Miscarrying atm

At 8wk +4 I woke up in the morning with a brownish black blood discharge, again that night some appeared. The next day I woke to red fresh blood. I went to hospital where they put me on a drip and did an ultrasound. They found that my bloods hcg levels came back good, but the 'sac' only measured 5 wks gestation. They were not sure if I had my dates wrong, I knew I didn't cause I had tested +ve hpt and bloods at 4wk +4, or if the development of bub had stopped. I lost a very large 'clot' the next day which I thought was the sac. It is now 7 days later and I'm still bleeding, no more clots in the past few days. I had bloods done 4 days ago and they are continuing to drop. I also had another ultrasound today and it showed the 'sac' was still in my uterus at the same 5wk size.
My dr spoke with the obgyn and have given me 3 options.
1 - wait and see what happens over the next week.
2 - get admitted to hospital and be given some kind of drug that will make my cervix dialate therefore passing whatever is left inside, may take a couple days to work, not sure.
3 - have a D & C.
I've opted for #1 for now, will have more bloods taken on fri and go back to my dr on monday to see if anything has changed. if not then looks like #2 it is.

Has anyone had this procedure before or know anything about it?
Also whats a D & C like?

Thanks

mummynik Im sorry for your loss. How awful for you to have to go through. I dont have any advice im afraid i just wanted to say take care of yourself and if it happened to me i would wait to see what happens. All the best smile

Hugs sweetie I'm so sorry xxx
I had a miscarriage 2 weeks ago I went in for my scan a week prior at 6 weeks measured fine but no heart beat sad the doctor knew it didn't look hopeful and asked if I wanted a d and c I said no, by that sunday I started to bleed went back to the doctors monday still asked if i wanted d and c i said no i wanted to let my body do it he gave me antibiotics to be on the safe side incase of infection but the day after on tuesday I lost a massive clot and it was my baby I had a scan last Thursday and all was ok I bled for just over a week.

Hun all mine have been natural, but you have to be careful of infection unfortunately I would say let nature take its course and if you get bad cramps and a fever go to the doctors sweetie, you could ask for antibiotics just to be on the safe side or get another follow up scan xx

Only you know sweetie what you really need, a d and c is just a day procedure in my town you are put under general for it let out the same day (I asked my doctor all about it) hugs again hun it's ao hard going three this xxx

I have had two MC now. Both times I opted to go 'natural' but never worked for me.

The first one I eneded up having the tablets, but was told you still have to go into hospital so ended up being in there overnight. Had to have the tablets every few hours and took around 12 hours to work and pass the baby. Though turned out I did not pass everything and had some 'retained product' and ended up back in A&E a few days after with an infection.


The second one which was just last month was very similiar to yours. 9 weeks pregnant but only measured 5 weeks - blighted ovum. Since I had a 18 month old i felt that staying in hospital overnight was not my perfered option. After a week of waiting and my body not passing, and since by this stage it had 5 weeks to actually miscarry I opted for a D&C. My GP was grate and arranged with the hospital to get me admitted, was able to go in on a Saturday morning. Went in at 6:45am and was home by 1pm had the procedure around 8:30.

They still give you the tablet which helps to dialate - but these tablets do not aggree with me and sent my body into shock - had every side effect from this tablet. But obviously this does not happen to everyone I'm just lucky i guess (happend to me the first time around as well). Was put under a General and woke up with very minimal bleeding and next to no pain. Just minor period like cramps the day after. I had more side effects from the actual general then i did the D&C (my body does not react well to drugs of anysort a panadol just about puts me to sleep!!) But with this said if I am unfortunate enough to have to go through this again I think that I would proablly opt for another D&C, as it is over and done with, you dont actually see anything which I personally find easier. But everyone is different and it is a personal choice.

Sorry for your loss, it is a crappy thing to go through, hopefully your body can do what it needs to do to pass naturally for you. But do watch out for signs of an infection. Wishing you all the best.

Hi there, I know exactly how you are feeling at the moment. My husband and I tried for a whole year to get this baby and over the last week i have been spotting. What makes everthing worse is that I work as a nurse in ED and have seen numerous women come through with the same problem, not many of them having happy endings. I had a scan yesterday, similar to other mums, the yolk was growing but baby was wasnt. the sonographer tried to sugar coat the news but it feels like someone just deliberately ripped your heart out. Funnily enough my spotting has subsided and im just waiting for the "frank and heavy bleeding" to start. i feel like im walking around carryin an empty shell. I just want my body to get on with and pray that I will not have to resort to medications or anything invasive.the heartache and having to inform friends and family about the news is a constant reminder of our devasting loss is more than enough without the whole thing becoming medicalised. I just want you to understand that there are many o the mums just like myself who understand and can feel your every pain. be strong and thankful that things could have been alot worse like miscarrying later into the pregnancy. at the moment im just trying to digest what has happened, trying not to pin piont what, why and how it happened. life really sucks at the moment but im positive it will get better for all of us. all the best

Thank you all for your support.

No its not an easy thing to go through and I think it makes it harder telling people and them giving you the 'poor thing' eyes.

So... suppose to be 10wks, been bleeding for 2wks now, not as much as I was, i suppose it could be classed as spotting now could get away with wearing a liner. I still haven't passed anything so I'm thinking that when I go back to the dr on Monday I will ask to get the D & C done. Like smj83 said the medication may not even work and I don't want to be in hospital for longer than I'm suppose to. Have 3 other kids at home that I need to be looking after.

love my lil bugs - big hugs to you hun, can't be nice going through it again. we were in the oct group togther too. Did they find anything with the tests they carried out?

QTZ - i'm so sorry you are going through this. when i went to ED the triage nurse tried to reassure me that 80% of the time its nothing just a little bleed, I knew it wasn't just that. I get what you mean about and empty egg shell, I thought i'd already passed everything but turns out not. I think that makes it harder again knowing that i'm still carrying what should be my baby. I hope things go naturally for you and you don't need any interventions. big hugs.

I will let you know how things go on Monday.