I've been meaning to post this story for so long! When I was living through the reality of just conceiving after months of trying and things starting to go wrong, I was constantly scouring MN for people with similar stories. I'm not used to posting on forums so I hope I conform to the etiquette!
So I got my positive test result after months of trying and was obviously elated. It was the next day that I passed a blood clot about the size of a 10p. I was devastated thinking I would have an early loss of the pregnancy. I had resigned myself to this reality. The next day I felt as though I had a urine infection, I get these quite often, so I went to the GP for some antibiotics. I told her about the positive test and the clot and she told me I had to go to the Early pregnancy unit, and our local one was at Kings College hospital. They took bloods for HCG and my progesterone level. I hadn't had any further bleeding since the clot. I was then asked to return every 48 to see if my HCG was rising, which is was, but the problem was that my progesterone was still considered to be really low, 28 was as high as it got I think. A week on they decided to do a scan as they were concerned about ectopic pregnancy, which showed that there was a sac in the uterus but I was told that based on the size of the sac, the progesterone level and my age (31), the pregnancy had a 94% chance of failing.
Clearly we were devastated. We were told that in the slim chance I didn't miscarrying, then to come back in 2 weeks time when I would be 7 weeks pregnant and they would be able to check for a heartbeat. Obviously this was the most stressful and nerve racking 2 weeks. I should also add that every time I had to go back to the clinic I had to retell my situation and details to a different doctor or nurse each time. The doctor that told me of the 94% chance of miscarrying said it with no compassion what so ever.
So we went back at 7 weeks, we had the most wonderfully kind and caring nurse, who to our delight showed us the beating heart of our little baby! Lots of very happy emotions after this!!! My DS was born last July and is the happiest and healthiest little boy, he's wonderful.
Those 2 weeks were the most stressful, and actually started my pregnancy off on a very negative footing. I felt at the time, and still do that the hospital should never have told me the very high miscarriage chance, and just said it's really early come back in 2 weeks. Hours and hours of trawling mumsnet to try and find similar stories helped a bit, so I wanted to repay those who shared their stories by telling mine and hopefully giving reassurance to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation, as that was all I was desperate to find at the time!
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happymum29 · 25/03/2014 14:58
WONDERFUL! So glad it worked like that.
my age (31)
They shouldn't have told you this as a reason. Knee-jerk age-blaming doesn't help understanding/treating miscarriage (indeed can delay referrals to specialists) but is rife among NHS staff for some reason. Age becomes a major factor at about 37-39 (depending on the woman). Given that the doctor had no compassion I would contact PALS about him/her...
I lost clots & bled at 7 weeks and again at 11. Both times prepared myself for a misscarriage but that pregnancy resulted in my very healthy 3yr old who's currently snoring away next door.
Wishing you lots of luck lels 
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