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@MrsMom: wow that must have been so scary! I’ve heard similar stories before and I just can’t imagine. @bhbee: I feel like this could go either way. I keep thinking how low the chance of miscarriage is at 14 weeks, which is reassuring, but I also wonder if I could have had a missed miscarriage a few weeks ago and my body just has taken a while to react. I had a miscarriage before my kids at 8 Weeks where baby had stopped growing at 6 weeks. The bleeding and cramping ramped up pretty fast though but constantly going to the bathroom to check the bleeding situation is still so familiar, 6 years later

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the condolences and kind words. I never thought this would happen in the second trimester. To share a little more of what happened, things progressed from the brown spotting on Monday night quite suddenly in the early hours. I had some cramping on and off as I was trying to sleep, when suddenly bright red bleeding started with a gush. I basically got stuck sitting on the toilet for 2 hours or so with trickles and gushes of blood/clots and started to wonder what to do, so I called the advice nurse and they suggested to come in. I called a friend who lives close by to avoid waking all the kids, and she dropped me off.

The bleeding progressed at the hospital and I knew things weren’t going to be a good outcome even though the ER doctor kept saying it could go either way 🙄. He couldn’t see my uterus on the ultrasound because of gas bubbles which seemed ridiculous. When I got up to the bathroom, I ended up fainting on the toilet three times before the nurses got Me back to bed. That was such a scary feeling but I felt better with fluids. Finally they had the OB resident come down, she confirmed pregnancy was almost finished passing (she kept saying the pregnancy tissue has passed on its own ) but had some parts she removed from the cervix. They were going to watch bleeding to see if I need it cleaned out. Then I was napping for a bit and the new doctor that came on came to introduce himself. It surprised me and I sat up, which was a big mistake, it made me totally drop my blood pressure all the way to 40/20s and I felt so horrible. Then doctor cleaned out the cervix and canal more and my blood pressure came up with more fluids. The ob team came back and ended up doing sort of like a D and C and giving me a shot to help contract everything and that helped the bleeding slow to almost nothing. They got something to do genetic testing on. My doctor told me typically at this late stage, it’s typically chromosomal abnormalities, and it’s unusual to pass the pregnancy on your own. So I guess that’s why I ended up hemorrhaging so much. They kept me there hoping my high heartrate and low blood pressure would improve but ultimately I needed a blood transfusion. They finally let me leave at 5 pm against their better advice but want me to be extremely careful moving around, and come back if bleeding picks up. I really didn’t want stay in that depressing room any more all alone. They didn’t even have meal service, just frozen stuff you could ask your nurse for. I feel a lot better being in my own space, able to cuddle my kids and eat take out.

Oh and in terms of being in the er in this crazy time, I felt pretty safe because they have separate covid areas, separate respiratory areas, and everyone wore masks. My mask didn’t seem that effective with all the crying with it on

It was kind of cathartic to write that all out. This was a pretty traumatic experience, after the surprise of getting pregnant, 8-10’weeks of nausea and feeling like crap, and now starting to show and feel really good, only to have this happen.