Can anyone help me determine about how far along my miscarriage was

[Smcintire95]

The hospital told me I was 5 weeks along but what I passed looks like I should have been farther along. I thought my last period had been may 1 but Now I’m afraid that may have been my implantion bleeding and it really was April 1 can any one help

@op sorry for your loss. I found it helpful to look at diagrams showing development and size in order to compare. I had a mmc, found out at 12 weeks, was told baby got to 7 or 8 weeks. When I passed it, the baby was bean sized, was starting to look like it was becoming a more shrimp-like shape, but still no limb stumps or defined head etc. I'm quite certain now it was 6-7 weeks, not nearer to 8 as my sonographer had said. Dates on scans are not always accurate, particularly at such a small size. Sidenote: @earringsandlipstick I definitely don't think you're horrible or telling anyone they are imagining things, as scan dates can't be 100% accurate so early, and it's the developmental stages that show how far along a baby is.

Not wanting to wade into the argument but these were my experiences:

MC 5-6 weeks (only pregnancy test, no scan confirmation):
It was a heavy period with nothing visually distinguishable. I was "looking" in case there was tissue but there were just some clots which I normally get every period anyway. I tested because I was 3 days late for my period, and the MC happened 2 days later.

MMC 7+2weeks, happened at 10 weeks (confirmed by internal scan. fetus was measure 1.5cm at the time):
I passed a piece of flat grey tissue about the diameter of a ping-pong ball. There was a small blob about the size of a baked bean but it was impossible to seen more detail as it was inside the tissue, and I definitely wasn't interested in opening it up. Nothing else to suggest the placenta, which I assumed was part of the tissue. Post MC scan confirmed everything was complete and I had a few days of normal period after that.

Fetal development in the early weeks are very precise, down to the days. OP if you did see a lot more in the MC then you were most likely further along. At 5 weeks it's still a "fetal pole" which isn't really visible at all. At 6 weeks it's about the size of a rice or popcorn kernel. During my second pregnancy I had an early scan at 6+3 weeks and the embryo was around 4mm with a heartbeat. However there were no visible structures to the eye, the scan showed a dot inside a sac. It grew around 1cm during that week but sadly stopped developing at 7+2.

When I passed it, the baby was bean sized, was starting to look like it was becoming a more shrimp-like shape, but still no limb stumps or defined head etc. I'm quite certain now it was 6-7 weeks, not nearer to 8 as my sonographer had said

That actually sounds like the first scan on my third pregnancy at 8+2. We got a 3D image and it looked exactly like a shrimp shape, with a head but tadpole like tale. It could have been 7 or early 8 weeks. I also had the same bean shape during a MMC at 7 weeks.

It’s not an argument - I know what I saw and the confirmed gestation. It’s a little distressing when people are trying to make out like what I saw can’t be right when it’s something that happened to me.

I've had 3 miscarriages and they were all very different.
The one at 4/5 weeks was just like a very heavy period and very clotty.
6/7 weeks -I passed everything at once but there was no noticeable baby, however this matches my scan which showed nothing but the tests showed I was clearly pregnant (no idea what happened there)
The one at 10 weeks (delivered at 15 weeks) I passed a golfball clear sac with a noticeably human baby in it. Head, hands legs and a face.