TW picture - is this pregnancy tissue?

[Celinefox]

Hi, I'm currently going though my third miscarriage and just passed this, does it look like pregnancy tissue? Hoping to send off for genetic testing but struggling to identify.

I would say yes

Hi,
I am so sorry for what you’re going through. I would say yes also.
It is obviously difficult to say precisely what you are looking at going by a photo (and in my experience the medicos have no idea what we have passed in our miscarriages going by sight alone), but I would say that the bottom part of that tissue may possibly have contained your small embryo and the top part of it looks like early placenta. I’m so sorry for your loss.

Thank you and thanks Chickpeapie too - I know it's not a nice thing to look at. But that's helped give me the confidence to drop it off hopefully for testing.
Appreciate the kind words - it really is a rubbish time!

You’re welcome @Celinefox . Don’t apologise. These are some of the horrible things us women sometimes have had to go through. I’m glad it helps. FYI my miscarriage looked morphologically very much like yours, but was bigger (all up about 8 cm long by about 4 com wide). The baby was visible in mine in the lower part, and I could see her head, which was a few centimetres wide. I was 12 weeks. I think yours looked very similar but smaller- so maybe you were an earlier on in pregnancy? I had mine cremated and some people bury theirs but testing wasn’t an option for me so if it helps for you I’m glad you have the option. My sincere condolences, yes it is such a horrible thing to go through.

Thank you for the kind words. I'm really sorry you have been through the same experience. Yes, I was only 7 weeks. I'm sorry you had to go through this, at 12 weeks as well, I think the longer you are pregnant the more hope you have, the more invested in that promise of a baby you can become. It must be so hard.

For me just thinking that I have identified and passed it helped with closure, and maybe the testing will show up why this keeps happening, though I think that's unlikely, and carrying it to the hospital in a Tupperware box felt pretty dreadful! Finding a way to honour them, and what you have been through sounds really helpful. I hope you are doing ok.

Thank you @Celinefox , in truth I am still healing, and words like yours help.

your pregnancy loss is just as significant and valid as mine, it doesn’t matter if you were a few weeks behind. Apparently my baby wasn’t measuring 12 weeks and maybe died around 10w. you’re right that the longer the pregnancy goes on the more time we have to dream, and to get attached to the life we are carrying. I’ve said more than once that if she wasn’t going to live, I wish I’d found out at the first ultrasound. However, I think of women who have had late miscarriages and stillbirths and think how much harder that would’ve been. Things can always be better/worse. As women we sometimes tend to minimise our own experience and I also think the medical field unconsciously does that too. Like telling us miscarriages are like a “period” (not in my experience). I was also told I wouldn’t pass anything recognisable! But I passed a mini baby clear as day. It’s a shame us women have to consult mn to share miscarriage stories and images to be sure of what is happening to us. But I’m glad we have the ability to do so. I also realise now that the aftermath can feel a lot like post partum, only we have no baby to show for it. So look after yourself in this difficult time, and for some time afterwards. I’m sorry for how you would’ve felt walking into the hospital with your Tupperware container, but I hope it can provide you some answers and closure. I have made a memory box of my daughter. It contains ultrasound pics, my positive pregnancy test, and some clothes I had just bought for her a few days before I found out I was miscarrying. Another lovely idea is to plant a flowering plant in their memory, maybe something that blooms around the time they would’ve been born. I know a mum who miscarried three times before they found out the reason- she had low progesterone and needed a pessary. She went on to have two healthy children. I hope you still have hope, and I wish you healing. Take care of yourself