Hi all!
I was hoping to see if anyone's been in a similar situation to me. I'm 10+1 weeks pregnant with my second baby. When I was just under 7 weeks I had some pink spotting, so I was booked into the EPU for an early (vaginal) scan a couple of days later. In that scan they said they couldn't find a heartbeat as I was only measuring 5 weeks.
Let me stop you there and say that yes, I am 10000000% positive of my dates. I got my "peak" on my ovulation strips on March 25th, and we had sex on March 26th (and we've not since). I then had a positive pregnancy test for the first time on April 6th. My first scan where I was told I was measuring 5 weeks (I should have been 7+1) was April 29th.
They scheduled to scan me the following week (another vaginal scan), and then detected a heartbeat and estimated me as being 6+3 (I should have been 8+2), so the baby had grown, but still not to where it's meant to be.
They scanned me again a week later (last week, vaginal once again), and once again the baby had grown another week to 7+4, but I should have been 9+3. They said they couldn't book me in for another scan officially as they don't technically worry if the difference is within two weeks (which is driving me crazy as it's measuring as one day off from being the full two weeks behind), but said if I was feeling really anxious or if anything else changed I could do a self referral and be scanned again this week.
The next morning (this past Thursday), I had some bright red blood with my discharge, and I've consistently been having varying colours of blood (some brown old stuff, pink, and a couple of times bright, fresh red) in my discharge ever since. Last night I had bright red once again, and for the first time a couple of small clots. I've not had any blood between that first time over three weeks ago (that prompted the first scan) and this past Thursday. I've not had any real cramps or anything, so I don't know if this is the "normal" blood that can occur, or the signs that a miscarriage may be to come, as the baby is measuring so far behind?
I'm planning on doing my self referral tomorrow to hopefully have another scan on Wednesday or Thursday. To be honest, I sort of expected a miscarriage to properly begin over the weekend, but I seem to just be keeping on.
I've been so stressed being in this limbo for over three weeks now, and just want to know what's going to happen. I'm so worried something may be 'wrong' with the baby that they won't catch on the 12 or 20 week scans (if we get that far). I just can't shake that something can't be right if it didn't develop for two weeks?! But I can't find anyone ever having that outcome - everyone mostly seems to miscarry, or occasionally end up ok (with the baby having "caught up" by the 12 week scan).
I've not really had many symptoms (I didn't with my first either, aside from sore breasts, which I don't have this time) - I had a few days of nausea which disappeared between the second and third scans, but obviously the disappearance didn't mean anything as things were carrying on in the third scan. I've been quite tired, but that's also fairly standard for me not pregnant too.
I'd love to hear from anyone who's been in a similar situation to me, both the good and the bad. Most especially people who were measuring so early? I've done loads of reading and trawling mumsnet et al which has mostly prepared me for a miscarriage, but each week I seem to keep carrying on (although maybe this bleeding will now mean otherwise?)
Sorry this is so long, I'm trying to include every detail as I've been driving myself a bit insane!