Serendipity13
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Hi,
I'm 34 (nearly 35) and TTC #2. My husband is 55 and has lower than average sperm motility and my DS is 4.
In Feb this year I found out I was pregnant at 13 DPO, had some brown spotting the day after which I assumed was implantation bleeding, a drop in BBT (various forums said stop measuring as it will vary in early pregnancy) and only faint pregnancy tests but it was early days after all. I wasn't particularly anxious as I had had my BFP so just went to the GP, booked in to see the midwife etc. At 4w4d (19 DPO) I started spotting which got increasingly heavy, ran to A & E in a total panic about what to do (it was v. late on a Sun night) and they tested and said I wasn't pregnant... I was totally shocked and devastated. Saw my GP in the morning who was pleasant but not terribly helpful, and suggested maybe I should try and view it as a late period rather than a miscarriage!!
So I cried lots, read lots, and eventually accepted that one miscarriage is very common. We kept trying and third cycle later I got pregnant again. This time I was much more anxious and testing every day etc, but this time my lines were getting darker and my BBT kept rising. Cue forward to 4w4d and I start spotting again, lighter this time and only pink but still spotting quite a bit. I go to my GP who refers me to the EPAU at my local hospital who run bloods at 4w5d... My HCG is only 39 and my progesterone 3.2. I have since started bleeding more heavily and passed a fair sized clot which I can only assume was my baby! I am booked into my GP later today to talk to them and see what happens next, although I suspect that as they only have one confirmed they won't do much.
Again I have been reading lots and I decided to post on here to try and get some advice. I realise that so many of you have suffered so many more losses than I have, but I am just terrified something is wrong and I don't know what to do! With my DS everything was very straight forward, no medical intervention to speak of and I have not used any form of birth control since (but not been actively trying until Sept last year) so I don't see what physically could be an issue.
But there is so much information out there about immunological issues that I really don't understand and the more I read the more panicked I get... But I'm also a great believer in advocating for yourself and I want to try and understand what might be happening, and whether something has now fundamentally changed since having my little boy or if two miscarriages can really be just bad luck.
So if anyone has any advice or questions you think I should be asking PLEASE PLEASE let me know... I need to feel I'm doing something constructive right now and this whole area is some incredibly complicated!
Thank you so much x
I'm 34 (nearly 35) and TTC #2. My husband is 55 and has lower than average sperm motility and my DS is 4.
In Feb this year I found out I was pregnant at 13 DPO, had some brown spotting the day after which I assumed was implantation bleeding, a drop in BBT (various forums said stop measuring as it will vary in early pregnancy) and only faint pregnancy tests but it was early days after all. I wasn't particularly anxious as I had had my BFP so just went to the GP, booked in to see the midwife etc. At 4w4d (19 DPO) I started spotting which got increasingly heavy, ran to A & E in a total panic about what to do (it was v. late on a Sun night) and they tested and said I wasn't pregnant... I was totally shocked and devastated. Saw my GP in the morning who was pleasant but not terribly helpful, and suggested maybe I should try and view it as a late period rather than a miscarriage!!
So I cried lots, read lots, and eventually accepted that one miscarriage is very common. We kept trying and third cycle later I got pregnant again. This time I was much more anxious and testing every day etc, but this time my lines were getting darker and my BBT kept rising. Cue forward to 4w4d and I start spotting again, lighter this time and only pink but still spotting quite a bit. I go to my GP who refers me to the EPAU at my local hospital who run bloods at 4w5d... My HCG is only 39 and my progesterone 3.2. I have since started bleeding more heavily and passed a fair sized clot which I can only assume was my baby! I am booked into my GP later today to talk to them and see what happens next, although I suspect that as they only have one confirmed they won't do much.
Again I have been reading lots and I decided to post on here to try and get some advice. I realise that so many of you have suffered so many more losses than I have, but I am just terrified something is wrong and I don't know what to do! With my DS everything was very straight forward, no medical intervention to speak of and I have not used any form of birth control since (but not been actively trying until Sept last year) so I don't see what physically could be an issue.
But there is so much information out there about immunological issues that I really don't understand and the more I read the more panicked I get... But I'm also a great believer in advocating for yourself and I want to try and understand what might be happening, and whether something has now fundamentally changed since having my little boy or if two miscarriages can really be just bad luck.
So if anyone has any advice or questions you think I should be asking PLEASE PLEASE let me know... I need to feel I'm doing something constructive right now and this whole area is some incredibly complicated!
Thank you so much x