Bleeding in early pregnancy

[htillson]

Hi All

I just found out on Friday that I'm pregnant, I estimated that it must be about 5 weeks along as I had my last period on 24th June. I am usually very regular but I started spotting brown 3 days before my period was due and this continued until I took the pregnancy tests on Friday. I took 3 pregnancy tests and all were positive- 1 was a digital test that said pregnant 1-2 weeks.

But the following day, the spotting turned to red bleeding - not as heavy as my normal period but enough to have to wear a pad everyday since. The bleeding has been on and off for the past 4 days, sometimes heavy, sometimes not and always containing clots and stringy bits of discharge of differing sizes.

I have been assuming the worst and haven't been to the doctor because I know they'll tell me that as it's so early, I should just wait and see.

This morning I took another digital test which said pregnant 2-3 weeks, this has given me some hope as surely if I had miscarried, I wouldn't be getting a stronger positive result? I know it can take a while to get a negative after a miscarriage so I don't want to get my hopes up too much.

I still feel pregnant - nausea, headaches and aversions to certain smells and I've had no cramping since the initial spotting first occurred. Has anyone ever gone through this?

The only experience I can offer is the 'chemical' pregnancy I had last year which happened a few days before my period was due and involved extremely heavy bleeding for around only two days unlike any period I've ever had which normally last around seven days. That doesn't really sound like what's happened to you, I'm wondering if it sounds more like implantation bleeding as it was lighter than a period?

Also when I had that chemical pregnancy, I didn't have any pregnancy symptoms like you have so I'd probably say you could rule that out. Is this your first pregnancy, I know it's common to have a chemical pregnancy first and then go on to have a healthy first pregnancy which I now have so far (26 weeks). But with this one I didn't have any implantation bleeding so can't advise there sorry.

Have you contacted your EPU at all?

They can offer a bit more advice than the GP, our gp said to wait it out, when the bleed continued and got heavier the EPU got me in for a scan and bloods.
It took two weeks for my negative test

The waiting is the worse, wishing you the best

I bled a lot with my second. Found out pregnant at 4-5 weeks bled like a period for a week after. Scans ok. No real explaination... possible scarring from endometriosis. Baby is now bouncing 3 year old. I still don't know why.but it was frightening.

I've had this. It was a miscarriage in the end and I was still getting positive pregnancy tests a month after it happened (!).

The only thing that you can do is just wait it out and if the bleeding gets heavier or you're in pain, then I'd head to the doctor's to get checked out.

I really hope that it's just "one of those things" as bleeding can happen a lot in early pregnancy and everything turns out fine.