Threatened Miscarriage - did we survive it?

[BlueSkyHopeful]

Navigating a Pregnancy Scare - thoughts welcome

I had a scare with my early pregnancy I am 7 weeks today. I took a bleed 5 days ago that was significant. I have not bled since.

I got checked at the Maternity Assessment Unit on Sunday night. They advised it was a threatened miscarriage but the midwife and Dr who completed the exam seemed reassured as the internal exam showed that my cervix was still closed,

I had a scan during the 6th week as I am high risk, and so they have advised they can’t scan me again until next week.

I have been doing daily pregnancy tests and the lines are staying full and dark with no fading. But this is my first pregnancy so I’m not sure if they would have started to fade in colour within 5 days if I have miscarried.

Having to wait for another 7 days for confirmation of the pregnancy is really tough.

Any advice or hopeful stories?

Thank you x

Sorry you are experiencing this, it really is hard.

The wait is torture.
You ask for advice about the pregnancy tests, my advice is please stop doing them because they simply do not give any meaningful information.
For context, I was still getting positive tests 4 weeks after a complete miscarriage. Bleeding had stopped, baby was gone yet tests were still positive. Pregnancy hormones stay around for a long time.
I believe it to be a complete fallacy about the colour of the tests, they either tell you that you are or are not pregnant, that’s it. Not how pregnant you are.

My biggest piece of advice is to just do whatever gets you through.
There is absolutely nothing anyone, including you can do to prevent a miscarriage, nothing. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Look after yourself, take each day as it comes. Keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Hey there.

I am going through something similar. found out I was pregnant Christmas Day felt great for about two days until i started spotting brown. Panicked so rang my docs who advised me to go to a&e which I did but the wait was so long I left in the end and rand 111 for advise. In the mean time rang my fertility clinic who reassured me and said if it’s not heavy red and no severe pain it’s probably fine but we can book you in for an early scan anyway.
I had the early scan yesterday and they found the gestational sac, yolk sac and embryo but no heart beat yet so I’ve got to go back next week to see if they can see a heartbeat. I’m measuring a week behind on what I thought which I find confusing. The dr I saw yesterday said bleeding can be very normal in the first trimester as it’s very sensitive etc so please try not to think the worst.

however I always worry and honestly I feel sick and can’t stop thinking about it. The wait is just horrendous.

hope you get a positive outcome.

Both times it was 3 weeks after my miscarriage that my tests were negative. With my second loss I tested after 2 weeks and had a faint line, this was 5 weeks after the first scan which showed the development wasn't as expected.
The waiting is hard, you just have to stay busy and look after your anxious mind. I did a lot of colouring and mindful activities whilst going through my second loss. I had 3 scan over 3 weeks to confirm the loss but the first showed I was 10 days behind a I knew it was most likely going to be a bad outcome.

Thinking of you