Hi everyone,
Happy to have this support group, but of course sad to be posting here. I was 11w5d with my 2nd baby and had bleeding today. Went straight to the doctor and was told the baby is measuring only 8 weeks and no heartbeat.
Came home and bled pretty consistently through the evening and then all of a sudden felt a "pop" and a gush of blood (fluid?) got to the bathroom, more clots and blood and then something big came out. Looked like a sac with some stuff in it, I actually looked at it pretty closely but couldn't really make anything out. I guess that was it?
Very strange, noticed bleeding at 1pm, got to the doc at 2:30pm, home at 4pm and all this clotting and passing of what I think was my baby happened by 8pm. No cramping at all.
Have another appointment tomorrow for a confirmation ultrasound - will be so strange to see it empty on the screen. Wow.
I'm having such mixed feelings about this - of course I feel a sense of loss, but in a way, relieved that it happened early on and not after I was further along and felt kicking and hiccuping and all that. And, I've read about m/c taking weeks and weeks, and I was worried about how long it was going to take. If this was it, I guess it is better to have it done and be able to move on with the healing and figure out what's next .
Also, I was just not able to flush the toilet. I could not do it. I fished it out of the toilet, put it in a plastic bag, put the bag in a tupperware, put the tupperware in another bag, and put all that in the fridge. Not sure what to do with it. I suppose we could bring it to the doctor - but maybe we'll just have a quiet burial for him somewhere. Sigh .. at least that will give us a sense of closure, I guess.
Happy to have this support group, but of course sad to be posting here. I was 11w5d with my 2nd baby and had bleeding today. Went straight to the doctor and was told the baby is measuring only 8 weeks and no heartbeat.
Came home and bled pretty consistently through the evening and then all of a sudden felt a "pop" and a gush of blood (fluid?) got to the bathroom, more clots and blood and then something big came out. Looked like a sac with some stuff in it, I actually looked at it pretty closely but couldn't really make anything out. I guess that was it? Very strange, noticed bleeding at 1pm, got to the doc at 2:30pm, home at 4pm and all this clotting and passing of what I think was my baby happened by 8pm. No cramping at all.
Have another appointment tomorrow for a confirmation ultrasound - will be so strange to see it empty on the screen. Wow.
I'm having such mixed feelings about this - of course I feel a sense of loss, but in a way, relieved that it happened early on and not after I was further along and felt kicking and hiccuping and all that. And, I've read about m/c taking weeks and weeks, and I was worried about how long it was going to take. If this was it, I guess it is better to have it done and be able to move on with the healing and figure out what's next .
Also, I was just not able to flush the toilet. I could not do it. I fished it out of the toilet, put it in a plastic bag, put the bag in a tupperware, put the tupperware in another bag, and put all that in the fridge. Not sure what to do with it. I suppose we could bring it to the doctor - but maybe we'll just have a quiet burial for him somewhere. Sigh .. at least that will give us a sense of closure, I guess.
