Am I miscarrying? (Photo, TMI)

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I've had a small amount of red spotting at 5 weeks. Had 2 scans since and all was fine, saw the heartbeat at 6 and 7 weeks.

I'm now 9 1/2 weeks and I've been having brown/red mixed spotting on and off since yesterday. It's fairly light but getting worse - pic is of the latest spotting. It's only on tissue paper, not on my knickers atm. No cramping but some back pain ( I was sick in the night as I caught a vomiting bug that's going around, which might be why my back hurts.)

I phoned the doctor on Friday and she's arranged a scan for me at the epu on Monday afternoon, and said only to take further steps over the weekend if I fill a pad or have bad cramping.

I can't concentrate on anything and want to burst out crying. Dh says just don't think about it as there's nothing we can do anyway, but it's easier said than done. I need to go into work on Monday for meetings (will be very hard to rearrange, and no one knows I'm pregnant) and pretend everything's okay.

I will be devastated if I miscarry 😥

Sorry this is the photo of the latest spotting. Forgot to attach.

Sorry, I know it's gross, but it's easier to show than describe.

Looks like old blood to me.

I had a miscarriage at 5/6 weeks and it was bright red and heavy with big clots.

I can understand why you’re upset but it looks ok to me. Scary but probably ok.

Thanks @Sexnotgender, that's reassuring.

I've had some red mixed in with the brown, but dark red rather than the bright red I had at 5 1/2 weeks.

I've been here so many times OP and I'm afraid I still can't give you an answer. It does look like old blood to me though.

If it's any comfort, with DS I gushed blood right the way up till I was about 20 weeks. Blood doesn't always mean there's a problem.

Also I fell pregnant again on my next cycle after my miscarriage.

I’m currently wallowing in the bath to ease my back as I’m 27 weeks.

I wish they did weekend scans at the epu. Waiting until Monday is agonising 😔 in total I'll have had to wait 3 days since I spoke to til he doctor for a scan, it seems unfair.

Forgot to say sorry for your loss @Sexnotgender Sorry I'm a bit all over the place at the moment

My miscarriages involved bright red blood. When pregnant it was occasional wiping of dirty old brown blood that’s the only way I can describe it. If your anxious go to an EPU and get checked out

I got this after vomiting, twice. They said it might have been a broken blood vessel due to the throwing up.

Don’t be sorry, your head is fully entitled to be a disaster right now

@Rogueone I don't think I can go until my appointment on Monday. The gp said if I start filling a pad I should go to a&e but I'm nowhere near that (for now at least, fingers crossed it stays that way).

Also sorry for your losses

I bled from 7-11 weeks with DD. Sometimes heavy, sometimes bright red, sometimes darker old blood. It was terrifying, especially as I had already had three miscarriages, but all turned out well in the end.

Fingers crossed for you. X

@pebblespony I hope that's all it is. The spotting started a few hours before I was sick, but it's been much worse since.

Thanks @BaggaT, fingers crossed

So hard for you but your hasband is right. I went to the docs with bleeding during my pregnancy and she said sometimes there is lots of blood and pain and everything turns out fine, but also sometimes there is only a little blood and it's a miscarriage. There is really nothing they can do either way so as hard as it is (I remember it well) you can only really wait it out. Do things that will distract you and tell your husband you need his love and support. Thinking of you.

I’m sorry but That looks like how my miscarriage started. I had no cramping or pains throughout the whole thing. I did have other warning signs though. - no pregnancy symptoms, early scan was measuring 10 days too small. I was 11 weeks but baby was 7/8 weeks.

But everyone is different. I know people that have had clots and pains and baby was fine. I sincerely hope this is the case for you.

I had old blood spotting like that for at least the first 12 weeks with both my kids, and had otherwise textbook pregnancies and labours (better actually! No morning sickness or heartburn ever, jammy cow that I was!) Anyway, got it checked out both times and I think they just put it down to hormones, I've always been prone to spotting throughout my erratic menstrual cycle. Try not to stress, likely to be nowt but get it checked out.

With that being brown it looks like old blood. I had that for a couple of days when I was 7 weeks and it went away on its own, early scan then showed all was fine. Hopefully that’s all it is OP but I know it’s going to be difficult not to worry. Hugs x

Thanks everyone. Sounds like it's hard to tell. I have a bad feeling about it as I haven't had many pregnancy symptoms and the ones I did have have gone in the past week or so.

Dh has gone out to the pub so I'm just at home watching films and trying not to think about it too much ☹️

I always got a bit of spotting if things moved around too much or too suddenly down there, e.g. if I sat down too hard on a chair but it's the cervix that bleeds rather than it coming from your uterus. If you've got a bug then the retching from vomiting might be enough to dislodge a bit of bloody gunk.

In saying that though, that looks like old blood and if there's no other symptoms then I wouldn't worry about it. (Easier said than done though....)

I don't know about the bleeding but my symptoms disappeared too at around 9 weeks and came back at 11. I did a lot of googling and a lot of other women had the same.

Hi, I am currently 22 weeks. I have previously had a MMC (no symptoms of miscarriage found on scan). From weeks 7-13 I had (very similar to your picture) dark brown discharge and dark brown blood nearly every other day every time I went to the bathroom. One episode of small amount of fresh red.

I had mutiple scans up to 13 weeks all which showed a growing baby. My placenta was however very low and covering the cervix which is probably why I had the bleeding- it was simply placenta positioning whilst it was atttaching.

Despite knowing this it did not ease my mind I was fully convinced myself I was having a miscarriage every day I had bleeding. I don’t think there is anyway you will be able to stop this anxiety! My partner became frustrated at my negativity, but it was the only way I could deal with it in case I did miscarry again.

Miscarriages are unfortunately very common and with that knowledge it makes this process all the harder. I wish you luck :)

I definitely don’t think you should take any advice on here very seriously. You should see a medical doctor with the appropriate equipment to determine for certain if you are definitely still pregnant.
But... I had bleeding like this as a result of the implantation of the Fortaleza sac. Meanwhile I am also going to declare that I definitely NOT a doctor and I also know that every pregnancy and every miscarriage is different. (I have had many of those as well, and they were all very different.)

*FOETAL ffs!!!

Doesn't look typical for a miscarriage. Wouldn't worry about the symptoms, they often reduce at that point. It's so hard to tell. But there really is nothing you or Epu can do if it's a miscarriage, the not knowing does suck though. Even if it is a miscarriage it's so so common and the vast majority of the time not a sign of any bigger issues.