My Story -
I fell pg with my first child back in 1991, no complications, no spotting or bleeding just a normal, average pregnancy, after fertility treatment and three years of TTC, I finally fell pg with my second child in 1996. When I was about 8w pg, I began to have some light spotting, I panicked, it had taken three years to fall pg, i didn't want to lose my baby, a friend took me to the doctor, who advised to rest, the following day there was no spotting, but the day after i had more spotting. I immediately gave up work and took to bed rest. The spotting continued for about a week then stopped. I gave birth to a healthy son in 1997.
After TTC for the following ten years, sometimes with clomid (we never tried IVF as we decided we had two healthy children and if it wasn't to be, we wouldn't have anymore), having tubes unblocked, finding out i have pcos and endo I fell pg in 2007. Again at 8w,(Thurs) i began to spot and thought, this is just like the last time, i rested but decided i wouldn't give up work, just take it easy as i could. My eldest is now 15 and telling him what was going on, he was able to help out a lot (he had finished year 10, except for a few tests so was able to be at home most of the time). On the second day (Fri), the spotting seemed a little heavier and i went to the local emergency dept. at the hospital, they ran blood tests and did an ultrasound which showed up the baby's heartbeat and also showed the baby was the size of a 6W (it should have been 8W), the couldn't tell me which way it would go and advised to go home and rest. The following day (sat), I stayed in bed all day. Sunday morning i woke up early with heavier bleeding and back pain, i woke up DH who took me down to the hospital which is only a 2min drive away, within 5 minutes I had been triaged and given a room, only minutes later i had a huge bleed (lots of blood on the floor and right through my clothes, at this stage i knew my baby had gone. The doctors and nurses were wonderful (we had come in just as shift was changing. I spent all day in emergency, had another ultrasound which showed what we already knew, there was nothing left and sent to a ward for the night - typically the only bed left was in maternity although they did give me a private room the opposite end to the mothers with new babies. The staff on were also wonderful, one of the sitting with me in the middle of the night when i couldn't sleep.