Large clot in second trimester

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I would really appreciate if knowing if anyone has experienced similar and gone on to have a healthy baby

I had a huge bleed yesterday at 18+2. Gushing onto the floor and down my legs. Bright red. I went to the hospital and passed a 5cm x 5cm clot whilst I was there. The baby is fine and they couldn’t explain the bleeding. My placenta is low lying and a tiny bit of it is touching the cervix, but they said it was heavier than what they would expect it to cause. It was horrible and coming out onto the bed during the scan, they couldn’t do a speculum exam because of the amount of bleeding

I have had two earlier large bleeds with clots at 7+1 and around 13 weeks that I had to get checked out, but this one has really rocked my confidence just in terms of now being later in the pregnancy and the amount of blood and clot size

I’m taking progesterone. It is an IVF pregnancy and I understand that can lead to more bleeding but this was intense for several hours. My cervix has shortened since my last scan two weeks ago from 34mm to 27mm so I want to pick that up with them too tomorrow

Hi lovely, how did you get on?

Ah thank you for checking in - I’m still pregnant! 25.5 weeks now.

I spoke to my private obstetrician after that weekend (the huge bleed happened over the weekend and I wasn’t sure how to contact him / was just in a panic). He was very firm that the type of bleeding I had was very typical of placental previa, even when it’s only very marginal / the placenta is only just touching the cervix. He said the MAU doctors on emergency aren’t consultants. He also said 9/10 times the placenta moves up as pregnancy progresses and once it goes up it doesn’t come back down again. The MAU were nice but they also really scared me as they seemed so somber and even offered to admit me and were just really insistent this couldn’t be from my placenta

Through my obstetrician I had a private scan with foetal medicine and a tiny corner of the placenta had lifted slightly too and there was a haematoma with the remnants of the big bleed nearby. I had another couple of scans with FM close together and delighted to say my placenta has now moved up away from my cervix! I had bleeding for another 2.5 weeks after the large bleed which they said was the haematoma clearing out. And there has been no bleeding since!