Bleeding in pregnancy

Poppy9

Dippy, it's time to get out the bri-nylon nightie, frilly bed jacket and take yourself off to the hospital. With 3 young children you can't be expected to cope with this and with the weekend coming you are better off being seen today by the hosptial staff.

They are not going to do anything horrid to you they will just check you over before deciding what action to take if any. At least in hospital they can give you some decent pain killers to help with the pain and a giant bed pad to cope with the bleeding.

Carmina_Piranha_3

Dippychick wrote: »

But what will they do to me if I go to hospital?

I hate going

we can tell make sure you get to the doctors.

i was going to send your husband a hug too - is that allowed or are you still cross with him?

specialK

Sorry for all that you are going through. Like the sound advice already given, which you have already acted upon you really do need a professional opinion.
Like I have already said, you are not superwoman! (Even she can hold her hands up and say ENOUGH!)
Although you are trying to hold it all together, jump off for a bit, everything will still be there when you jump back on! (the washing, ironing, cooking etc) OK this does not sound very appealing, I admit, just remember a tired mummy is not a good mummy. Stop thinking about this rationally and think of yourself for a bit!
xxx
P.S Your husband is probably stuck on what he can say to convince you to go. It has been a bad week for you all. Just get it sorted so you can continue being 'you'.

Mrs7ones

Hi,
I've just had a quick read through this, (please forgive me if I've missed something by reading so fast), but if you are still passing clots and having pain you need to go into hospital for a possible D&C.
I've been through 3 miscarriages - all 'missed miscarriages', usually where the baby has stopped growing at about 6 weeks and I have started to bleed at between 10 and 12 weeks.(incedently, I also went through exactly the same symptoms with DS2 who is now 7....:rolleyes:).
One of the times, the hospital was sure I had passed everything myself, but I went on to have clots and pain like you are describing. I turned out that I hadn't actually passed everything, and needed a D&C after all.
So, I've had 3 D&C's to date, and believe me, there's nothing to worry about at all..

So please - get yourself checked out.... and take care. xx

Mips

I am going, I have had enough of it now.. I have have used half a pack of pads now and am feeling rough so will wait to see what the Dr says to me.

Carmina - yes hubby can have a hug, he's mopped all the floors and made my lunch so he has marginally redeemed himself but he's still got a long way to go :rolleyes:

I should have gone yesterday and would be OK by now.

No more contractions, that was awful. Pain just like period ache now so am ok there, but the blood loss is frightening.

I keep showing hubby the pads and he asked me if I want to go to A&E now to bypass the Doctors but I will be waiting around there for test results when a Dr will ring up for me to get seeen to if I need it.

I hope Dr has a magic tablet to make me stop bleeding. Not likely though.

Someone saying they had a blood transfusion freaked me out..

Tashja

Dippychick,

Just wanted to send youa big hug.

I too have had 1 miscarriage and a Heterotopic pregnancy (how unlucky ??) so know what you are going through.

Try to hold out to the GP's because like you say he will refer you to hospital with no hanging around for 3/4 hours in A&E.

Hope your as ok as can be Hun

T xx

Mrs7ones

From experiance at my hospital, there was no waiting - a suspected miscarriage is treated as urgent and will be dealt with straight away....
IMHO, I would go straight to A&E - you'll possibly be admitted and possibly straight to theatre, and home in the morning.....
But please don't be scared - there is nothing to fear....

Js_Other_Half

I hope you are now at the GPs, being booked into the hospital.
(I had a d&c after having a period for months (pcos) and they wanted rid of the lining. Honestly, I don't know what was in the anaesthetic, but I woke up in the best mood.)

Men sometimes don't behave in ways we understand...:P

<hugs>

miggy

I do hope you've gone in, Dippy... in case you haven't:
A D&C (if you have one) isn't that bad. I had one. I don't remember much about it. What dominated at the time was the mental pain.
Remember you can refuse treatment if you want. Just get a professional opinion. Also the hospital will want what's best for you.
I will second all those who are saying that both you and your husband have gone through a huge amount in the past few days and are under tremendous strain. Eventually, through tiredness and stress, it shows. You will need to take extra care of each other in the coming days. People react differently to miscarriage, you have the added strain on your body and there are the other children still needing to be taken care of. It is to be expected that you won't guess what each other are thinking, and quite likely one or both of you (more likely him) won't have the vocabulary to express what's going on emotionally. I found it helped a bit to hear from others who had been through the same - not because they felt identically but because it meant I wasn't alone.
There are lots of us here wanting to be there for you. I hope that gives you some comfort.

Mips

Hiya

I went to the Drs who sent me straight to the hospital with my scan notes.

I had no idea that the Drs get sent copies of things from hospital. That was quick.

Well, I got to the hospital who said they would keep me in for a D & C on Monday :eek: . He gave me another internal to see if he could hook anything out but he couldn't see anything so just have to wait for a scan on Monday.

I told him I can handle the bleeding so long as I am not going to bleed to death in my bed - seriously, that was worrying me! He said I can always go back tonight if I need to but I can stay at home if I would feel more comfortable, which I would.

So, Monday I will be checked out and I am at least on record at the Ward should I need to go in quickly.

Thanks again for all the support - I am going to take a few paracetamol and a large Glass of Orange and have an early night watching Over the Hedge again with monster toddler who's full of beans from the hospital



To anyone else here miscarrying/suspecting - get yourself to a Dr/hospital as soon as you can and don't suffer at home. A miscarriage for me, was on par with actual childbirth and I mean that. It was agony last night. Only thing different was, I could drink Wine to send me to sleep.

ETA: Obviously not full childbirth.. but seriously, that was so painful I am glad its over.