Tum and team - it is great to have two others so close in the stage of pregnancy as me. Fretting together!!!!
WARNING TMI re Preg loss below, do not read unless you have to!
Smee - sadly I do have experiences of slightly later first trimester pregnancy losses to share with you. One lost at 8+4, I had not a huge amount of pain compared to earlier losses and/or birth contractions. But the bleeding went from slight to very heavy very quickly. I ended up going to hospital as the bleeding and huge clots was dramatic. The hospital gave me morphine for the pain, but this was more for them than for me asking for it, and that they needed to manually remove some clots from the vagina. Sorry if this is TMI. I was released from hospital as soon as the bleeding had subsided and the morphine worn off. It was a bit of a shock the following day whilst walking around asda, to feel one final need to push, and went to the loo and passed the sac and placenta into my hand (don't know what made me put my hand down there in the first place???) After that there was only slight bleeding and no more cramps at all. All over within 24 hours (having waited a couple of weeks to miscarry)
My last loss at 9 weeks 2 days, was similar, although as I had only had the first scan the day before I did not know how the pregnancy was, the baby was measuring 7 weeks at this stage. The bleeding started in the morning, light and no cramps. By afternoon the bleeding had started getting heavier, and as I was an hour from the hospital I drove myself to A&E just in case. I got there and had to park in the car park and walk upto A&E (the most stupid thing to do!!!!), By the time I had got within 20 metres of the door I was loosing blood heavily and getting some contractions, which were more uncomfortable than painful. By the time someone helped me in the door I had an enormous contraction and a huge (and I mean huge as in felt like the whole of my insides) clot came out blood streaming down me. Passing it was not painful, more the kind of feeling that you get after giving birth, that relief. I had more clots and bleeding with very little pain for another 2 hours, then it stopped, however the hospital insisted I take some meds to contract the womb down to make sure everything was gone, as they had not seen the baby in with the clots, so was still in me. I did not see this pregnancy pass.
Another loss at 7 weeks 4 days, was reabsorbed gradually, passed the sac at 11 weeks with no pain, and only slight bleeding.
Another loss that I had confirmed at 6weeks 5 days, I just reabsorbed over the next few weeks and had normal period at 11 weeks.
I only have one experience of ERPC at 11 weeks.
Smee - I hope that this is not TMI, but might help you to know the different kinds of experiences that you might have. I hope that it goes ok for you.