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TW:Spotting on period due date

5 replies

peepsypops · 30/12/2025 16:35

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can advise…

my period was due on Christmas Day, nothing came but on the morning of 27th I wiped and saw some diluted pink on tissue. I also had some brown discharge, not a lot at all but discharge like in consistency rather than liquid.

I presumed by period was coming so I didn’t pay attention and was going swimming so I used a tampon. I noticed afterwards that the tampon was mostly dry with a little more brown discharge on it.
I really didn’t pay attention much to the quantity as I just figured that it was an incoming period! We have been TTC since May and had two missed miscarriages last year. One DC almost 3. In those three pregnancies I have never had spotting at all. Sorry for TMI but the usual period blood smell was also present.

I took a test today never thinking it would be positive and it says 2-3. I really don’t feel pregnant at all. I don’t feel hopeful about this ☹️ I have a prescription for heparin injections, aspirin and progesterone that I need to go get as it’s supposed to start on receipt of a positive test.

brown discharge (albeit a v small amount and none since) can that ever be normal? pregnancy after miscarriage is just 😔😔😔

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jmrpinkie · 30/12/2025 17:10

Hi OP. I haven’t had any miscarriages so I can’t relate on that front but I had brown spotting with both my pregnancies around the same time as you. DS is 5 and I’m currently 36 weeks. Spotting lasted about 48 hours. With this pregnancy I had heavier brown spotting at 9 weeks and went to the EPU. I know also when I had this reading lots of positive stories of people who had similar. Have you called your EPU? Their advice was brown blood is old, if it turns red to call again.

peepsypops · 30/12/2025 17:22

Thank you 🙏🏻

I literally have just found out I’m pregnant about 2hrs ago so trying to process it all! I haven’t called the EPU as I assumed they wouldn’t want to know so early (app says 4w3) I’ll keep it in mind though. I’m under a private gynaecologist too so I’ll contact them tomorrow as he said he wanted to see me at 6 weeks if I were to fall pregnant.

terrified to be honest! It’s almost 2years since we started TTC our second and part of me had kind of accepted it wasn’t going to happen. Of course I’ve been here before so I need to just take one day at a time. Thank you 🙏🏻

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blankcanvas3 · 30/12/2025 17:33

Congratulations!!!

peepsypops · 30/12/2025 18:22

Thank you 🙏🏻

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Renisenb · 30/12/2025 18:33

I had a fair amount of brown blood with some lumps in it the night before finding out.
more than spotting but not like a full period - similar to what I get day 0 of the period

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