charliesmom
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Update from my last post... with no happy ending. I do not recommend reading for those with a soft heart.
I don't know where the original post is.. it's been a while.
I started spotting at 5 weeks and was diagnosed with large SCH at 7 weeks. I had 3 dripping down my leg bloody episodes at 7, 8, and 9 weeks. SCH kept growing larger... at one point it was 5cm x 7cm x 3cm, which was about the same size as my gestational sac. But pregnancy continued with weekly progesterone injections. Baby grew on track and appeared perfectly normal and active. I continued to spotting brown on panty liner every day.
I stopped the injections after 13 weeks because there was not enough research to suggest if it would support or hinder the pregnancy and it appeared the SCH was resolving and baby was fine.
Once I stopped the progesterone, I had constant but random contractions through out the day... and more brown bleeding. Doctor said they were harmless and caused by progesterone withdrawals, so I ignored them.
15 weeks, I had another major bleeding episode after experiencing several really hard contractions in a row, the blood was brown but appeared really watery. I was aware of the major risk for SCH to cause membranes to rupture (water breaking)... so I went to the ER to get checked out.
ER sent me home after doing pelvic check and an ultrasound that revealed no imminent labor signs... and water level seemed fine. But they did NOT check my pelvis for amniotic fluid. Saw my doctor next day and he pretty much brushed me off the same.
I continued to spot brown ...but very very watery discharge. Everytime I mentioned to my doctor, he brushed me off saying sometimes discharge can be watery. Some time later, I experienced a huge gush of burnt yellowish mucus discharge... and ignored it thinking it's just the SCH evacuating. After this, I continued brown watery discharge with contractions randomly throughout the day, daily.
I forgot to mention I opted to NOT go on bedrest because my doctor said there are no studies suggesting it would help with SCH pregnancies, and since he was so baffled by my condition (they were all expecting me to miscarry and did not think the pregnancy would continue as it did), that he had no idea how to treat me... and really left me to decide my fate.
At 20 weeks, I took my family to the aquarium and walked around for 2 hours with no rest. That night, I filled 3 pads full of clear/yellowish water. No brown blood, nothing. I went to another ER and they ran a few tests on me which all came out negative for fluid leakage. But they didn't give up and decided to send me to a really high frequency ultrasound machine where they discovered that I had basically no water left in my womb. They ran the tests again... all came out positive. At first the swab test came out negative... because I was leaking intermittently... not constantly. They caught me at the right time this time.
My water broke at 15 weeks and NO ONE caught it until 20 weeks. The yellowish brown mucusy discharge was probably part of my mucus plug. I need to add too, that after 17 weeks, my belly had stopped growing. I didn't feel my baby move until 19 weeks... which is a big delay since I felt my first at 15 weeks. I thought it was all pretty odd but didn't want to be a hypochondriac, so ignored it best I could. Turns out, I was already 5 weeks gone without adequate water for baby's organs to develop. We took 2 weeks to talk to many different specialists and be on strict bedrest to wait it out. I would retain my water for 4 days at a time, then would all leak out the 5th night. All the specialists said there was zero chance of a positive outcome so we induced labor at 22 weeks. My son was born alive and beautiful. He passed away in my arms 30 mins later. He is now cremated and in my memory forever.
I don't know where the original post is.. it's been a while.
I started spotting at 5 weeks and was diagnosed with large SCH at 7 weeks. I had 3 dripping down my leg bloody episodes at 7, 8, and 9 weeks. SCH kept growing larger... at one point it was 5cm x 7cm x 3cm, which was about the same size as my gestational sac. But pregnancy continued with weekly progesterone injections. Baby grew on track and appeared perfectly normal and active. I continued to spotting brown on panty liner every day.
I stopped the injections after 13 weeks because there was not enough research to suggest if it would support or hinder the pregnancy and it appeared the SCH was resolving and baby was fine.
Once I stopped the progesterone, I had constant but random contractions through out the day... and more brown bleeding. Doctor said they were harmless and caused by progesterone withdrawals, so I ignored them.
15 weeks, I had another major bleeding episode after experiencing several really hard contractions in a row, the blood was brown but appeared really watery. I was aware of the major risk for SCH to cause membranes to rupture (water breaking)... so I went to the ER to get checked out.
ER sent me home after doing pelvic check and an ultrasound that revealed no imminent labor signs... and water level seemed fine. But they did NOT check my pelvis for amniotic fluid. Saw my doctor next day and he pretty much brushed me off the same.
I continued to spot brown ...but very very watery discharge. Everytime I mentioned to my doctor, he brushed me off saying sometimes discharge can be watery. Some time later, I experienced a huge gush of burnt yellowish mucus discharge... and ignored it thinking it's just the SCH evacuating. After this, I continued brown watery discharge with contractions randomly throughout the day, daily.
I forgot to mention I opted to NOT go on bedrest because my doctor said there are no studies suggesting it would help with SCH pregnancies, and since he was so baffled by my condition (they were all expecting me to miscarry and did not think the pregnancy would continue as it did), that he had no idea how to treat me... and really left me to decide my fate.
At 20 weeks, I took my family to the aquarium and walked around for 2 hours with no rest. That night, I filled 3 pads full of clear/yellowish water. No brown blood, nothing. I went to another ER and they ran a few tests on me which all came out negative for fluid leakage. But they didn't give up and decided to send me to a really high frequency ultrasound machine where they discovered that I had basically no water left in my womb. They ran the tests again... all came out positive. At first the swab test came out negative... because I was leaking intermittently... not constantly. They caught me at the right time this time.
My water broke at 15 weeks and NO ONE caught it until 20 weeks. The yellowish brown mucusy discharge was probably part of my mucus plug. I need to add too, that after 17 weeks, my belly had stopped growing. I didn't feel my baby move until 19 weeks... which is a big delay since I felt my first at 15 weeks. I thought it was all pretty odd but didn't want to be a hypochondriac, so ignored it best I could. Turns out, I was already 5 weeks gone without adequate water for baby's organs to develop. We took 2 weeks to talk to many different specialists and be on strict bedrest to wait it out. I would retain my water for 4 days at a time, then would all leak out the 5th night. All the specialists said there was zero chance of a positive outcome so we induced labor at 22 weeks. My son was born alive and beautiful. He passed away in my arms 30 mins later. He is now cremated and in my memory forever.
It's miserable. I'm so scared to tell anyone I'm pregnant again because im scared of losing the baby
