to me).

Good luck and have fun with it!

I was super anxious for my first U/S. I had previous miscarriage so hat made me super nervous. I had my first one at 7 weeks. It was transvaginal and I got to see and hear the heartbeat. It was amazing.

@.twist.: My first prenatal appt is on the 19th too!!!! And it'll be transvaginal.

@tororojo: Agreed on the excessive amount of lube! I had a transvaginal done last month because it'd been over 9 months since we've started TTC and I remember using multiple toilet paper to clean up and still had leakage!!

Our first was at 8 weeks on the nose. DH came with me. The tech did both an abdominal and a transvaginal. For the latter he had a female nurse come in, and he positioned the wand close to my vaginal opening but had me actually insert it, then took it back to move it around. He took measurements of the baby and told us how fast the heart rate was. In addition to taking pictures (and short videos!) for me to take home (on a CD), he always looked at my ovaries and kidneys.

The whole thing took maybe 20 minutes from start to finish. I wasn't able to see as much as I wanted (he had the screen at a weird angle from me), but he turned it a couple of times so I could see and explained what we were looking at...and because he could move around DH was able to see everything.

And ditto to the PPs about bringing/wearing a panty liner. I didn't think about that before hand, and felt icky until we got home.

ETA: For some reason (we were told why at the time but I was too overwhelmed with everything to remember) we were not able to HEAR the heartbeat that day, but we could SEE it. We didn't hear it until our first official visit with our midwife two weeks later, with a doppler.

mine was also transvag, although they did not tell me that when I made the appointment, so like PPs I would go in expecting it anyway! I thought I was 7weeks exactly (based on LMP) but they dated me at 6w4d at the scan, and we saw but didn't hear the heartbeat. still amazing though!

@SouthPaw: Yay! I know from the extensive research I did in early pregnancy (when I spotted for 2+ weeks) that bleeding around the sac is common and usually just goes away on its own. Is it an SCH? Glad you got to see the heartbeat and take it easy for now!

@SouthPaw: I had a sub chorionic hematoma between the placenta and uterine wall. I was told that most of the time they are either reabsorbed into your body or you have some spotting. I had neither, mine stuck around (staying the same size) at least until my anatomy scan, if not later (my last U/S was at 21 wks).

It was recommended that I abstain from exercise besides walking, as well as sex. When they said it was still there but hadn't grown at my NT scan they scaled back those recommendations to light exercise.

It seems pretty normal. Enjoy being off of your feet and stay away from Dr Google! Good luck!