Help, really need some hugs and some advice......

[KatyKat]

So I'm pregnant for the 5th time. I had two mc's followed by my daughter, followed by yet another mc. Because of my history I have been having bi-weekly scans since 6 weeks. 6, 8, and 10 week scans all showed the baby growing well. My latest ever mc was 10 weeks so after that last scan we were starting to feel like perhaps this one was a tough little monkey and was going to go the distance.

However, on Thursday night at 11 weeks and 4 days I had two big bleeds (bright red blood) during the night. I rang the hospital in a blind panic on Friday morning and the lovely gynae team had me come into A&E for a quick check over before arranging for the registrar to scan me. Happily the little monkey was still hanging in there, but they couldn't explain the bleeding.

Since then I've continued to bleed on and off, although now it's either watery brown or dark brown. We have our dating scan tomorrow and I feel sick that we have come this far only to fall at the final hurdle so to speak. I have this awful feeling that they are going to tell us that our baby is gone, and I don't know what to do

I don't know what I'm looking for here, I know as well as anyone that if you're going to miscarry then there's not a damn thing that can be done. The thought of losing another baby is killing me though. I don't know how we would pick ourselves up this time

 

[londongirl]

You poor thing BUT on the positive side, the baby was fine AFTER the two bright red bleeds. then you had some brown blood, right? that's just old blood that's taken a while to travel down, so surely that'd just be some of the after thought of the original bleeds?

i'm not surprised you're freaking out, but it would seem this is what it was right?

 

[Topanga053]

I know one woman who had two huge bleeds (one around 8 weeks and another later in second trimester) and went on to have a healthy baby who's now almost six months old! Bleeds are SOOOO unfair, ESPECIALLY if you've had losses, but it doesn't always mean another loss is imminent. You'll be in my prayers that everything is fine!

 

[Sunnyleah]

Hang in There! I was told at my 12 week scan that I had a bleed, but never had any come out (sorry TMI). The specialist said that it can happen when the baby implants on a blood vessel in the uterine wall,,,, can trigger bleeds randomly. Hopefully it was just something like this . Praying for you!

Ps we also had scans at 6,8,10 & 12 weeks due to 2 previous losses and early spotting (on off from 5-6 weeks). Turned out to be low progesterone.

 

[KatyKat]

Thanks ladies. Have my scan at 12 but I'm not hopeful, my boobs feel much less tender today and I've continued to have brown discharge with bits of tissue in it. Just feel like I want to be sick, I can't believe this is happening again. How many times can you do this and stay sane?

 

[Sunnyleah]

I'm sorry it's not going well :/. My boobs fluctuated with how they felt etc but you know your body and sometimes we just know (I had a feeling something was wrong with our first Mmc).

Still praying that it passes and lo is snug and happy

 

[KatyKat]

Well, by some miracle our little monkey is hanging in there. We are measuring 12 + 6 and he/she is one hell of a wriggler . The sonographer thinks that some of the bleeding may have come from a pool of blood trapped between the placenta and the cervix. Apparently it's not dangerous, just extremely unsettling - is this what they refer to as a sub chorionic haemorrhage?

Just have to see the last of the bleeding out and keep reminding myself that we've now had two scans since the bleeding started and monkey has been ok both times. Just hope it stops soon as my nerves are well and truly shredded now........

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts, it helps to be able to talk/write about this and it's probably stopped me going completely mental!

 

[Sunnyleah]

So glad to hear!, congratulations!

There are quite a few threads for pregnancy after loss, and I've gained so much form them.... See if there's one for your month that baby is due, very helpful to connect with women at the same stage as you.... They have saved my life!

 

[babydust818]

When having a history of miscarriages, seeing any blood is frightening. I know. I've been there. I'm so happy everything looks great. It's very reassuring. I wish we could have scans once a week lol. Would be sooo reassuring and relaxing

 

[dairymomma]

Glad things are looking good. This is my 11th pregnancy overall and I have 2 rainbow children. Out of those 11 pregnancies, I've had one, yes ONE, pregnancy without bleeding. That was my DS. With DD, I had one dark red blob of blood and minor spotting for a day at 8 weeks and they diagnosed a subchorionic hematoma. With this baby, I had red bleeding/red-pink-brown spotting & discharge/cramping/you name it from 5+2 to 10+4. U/S after u/s showed my uterus was empty other than bubs and s/he was growing well. To this day, they still can't tell me where the blood came from or why I bled so much since bed rest didn't change things, my urine tests came back normal, and there weren't any bleeds on the scans. The only thing they didn't look at was cervical irritation and the dr didn't want to be doing too much 'down there' if that's what was happening. So we'll never know now but seeing blood isn't easy at all when you have a history of pregnancy loss. Hang in there and know there are success stories all over on BnB.

 

[Sunnyleah]

Dairymomma, so glad to see you back! Congratulations