Bleeding During Pregnancy - Women's Stories Of Bleeding In Pregnancy #3

**JLeigh29** · November 11th, 2008, 05:01 PM

Hope all goes well with your doctor's appointment arwenreborn. Fingers crossed.
I finally got up the courage to see my doctor yesterday (yes, have been stewing about this since my last post) and had a blood test this morning. Dr said it sounds like I was pregnant and m/c. Said it might be good to find out whether I was pregnant for sure (remember, test I did 3 days before bleeding started came back BFN) to at least reassure me that I can get preg (TTC 7 months) so here I am waiting for results til tomorrow...dr also said blood test may not show anything as hormone levels may have dropped already. So I may never know...

arwenreborn · November 12th, 2008, 07:30 AM

Well it's good and bad news I guess. I'm just trying to stay positive.

The doctor is terming it as a "threatened miscarriage". If I had ovulated on time I should be 8 weeks, but he said it's very likely I ovulated later and am only 5/6 weeks (well the sonographer said last week I was only 5/6 weeks when thought I was 7).

Because of the spotting and the fact my levels aren't as high as they probably should be (but still high) he sent me for another HCG blood test yesterday afternoon - if my levels are lower than last week he's going to call me today and we know we've probably lost little bean. If my levels are higher than last week I have to go back in on Thursday and get another HCG blood test done to compare. If my levels are rising then it's a good sign and he'll refer me for a scan in a week or two.

I also found out I am O- blood type which apparently is a really good but sort of bad blood type. It's good because I can give blood to anyone with any other blood type, but if I'm in a car accident and bleeding to death I can only receive O- blood...

I had a needle in my bum yesterday as I'm rhesus negative and if the baby is rhesus postiive (eg. A+) then my body can start to produce antibodies to try and expel the "foreign object". It's amazing how my blood can cross the placenta and work against my baby. Apparently that's why a lot of people in the older days had "blue babies".

Anyway I have to have another few shots of stuff later on to prevent anything from happening to bub.

I got sick last night and didn't feel crash hot this morning. Still no cramping or anything but I'm not going to get excited over anything. It's out of my hands and out of my control. Just trying to cross fingers and hope for the best.

This pregnancy wasn't planned but my fiancee and I discussed it last night and getting pregnant made us realise just how much we wanted this bub and how scared we are we're going to lose it. So if this pregnancy doesn't succeed, I'm not going to go onto the pill or anything and we're going to try again.

It would be awesome if on Friday I call him and he says "Your levels are climbing, it looks good!" but I'm preparing myself.

**JLeigh29** · November 13th, 2008, 06:29 PM

arwenreborn, I have my fingers crossed your BT brings good news tomorrow.
Any bleeding? Feeling sick and cramping could by preg symptoms so they may be good signs.
My BT didn't show a pregnancy but the girls on another thread tell me this isn't unusual as it was early days so I may or may not have been pregnant. Who knows?

arwenreborn · November 14th, 2008, 07:55 AM

Well everything has been going along alright, felt crook as anything the last couple of days and hungry as anything as well.

Then this morning I got up, went to the loo and everything was fine a little spotting but still dark brown. Then I went to go again (typical me, I pee so much these days) and there was a dark red smear on my pad. I wiped, and again there was dark red blood. I wiped again, same thing. I flushed and went out for about a few minutes, then went back into the loo and wiped again. One again, a bit of dark red blood.

I called in sick to work and called my fiancee and told him that if it got heavier I'd give him a call and we'd go to the hospital.

It eased off for a bit, I went for a shower and nothing came out during that so that was good. Put on a clean pad and checked a moment ago and there was a ten cent piece worth of mucusy dark red looking stuff. I'm waiting til about 9 to call my doctor, and see what the blood tests say and see what he says. If it gets any heavier I'm going into the hospital to see if they can at least do a scan or something - I should be about 6 weeks and 6 days or so, so hopefully they will be able to tell me for sure if everything is good or bad. I'm preparing myself, trying to stay positive but not being naive about it all.

**~Trish~** · November 14th, 2008, 08:25 AM

Best of luck arwenreborn. Definitely speak to your Dr, just for peace of mind. It is so stressful when you have any bleeding. I'm glad you have taken the day off, just rest and look after yourself

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arwenreborn · November 14th, 2008, 09:13 PM

Bad news.

Spent 6 hours at the hospital emergency ward, my HCG levels had risen so they sent me for a scan. The internal scan showed I had a gestational sac but no baby inside. My body is preparing itself for miscarriage any day now. It's just a waiting game.

We're going to get the miscarriage over and done with, then have a normal period, then try again.

It's been an exhausting day but I'm relieved that we finally found out after a week of waiting.

Thanks for all the crossed fingers, I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Still pretty devastated but we're only young and will be able to try another day.