So worried about my daughter..

[crazydoglady6867]

My daughter is 8 weeks pregnant and the last few days she has had some bleeding. Mostly dark brown but it is pinky coloured when she wipes she is booked in for a scan tomorrow and I am so worried for her. Her partner is away and I am going with her but I don’t know what to expect is this common and is it likely that she will be ok. I never had anything like this and I just don’t know how to make her feel less anxious about tomorrow.

In the early stages of pregnacy mums can bleed (mum did with me) just both try and stay positive as hard and as stupid as that sounds! I'm sure all will be ok! And it's good she has the scan tomorrow at least you'll have the answers as to why she's bleeding keep us posted!

I bled in exactly the same way at 9 weeks. Dd2 is now 24!

It’s easy to say but dontry to stay positive, there’s not much you can do (although I was advised to rest, I don’t know if they say that anymore). Fingers crossed for you tomorrow.

I bled quite heavily in the early stages of both pregnancies and both times everything was fine. If she isn't in pain or passing clots then I think it's unlikely to be bad news.

just returned from her scan and we are no better off really, they are saying that the pregnancy is there but showing as only 5 and a half weeks, that means she has either got her dates very wrong or the foetus was not viable. She has to go back for another scan on Saturday to see if there is any growth. What we can't understand though is that if the foetus has died why does she still have a positive pregnancy test and why has nothing come away. I am trying to think positive but need to know if people can get their dates so very wrong. She was doing ovulation tests and it showed she ovulated on the 7/7 and she then did a pregnancy test on the 12/7 and it showed 1-2 weeks Can anyone help us to understand.

Sorry you didn't get more promising news.

It's called a missed miscarriage if the foetus has stopped growing and isn't viable but hasn't been passed.

It's relatively rare for it to be a successful pregnancy after a scan suggests that the foetus stopped growing more than a week earlier if the woman is quite sure about dates.

This happened to me a couple of times. It's awful but unfortunately very common to miscarry.

The hormones are still in your body so you can get positive test after mc. But it's easy to get dates wrong, she might not be right about when she ovulated. She might have a luteal phase that is different to normal.

I had what seemed like a light period with one of my dc at about 4 weeks. So I didn't even know I was pregnant till 10 weeks.

And in answer to your question, with a missed miscarriage pregnancy tests will keep showing positive as the body is still producing HCG. It's terribly cruel.

Also, st that early stage my consultant said he wouldn't be exactly sure from a scan how many weeks I was. Did you see/hear heartbeat?

By my count she should only be a maximum of six weeks pregnant if those dates are correct (although she wouldn't have had a positive test five days after ovulation so she probably ovulated at least two days prior to the 7th) so it's entirely feasible she's only 5.5. How is she working out dates?

There was no heartbeat, but the sonographer didn't even mention that there should have been one at this early stage.

At 5.5 weeks there could quite feasibly be no heart beat yet so if it's just that she got her dates wrong it could still be ok.

Celebelly she has irregular cycles so is just working out dates from the first day of her last period which was 6/6/18 and her ovulation test

A positive test 5 days after ovulation is fairly unusual.
If she ovulated on 7/7 then she would only be approx 5.5 weeks pregnant anyway wouldn’t she?

Ah if your cycles are irregular then last period isn't much use. If she only got a positive test on the 12th and was tracking ovulation then most likely only five-ish weeks along, which is what she's measuring at.

Thanks everyone, I think we need to remain positive and wait for her next scan on Saturday.

My sis had a scan at 7 weeks and they couldn't find a heartbeat but it ended well as she's now 7 months pregnant with her little boy! Maybe she may have got dates wrongs I got so confused with my dates! And even now my daughter is born and I still get mixed up fingers and toes crossed I hope all goes well it's such a shame you have to wait until Saturday! But was same for my sis they told her to go back in a week! At least you're remaining positive! It must be so hard

Aww, such bad news for my daughter and son in law today. She is being very brave and keeps telling me to stop saying “Aww” or she will get gross.😢

So sorry crazy that it wasn’t better news.

Sorry @crazydoglady6867
My mum came to my early scan when it was confirmed that I had a missed miscarriage - should have been 6.5 weeks and scan measured about 4.5 weeks.
I was glad my mum was there with me holding my hand, I think she understood more than my DH and I'm sure your daughter values you being there too x

So sorry. My MIL was with me when I had a scan revealing missed MC. She was great but I know it upset her a lot. Lots of love to you all xx

Just to let u know that this is at 6 weeks and it took ages to find it