All Okay In The End Or Platitude? Bleeding During Pregnancy

[Kittykatmoll]

I'm wondering if anyone has experienced bleeding during pregnancy and has actually gone on to have a healthy baby?

I keep being told that bleeding during pregnancy is 'Very Common' by midwives and doctors. However, I don't personally know anyone with children that had bleeding during pregnancy, I only know people who went on to sadly miscarry.

In January I had a miscarriage at around ten weeks, having experienced bleeding on and off from the start of my pregnancy. I'm now four weeks and six days pregnant and was feeling a lot more optimistic after last time. However, I attended the local Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic today due to bleeding and cramping that started this morning and continues now. Unless I'm in dreadful pain or have heavy bleeding I just have to hope for the best until my scan on the 18th of June and I understand the reasons for this.

I just wondered if 'It's very common to bleed in pregnancy.' is a merely a platitude.

I bled heavily at 6 and 10 weeks in this pregnancy. Having had 3 miscarriages in the past I assumed the worst, but am now 33 weeks.

I looked into this and found a paper that said with early pregnancy bleeding, about 50% will continue and 50% will miscarry

Good luck - I know how stressful it can be.

www.bmj.com/content/315/7099/32

Hi Kitty,

I hope that things have settled down now and baby is hanging on in there.

I had never heard of anyone bleeding during PG either until it happened to me!

DS1 no bleeding at all
DC2 bleeding and m/c at 10 weeks
DS2 Hideous heavy bleeds every few weeks from 4-12 weeks, TMI but clots and everything. No bleeding after 12 weeks and DS2 is now a year old.

Fingers crossed for you xxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you all so much for your replies. My husband is posted in the Middle East, so it helps a lot to have people to think things through with who've sadly been and are where I am.

Rainbow, Room, Jolly and Mustafa, I'm so sorry for your losses.

Jolly, thank you for those statistics and the BMJ link. I think our minds perhaps work in similar ways because I always like to know what odds I'm dealing with. The Miscarriage Association's statistics also give the same 50/50 odds you mentioned above. Apparently, if there is a heartbeat at 6 weeks the chances of all remaining well increase from 50 to just under 75%.

Purple, I didn't have any bleeding, brown or pink yesterday or, if I remember correctly, on Friday either. This morning I had some brownish slight pinky discharge on wiping.

I do have and have had cervical erosion for years, so in an attempt to clutch at straws I hope that may have something to do with it. My cervix does ache intermittently. What that means I and I dare say, medical science, knows not for sure.

Thank you to the MN poster who told me about the Posifrickintivity thread, which I've now joined.

Hurry up June 18th!

Hi id forgotten but now that you mention it on one of my manyaternity visits while pregnant with dd they said they saw a rough patch on my cervix that the on/off bleeding was coming from

*maternity