New Here - Looking for support - Concern over MC

harper3021

Hi there,

First time here but feeling rather desperate lately and hoping to possibly hear from others who may have had a similar experience.

My husband and I tried to conceive naturally for well over a year until we finally started the process of looking into what could be causing a problem conceiving. Long story short I had low ovarian reserve. After 2 doctors and failed IVF rounds my dearest friend came to us and offered to be a known donor.

I am now 6 weeks pregnant but started bleeding on Thursday of this past week. I would categorize it as spotting but of course was terrified. On Friday I went in for an ultrasound and everything looked great. Unfortunately no explanation for the bleeding. Of course, I’ve been down a rabbit hole on the internet and read so many different explanations for this along with the most scary of explanations… the beginning of a MC. I went all day Saturday (yesterday) with no bleeding. Today around 4:30 pm I had shooting pain suddenly in my lower abdomen and felt nauseous. It felt more like when I get severely constipated and need to go. I sat on the toilet and worked through the nausea (never threw up) or went the bathroom but I did start bleeding again. The cramping lasted approximately 25 minutes but I’ve continued to spot of and off.

Of course, I’m terrified of the worst. I can’t tell if my anxiety has worked myself into a frenzy of feeling sick or if I actually am continuing to feel sick.

I’ll call my nurse tomorrow to follow up on what happened today and I have a follow up ultrasound Tuesday but am hoping to hear if anyone had this experience at all? Or did you have bleeding in your first trimester at all and did you ever have a cause?

For more context if needed - I had a frozen embryo transfer. I’m currently taking progesterone in oil shots nightly and taking estrogen daily (3 orally and 2 vaginal).

Appreciate your support!

-M

00kim00

I had a FET, significant bleeding at 5 weeks (more like a period than spotting, plus cramps, for a couple of days), then spotting again at 7 weeks. I'm now 22 weeks and baby is healthy. The doctors never had an explanation for my bleeding, but I have my theories. They transferred 2 embryos, so I think the bleeding at 5 weeks was that both initially stuck, but we lost one twin. Around 7 weeks, I learned, is when the placenta starts making progesterone (prior to that, it's the corpus luteum; I've read anywhere from 6 weeks to 12 weeks is when the shift happens). It's not abnormal to bleed at that time as your body makes the transition. You'd think the PIO would mitigate that, but I was on PIO, too. So it's possible that everything is okay. I didn't have any cramping with my bleeding at 7 weeks, so I'm not sure if that's a sign of something else. I hope everything turns out okay for you!

harper3021

Thanks so much for your reply! Makes me feel a little better knowing others experienced bleeding. The bleeding has stopped as of this morning and now I just wait until tomorrow for my next scan to see if everything is okay. Appreciate your support!

atlgagrl

Bleed could be for several reasons, many of them pose no negative effects. Hematoma is one of the reasons but like many other reasons body fixes that itself.

I am only mentioning it to you now so that you can ask doc doing the scan if they see any hematoma. I followed YouTube ivf blog Caitlyn Neier and that vlog had bleeding and hematoma. She was scared but weny on to have baby.

Hoping for the best result for you.
Hang in there, take one day at a time and one scan at a time.