*sensitive - Is it harmful to have too many early pregnancy scans?

[IVFat40]

I had my first scan last Friday at 7 weeks pregnant (or 6+6 depending on which calculator I use) and was delighted to see a heartbeat. I am however still struggling with feeling massively anxious about losing this pregnancy. The scan I had was at the EPU, and they offered me another one two weeks further along around 9 weeks (due to their being a second empty sack, probably a vanishing twin). I've also already got a scan booked at my clinic this week at around 7+6 weeks. I'm basically just wondering if it could be harmful to the baby for me to have 3 (internal) scans in 3 weeks? Does anyone have experience around this? Thank you 😊

[Seren0119]

I have had scans every two weeks for seven months due to various complications and baby is fine - if it’s medically necessary, I wouldn’t worry. I also raised it with my doctor and he said it was fine. It is normal for IVF clinics to scan all the time xx

[IVFat40 in reply to Seren0119]

Thank you!

[pink_lemon]

Yes, it is ok. We were looking it up too as I had several scans early on - two only 3 days apart. We asked doctors too and were assured it fine.

[IVFat40 in reply to pink_lemon]

Thank you!

[XOXO13]

Hey, in the early stages of my pregnancy, I had scans a lot! From week 5-7, it was sometimes twice a week as I had severe OHSS and was in a lot of pain so the hospital was checking babies as well as my IVF clinic. I then went on to have scans every week until week 13 and every second week since then (I’m 29 weeks now). Babies are perfectly fine 💜 I thought the same as you too but they assured me it doesn’t harm babies xx

[IVFat40 in reply to XOXO13]

Thank you!

[Bump12]

First of all congratulations and yes it is completely safe. But once they have seen a heartbeat I would assume they wouldn’t need to do an internal scan and could just do an abdomen one? Unless it’s at the clinic where they do only internal scans xx

[IVFat40 in reply to Bump12]

Thank you!

[IVFat40]

Thank you so much everyone for your help and advice, this really has relaxed me, I think I'm going to go ahead with the 2nd scan tomorrow.