Dotty_B
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Hi all,
I haven't been on this site for a long time, but both during my miscarriage in December 2011 and my subsequent pregnancy this place was a god-send, filled with lovely ladies there to support and comfort you. When I ran into difficulty while pregnant again I would spend hours searching pregnancy forums looking for someone who had gone through the same, and made it out ok. But, understandably, there were very few 'bleeding during early pregnancy' threads that included a follow up. I always thought that if I managed to hold on to my little sproglet that I would come back and share my story, so that if someone found themselves in the same position they would find at least 1 tale with a happy ending.
During my 2nd pregnancy, after a blighted ovum in my 1st, I started bleeding at 6 weeks. What started as a few episodes of spotting turned into a full on, cramping and clotting, bleeding mess a few days later. In the middle of a large shopping centre of all places. I was distraught, I couldn't believe a 2nd pregnancy was going to fail and I had absolutely no faith that this threatened miscarriage was going to turn out anything but badly. My Doctor advised that a scan at that stage was pointless as it was too early, so what followed was weeks of blood tests where my hormone levels were checked to ensure they were rising successfully. I was told if anything looked 'off', I would be scanned at 9 weeks when everything would be more visable. I continued to bleed every few days, but to our amazement my hormone levels continued to rise normally, so by 9 weeks the Doctor and midwife were confident enough to let me get to my 12 week scan (due when I was 12w5d). During this time myself and my Husband were a mess but as we had told absolutely no one but the medical professionals, we kept it all to ourselves.
At the 12 week scan date I was an absolute wreck (crying in the waiting room!), but there she was, a little white thing that resembled a small sausage with a head, fliging her little flipper round to try and get the ultrasound wand to stop poking her. It was amazing.
6 months later we had our beautiful little daughter, despite me refusing to believe everything would end well even though scan after scan, and midwife appointment after midwife appointment showed us all was ok.
We never did find out what the bleeding was, the Doctor said it could have been one of many things. I didn't enjoy a single second of the pregnancy because I was terrified something was going to take her away from us, but she made it and a week early as well. Miscarriage takes the innocence out of pregnancy, because it shows you what can go wrong. But it doesn't mean future pregnancies are guaranteed to fail. Bleeding in the first trimester is a massive fright and can end badly but not always, we know both of those things now.
A massive, heartfelt thank you to all the ladies on this forum, you're all amazing. I hope my story will help someone someday, if they, like me in 2012, find themselves in the same position.
Dotty x
I haven't been on this site for a long time, but both during my miscarriage in December 2011 and my subsequent pregnancy this place was a god-send, filled with lovely ladies there to support and comfort you. When I ran into difficulty while pregnant again I would spend hours searching pregnancy forums looking for someone who had gone through the same, and made it out ok. But, understandably, there were very few 'bleeding during early pregnancy' threads that included a follow up. I always thought that if I managed to hold on to my little sproglet that I would come back and share my story, so that if someone found themselves in the same position they would find at least 1 tale with a happy ending.
During my 2nd pregnancy, after a blighted ovum in my 1st, I started bleeding at 6 weeks. What started as a few episodes of spotting turned into a full on, cramping and clotting, bleeding mess a few days later. In the middle of a large shopping centre of all places. I was distraught, I couldn't believe a 2nd pregnancy was going to fail and I had absolutely no faith that this threatened miscarriage was going to turn out anything but badly. My Doctor advised that a scan at that stage was pointless as it was too early, so what followed was weeks of blood tests where my hormone levels were checked to ensure they were rising successfully. I was told if anything looked 'off', I would be scanned at 9 weeks when everything would be more visable. I continued to bleed every few days, but to our amazement my hormone levels continued to rise normally, so by 9 weeks the Doctor and midwife were confident enough to let me get to my 12 week scan (due when I was 12w5d). During this time myself and my Husband were a mess but as we had told absolutely no one but the medical professionals, we kept it all to ourselves.
At the 12 week scan date I was an absolute wreck (crying in the waiting room!), but there she was, a little white thing that resembled a small sausage with a head, fliging her little flipper round to try and get the ultrasound wand to stop poking her. It was amazing.
6 months later we had our beautiful little daughter, despite me refusing to believe everything would end well even though scan after scan, and midwife appointment after midwife appointment showed us all was ok.
We never did find out what the bleeding was, the Doctor said it could have been one of many things. I didn't enjoy a single second of the pregnancy because I was terrified something was going to take her away from us, but she made it and a week early as well. Miscarriage takes the innocence out of pregnancy, because it shows you what can go wrong. But it doesn't mean future pregnancies are guaranteed to fail. Bleeding in the first trimester is a massive fright and can end badly but not always, we know both of those things now.
A massive, heartfelt thank you to all the ladies on this forum, you're all amazing. I hope my story will help someone someday, if they, like me in 2012, find themselves in the same position.
Dotty x
we fell pregnant on my second cycle after my mmc and went for a private scan at 7 weeks when everything was fine and we even saw a heart beat. 4 days later I started bleeding bright red blood, I was devastated. We went for a scan at the epu and thankfully everything was still fine and growing as it should be. After two weeks of us cautiously hoping everything would be ok I again started bleeding so back to the epu we went where thankfully everything was still fine. I kept bleeding for 2 weeks although nobody really knew why. At my 14 week scan everything was fine still and my baby was born on his due date weighing a healthy 8lb 1 oz. I was convinced I'd lost him so many times but it all turned out perfectly. 
