13 weeks pregnant and heavy bleed

[Chocolatebrowniemummy]

Yesterday I had my scan and all was well, baby moving happily and heartbeat seen. Shared the news with family and friends then at 6pm had a heavy bright red bleed.
Went into hospital and after much waiting around I was rescanned and baby was still fine! Little heartbeat could be seen and moving about.
They didn't seem to know what caused the bleeding but were happy for me to go.

I'm obviously very relieved and very happy but now worrying about it happening again. I just wondered if anyone had similar situations and what happened?

I'm also still breastfeeding my 11 month old and starting to worry that it was maybe this that caused the bleeding? Should I stop breastfeeding?

Thank you for reading and really appreciate any advice. X

That must have been worrying! But I'd take comfort from the 2nd good scan. I think the placenta is still implanting around 13wks so that could have been a cause? I can't see how breastfeeding would effect it.

Good luck!

I'm relieved was ok- I had similar and I'm afraid it continued for much of my pregnancy so I had to be horizontal for a lot of it to control the bleeding but DD was born safely and a week late !

OP, I had the same at 11 weeks - two episodes. I am now 28 weeks. It was a subchorionic haematoma, which is a common cause of bleeding in the first trimester. I bled old, dark blood for the next three weeks, which tapered off slowly, so you might find that this happens to you as well. It is stressful, isn't it?

Thank you so much for your comments, really appreciate it.
Nice to hear other people having this and that it has been fine. It is worrying but I just have to stay positive.

Staying horizontal sounds impossible but congrats on your dd.

Thank you x

I had this, almost exactly the same; big bleed at 13 weeks (it was like the first day of a heavy period- sorry if tmi) just after scan and telling all of the family etc. Ds is 17 months and absolutely fine, pregnancy was normal (quite lovely actually!) and went to term - 2 days. After starting off bright red blood it gradually eased and got darker before stopping after a week or so. Walking seemed to make it worse so take it easy.

We've a friend who's now around 14 weeks I believe, she's bled heavy red blood since the beggining. Everything's fine, they don't know why but they have frequent trips to the hospital! Also I've mentioned before in previous posts, my sister bled throughout her pregnancy also like a period every month, her daughter is now 6 and was born healthy and on time x

I had similar and BF my eldest for most of the pregnancy. It all turned out fine. BFing did not cause it.

I've had very similar, 4 times over and potentially more blood than you describe. All times it felt like I had literally wet myself big style!!

First time was in the middle of a supermarket on Boxing Day, thought tad embarrassing to loose total bladder control at only 11wks pregnant, until I looked down to see blood streaming down my legs in a scene that looked like a horror film! Another time was in the middle of the night (never thought a new king sized mattress would be on my things to buy list during pregnancy!), third time at the mother in laws (now that was embarrassing...) and fourth time just at home.

Each time (at 11wks, 13wks, 14wks and 17wks) huge amounts of blood that overflowed a sanitary towel and streamed everywhere, but always just bright pink or dark red, with pink/brown spotting that carried on for a week or two afterward.

And yet despite all of that, here I am at 30wks, with two twins currently having a fight amongst themselves in my belly!

I was told in the hospital which might be reassuring for you, dark blood (very deep red/Brown) is old blood, so whatever the insult was it has already passed a few days ago. Pinky blood or bright red blood that is without clots is likely to be your blood, so from cervix, uterus lining etc and you have a lot of blood to loose before it causes you an issue. Only time they really freak out is if the blood clots on toilet paper or pad once out of you, or if it is coming out in clots already or has grey tissue like bits in it, that's then potential baby/placenta blood loss.

So take a bit of heed in the fact it's bright red and not clots, it's likely blood from you not baby, but obviously every time it happens get checked out ASAP just in case. Do expect spotting for at least a week now afterwards, so long as it doesn't fill a sanitary towel within an hour they really aren't bothered about it at all. Apart from me needing Anti D jabs, bleeding just became part and parcel of my pregnancy until 20wks when it all just stopped as suddenly as it started, it was an overnight transformation, really weird. Consultants never did find the cause...

Thank you so much. It was really reassuring reading these posts.

Glad to hear bf shouldn't be a problem, so good to hear your experience.

Bex, that sounds awful about all the bleeding. I'm lucky I was at home when it happened!

Thank you everyone so much x

I have had bleeds on all my pregnancies so far too- have 2 delightful and gorgeous dc and this little one hopefully will be fine too.
It s still nerve wracking and worrying when it happens and not something I can get used to but I do take reassurance from having had it previously and everything working out fine.
Best wishes op x

I had heavy bleeds at around 14 & 17 weeks with DS. All was fine, no reason was seen at 20week scan (uncompassionate hospital wouldn't scan when I was bleeding because my 12 week scan had shown a normal pregnancy and a scan wouldn't change any outcome; the midwife kindly said 'if you're losing it, you're losing it ). DS is now 3 and a half years old.

Me too.
Massive bleed at around 11 weeks.
I couldn't believe the baby was still ok. I had some period pains before which totally went after the bleed.
Baby is now a gobby but beautiful 13 yr old girl.