Is all hope lost?

[Flowers1901]

I’m 36 and pregnant with my first child. I got pregnant within a month of coming off the pill and all has been well until I started with some light brown discharge on Thursday. I was referred to my local EPU on Friday for a scan. I had both external and internal scans. I’m just 6 weeks. Was told that there’s no heartbeat yet but that I’ve got an enlarged sac, I’ve got to go back in a weeks time for another scan. I feel like I’m in a place of mental torture. I’ve still got the light brown discharge but it’s only when I wipe and there has been some bits in it but not clots.
has anyone had any experience with the same? I don’t know if I’m clinging to hope or just accept that this isn’t going to end well 😢😢

If you google hard enough ( which I did and j don't recommend) there will be lots of positive outcomes but when I was in this situation the pregnancy ended in miscarriage.

I find it's so cruel to be left for a week like this and for me this was the worst part the not knowing for definite.

I've had lots of miscarriages in between my 2 children so I hope you don't mind me answering your post honestly .

I hope you do have a good outcome but I would also try and mentally prepare for the worst if that makes sense x

Awww OP reaching out with a big hug. I suffered an early loss in May, when I went for an internal scan nothing could be seen so similarly to you, had to wait. Unfortunately my outcome was a loss but I had had extremely heavy bleeding which I thought was my period and found out after that I was 'pregnant'. So for me was a chemical. Anyway I send you almost the positive vibes because it really could go either way and actually you've just had a little bit of bleeding and baby will be fine. I just sympathise with the torturous waiting xxx

It could go either way. I had some fairly serious bleeding with my first pregnancy, which resulted in a healthy baby boy. A weird “this doesn’t feel right” feeling which resulted in a miscarriage, then no bleeding at all with my second healthy baby boy.

it’s a horrid worried sick time for you op, really hope you have a happy result 🤞💐

Hi OP, sorry you are going through this but hope is definitely not lost.

In early scans it is very normal not to see a heartbeat, you could just be a few days behind where you think you are which would make a huge difference at that stage.

And brown blood is generally found to be 'old blood' and not linked to pregnancy loss.

Good luck for your next scan

Thank you all for responding. The worst part is the waiting and not knowing, I’ve signed myself off work for the week so I can rest and prepare myself in case it is bad news this time.

I had some light brown discharge and a healthy baby. My mum had heavy bleeding wgrn pregnant with me but I'm here to tell the tale. Good luck.

Im really sorry to say that when I had an enlarged sac (even with a heartbeat at 7/8 weeks), it sadly ended in a loss.

I manically scoured the internet for days between having the scan and confirmation that the heart had stopped looking for good news stories - they are out there but they seem to be rare.

I really, really hope that youre one of the success stories - sending lots of strength your way

I’ve searched to try and find out the reason why the enlarged sac occurs but nothing, only that research links it with failed pregnancy. I guess there may be some happy endings but seem to be rare 😢

Handhold — I know this is the absolute worst. It happened to me and during the wait I also googled obsessively. As pp have said, it could go either way but for me it was a miscarriage.