@disneyqueen91
Please ask away, I am more than happy to share as much info if this would help another lady. Well when we had our follow up scan the nurse gave us a some sort of a talk, she was ever so helpful so had some idea of what it would be like. I also prepared, medication, spoke to my husband that when the pain starts to be ready. I cleaned house and prepared the toilet. I bought loads of pads and a maternity pad.
I have been light bleeding around Friday evening after the scan, Around 9.45 pm Sunday night I had a discharge that I felt was heavier than normal, told my husband I will lie down and I had pain, he said it must be starting. So we were monitoring. I went to bed and tried to sleep around after 1 am I woke up and felt period pains - I think you will kind of think is this it but won't know for sure but if it getting more painful and not going away then it is likely that is the big one. So I just lied down and had a wait and see, then the pain gradually got severe and you bleed in your pad that it would be filled, I sat on the toilet because I wasn't sure how much more blood will come out. I changed my pad then while on the toilet, then went back to lying down, around passed 2 the pain is got worse that I can't lie down that I neither sat nor stand up, kind of curled up while holding at the edge of the bed frame, kind of standing up, sitting this was the only position that I was able to make and then I bleed again and the 2nd pad was filled, I thought I need to go to the toilet or I will mess up the carpet as I have wet my newly changed tights. I was going back to the toilet with my husband holding me when he said I dropped down the ottoman and was out for a second or two, he tapped my face and said something like, wake up or what am I doing? I remember I said I'm going to sleep. I remember after that on my way to the toilet when I stood up straight after the curling position I was so lightheaded I felt light all around my head and I said to myself Oh my goodness, After that I went to the toilet again to clean myself and change my pad. I think your instinct will guide you on what to do. When I was in the toilet as if peeing I felt clots come out, you will feel it because it would be like a flop like a chunk of tissues are coming out, the first time it happened, 3x times something came out. I did not have a look, I was too lightheaded and scared to look, the 2nd and 3rd time I could not see in the toilet anything so I left it.
Everytime I changed a pad, I put a new pad on a new underwear, it was important that I felt as clean as possible considering the circumstances. I would say the intense pain for me lasted an hour or little over and the whole process was between around 1 am with contractions then subsides then contractions again and the whole thing subsided a little after 3 am. My husband called 111 to ask advice because he said I passed out and was worried. They sent an ambulance, they were brilliant as they were at our house within 5 to 10 minutes. They checked my blood pressure it was 98/55 but it was kind of in my normal range so they said it was okay, they said my heart rate was okay and so is my oxygen, so I did not go to the hospital. Maybe prepare an overnight bag just in case you have to go to the hospital. I told my husband that if the bleeding came back as intense as it was the first time around we would call 999 and go to A&E because there is no way I will bleed that much in be and have that intense pain again for more than 2-3 hours, paramedics said the same thing. So we monitored what will happen. Around 4 am I was getting back to my normal self and felt okay. We hoped that was the big one and not have a repeat episode. My husband and I couldn't sleep because of what happened so he gave me a cup of tea and I think I ate something after. I did not take any painkiller because I was waiting for the time I cannot take the pain anymore then I will take it but I did not have to. Don't be afraid to take it or call emergency services if you have to.
Don't let this scare you because it might be different for you. I would just say try to prepare as much as possible with medicine near on hand, water, pads nearby, towel, tissues, food maybe after it happens as you feel weak and hungry.
This lady's story helped me have some idea on what was to come, I don't think I had that much pain but it is good to prepare. Her story was beautiful.
www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/story/an-account-of-a-natural-miscarriage-at-home/
Good luck to us. x