Please Help

[Millysdream]

Am freaking out! Have had some brown discharge in my knickers and some when I have wiped. It has stopped now and all clear but am going insane. After 3 miscarriages I am just thinking the worst. Just starting taking baby aspirin and am 7 and half weeks. Had early scan on mon and all was ok then. What is this brown stuff?????

I had the same with dc4 at 8 weeks, I panicked and went to bed upset, thinking the worst. Had a scan a day later and all was well although the brown discharge continued for a week. Never found out what caused it.

Brown means old blood, could be implantation bleeding. I had this with my DS, panicked, went to a+e and it turned out to be nothing.

If you're worried call the early pregnancy unit or your midwife.

Good luck hope this helps

Am having a scan mon hopefully so not long to wait but has ruined my weekend :( let's hope it's ok. Thanks for your reply x

If it's stopped that's a good thing! Hopefully it is nothing, put your feet up this weekend as much as you can.

Good luck again! I'm 8 weeks with dc2 and so I can relate to the worry

When does it implant? Thought this would have happened already. Trying to be positive but it's hard. Going to have a relaxing pj day tomorrow and try not to stress ( not sure it will happen).

Implantation does happen about 4 weeks I think but sometimes it takes a while you the blood to come out (?!?) that's why I can be brown not red. Don't quote me on this though but I think that's the case!

I'm having a pj day as well tomorrow (as much as I can with an almost one year old!) but Dh will take over and let me rest, he's army and has been away all week!! I need sleep!!

You take care and let us know how you get on

I had that with DD, then turned into bright red haemorrhaging with huge clots. There was a subchorionic haematoma.

I also had it with DS, all the way from around 6.5 weeks to birth, on-off brown discharge with occasional bright red bleeding. No cause was ever found. And there can be a lot of causes!

My DM said that all the midwives used to tell her 'sickness for a girl, bleeding for a boy' - so whatever the complete lack of truth in the gender divination, it suggests that they saw bleeding in approx 50% of pregnancies, and those were the days when you didn't go to the doctor until you'd missed at least two periods.

I hope it's nothing. And most likely, it is nothing. FWIW I've also had three miscarriages, so I understand the fear, but as you can see, even with recurrent miscarriage history, bleeding in pregnancy doesn't mean miscarriage. It just feels very unfair, and stops you enjoying the pregnancy.

Thanks for the quick replies. I will let you know how Monday goes. Xxx so glad I found this forum as have no one else who has been through this to talk to x

Just feel like it's another kick in the teeth. Finally when I was started to relax a bit- this happens. Gutted :(

Ps I have absolutely no scientific evidence to back this up but I took vit D and vit B complex supplements with both DC. I didn't in the three failed pregnancies. There is some research linking low/deficient vit D levels with recurrent miscarriage, particularly in cases of PCOS, but nothing conclusive enough in specific circumstances. Though interestingly, a year after DC2 was born my GP ran blood tests and I was actually deficient in vit D, despite having taken it for over 5 years, and still taking supplements at that point in the form of a pregnancy multivitamin as I was breastfeeding. AFAIK there is no downside to taking B complex and D supplements; I spoke to my GP about it and showed the research papers and he totally supported me, prescribing a separate folic acid supplement to take in addition to them instead of the pregnancy multivitamin.

I was also prescribed aspirin with DC2 but not with DC1.

Fingers crossed for you milly i know that awful sinking feeling when you've had previous MC and you see blood. Hope you get the news that the pregnancy is progressing ok on Monday.

Wingdingdong- did you ever think about giving up on having a child? If this one goes wrong I really don't know if I can keep doing this. That would be 4 miscarriages in one year. My head is mashed. I want this more than anything but it's breaking me :(

Thanks bakingtins. I guess I never will be able to relax till the day I hold a child in my arms x

Thanks for everyone that helped to put my mind at ease. Been scanned today and all ok. Am 8 weeks 2 days so crossing it off! They weren't concerned about the discharge at all. This is the furthest alongI have ever been so am happy for today at least. Xx

Millysdream that's fantastic. Congratulations xx

Brilliant news!

So happy for you!!! Congratulations! So glad everything is ok. You're about the same as me I hope you have a happy healthy pregnancy

Thanks ladies x

Congratulations! And no, it never occurred to me to give up. Even when DC1 arrived via a crash CS which was so hurried they didn't have time to get the anaesthetic in, and I was convinced we must have lost the baby (oxygen levels were very low but amazingly, DC is absolutely fine), or when I went into premature labour with DC2 at 24w2 days - just 3 days after the pregnancy had been confirmed viable due to a nuchal fold of 14mm - though the hospital were brilliant, acted immediately and pumped me full of drugs to stop the contractions and mature the baby's lungs. Despite two more scares they managed to keep the pregnancy going till 38w.

However, having somehow managed to get my two miracles, there's absolutely no way on earth you'd get me to go through the roller coaster hell of pregnancy again .

I wonder if this is nature's way of trying to prepare you for the sleepless nights ahead. I can honestly say that I was scared shitless all the way through to - and even at - the bitter end of every pregnancy. But it was totally worth it, even if I have to remind myself of that some days, and without the miscarriages I wouldn't have my (on some days) wonderful DC, so no, I wouldn't give up and I wouldn't swap what I have now for two uneventful pregnancies resulting in different children. Though I do wish they were better sleepers! Good luck with the rest of the pregnancy; stay positive.