My mum's said that saying I've had a miscarriage at 6 weeks is over dramatising, is that right?

[Mookymoo]

Hi
I'm not even sure that I've miscarried or not yet as I've been told that I can't get a scan until Monday, but my Mum has said that I'm over dramatising to call it a miscarriage as it's early. She's not the most tactful person, and I only called on her as my husband's away and had no-one else to help with my 1 yo daughter while I went to hospital.
Let me know what you think please, there's nobody else for me to 'bounce' off tonight and I'm feeling confused and upset. We had been ttc for a couple of months and I only took the test 3 days ago. Woke up to bleeding this morning which has continued all day. Finding the biggest high then low has hit me for six.

Hope you go on ok today

Hi, just been for a blood test to measure HCG levels against Sunday's, as scan yesterday didn't show anything. Have been given the Pregnancy of Unknown Location info. Hating this limbo, keep swinging between being hopeful and being depressed.
Bless my mum, when I spoke to her yesterday she had googled bleeding in early pregnancy and was giving me lots of info that she'd found and trying to cheer me up. She said she didn't realise how common it was, and how we have much more information available now.

Hi Mookymoo. Hope you're doing OK.

Sounds like your mum has come round a bit now. My mum is very similar - she tries to downplay things a bit in an attempt to (what she calls) "jolly me along", not understanding that it just doesn't help!

I'm playing a bit of a waiting game too at the moment (though slightly different circumstances to you), and it is very hard, so I do feel for you. Hopefully your mum will be able to support you a bit better now that she is more informed - it sounds like she does want to help.

Let us know how you're going - keeping fingers crossed for you. xx

From the moment you see those two lines on a pregnancy test, you start to make room in your life for your little one. No, you are not being overly dramatic. I suspect your Mum is trying to make you feel better (i.e. placating you by telling you it's happened earlier rather than later) as opposed to trying to make you feel worse, but a loss is a loss and you're entitled to be upset.