subchorionic hemorrhage / large retroplacental bleed

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I've been diagnosed with this and wondered if anyone has any personal experience?

After several huge bleeds with clots I've had two scans and both times baby has been fine. I'm now 9+2 weeks and I saw a lovely wriggly baby yesterday, but the bleed is much bigger than 10 days ago. It's measuring 4cm and baby is only 2.27cm at the moment. I'm scared to bleed again and it take baby away with it. I'm hoping it will dissipate after reading some info online. But I know it doesn't always end well.

I just wanted to hear some of your experiences, good and bad. I don't want to go into this blindly thinking all will be okay.

Thank you!

I'm so sorry for your loses. I had a large subchorionic hematoma at 6 weeks. I thought I was miscarrying. The midwife booked me in the hospital for a scan and it turned out the haematoma (bleed) was much bigger than the gestation sac. I was told this was a very poor prognosis. This broke my heart as I was able to see the heart beat on the scan, but was told it is very unlikely to survive. I took 1 week off work and took it really easy although was told doing that won't really help as its such a poor prognosis. I read up and took low dose aspirin every day. By 8 weeks I had another scan, still mot out of the woods plus the heart rate was slow. The haematoma was still as large as the gestation sac! So I had to yo back for another scan at 10 weeks. At the 10 week scan the hematoma has slightly shrunk and the gestation sac had grown. By 12 weeks she was going strong and is now 6 months old. It was such a stressful time, so worrying. I defo recommend if you have this to take low dose aspirin once a day until the haemotoma is small. It helped my baby survive. The doctor didn't recommend this, I read up and took it myself. I believe it helped massively.

I hope this helps anyone else in this worrying situation.

Fiona