Hello. Just wanted to say that once the heartbeat has been seen, the risk of mc drops dramatically!

My sister had this with her 2nd pregnancy, light bleeding but baby was fine on the scan. They also could not explain the bleeding.

She had her beautiful DS2 in may!

Hope everything turns out well for you. Try and take it as easy as you can .

I bled heavier than a period and went to A&E who told me to 'rest' over the weekend which you cant do. I was a wreck! I went to the maternity unit and demanded to see a midwife who told me I had to calm down which made me worse. I eventually called a private clinic who aranged an early pregancy scan for me at another hospital and baby was fine. After weeks of bleeding (very heavliy too) a student scanned me at EPAS and spotted a clot in my womb!!!! I bled on and off for weeks, it was awful. It would gush from me every time. The clot eventually passed and I now have 3 weeks to go till bump arrives. Try not to worry too much. Keep calling the EPAS unit if you are not happy or call the maternity ward, i did nearly every week. They examined me each time which was awful but yuo kinda switch off when u think of bump!! Hope all it ok for you!!

Hi Ebenes

I had m/c at 7 weeks a few years ago.

This pregnancy, I bled at 6weeks for 1.5 weeks brown blood then again at 8.5weeks for 2 days. Had early scans both times, no explanation for the bleeding on the scan.

Interestingly though - the MW told me that the cervix gets very vascular in early pregnancy and vessles can rupture causing bleeding.

Anyway, I now have a bouncing 16mo!

Hi EB - had the same thing in my second pregnancy - we'd lost dd1 at 21 weeks, so I was in pieces when I started bleeding at 8/9 weeks. DD2 arrived safe and well 18 months ago, full term, no problems at all. I do know how horrible, sickening and scary it is - you just have to take one day at a time. Try to do little things to help you relax, as NJ said. Good luck!

with my second pregnancy i bled on and off all the way to 39 weeks. it started about 7 weeks, kept stopping and starting and they never found any reason for it. i lost count of the amount of times i had scans and internals during my pregnancy with her! dd was born safe and well at 39 weeks tho and they never found a reason for it.

it's so hard not to think the worse i know, but if you've had a scan and they found a heartbeat the risk of mis-carriage is significantly less.

try and put your feet up, eat cake and not to worry too much (easier said than done i know) xx

LOL Shame it doesn't work for everyone, I eat too much a bit of chocolate, and I had PE with DS2!

Still it is a nice excuse

Not cheesy, very kind and nice. Chocolate a very good idea: I just found this:

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL86039220080428

Just echoing everyone here really, it is common to bleed in pregnancy.

I think I read some stat's that say after a HB has been detected the MC rate falls from something like 25% to 3%, so you do have that on your side.

I am sure the doctors told you but brown blood is much less worrying than red, brown means old, so it coul dhave been hiding up there for weeks and weeks and only just come out, red means fresh blood, doesn't have to mean MC, but should be checked out as an emergency.

I have had a MC so can understand how concerned you must be, there is no point in us lot telling you not to worry because you will obviously, but if you can try and do something to relax, whether it's a long bath or a walk or a DVD or something, chocolate's always good for me

Look after you both (Oh god, how cheesy was that?!! )

Thank you thank you thank you thank you! Helps so much to talk aloud and be answered! I'm going to look up serendippity's other thread now. Good luck to everyone else in limbo, and thank you very much for the support.

My bleeding at 8+4 was due to a cervical erosion (harmless), only detected through a transvaginal scan. No further probs, dd 11 months and perfick. Can also bleed at times you would have had a period. 40% of women bleed in the first trimester.

Good luck and congratulations.