Hey, just in case this brings some peace of mind to anyone.
I posted on here loads over the last few days asking about heavy bleeding at 6 weeks pregnant and I was convinced that I was having another miscarriage after my missed miscarriage in July.
The EPU wouldn’t scan me as I had been scanned a few days prior, so I booked a scan at Ultrasound Direct for yesterday.
To add detail this is what had been happening:
- Wednesday: see heartbeat and baby measuring a couple of days behind which was fine. Prescribed progesterone as I had been spotting, bicornuate uterus confirmed.
- Thursday: heavy dark red bleeding with slight cramps and this then tapered off to brown spotting with a small clot in the evening.
- Friday: continued with light brown spotting which was almost nothing by the evening.
- Saturday: in the morning I have a heavy red bleed with period style cramps. This then tapers off to brown spotting by the time of my scan.
I went in for my private scan convinced that this would just confirm my miscarriage, but I was thankfully wrong! The sonographer stated that baby looked perfect, is now measuring right on track and has a very strong heartbeat. The bleeding, despite my bicornuate uterus being very mild, is actually coming from the right horn of my uterus whereas the baby is in the left horn. It looks like my lining in the right horn is shedding and I have a bleeding spot there too. I’ve been told to expect more bleeding, bur not to worry unless it starts gushing as the bleed is not coming from the baby.
To say I’m shocked is an understatement, but me and my partner are so happy. We got to see where the placenta is forming and saw sound waves of the heartbeat. PLEASE always get any bleeding checked, but I thought I would share a positive outcome.
We know we have a long way to go, but this is much further than our mmc in July where we never heard a heartbeat! My mind was blown that all of this was picked up on an abdominal scan too as last time they could see nothing on my abdominal scans!