Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone is in the same boat...I'm in for a few days of worrying and it would be helpful to speak to anyone who has been through the same thing, whatever the outcome.
Sorry for the essay!
I'm approx 6 weeks pregnant with baby no. 2 after trying for over a year, (measuring 5.5 by LMP, but I ovulated 5 days early and I can pinpoint conception around then). Everything has been going well until Tuesday when I started to feel really poorly, with pains in my bladder and problems peeing.
I saw my GP on Wednesday who took a urine sample and suspected a UTI (I had about 5 of these last pregnancy so know the score). Thursday I woke up and felt so ill I couldn't get out of bed. I felt like I had been hit by a bus and was super confused and dizzy. I took the day off work to rest, and rang my GP surgery who booked me in with another dr for 4pm.
An hour before my appointment I noticed pink blood when I wiped, followed by brown. Only when I wiped, and with one or two tiny bits that looked like soaked tissue. My GP said this was normal, said my urine dip was clear and sent me home to 'watch and wait' but to come back if it turned red.
At 5pm I passed 1/2 a teaspoon of red blood with a small, stringy clot and 111 sent me to A&E, where they explained they could only do a pregnancy test (still came back positive) and check me over, and referred me to the early pregnancy clinic for a scan at 11 on Monday. He was very kind, but explained that this was because I wasn't unwell enough to be referred to gynaecology as an emergency and at 6 weeks it's very early and there's nothing they could do to stop a miscarriage.
It's now 9am on Friday and I feel just as poorly, very tender and sore, the bleeding has subsided and I just get a little brown blood now and again with tiny (pinhead size) clots when I wipe.
I'm not sure what to think, in medical terms I get the watching and waiting but as a mother I'm numb - I have to wait three days to know whether my baby is alive. All I wanted was a scan to let me know whether to prepare or to keep hope, not having to be in limbo not daring to do either. Is this normal or am I having a miscarriage?
I know lots of other women have been through worse, but this makes me feel even worse for everyone who goes through anything remotely similar...just because it's so early in pregnancy doesn't mean you aren't potentially losing a much wanted, and already well loved child. It seems a very strange system and drs and nurses have their hands tied.
Ps. I'm probably even more nervous as DS1 was born by emergency c section at 38 weeks for reduced movements, and had sepsis, liver failure and hypoglycaemia.