Bleeding

bsamples381 · January 2016

Hello all!

I am 9w 2d along and have been experiencing bleeding since about Christmas. I got it checked out and was told it was due to a small separation between the placenta and uterus. I've done everything I was told to do and it continues. Anyone else experiencing this? Did you get it to stop and how? Im getting tired of being freaked out by it. Thanks.

mouse1029 · January 2016

How long has it been since the doctor checked? That seems a bit long to me for no check when you're bleeding.

bsamples381 · January 2016

Haven't seen my ob yet. Went to the ER twice. Last time was about 2 weeks ago. I did tell my ob what was going on, but they said to wait for my appt. That because I was under 12 weeks, they really couldn't do anything.

daisylove15 · January 2016

I know what you're going through. I'm 11w3d today and have had on and off bleeding since 8 weeks. I actually ended up in the emergency room on Thursday because the bleeding was so bad. I also get the "you're under 12 weeks so there's really nothing we can do" speech from my obgyn. So frustrating! They did end up doing an u/s in the ER and said I had a SCH that might be bleeding.

The doctor in the ER said to drink lots of water, limit my standing and walking (difficult as a teacher), and lay on my left side to slow/stop the bleeding. I find that when the bleeding starts (even the hemmoraghing the other night), laying on my left side does seem to help!

bsamples381 · January 2016

Thanks daisylove15. Kinda helps to know I'm not the only one dealing with bleeding lasting more than a couple weeks. All other posts said theirs only lasted a few days. It makes you think.."really? So what's wrong with me?"

ladipale · January 2016

Yes! I am 8 weeks today and have been bleeding/spotting since before 6 weeks. been to the OB twice - I have a SCH as well. Its very stressful. I also teach, and have 2 kids at home so resting is a little difficult.

daisylove15 · January 2016

I have that "what's wrong with me??" feeling a lot! I have 3 friends (but not super close ones) who are also pregnant and we are all at the end of the first trimester. I'm the only one who hasn't announced the pregnancy yet, but I'm just waiting for it to all go wrong, you know? They all seem to have these happy, perfect pregnancies and here I am panicking about spotting and bleeding 2-3 times a week. Ugh.

HeyStVincent · January 2016

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Hi there. I am in the same situation. I've had bleeding off and on since finding out I was pregnant in mid-December. At 5 wks + 3 d I went to the ED once to r/o an ectopic. They didn't mention anything about a bleed, but it may have been too small to see at that point, or it may have been completely unrelated. Bleeding slowly subsided after the ED visit (for about a week), then returned about a week and a half ago - with a small amount of red blood here and there, but for the most part it was scant brown spotting. Then two days ago (Sunday) I had a fair amount of red bleeding - not enough for a pad, but more than I had seen at one time so far.

I already had an OB appt scheduled for the next day (yesterday/Monday), so I decided to wait until then to discuss w/ my OB. When we did my U/S we saw an appropriately sized embryo with a "good heartbeat" (according to my OB -- he didn't give me a number). However, we also saw a bleed at the edge of my placenta. It sounded like the OB was describing a subchorionic hematoma in his explanation of what was going on. He said that is likely where the bleeding has been coming from. He said it's really small, and that these things almost always resolve on their own and cause no further problems. I go back in three weeks to see if it is resolving.

In the meantime, I'm on pelvic rest and can't do any heavy lifting or exercise. We live on the 3rd floor of a walk-up which means I have to go up six stair cases to get to my condo. I also have a 20-some pound 11 month old, so this is going to be a difficult 3 weeks. :-/

Up until last month, I was working as a Maternal/Child Health RN and *almost* all of the SCH's I saw at work didn't cause any problems except spotting or bleeding. I know there were a few times where they did cause a problem, but they tended to be very large hemorrhages/hematomas - and of the large SCHs, problems were still few and far between. I'm hoping for all of us that ours will all be just a little blip on the radar and nothing to worry about!

HeyStVincent · January 2016

Hi there. I am in the same situation. I've had bleeding off and on since finding out I was pregnant in mid-December. At 5 wks + 3 d I went to the ED once to r/o an ectopic. They didn't mention anything about a bleed, but it may have been too small to see at that point, or it may have been completely unrelated. Bleeding slowly subsided after the ED visit (for about a week), then returned about a week and a half ago - with a small amount of red blood here and there, but for the most part it was scant brown spotting. Then two days ago (Sunday) I had a fair amount of red bleeding - not enough for a pad, but more than I had seen at one time so far.

I already had an OB appt scheduled for the next day (yesterday/Monday), so I decided to wait until then to discuss w/ my OB. When we did my U/S we saw an appropriately sized embryo with a "good heartbeat" (according to my OB -- he didn't give me a number). However, we also saw a bleed at the edge of my placenta. It sounded like the OB was describing a subchorionic hematoma in his explanation of what was going on. He said that is likely where the bleeding has been coming from. He said it's really small, and that these things almost always resolve on their own and cause no further problems. I go back in three weeks to see if it is resolving.

In the meantime, I'm on pelvic rest and can't do any heavy lifting or exercise. We live on the 3rd floor of a walk-up which means I have to go up six stair cases to get to my condo. I also have a 20-some pound 11 month old, so this is going to be a difficult 3 weeks. :-/

Up until last month, I was working as a Maternal/Child Health RN and *almost* all of the SCH's I saw at work didn't cause any problems except spotting or bleeding. I know there were a few times where they did cause a problem, but they tended to be very large hemorrhages/hematomas - and of the large SCHs, problems were still few and far between. I'm hoping for all of us that ours will all be just a little blip on the radar and nothing to worry about!

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