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Very early pregnancy spotting after previous losses, very anxious , worth contacting EPU?

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Orchid90 · 25/09/2026 15:08

Hi,
I would love to have a bit of advice from others x

I think I’m about 4+3 so very very early and I had some spotting sort of tan colour this morning ( keeping an eye for now ) and also the same happened last Friday with then some brown maroon on the Saturday morning. Only needed panty liner.

this is my 4th pregnancy. First ended up being a traumatic premature birth at 24 weeks with baby dying 3 months later.
i then had a missed miscarriage.
Third time lucky got my daughter ( had aspirin clexane and an operation to put a permanent stitch in , still there )

Anyway I found out while doing ovulations test so basically it’s been about 10 days now. My period is anything from 29/32 and I tbh had I not tested I would 100% think is coming tomorrow. So I felt last Friday although it would have been earlier than usual.

I have been testing everyday because I am convinced it’ll go wrong again , so I thought if the line fades away at least I know. It didn’t .
So now I’m not sure what to do, well obviously I can only wait but is spotting with a strong line worth mentioning ? I work at the hospital, I am a nurse , so I do ring the EPU quite often from triage and they never seem to care much about any spotting bleeding unless you are past 5 weeks and in pain.
its too early for a scan, but could it still be an ectopic ?
i do have a Gp appointment tomorrow, that is because last time I was under the miscarriage clinic at a specialist hospital ( not my local) and they did start me on aspirin and injections of heparin. I did actually say this when I self referred but they still gave me a routine midwife appointment for 8 weeks . Was hoping the GP could maybe explain the situation and see if they want me to have the injections ..but maybe I could ask him to refer me to epu .
or maybe is just a chemical and I just wait it out , I though the lines were meant to be light with that …
sorry I’m rambling.
im just all over the place with my emotions because I always says to everyone that I don’t want another child . The truth though is that what I don’t want is the pregnancy anxiety and heartache of loosing another in the NICU and I stupidly did it again..and tbh a miscarriage now would be the best thing because a second trimester one would require a c section for me anyway as I have a permanent type of stitch that can’t come out ( I have an incompetent cervix ) .
I haven’t told anyone apart from my partner who is very much what will be will be . I am as well but still I don’t want to ignore it and then ending up dying of a burst ectopic.
sorry and thanks if you read it all x

Very early pregnancy spotting after previous losses, very anxious , worth contacting EPU?
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laura246810 · 25/09/2026 15:11

Call EPU. They can advise you best.

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