Missed miscarriage

[Renni89]

Hi everyone, I’m new here so I don’t know all the abbreviations yet .
I suppose I’m just looking for some advice really. This is/was my first pregnancy. I had some light spotting one week ago today at 7+6 so booked a private scan for 2 days later.
Unfortunately I was measuring between 4-5 weeks (2.88mm) but I know my dates were 100% correct as I have been using an ovulation app and also OPK strips. They referred me to the EPU but they won’t see me because of coronavirus and told me to wait until my 12 week scan which is not for another 3 weeks. They said I could have ovulated late but it still would not add up. I have only had light spotting for the past week on and off with no cramping so I don’t think I have fully miscarried yet.
I’m just wondering if anyone else took this long to miscarry because from today it stopped growing 5 weeks ago and I’m a little worried I could get an infection?
My midwife is on holiday for 2 weeks also and is not due back until the end of the week so I can’t ask her!
Any advice welcome

Don’t panic yet.

Both my babies measured very small, like yours has done. Neither of their dates would have matched up either. They’re now chasing each other around the living room. Both of them I had light spotting (and the first one some 5p sized bright red clots). If you’d gone to the EPU they’d have booked you in for a second scan two weeks later to check for exactly this.

They can start to see a heartbeat at about 6 weeks, so if I were you I’d book another private scan for a week’s time. Even if your dates don’t add up, it doesn’t mean it’s a miscarriage yet. It might be, but it equally might not. In my case I don’t know why they showed as small, but they caught up quickly and the final dates etc backed it up.

Keeping everything crossed for you.

Hey, I had a MMC a year and a half ago. I went for an early scan at what should of been 7-8 weeks, the egg sac was measuring at 5 weeks. Didn’t work in with any dates at all. I had to wait for a week and have another scan, no growth, so diagnosed as a MMC. Waited another two weeks to see if I miscarried naturally, which I didn’t and then had successfull medical management. When you have medical management of a mmc, you get a whopping once off dose of antibiotics, but I don’t know if they do that otherwise.

God, that is all a bit nonsensical.

Basically, I was in your position with both my children.

Both times it evened out, they grew perfectly and they’re here and lovely.

Sorry you’re going through this op and I think it’s shocking they’re making you wait until 12 weeks.
I had a mmc at 9 weeks, baby had been growing fine up until that point although my hcg was all over the place. Had a scan at 6 weeks with heartbeat and discharged from EPU.
My symptoms suddenly stopped so I had another scan and no heartbeat. I refused to believe I’d miscarried so they told me to wait 2 weeks and have another scan. Nothing happened for 2 weeks but at the follow up scan there was no further growth and no heartbeat. I was another week until I had medical management and still nothing apart from occasional brown discharge. If I hadn’t had the scan at 9 weeks I wouldn’t have known I’d miscarried.

Thanks everyone for your reply’s and sharing your experiences . I will just have to wait until my midwife gets back from holiday and see what she suggests. Unfortunately the EPU won’t see me unless I bleed heavily for 2 weeks straight! It even says on their website to not get pregnant during coronavirus .I’m just quite impatient and if I had a choice I would have preferred the medical management.
I just feel really stupid and quite naive as I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a MM. Every week that has passed I was becoming more excited thinking that my risk of miscarriage was less and less when all along it never really grew. I just keep thinking if my body had just miscarried right away I would have probably thought I was just a few days late on my period and thought nothing else of it. I suppose on the plus side at least in know I can conceive!
Xx