Hi,
I had a miscarriage last night at around 11wks. I’m 38 and this is my second pregnancy (my first resulted in my lovely 2.5 year old daughter). I wasn’t completely shocked as our 8wk scan dates the pregnancy at almost 2wks behind and I was more than confident on my conception dates, so miscarriage has been in the back of my mind since then.
Two weeks later I started spotting a tiny bit of dark brown blood, which eventually turned to light red blood bleeding after 4 days. I felt like it was a 50/50 chance of not losing the pregnancy, as the bleeding wasn’t heavy, was only happening off and on, and I hadn’t had any cramping. However, 2 days later I woke up to some somewhat painful cramps and after about 30 minutes felt the contents of my uterus empty when I sat on the toilet. I felt a strange physical sense of relief, even though the cramping hadn’t been that painful. I guess our body’s are extremely sensitive and in-tune with these changes (for instance I had a strange feeling of anxiety and general “offness” the day I started spotting, but before the spotting started. I feel like this is when my body realised the pregnancy wasn’t viable and I had some sort of hormonal shift, pretty sure this was the last day I had any pregnancy symptoms as well (breast soreness).
I continue cramping for another few hours and and bleeding clots, some fairly large, but nothing so painful that a couple of ibuprofen couldn’t manage. Eventually, the cramping and bleeding tapered off and now I’m having minor spotting.
Now my question - sadly, that expectedly, my OBGYN confirmed the miscarriage this morning via ultrasound. I’m an expat living in Germany, and there is always a bit lost in translation. My main concern was if I needed further treatment to remove the pregnancy tissue, or if everything was out. When I asked this specifically, she said that no pregnancy tissue remained except the thick lining around my uterus, and she would recommend waiting for things to come out naturally. I’ll have a follow-up check in a week to check things.
Does anyone know what the “thick lining” would be? Is this the placenta? Does this normally take another round cramping/passing clots to come out or will it slowly come out over the course of daily bleeding? Just trying to manage my expectations.