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Beanazoid,

I hope you don't mind me crashing your site to get abit of info from you.

You ever so kindly answered a post on the due jul/aug thread and i wanted to ask you a couple of things.

Incase you forgot-
I had gush of fresh blood at 5w3d got a scan at 7 weeks and all was fine.
Had a little bleed at 8w2d and had scan the same day and all was fine.
Had gush of fresh blood at 8w5d they scanned me at 10w and all was fine.
So that was the last fresh red blood that i have had so far.
Now on each scan there was a darker area of where i had either bled or was going to bleed.
One showed up on the 10 week scan so they decided to put me in for a 12 week scan.
At 11w2d had a load of brown blood and am still getting drabs of brown when i wipe now.
Had my 12 week scan yesterday and all was fine again.
Each time i have bleed i know it is coming because i feel abit uncomfortable they said that is because the cervix has to open slightly to ket the blood out.
When i say all is fine at scan i mean heartbeat strong and sac is normal, the darker area shows up just next to it.

Once again though i have a darker area where i have bled or where i may bleed they are not sure.
But they have said that it is not affecting the baby by the looks of it.

So really i wanted to know a couple of things.

Did they pick up anything like this when you had your scans?
Did they offer any explaination for it?
Did you feel uncomfortable when you did bleed?
Did your bleeds go brown or stay red?
Did it just tail off or suddenly stop?
Were you adviced not to bd for a while?
How much bleeding did you have or did it vary?

I did read your due nov thread so i know that you had a really bad bleed one of the times.

I have so many questions in my head which i will probably ask my midwife.
But i never thought that i would get this far so have yet to see a midwife until monday but i met her yesterday.
I thought i would be better asking someone that has been through it and has a healthy baby.

Sorry about the mega post and i hope that you don't mind answering me.
Lots of love.
Amy.xxxxxxxxxx

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Hi Amy,

Have just seen this thread am just off to bed now as was up a lot of the night last night with little one but will be back on in the morning and will answer your questions, sorry it's not tonight am just really hanging!

Glad all ok so far

Take care

Sab x

Hi Amy,

Am feeling a little more awake now so will answer your questions as best I can.

What happened with me is I had some spotting for the first few weeks the first time was at 6w 4d I had a scan the next day and they found the heartbeat and couldn't tell where the bleeding had come from, I had some more spotting which was red at 8w 3d and had another scan the following day this time they could see a small area of the lining that was bleeding was told it was no threat to the preganancy and all was ok.

I had more red spotting at 10w 1d and had a scan two days later baby was fine and they couldn't see where the bleeding had come from, at 11w 3d I had a big bleed which where the blood was pouring out and was bright red I also had bad back cramps af style so went to casualty, after an internal examination the A+E doctor told me I would lose the baby that night and needed to stay in as I was too poorly to go home and that they would scan me the next day to find out what had happened, as you can imagine that was a terrible night and was extremely scared about what was going to happen I continued to bleed throughout the night but it wasn't pouring out anymore more like a very heavy period. I had the scan the next day and amazingly the baby was still alive but there was a huge area of bleeding in there I think it measured something like 6cm long, 3cm wide and 3cm deep, they couldn't say whether baby would be ok the area of bleeding was at that stage as big as the area the baby was in.

I got sent home that day and was to scared to move or do anything really for a number of weeks, I continued to bleed although it slowed down over the next couple of days it stopped at 12w and I had three days of no bleeding but then I started spotting again at 13w I started to bleed heavier again but it was brown stuff I had a scan the following day and it showed the baby was fine as she was the whole time! but that the big area was still there and that it looked fresh , they said I was now at the stage that if I was worried I could get the midwife to check the heartbeat instead of having scans.

I carried on bleeding everyday and needed to use sanitary towels and it was a mixture of sometimes red and sometimes brown at 14w 4d I went to the loo and tmi coming up I had a lot of slimy brown stuff come out it was gross!. I hired a doppler when I was about 10w and the doctor said it was ok to use it everyday and this was great as it really reasured me that baby was doing ok and I could check it whenever I felt nervous about baby. I carried on losing blood everyday but it got slower after about 16w and then completely stopped at 17w and thankfully I didn't bleed again during the pregnancy.

When I had my 20w scan the area of bleeding was still in there but had halved in size, I was really dissapointed as I had hoped it would have gone, but it hadn't I had a further scan at 22w 5d and the haematoma was still there and still the same size but that was good news in a way as at least it seemed stable and baby was growing fine so didn't seem affected by it. Because of the bleeding they gave me a growth scan at 26w and 33w all was well at the last scan the area of bleeding was only just visable because it had been stretched so much.

I was off work for 13w with all the bleeding and worry it was horrible and I didn't really start to enjoy the pregnancy until after 28w when I knew baby had a resonable chance. The doctors never told us not to bd but we didn't during the time I was bleeding and only did twice during the rest of the pregnancy as we were too worried it might start again. The only time I had any pain when bleeding was when I had the heamorrage(sp?) at 11w 3d. They didn't offer any explanation for the bleeding and I found that quite difficult as no one could give me any answers about whether baby would be ok, if bleeding would get worse, or what was going to happen.

I was so glad when the bleeding did stop but still continued to worry throughout but thankfully my little Eloise didn't make an apperance until the day before her due date and was healthy and weighed 8lb. I did lose a lot of blood after the birth and they think that could have been due to the haematoma as for a couple of days after birth I lost three huge clots and after three days I needed to go back into hospital to have a blood transfusion I felt so much better after that!.

Sorry for the essay I hope it helps, I don't mind answering anymore questions, I hope things settle down soon.

Take care


Sab x

Beanazoid-

Thank you so much for the reply.
Your story is quite similar to mine.
The bleeds have measured about the same size as the baby most of the way through.
The last one measured 5cm which i thought had come away but in my 12 week scan there is another area but this time slighty smaller than the baby.
The nurse said that gradually the baby will get bigger than the bleed and it will be insignificant.
I am also still losing brown gross stuff.
Which i think is the bleed they picked up but as i am a bit further along now it as just coming away alot slower.
I have been getting a mixture of brown when i wipe and i also had brown and juicy yesterday which was lovely!
Up until my 12 week scan the bleeds have been quite round and at my last scan it looked streched so i think that baby is just booting it and not giving a shit!

I think that it is just one of those things that some people get.
But i think that the majority of people that bleed lose there baby's so the hospital automatically think that it is bad.
It is a very scary time and i have spent the last 2 months like a zombie.
Also preparing myself for another miscarriage so i am finding it very hard to believe that it is going to be ok.
But i think that my baby is a fighter, i know it makes me sick everyday which i thought had gone but has reared it's ugly head again!
But my tummy is growing and baby survived the worst bleed which was 5w so i am thinking that things are looking very positive.
Unfortuneatly i won't be surprised if i get some more brown or red presents!
But now i can just listen to the baby's heartbeat instead of having to go to these scan's i am much happier.
It's lovely having loads of scan pictures but each one has a dark area of 'possible bleed' so i would rather have a doppler and just hear the heartbeat.
Knowing that you might bleed doesn't make it any nicer so i'd rather not know it is there.
But thanks for answering my post you have been a big help.
I am seeing my midwife tomorrow and she is bringing her doppler so i can't wait.
I wil then officially have made 12 weeks!
Oh and me and dh are telling our little grannies today so they will be chufffed.

Lots of love.
Amy.xxxxxxx