So worried about hematoma ... any reassuring stories?

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I'm 16 weeks pregnant with my third baby but have a large hematoma. I've been told it's on the other side from the placenta, which is good, but it still increases chance of miscarriage, and I've had brown bleeding on and off for a month, since an initial big red bleed. I'm just finding it so hard not to worry about it too much - seems futile as there is nothing I can do and I just have to keep fingers crossed that all will be OK - but I have been feeling very low and off and just feeling like it's not going to be OK. The idea of losing a baby at this stage is so awful and scary, especially as I had such two stress-free, easy pregnancies prior to this. Would love to hear from anyone else who has been through this ...

it is a worry. my two heamatoma pregnancies are 6 and almost 3 years old now :) I did get brown stuff until about week 19-20 though. xx

Mine are now aged 3 and 5:) No denying it's a massively worrying time, but the chances are all in yr favour for a good outcome. I'm also 16 weeks with no.3 and though no hematoma this time did spot for entire first 12 weeks. Amazed I don't have grey hair from the worry. Hang on in there!

Thanks Julezboo - it's hard not to worry isn't it ... how big were your hematomas though? As mine is 'large', whatever that means ... and it does look huge on the scans (I've had about 4 so far) - you can see it streching right across one side of the uterus.

Thank you impecuniousmarmoset! It's not fun is it ... I veer from feeling totally OK to feeling utterly miserable. I know though that of course the chances of it being OK are higher than it not, but it's hard to remember that.

Mine was huge and I had severe bleeding from 8-14 weeks. At around 16 weeks it disappeared. Now 34 weeks and having a very normal pregnancy.

I had massive one which was found just after 11 weeks. From the top of my head it measured 11cm x 10cm x 3cm. And that was after a weekend of really, really heavy bleeding (heavier than any period I've ever had)

Continued bleeding for a couple of weeks but brown bloid and much lighter. It was still there at my 20 week scan but much smaller.

DS was born at 39+5 at home completely unaware of the stress he'd caused!

Hope all goes well for you too. Stay away from Google though. Google is not your friend.

Mine were huge as well. From memory about 24cm wide (that could be wrong. I bled heavily red horrible stuff from 5 weeks onwards, terrifying for me especially as I had already had 6 mc's previous.

To be honest I dont think you will "relax" until you see baby for real I know I didnt!

Not sure on the size of mine but it was seen clearly at an early 7 week scan. I was warned that I would bleed and to come straight back if I was worried. At the 13 week scan they couldn't see any hematoma so I assumed it had been absorbed. A few days later I began having brown bleeding which the MW thought was the hematoma making its exit. The bleeding lasted 2-3 weeks but has completed cleared up now. Just waiting for my 20 week scan tomorrow.
I'm sure it'll be ok. Apparently they are very common but not a lot of people realise they have had them as the body often absorbs them.

I had a very large heamatoma and bled heavily for a long time. The baby has just started nursery, try not to worry x

Thank you thank you all ... yes you are right PickleSarnie Google is the worst worst thing - that's what got me in a state earlier as I made the mistake of looking stuff up. You just read horror stories and it puts the total fear into you ... My god that is astonishing though that you bled that much; it's crazy how much bleeding can take place and pregnancies be absolutely fine.

It makes me nervous though as it got so much bigger in between 12 and 16 weeks: at 12 weeks I was just diagnosed with a 'retro-placental bleed' but after more bleeding at 15 weeks and another scan, the hematoma had got huge. Will see how it looks at 20 weeks if everything goes OK up till then. The consultant said ideally he would just like it to stay put and that the baby will just kind of push it out of the way as it grows.

Thingymajigs good luck with your scan tomorrow!

Large subchorionic haematoma here too, can't remember the size but it was about 3x the size of the foetus at 13w. I had some pretty severe haemorrhaging all the way through, losing consciousness a few times, and there were golf-ball size clots too (last one passed at 32w), so I really thought we'd lost the baby many times. I ended up buying my own fetal Doppler, we spent so much time in A&E waiting for somebody to track down one to check the heartbeat.

She's definitely still here though! 4yo now. Stay strong, it's a horrible roller coaster to be on.

I had one at 5+5 wks same size as the sac .then by 8 wks it shrunk and they didn't even mention it on my 12 wk scan. Now 32 wks with dc3 and can't wait to meet him! Good luck xx

Never posted before but wanted to share my experience of a subchorionic hematoma (thus far!!)

I started bleeding two weeks ago when I thought I was 6 weeks pregnant... Thought that it was obviously a miscarriage (as have had two previous) but the bleeding was different... It was light for 3 says then stopped and I thought I had had an easy miscarriage but then a week after the initial bleed I had major continuous bleeding filling pads like there was no tomorrow... after 3 days of this I started to feel really faint so took myself to A&E as i thought maybe I need a D&C (Dilation and Curettage) to help the miscarriage along.

They sent me to early pregnancy ward (At this time I was peeing out blood!) and I eventually had a scan where they said that there was a baby with a heartbeat and a very large hematoma blood clot in my womb causing all the bleeding. They said the baby had a strong heartbeat and that I looked around 6-7 weeks.

The advice was to rest up and come back in two weeks for another scan to check on both baby and hematoma.

So its 5 days since the scan and I have on and off heavy bleeding (worse at night) and constant little bleeding but filling pads pretty frequently.

The consultant Gynae is actually a good friend of mine and she said the body will absorb the clot and everything should be fine.

I have two kids already and never experienced any bleeding or anything similar to this with either of them (although they are 8 and 12!!)

Anyway next scan is in 9 says so will update then if not before!