AIBU to ask Mumsnet for a diagnosis?

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Only no medical expert can enlighten me. TMI so please don't read on if squeamish.
I recently found out I am pregnant. Very far along, almost 20 weeks before pregnancy was discovered. I didn't know because I was being treated for heavy periods. It lasted 40 days. Not just a period, but flooding. The sort where I had to stay indoors sitting on towels some days as no sanitary products in the world could contain it.

I had the depo injection and other meds to stop the flow and a scan booked to find out what was wrong. It was cancelled due to the scanner being 'sick' and moved forward several weeks. In the meantime I became anemic and Ill. Eventually I began to show and took a test and was in total shock. The bleeding stopped just a few days before I found out.

The baby looks fine on the scans, tests have come back fine. Have been told twin pregnancies are either reabsorbed or would show on a scan as an empty sack and I would have had pain like a miscarriage, but the bleeding was painless.

No doctor seems to care or is able to tell me what has happened. But it was debilitating at the time. Just to be clear, this was not 'spotting' or 'implanting' but 'oh my god how can I bleed this much and be alive'

AIBU to ask has this happened to you, anyone you know or is anyone on here able to help me figure out what happened to me please?

I have no idea but congratulations!

Could have been a haematoma. A large one would have bled extensively. Congratulations on your impending arrival

Im a midwife and sometimes we do see women who bleed like this with no obvious cause. I hope you keep well for the remainder of your pregnancy.

Thanks for the replies. I will Google haematoma. Just can't figure it out and it feel important to me to know.

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I know exactly what this is, it's a subchorionic haemotoma. I had this with my DD. And the amount of blood is like nothing I have ever seen. I had a few 'floods', like really, really bad. One blood clot was 6" x 4" measured at the hospital (sorry, this was in the US, not sure what it was in cm).

I was put on complete bed rest and DD was born healthy at 8 months. She is an absolute darling and so worth all the worry and stress, not to mention loss of income when I had to give up my job. Please - if this is what it is - rest up and prioritise your pregnancy. Sorry, don't mean that you're not, but a haemaotma is serious stuff.

Good luck OP, please keep us updated.

Hi, firstly congratulations. I've had 4 pregnancies, 4 babies (although I lost one pregnancy and had twins in another), all my successful pregnancies I bled. I bled quite a lot, not has heavy as you, but enough that would be considered heavy. No real cause was ever discovered, it just seemed normal for me. I do hyper ovulate, hence the twins, and my last pregnancy showed an calapsed sac so I think there is a chance I have lost each time but I also bled though my twins pregnancy.

Congratulations... you may never have answers I didn't. But hope things go smoothly from here on.

Subchorionic haematoma? My friend had one, heavy bleeding throughout pregnancy but baby was fine.
Congratulations!

Sent you a pm. Congratulations on your pregnancy

Sub chorioniv haematoma.

I had one. Bled constantly for weeks. Baths looked like murder scenes...

Congratulations

Oooh thank you you lovely lot! So great to have a few answers the same and same experience. You are the only ones who have given me any indication of what this could be. The docs have just basically said, 'well baby is ok so get on with it'. Will check my p.m shortly thank you 😀

Yes me too - haematoma. Very bad bleeding inc clots. Sure I had lost my baby but she's doing GCSEs now! Congratulations!