Brown spotting

[Hopex3]

hello. well I am absolutely devetstated really and feeling v angry too at the sheer unfairness of it all. so I posted yesterday about dealing with anxiety and how scared I was of a miscarriage and missed miscarriage plus there being no heartbeat. well last night at around 11 I started getting light and dark brown spotting in fact at one point it looked like a black piece of string had come out. I was in hospital until 4 this morning having various tests done and I have no cramping. I feel like that's it now and I have to wait until the morning to have an early scan. I can't stop crying although my partner says I don't know yet. I just feel like I do. almost as if my post yesterday was a premonition. I'm trying not to feel doom and gloom and it has stopped now, it stopped around 11 this morning and was only when I wiped so def spotting not bleeding but I am so disheartened and wondering how I'm going to sleep tonight. anyone experienced similar or any advice on how to deal with this.

thanks you

Bleeding in early pregnancy is very common and doesn't need to mean something sinister at all. I had brown spotting with both mine at a similar stage which the early pregnancy unit said was most likely implantation bleeding. With DD1 I had a really heavy bleed (soaking through my pads in 20 mins) and again, everything was ok. Stay away from google and look after yourself until you get the scan.

I had brown spotting and my baby was fine

thank you for your responses. I think you naturally assume the worse I guess. it has eased up a lot now - sometimes not there when I wipe, sometimes just a slight stain. it has not anywhere near heavy enough to fill a pad or go on my clothes. I am trying to take this as a good sign. I agree I am going to stay away from Google - I see so many posts begin with 'it is usually not concern but my miscarriage started like....' and I am in no way being disrespectful to the people that did suffer this but it's very hard to read when you are panicking already. thank you for responses, longest day/night ever :(

and again no disrespect whatsoever it's a horrible scary time and I understand people being honest and up front but yes Google is not my friend today 😭

Brown discharge is very normal in early pregnancy. I had a gushing bleed that destroyed my jeans at 8 weeks and baby was absolutely fine.

thank you - I'm sorry that happened to You can't of been a pleasant experience and even though I know everyone's story is different and it doesn't guarantee that mine will be positive I am taking comfort in the fact that others have experienced this and had a good outcome x

I also know a few friends it happened to and they were fine

I had a massive bleed with DD at 8 weeks, thought I’d lost her but she’s here lying next to me on the sofa age 14! Midwife/doctor at the time suggested it could have been vanishing twin syndrome, I.e. losing one of twins. Not sure if that’s a bit of an old wives tale though. Fingers crossed for you.

At 9 weeks I had brown spotting that turned to red blood. I thought the same. Prepared myself for the worst news and had to wait 2 days for a scan. I had constant cramping and thought it was the end. When I heard the heartbeat I burst into tears. Baby was fine. I had a 12 week scan today and everything is fine. They only seem to be concerned if it's heavy and passing clots.
I wish you all the best and hope it is just like I had. Xx

All the best OP. It's just awful that you were posting about this yesterday and now you have this anxious time to deal with.
I hope all goes well for you tomorrow morning though. ❤️❤️

thanks for all the kind words. I know, it's not been pleasant when I was already incredibly anxious about it but hopefully this early scan will put my mind at rest. atm there is no more brown discharge - hopefully it stays like that and was just my body dispelling whatever old stuff 🤞barely slept last night so hoping will pass out this evening and won't have a horrible sleepless night panicking until the morning x

and I'm glad all was well hailstone1 that's great news xx

My story is just like yours.
I had a previous miscarriage which made me terribly anxious. And I got all the way to 11 weeks when suddenly I had a very small amount of red blood which very quickly turned to brown on wiping for a few hours but I thought that it was the beginning of the end. I had an emergency scan a couple days later to find everything was ok and I’m now 29 weeks.
I’ve had another brown spotting episode at 15 weeks since then and a proper nasty red bleed at 21 weeks. For absolutely no reason at all it seems.
I’m keeping everything crossed for you Hun. Be brave and let us know how you get on tomorrow. X

hi all - had an abdominal scan and they found a perfect sac with a yolk sac perfectly round. little too early to determine embryo as I am only 5 weeks+6 and they did not think it necessary as the nurse believes she could start to see the flicker of baby developing. reassured me perfectly normal for this early and having a scan in 2 weeks to see hopefully more! so of course I'm now a little worried about that even though they said it all looked perfect for the dates and could find no obvious reason for the spotting. this puts any blighted ovum fears to bed at the very least. so! I hope this also gives encouragement to anyone who was feeling hopeless like I was and googling things like missed miscarriage and finding all sorts of scary things - brown blood normally means old blood. thank you so much for the kind words of reassurance whilst I was waiting and here's to hoping for a lovely strong heartbeat and view in 2 weeks! xx

sorry should of put she didn't think it was necessary to do a vaginal ultra sound because everything looked perfect for the dates and with the little flicker of beginning of embryo 🤞🤞 what a rollercoaster!

That's great hope! I know early pregnancy is so awful isn't it, the worries etc.
But have a non alcoholic wine tonight to celebrate! 🍷

Absolutely delighted for you OP.
I hope you have a lovely, relaxing weekend after all that stress