I'm so sorry to hear that Miss B. I've been following quietly and hoping for good news for you.

We decided to go with the d&c this time so that we could get testing done and because I was quite scared of how much a natural m/c might hurt (baby measuring 8wks, d&c at 11wks). I was told that, if I started to m/c naturally while waiting for the d&c (4 days), I should go straight to the ER at the hospital where I was booked in for the d&c. I had cramping during the 4 days I waited, even some fairly intense cramping that had me wondering if we'd be heading to the ER, but I didn't start bleeding and had the d&c as scheduled. The testing did show there were chromosomal reasons for the m/c, so I'm glad we had it done.

The first time I had a natural m/c (only 5w4d) and the pain was bad, but only for 4 hours.