This is our 6th pregnancy. Our 4th this year.

At 7+5 we went in for a scan. Like with all the others I was waiting for the confirmation I was expecting "no cardiac activity and it's measuring a couple weeks behind". That isn't what happened though.

Looking up at the monitor I could see a flicker. There was cardiac activity. If I hadn't been lying down with a probe up my vagina I would have fallen over.

I was shocked. We were shocked. It was the last thing either of us was expecting after all the earlier failures. I'd already been planning in my head the best time to get a D&C to not interfere with work.

It looks like we can maybe hold our breath a little less tightly until the next round of tests in a couple of weeks.