Early 5.5 week loss & Running

[SunflowerRose81]

Hi I have never posted before but I have seen how all you wonderful women support each other and it is great to see.

I (28F) had an extremely early miscarriage at 5.5 weeks on Sunday, after trying to conceive for 15 months. I only knew I was pregnant for a week so I don't really know how to feel or process this.

When I told my Mum, she told me it was probably because I was still exercising, and I should have been resting. This has stuck in my head and now can't help but feel guilty. I have only been doing a couple of 5km runs a week even though my body is capable of more (I trained and ran a half marathon in October).

I cut out my HIIT training this year because I was worried it was effecting my fertility, but I really don't want to give up running as I feel like it is a good distraction from TTC and gets me outside in the fresh air!

I suppose this post is just more of a sense check, that my running did not in fact cause my miscarriage, and it was just one of those unfortunate things.

It was absolutely not because you carried on running

Health and fitness when you're trying to conceive and after conception are really important and there is NO evidence that exercise causes miscarriages, so please don't listen to what your DM said. You didn't do anything wrong. Keep running

Your mum is talking absolute nonsense.

Staying fit and active when you feel able is perfectly fine. You did not cause your miscarriage

Think about this logically. If a healthy, viable pregnancy could end just because you went for a couple of runs, why would so many women in other times have died in desperate attempts to end unwanted pregnancies? They could just have gone for a long run instead, if that "worked".

Nothing short of powerful drugs, invasive procedures, or the near death of the mother, can end a healthy, viable, developing pregnancy.

No, running can’t cause a miscarriage.
Im very sorry for your loss.

A viable pregnancy is actually very hard to lose. If you could end a pregnancy by going for a run then no one would ever need an abortion!

Thank you everyone, this has really helped. It's a lonely time, but I feel supported ❤️

Your mum is wrong ❤️ your exercise would have made no difference. You’d be actively encouraged to continue with the same exercise as before you got pregnant, as long as you felt well enough tiredness wise etc.

This is nonsense and very old fashioned thinking. It's simply not true. It's so easy to blame yourself for a mc but genuinely this is not a reason to x

Your mum is totally out of line to say that, that is so hurtful, inappropriate and untrue. Most miscarriages are for genetic issues or issues with implantation, none of which you can effect. It's very common at that early stage as well. If there was any thing in the world that women could do to cause a miscarriage, it would be well known about, maybe tell your mum that.