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TheInventorofToasterStreudel · 24/05/2019 17:11

Early second trimester. Big bleed. I've been told I have a subchorionic haemorrhage, but a small one. I've been told to rest. Work are being great. I'm just v tired and scared. Please tell me your subchorionic haemorrhage success stories!

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AlwaysCheddar · 24/05/2019 17:41

Sorry, no stories to help but I did know someone whose baby was born extremely prematurely (29 weeks), caused countless sleepless nights but he is a big strapping lad now with no problems!

Sourtart · 24/05/2019 20:51

Hope you’re ok. Must be so scary xx

R4ch4el · 24/05/2019 22:34

I had exactly this at 12 weeks. Had a huge bleed at work and passed some pretty sizeable clots, ended up in A&E and at the time I assumed it was a miscarriage and was devastated so was very surprised when I had a scan the next day and found baby was absolutely fine. I’m now 37 weeks and the rest of the pregnancy has been absolutely fine. I remember them saying the haematoma was medium sized and they measured it a few times over the next few weeks and it just gradually disappeared. I did continue to bleed for a few weeks and felt really tired and drained for a week afterwards. The advice I was given was to go back in for a scan if the bright red again but that brown blood was probably just the haematoma clearing. Get plenty of rest and keep hydrated and try not to worry, babies are surprisingly resilient in there.

suze1080 · 24/05/2019 22:37

This. Early bleeding not necessarily sign of anything. Happy daughter proof

DragonMamma · 24/05/2019 22:44

I also had this and all was fine. DC is now 8. Was scary at the time and was convinced I had miscarried but (clearly!) all was well.

scarilyspiced · 24/05/2019 22:46

Oh how scary for you! I had a horribly dramatic big bleed at the 1st/2nd trimester boundary - huge clots all over the bedroom floor; blue lighted into hospital; it was impossible to believe baby was still alive.

But she was, and she is now - 4 and a half years later. x

BetsyBigNose · 24/05/2019 23:17

I had this at 12+6, the day after I'd first seen my baby at the 12 week scan. It was 3am, the world was asleep and I popped to the bathroom for a wee and when I wiped, I was convinced I was having a miscarriage - especially when I saw blood dripping into the water below.

I tearfully got a sanitary towel and woke my DH and told him "I'm losing the baby" and we called 111. They advised me to go to the Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic at our nearest big hospital, 45 minutes drive away, but they wouldn't be open till 8am. We were waiting outside in the car park from 6:30 and I felt like such a failure - it was as if I had been too happy the day before when we'd had the scan. Like I'd been too proud when I showed off the photos to my colleagues and announced my 1st pregnancy on Facebook the night before. And now I was going to have to tell everyone I'd lost the baby.

I was in the same waiting room, waiting for the EPAC scan as I had been for my 12 week scan the day before, luckily we were the first there. The Ultrasound Technician was very calm and caring and just replied to my panicked gabbing with; "Let's just have a look and see what we're dealing with, shall we?"

I lay on the bed and not 20 seconds had passed before she turned the screen round and announced; "One lovely strong heartbeat!" I'd never felt so relieved in my entire life.

So a subchorionic haemorrhage - something to do with having a low lying placenta in my case, I think. Happily, everything shifted about over the next 6 months, I had no more bleeding after that episode and that "baby" turns 12 next week and she's marvellous!

Put your feet up and rest OP, it's horrible and scary, but you know what it is and the Midwives will keep a close eye on you and before you know it, baby will be here - I wish you the best of luck with everything! Flowers

Siameasy · 25/05/2019 00:23

I had a huge bleed at 14w. Convinced that was it, clots and everything. Still don’t know what it was, they couldn’t explain it. It was terrifying and I was just waiting to miscarry, in fact they told me I was going to but I didn’t and my DD is 4 now

sequin2000 · 25/05/2019 00:36

I bled every day from 5 weeks when I was told to expect to miscarry, until a massive bleed at 19 weeks. No explanation and my baby is 12 now!

discusstin · 25/05/2019 00:39

I bled at 13 weeks, bizarrely after sneezing one day. I was convinced I was losing the baby - he is in his twenties now.

Yabbers · 25/05/2019 01:18

This happened to me at 26 weeks. The third time it happened, they went in and took DD out at 29 weeks, but only because my waters had also broken. Several women on the same ward as me had the same thing but went on to full term. Don’t panic but do take it easy.

born extremely prematurely (29 weeks)
29 weeks is not considered extreme prematurity.

MyInnerAlto · 25/05/2019 03:33

Huge, painless, running-out-of-me bleed at 17 weeks. Had had previous (earlier) mc and was convinced it was happening again. Turned out to be placenta praevia (so not a SCH but still a positive 'bleed' story). Happened again a few weeks later. Placenta had shifted by third trimester, which I had been told was unlikely due to the presentation.

TheInventorofToasterStreudel · 25/05/2019 09:41

Thanks everyone! Bleeding has settled a bit today. Signed off Work for a week and I'm taking it easy

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