Mamas who miscarried or had near miscarriages

[johnsonalexa21]

Mamas I am SO confused! Here's the situation: I had a positive pregnancy test at home, went to my doc for a blood test. Initially she called and said HCG came back 16,000+ and would estimate me 7-8 weeks. I went back 2 days later to have the HCG tested again to make sure it was increasing. They called me the results and said they had gone up to 19,000+ but this wasn't enough of an increased it would probably end in a miscarriage.

That same night I started bleeding/cramping. First it was pink/thin. Next day bright red and lots of cramping. Next day dark brown, no cramps. Next day gone. I returned to office for another blood draw to make sure HCG was trending down and to my great surprise they called and said the HCG levels had gone up to 30,000+!

I have to go in for an ultrasound in 2 days. I don't know if I should even get my hopes up, I've never had a miscarriage before. Anyone have any similar experiences?

Bleeding is early pregnancy can be completely normal and you most certainly haven't had a miscarriage (you would know if you did as it's awful and incredibly painful). That doesn't mean it couldn't happen in the future, but your hcg continues to increase so I imagine that can only be a good thing.

I've had heavy bleeding in both of my healthy pregnancies. Both times it came from my cervix, nothing to do with baby. With my daughter, I had heavy bleeding for an afternoon (like gushing out and running down my legs). It never happened again and I had an otherwise easy, straightforward pregnancy after that (this was at 10 weeks).

I'm pregnant now (21 weeks) and with this baby I had about 2 weeks of spotting including 3 days of fairly heavy bleeding at 7/9 weeks. Again totally fine. I've had no problems since. Otherwise healthy, low risk pregnancy. Sometimes it just happens.

They should absolutely not be telling you you're having a miscarriage though by hcg alone at this stage and they should be offering you a series of scans to check baby and heart beat, usually about a week apart to chart development. When I did have a mc (between my 2 healthy pregnancies), I had 3 scans over about 10 days before they would say with certainty that I was going to miscarry.

I would get yourself in for a scan, particularly so you know how far along you are as they can't tell you that by hcg results.

Hcg increasing is a good sign! And as poster before said bleeding in early pregnancy is quite common. After having 3 mc myself I know how worrying it can be when u bleed, try not to panic and get some rest, fingers crossed for the scan x

Thank you so much ladies!

Is it possible you aren’t as far along as you were first told and it was implantation bleeding? Best of luck and everything crossed for your scan xx

I've had 11 miscarriages and never once has my hcg level increased. Bleeding is always going to be worrying but neither is it unusual. Take care and good luck with your scan x

Maybe you lost a twin? It can happen sometimes and the sac gets reabsorbed by your body/lost as spotting?
Get an ultrasound when you can to see if there's a heartbeat

Great that it's increasing, could also be a sub-chorionic hematoma which is like a bruise where the egg implants. I had bleeding from week 6-13 due to this and further bleeding for the rest of my pregnancy that they think was cervical. A scan can detect SCH.

Currently, I'm almost 30 weeks pregnant, I had bleeding between 8-9 weeks, some light, some heavy with clots. The early pregnancy assessment unit never found a cause for the bleeding despite multiple early scans but asked if I'd like to join the prism trial. I agreed, and once I started using the pessaries I completely stopped bleeding so I'd like to think I wasn't in the placebo group.