I had ALOT of bleeding and mild cramping at 7 weeks and bleeding which lasted for more than a week!! I felt for sure we had lost our baby - but no, now at 20 weeks all is fine. My last pregnancy - NO bleeding, no cramping, not even a brown spot at all....

the difference I think for me was this one was an IVF pregnancy and I had just come off a stim cycle and there was a lot of extra blood and mucus/whatever hanging around that just had to come out.....I am calm now to say that, but at the time...it was all very, very scary. I was told the baby was absolutely fine at the time, however the amount of blood was a concern because of where it was located and there was the possiblity of it damaging the planenta as the blood was flowing out...

I suppose there are just so many different reasons why bleeding occurs in pregnancy.

I am SOOO happy for you that all turned out OK. Who knows the mysteries of the female pregnant body and why this bleeding occurs in so many of us....I also have a friend who bleed like a normal period for the first 5 months so she did not know she was pregnant..!! Now she has a beautiful baby boy.