Waiting at home for sac to pass - advice please

[tulipsunday]

I am at home this week waiting for my miscarriage to hopefully complete. Process started Monday and it was confirmed on Tuesday that the pregnancy had ended. So today I am on my 4th day of bleeding (10th day since pregnancy ended).

I have been resting and taking it easy but the blood has slowed a bit and not much tissue/clots since Monday/Tuesday. I am wondering if I actually need to get moving if I want the process to ramp up and sac to pass. Any thoughts/experiences welcome. Will have surgery Wednesday if miscarriage not complete by then.

Good evening, firstly can I offer my condolences to yourself and partner on the loss of your baby. I actually came across your post about the subchorionic hematoma and was about to comment but then I wanted to see if you had posted anything since and if anything had changed. I'm so sorry that it ended this way, did the hospital say if it had anything to do with the hematoma? I'm only asking as I too got diagnosed with one.

I had to have a scan on the 19th of September due to brown spotting (It was more when I wiped but there was quite a bit). I was between 5 and 6 weeks when the bleeding started and I got scanned just shy of 6 weeks pregnant. They said I had a subchorionic hematoma but showed me and my partner the teeny embryo and it's beating heart. From that moment I felt relieved but I didn't allow myself to get too excited about the pregnancy, everytime I went to the toilet it just disheartened me even though they said it would probably just reabsorb or continue with the brown spotting until it cleared up. Roll on 2 weeks later and we had our first antenatal appointment on Tuesday, went through all the questions, had blood test, got weighed etc etc. Wednesday morning I woke up in a patch of bright red blood, I sat on the toilet and passed out in my partners arms. I came round but was dripping in sweat and feeling lightheaded still. We decided to go to a&e after speaking to early pregnancy unit as the bleeding wasn't showing any signs of stopping. They did some tests but didn't scan me which was frustrating! They thought it was either a threatened miscarriage or the hematoma just coming out. Anyway fast forward to Wednesday evening I passed some clots but that's all they were, even so I couldn't see any way our baby would survive at this point. I woke in the night with bad stomach cramps that I needed to take paracetamol for to take the edge off and to be able to get some sleep. I woke in the morning on Thursday and went to the toilet, I took a container with me and I'm glad I did as I felt the horrible sensation of something coming out as gravity played it's part. Along with so many large clots our baby at 8 weeks gestation was cruelly expelled from my body. Early pregnancy unit were seeing me in the afternoon to scan me, i rang them to tell them I'd miscarried but they still wanted me to go in. They asked me to take the container in so they could check it and they scanned me. Even though I knew we had lost our baby hearing the sonographer say those words hit me like a tonne of bricks. Needless to say this week has been awful and absolutely heartbreaking. Every time I go to the toilet it's a reminder, the aches and odd cramps, the empty feeling inside is just horrendous. My heart goes out to every single person who has ever had to go through this because it sucks big time!

Did you end up passing the sac at home or did you need surgery?
I'm convinced that my subchorionic hematoma was the cause of my miscarriage but I guess I'll never know.

Once again I'm so sorry for your loss, sending you strength and prayers ❤

Thank you for your kind words and I am so sorry @Sb86 for your loss too. Yes I ended up passing the sac at home the following day after I posted the message so I was 'lucky' in a way that the process wasn't too long.

I had an early scan which was where I heard I had the haematoma and it was said in a 'by the way you have one but it is nothing to worry about way'. Though it does look like from doing some research after that there is a link between it and worse outcomes for pregnancy. I didn't experience any bleeding though until after the pregnancy had ended and once the bleeding started it was heavy.

The hospital never mentioned the haematoma when I went twice after so I guess I will never know. So sorry again you have gone through this. Lovely people on the 'Support for those who are experiencing or have recently experienced miscarriage thread' in this from.

Thankyou. That's exactly how they said it to me too and after losing the baby I looked online and it said it increased the chances of miscarriage. In a way makes it worse to live with because that means the baby was perfectly healthy but you can't think too much about it because it's not guaranteed to have been that. I do think it likely to have been related to the cause though.

I will have a look at the thread thankyou. Wishing you health and happiness for the future ❤

And to you ❤️