Early scan directly after my booking appointment

[goldteeth]

I am 10 weeks, first pregnancy. Last week I had some red spotting so called the midwife helpline and was told to keep an eye on it and if it got heavier or if I experienced pain to call them again and they’d refer me to the EPU. Spotting continued all week, still light and still pain free. Yesterday I had a really sharp pain on my lower right side which didn’t go away with rest, it genuinely felt like I had been stabbed and if I wasn’t pregnant, I would have thought it was my appendix. The bleeding isn’t heavy and there are no clots but it’s been pretty much constant since last week. The pain lasted most of the day but has gone now.

I called the midwife team again and they’ve booked me in for a scan but it isn’t until Tuesday and it’s directly after my booking appointment. I don’t really know how I am going to get through the booking appointment when I am expecting bad news directly after it. Do I just continue as normal and pretend I am expecting everything to turn out ok?

I know that I have cervical erosion and I had a LLETZ procedure earlier this year so part of me really hopes it is related to that other than miscarriage but I really feel so helpless right now.

Apologies, this is really more a vent but I hadn’t wanted to tell many people (including family) that I was pregnant until 12 weeks so I feel really alone right now.

Sorry I don’t have much advice, but that sounds really rough. I wouldn’t want my booking appointment then either if I was in your shoes. Can you ask to push back your appointment? I found no one really cares that much in early pregnancy and there’s no urgency to have you checked out as they have the attitude that there’s not much they can do anyway, but it’s massively unfair on the worried mum.

Is a private scan an option for you over the weekend? If you can afford it, might be worth going for your own peace of mind.

I hope all works out for you

Oh love

If it’s any help at all, I had the same - my bleeding was cervical erosion, it continued until 12 weeks or so and stopped. Baby is now fine at 27 weeks.

But, I had my scan for the bleeding five days after my booking in appt. I told the midwife I had been bleeding and didn’t know what to expect - she was quite blunt and said nobody does, and a lot of the people they book in don’t make it past 12 weeks, but we’d do the checks anyway. It took 20 minutes or so, we’d done the family history bit on the phone. I found okay, I was nervous and so worried but I would have been if I’d been at home immediately before the scan; too.

I really hope all goes well for you.

I had spotting op and it lasted afew weeks.
Is there anywhere you can go for an early scan this weekend? Like private clinic?