TMI TRIGGER; blood,miscarriage for anyone who may need a warning. This is also my first post.
This could be a long one but any experiences would be helpful, however I think I know how this is going to go.
So to preface I have 3 living children, have had 2 miscarriages (1 chemical at 5 weeks and 1 being a missed miscarriage at 9 weeks which I had surgery for) Not actively trying for another child (using protection but understand what would happen if we didn't)
I used to have a 28 day cycle however my cycles have been all over the place since end of last year maybe? Anyway, my LMP was 31/7/25 to 5/8/25. At this point I didn't know when my next cycle would be however my app was predicting 30/8/25 so a 30 day cycle. We happened to do the thing 3 days before I was due on and the day before thinking we would be somewhat fine and not get pregnant. Well, my period didn't come and I know pregnancy doesn't happen that quick so thought nothing of it as my cycles are everywhere. I happened to test 13/9/25 and had a faint positive, went through the motions of multiple tests and well it was correct and I was pregnant. I did a clear blue which said 1-2 weeks; this made sense. It's about cycle day 45 for the positive test ( I don't know when from ovulation as I wasn't tracking and the app was wrong on my cycle anyway)
Now we were on holiday at the time out of the country and I started bleeding, bright red blood (didn't last long at all) my first thought was miscarriage but odd that it didn't last longer but from a complication with my missed miscarriage I thought maybe the same thing was happening again. I was then wiping brown blood/discharge on and off after then. I was unable to get an appointment anywhere to be referred for a scan so I waited until we flew home and managed to get an appointment in the EPAU and was scanned.
I didn't know how far along I was as my cycle doesn't match up to the 28 day they use to calculate so what I did was just add on 2 weeks. Thinking I'm maybe about 7ish. I was fully prepared for them to tell me there was nothing there however, my scan showed a yolk sac, no fetal pole and they guessed 5/6 (which is the standard they give for a yolk sac with no fetal pole) Thing is I would be 5/6 weeks or whatever if calculated from conception but not overall so this has what lead to me believing it won't progress. The bleeding came from what they described as a haemorrhage around the sac and said this can be normal in early pregnancy sometimes but not always. I left that scan with more questions than answers and another date to come back in 2 weeks so 20/10 for a re-scan. I'm finding myself trying to work out when ovulation potentially happened and maybe I was earlier than I thought (probably not the case)
I believe this pregnancy won't progress personally and my body is yet to realise (although I guess in a way I'm trying to hold onto hope? but at the same time know there's probably no point so here I am on a forum!) but has anyone else had an unusually longer cycle, found out they were pregnant and unable to date it and ended up being told they were earlier than they thought and it be fine? Or the same scenario and it didn't progress?