Bright red bleeding 15 weeks pregnant

[YourBusyTurtle]

Dating scan - 13 weeks all was fine. Then had brown spotting and was scanned again 14 weeks - all fine.

have started bleeding bright red blood and can’t be scanned until Wednesday!

please has anybody else experienced this

I’ll wake him up in a minute xx

is that because you are on the phone ?

otherwise why wait yet another minute ?

Get yourself seen in A&E lovely, there are other examinations/tests they can do by night- not just scans!

I had this at 20 and 24 weeks. 20 weeks they said the baby wasn’t ‘viable’ (horrible term) and the only thing they were worried about was me bleeding to death (I didn’t). I wasn’t admitted and was just given advice to return if the bleeding became too heavy.

It happened again at 24 weeks and it was a completely different story, the care couldn’t have been better, when the bleeding was bad I had the Consultant in the room with me for hours, steroids to mature the baby’s lungs, the lot.

Anyway the bleeding stopped and I was eventually discharged on minimal activity. I went to full term! No more bleeding. I honestly feel it was a miracle.

I hope all turns out ok for you, it’s a horrible stressful time.

I’m just listening to a podcast to distract myself xx

I just feel like they’ll send me home

so which are you doing - phoning the nurse or going to a&e

Thank you for this I’m so glad you had a happy ending! Did they say what caused the bleed x

I’m just going to try and sleep and ring EPU in the morning x

they will not send you home, not in the state you are in

and the quicker you go, the sooner you will be home and your husband can catch up on his sleep if he needs to !

it's a really good time to go ! it is probably one of the quietest times.

is he awake yet

The 5 hours is putting me off just rather be in my own safe space

They won't send you home if you also have pain.
An obstetric/gynae dr should examine you when you are there.

I’ve got minimal pain a bit of back ache xx

Some of those 108 people are there with toothache.

You're pregnant, bleeding, and experiencing 3/10 pain.

Honestly our A&e is a bit useless in the sense they tend to see people first come first served. When I had bleeding with my daughter they left me until last behind a pair uni students who had grazed their knees

' average ' means just that ' average ' so some people will be seen instantly i.e. heart attacks and some people longer i.e. a broken ankle

you are bleeding
you have been bleeding for 12 hours or more
you are not coping
and yes you have pain

so either phone the nurse
or go to a&e

is you husband still sleeping
or is he now getting dressed to drive you to a&e

Sending lots of love OP. If you go to a&e you probably won't get any answers as they won't scan you, although they should be able to check your cervix.

Can you move your private scan to first thing in the morning?

I really hope everything is okay x

Thank you xx the earliest appointment they have is evening unfortunately x

Are there any other places your can try? Can you husband stay at home with you tomorrow?

I agree with you to stay at home unless the bleeding becomes to much. A&e just offers another level of upset, that will be a waste of time.

My local EPU offers a walk in service similar to a&e. Does yours and you could go for 9am. X

Yes my husband is staying at home with me tomorrow x

no walk in service unfortunately normally you have to be referred by GP before 16 weeks but I just self referred and explained the situation x

They didn't see mine on the scan I had two days prior to the bleed, sometimes they are easily missed

Thank you it’s just so hard xx

I'm not going to say don't worry, as anyone would obviously worry.

I also had a hematoma in pregnancy (I lost the pregnancy but unrelated it was a chromosome issue). I think I'd had two scans prior that hadn't picked this up.

You can PM if you need to chat I'll be up all night x

Thank you just can’t stop crying hoping I just pass out from exhaustion soon xx

Hey Flopsy, midwife here. I am so sorry about what you're going through. Accepting uncertainty is one of the hardest things

Can you call the hospital's maternity ward? I had a call like that, from a young mum who was bleeding at 15 weeks and too anxious to wait for the scan, and I offered her to come to the ward and listen to her baby with the doppler. Obviously warning her that it had the potential to make her more distressed if the baby's heart was not found, but if that had happened, we have a portable USS machine in the ward and I would have called the registrar to do a bedside scan.

We could hear her baby loud and clear, and that gave her energy and strength to wait until her scan.

5 months ago I went to a house to pick up something I had ordered in marketplace. The woman who opened the door broke into a massive smile when she saw me. I knew I knew her from somewhere but couldn't quite pick it up. She asked me to wait and went to pick up a gorgeous, chubby baby and put her in my arms. "You were right, she was ok!". I got something in my eye on the way back home.

Although it is impossible to know without a scan, I am hoping that the blood may be coming from a small early retroplacental bleed, which is an accummulation of blood that sometimes happens when the placenta implants. When this happens early in pregnancy, often women keep bleeding until the pocket of blood empties naturally (not to mistake for the retroplacental haemorrhage that sometimes happens closer to term when there is a placental abruption, so if you google it take this into consideration). If this is what it is, then often the little bag of blood empties and the pregnancy continues as normal.

Right now your uterus is the strongest protection for your baby. There is nothing you can do proactively to protect her, which is incredibly frustrating, except to wish and hope she is ok. Please keep us posted. Big, big hugs!