My Missed Miscarriage and D&C Experience

Hello All

This is the first time I have become pregnant, and thankfully I'm 25yrs old and with my beautiful, supportive, loving fiancee. We found out I was pregnant and were a bit aprehensive at first but then we became overjoyed and excited at the thought of our baby coming into the world at the end of November this year.

I went in for my 12wk ultrasound to make sure everything was going well, but unfortunately there was no heart beat. The baby measured 9wks, which meant for the past 3wks my baby was inside me, dead. There had been no bleeding to signify anything was wrong. I was in shock for about a minute and then we both couldn't contain our grief anymore. We had told close family and friends about the pregnancy and then had to face calling them to notify them of the sad news. We then went to the Doctor that afternoon and she said to come back in a weeks time if the miscarriage had still not happened on its own naturally.

Still no bleeding, so I went back and we organised that I get a D&C done at Mercy Hosp on Tuesday (last week). I was so nervous about the thought of getting it done I had turned into a hormonal emotional wreck! But it went smoothly, only had cramping for 2 hours after surgery and the bleeding stopped that night. I wore a precautionary pad for 3 days after but didn't really need to.

The Gyno at Mercy said to not try for a baby until a few months time and to refrain from sex for a month in case of infection if I was still bleeding. He prescribed two scripts of antibiotics and I have about half a week left of these. We tried refraining... but it was too hard. We are used to having sex atleast once a day when my fiancee comes back from being offshore. So this Monday just gone, we had sex with a condom to prevent infection, but then we had sex again on Tuesday, twice on Wednesday and again this morning without a condom. It's so spare of the moment and passionate we loose ourselves in each other. I wiped up after having sex this morning and there was no bleeding, until I started coughing quite hard (dry throat), wiped again because I felt wetness, but this time there was a heap of darkish blood. I then had a shower and am wearing a pad 'just in case' today.

I have no idea if we're broken or torn something inside me or if it's possible to get your period a week after a D&C. The blood seems dark reddish brown (more red than brown). It isnt possible to be implantation bleeding.....surely?

We were going to try again for a baby in November. The GP Doctor told us to start taking the Pill again after I have my first period. So from the D&C until my period, Ive read Im very fertile due to the D&c and could get pregnant if we have unprotected sex.

I would appreciate any advice or hear from you if this has happened to you to.

Flicksta xo

I'm not to sure but I think that implant bleeding is pinkish. It could possibly be that he just disturbed a bit of oldish blood even if it is more reddish.

Oh honey i am so sorry for your loss. To me it sounds like it is the start of your period. Your period will return when your hormone levels are back to normal. Your levels were probably dropping for the last few weeks of your pregnancy so one week after a D & C could be right for sure. In saying that i did fall pregnany quickly after my 2nd D & C after my 1st lost but my hormone levels would have been very low for a while as there was a gap between both D&C if that makes sense!

It may just be tissue left over ffrom the d&c. I had one recently & I started bleeding bright blood about a week after the d&c, there is a couple of girls in my loss group that had the same thing, its quite common. A friend posted some info & it said that af is when there has been no bleeding for 20 days (not including spotting) anything before that is likely not to be af.
But it is possible to fall pg the d&c cycle, ive read lots of stories where people have. We aren't going to ttc again until next cycle, but ive been testing just to see if my cycle is going back to normal and its looking like I will ovualte again in a few days, so nearly 3 weeks post d&c