Richard asks…
Natural Miscarriage Stories?
I don’t want to hear.. GO HAVE A D&C because that is my final option and I am avoiding it at all costs.
I am 10 w pregnant and found out 3 days ago my peanut stopped developing at 6w 1d.
I was spotting light pink for 4 days, then yesterday it was a bit of watery brown, then last night some red and some obvious flecks of tissue.. and today is browny red with flecks of tissue, but it’s not enough to come out a lot only a little.
When can I expect this to really get going?
and what can I expect with a 6w old pregnancy? I know they say anything before 8 weeks is usually like a heavy period.
But I am 10 weeks but the pregnancy and fetus are only 6 so will it be lighter than a 10 week miscarriage?
Michelle answers:
I’ve had both. My m/c at 5w6d was like a medium period, but I was SO freaked out, scared it would be worse. It wasn’t, it just went away and then my regular period came the next month again.
My recent m/c, on May 21, was at 11w6d. 🙁
We don’t know how far the baby was, but my uterus measured 10-11 weeks the week before, and I stopped getting sick around 9 weeks or so.
I had sudden spotting/bleeding, then within a couple of hours, everything passed. It was flushed at the dr’s, so we didn’t see it. I had huge clots and a lot of blood, for about 3-4 hours. I was in the ER, and they gave me Ativan to calm me down, and Morphine for the pain. Also, an IV, which I only had part of. The pain wasn’t that bad, but I was scared it would get much worse. I went home later on, after an ultrasound saw an empty uterus, with just a thickened lining. 🙁
I bled heavily again that night for a couple of hours, and then it tapered off for 2 1/2 weeks. I am still spotting now, once a day or so. My hcg levels are down below a pregnancy test.
If the baby was only 6 weeks, you may not have a lot of bleeding, it may come out little by little. I never saw much at 5w6d. If it gets really heavy, you can go to the ER, and make sure everything passed.
Good luck.
I am so sorry your baby died.
Lisa asks…
Pregnancy back pain- sciatica? Help!!!?
I am having KILLER backpains the past week.
I am 23 weeks pregnant, with a retroverted uterus (my uterus is tilted towards my spine instead of outwards).
What the pai feels like is a pinched nerve in my lower back, only on the left side. Sometimes my whole leg goes numb. It flares up more and more with each passing day. Usually happens when I bend or twist my torso, which is REALLY hard to avoid doing (I have a 5 year old son, a dog, etc). It feels like a pinching, twingey pain that shoots up my back and down my legs. Pain is almost in my left bum cheek, if that makes sense. I have an appointment with a chiropractor in 4 days, thank goodness. My dr prescribed me some painkillers and anti inflammatories until then, but I want something natural and easy to stop the pain… It’s almost like I have to shuffle my feet because when I lift my left leg its excruciating pain… do you know exercises that would help me? I do pregnancy yoga most days but havent been able to because of the pain
I need someone to give me tips to tide me over till Tuesday- stretches, how to sit, etc… anyone who has experienced this, how did you get thru it??
Michelle answers:
Oh girl, i feel your pain. What I’m hearing, that despite your new figure, you have not taken time for yourself. What i can suggest may feel like it is another chore. Promise, you will be rejuvenated. Talk to you husband/ ? Please let me have 1 hr. Make a really as hot as you can stand in. (its so hot there’s no way your sit tin in thather!) OK so get in with your fat belly. RElax. Now start to stretch. Lean over to reach your toes. But don’t touch them, comtinue through lift your arms and streach your spine. Lift up! . Circle an repeat. Reach back and put your ahnds on your hips, shrug your shoulde, up to your ears and back around. Rs a 3x or so. Reach back out front. Go under water and count 10. Lay back and curls. L-R up ?down. Keep going ? Maybe tomorrow. Ok. You will feel terrific or at least a little stimulated (at first). Keep going, walks too.
PS. Try to pull w/ rt knee towards your rt shoulder. Lay on your back first, sorry. Its just not always your hips.
Sharon asks…
Do any new mothers miss the way they looked before pregnancy?
I have a wonderful 11 week old daughter who is my angel.
Im ashamed to say that lately Ive been concentrating on missing my pre-pregnancy body/face, it was so much better in so many ways. I felt grossly unattractive throughout my pregnancy, put on 48lbs. Now I have b**bs down to my stomach and a stomach down to my knees. Ive also got tree trunk legs, leathery skin and dark circles aroubd my eyes, the list goes on. I look 10 years older.
Im dieting and trying to exercise but cannot help but miss the old me.
Do you judge me to be selfish? Or are these feelings natural? I wouldnt change things for the world as Im blessed with such a beautiful daughter but I feel so low when I think about it.
PS. My Husband tells me Im gorgeous but I know what I see.
Michelle answers:
The answer is and will always be YES. What you went through is nothing short of brutal. The fact that women stay in one piece is nothing short of a miracle. It will take a lot of work to get your body to where it once was. I say embrace your new body, it is a testament of the battle that you survived. And if you get your old body back then more power to you. You women go through something i would not be able to imagine doing. *respect*
Sandra asks…
Is there any hope for this pregnancy?
I wanted to see if anyone thought there was any hope for me. A little about my history: I am 30 years old and my husband is 32. I have been pregnant 6 times including this time. I had one natural early miscarriage in 2000 followed by three healthy beautiful babies (born in 2001, 2005, and 2006), followed by one missed miscarriage/blighted ovum in which I had a D&C in 2008. My LMP was approx. 5/14/09. The thought of another miscarriage didn’t cross my mind because I have had healthy babies and after having a blighted ovum last time I thought the chances were good this time to have a healthy baby. Well I never spotted in any of my other pregnancies so when I saw a little brownish discharge during a wipe this time around I scheduled an appointment with the doctor right away. I wasn’t too concerned though because I had read that spotting is normal in some pregnancies and that every pregnancy is different. So anyway, the doctor did an ultrasound and said that she could see a sac in the uterus but this was when I was about 5 weeks along and that it was still early and it was blurry so she ordered blood work to ease my mind. She also had me go in a few days later for an ultrasound with the tech who had better equipment and more experience reading sonograms. The tech told me that she could see only a gestational sac with no yolk or fetal pole and that it looked like I was only 4 weeks along. I got my first positive BFP on June 10. Well since this pregnancy I had seemed to have a lot more symptoms than the others, ie: nausea, bloating, gas, sore nipples, etc etc, I was sure the HCG would come back normal and that I was possibly not as far along as I thought. To my surprise my levels came out so low and hardly rising at all.
The first 6/22-HCG 747,
6/24-HCG 853,
6/26-HCG 903.
I had cried for two days and I have already resolved myself to the fact that I will miscarry. I have had no further spotting and I haven’t had any cramping except for the normal cramping that I felt during my other good pregnancies. The doctor called yesterday and wants to do another ultrasound Thursday, July 2nd. After reading the stories online I haven’t heard of many women with HCG levels like mine who had happy endings.
Do you ladies think there is any hope for this to turn out good?
Also, any ideas on what can cause recurrent pregnancy loss or blighted ovums AFTER having had healthy pregnancies? What kinds of tests can be done to find out why this is happening to me all of a sudden?
Michelle answers:
To begin, with, I must state that I do not think this pregnancy looks good-however, anything is possible and I’ve heard weirder things than someone with slow/low rising hcg having a healthy pregnancy. That said, to answer your other question about recurrent pregnancy loss after healthy babies…
I’m no doctor, but I have a very, very strong feeling that it is hormone inssuffiency. It’s not anything else structural, and you aren’t too old, so it has to be something of this nature. I think, from my own experience, that sometimes if your periods don’t return to absolute normal after each pregnancy, there is risk that your hormones are all out of whack and that you have a greater chance of miscarrying since you need a good hormonal balance to sustain healthy pregnancies. To correct this, I’d suggest taking the pill for six months or even less to get everything regular and back on schedule. Many obgyn’s sugges this as a first resort to infertility issues (I know you arent’ infertile, but to get everything going on a normal schedule, this will help).
So, my next thought is the following: miscarriages disperesed between healthy pregnancies is not unheard of or uncommon. Humans are notoriously bad at procreation-we have the highest rate of miscarriage of any species! Many doctors argue that it isn’t just a 25% miscarriage rate, but at least 50%! So, you are NORMAL! Think about it: the more you get pregnant, the more these miscarriage statistics apply! So, you are normal. Don’t fret! The loss of a fetus and the loss of the excitment and hopefullness for that baby is hard. But it’s much easier if you remember that miscarriage is a very normal part of being human, especially if you have been pregnant as much as you have.
Besides, there’s a higher power (God, or whatever) and when/if it’s meant to be, there’s not much power we have over anything :).
Good luck with your future pregnancies and be thankful for the healthy children you already have. Many women aren’t as lucky as you.
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