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Bleeding followed by miscarriage

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Oliviabaku · 04/07/2018 01:03

I have been trying for a baby for three years and got pregnant only after I gave up on being hopeful. Got pregnant and My pregnancy was accompanied with light, brown spotings which one could speculate that was just implantation bleeding. I however was referred to early scan for double confirmation and scan confirmed healthy fetus with the rights measurements and heart beat at my 8 weeks. Everything looked fineThen one day I had quite a hectic day traveling all over the country. Skipped my meal and had a flapjack afternoon to stay awake in a very boring meeting ( I know it was very irresponsible of me). Followed that sugar influx I had two days of headache, and then sudden reduction in my breast tenderness. Two days later, on my 10th week, I woke up and went to the toilet with heavy bleeding and tons of blood clots. I was horrified to see the amount of blood and was sure it was miscarriage. Went on emergency and got a scan which to everyone’s surprise still detected a healthy fetus with heart beat. They told me it could be just bleeding outside of the sac and that I should go home and rest and that fetus was fine. Went home half happy and half still confused. Bleeding didn’t stop and in fact got even worse and eventually I started to have tissues discharged accompanied by cramps. All these few days while I was miscarying, I didn’t take any painkillers thinking that the baby was maybe still there. But eventually follow up scan after a week confirmed complete miscarriage. Now having read many miscarriage stories and spoken to many contacts who had miscarriage before I noticed that most miscarriages happen as mmc where the fetus growth abnormality is observed and then miscarriage is followed. In my case the baby with heart beat was fine even when I was heavily bleeding which makes me feel so sad and guilty that maybe baby was fine and that it was my body that didn’t look after the baby properly so the baby died as a result of it. I wonder if there is anyone here who had similar experiences where they started bleeding first, but vialble pregnancy was still detected followed by miscarriage as a result of heavy bleeding . And if you did have similar experiences, did you ever find out what could cause such kind of miscarriages? to me chromosomal abnormality doesn’t make sense because scans looked fine on week 8 and week 10 while heavily bleeding. But yet again I’m biased and I’m sad after my miscarriage so I can be wrong or way too emotional. I do however find too little information online about miscarriages caused by bleedings. Appreciate your opinion.

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jessmando · 05/07/2018 10:27

Dear OP I am so sorry for your loss! it is always devastating especially after you have met your baby on the US and seen a heartbeat. I can't offer any medical insights, my miscarriages showed the empty sacs on the scans, but it isn't your fault and there is nothing you should feel guilty for. It is definitely OK to be emotional, I hope you have someone around to give hugs and cups of tea. I don't think they are good at giving answers to why this happens as they often genuinely don't know, but it is always worth asking if you can talk and get some extra advise. You definitely can't have caused this by rushing and skipping lunch, i thought similar regarding my miscarriage - which stopped at 6 weeks, the consultant was very reassuring that it wasn't the case. Flowers

Hortonlovesahoo · 12/07/2018 21:23

I had almost exactly the same. Bleeding but heartbeat and growth. They didn’t know why but it can sometimes happen. They suspect chromosome abnormality and it can really happen at any time.

The worst thing to come to realisation of is that sometimes it just happens. I was bleeding so much that I wasn’t even worried about the massive blood loss I had which indicated my miscarriage.

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