I couldnt read and run. You ladies are all so brave and I genuinely wish you all the very best love and luck for your pregnancies xx

Hello, I should be 6 going on 7 weeks pregnant and on friday I had a huge blood loss with some clots in there, I feared the worse as I've already had two miscarriages in the past year and half. I couldn't get in for a scan until today.
The scan showed two sacs, and I was told that one of them was filled with blood. The other one was much smaller and she said that it was only measuring at 5 weeks so couldn't tell if it is viable yet due to the size. Has anyone else been through the same and gone on to full term?
I have to have a re scan next Tuesday and hope and pray that there will be a heartbeat.

Hi I saw this thread, and felt I had to look, you see I should have had a twin! My mum bled and found out she still was having me when they thought she had miscarried, it wasn't really heard of back then, but my twin vanished. I am so sorry for all of your losses, but hope the rest of your pregnancies are healthy ones x

Hello Ladies,

I haven't dealt with VTS but I am mum to 13 month old twins. It would be interesting to know if the surviving twin is a lefty. I saw on tv (I think discovery) that a person who is left handed was a twin. I am curious if that is the case. My mom thought she was pregnant with twins with my middle sister (bigger than normal) but had a singleton, she was orginally a lefty. It is so fasinating how your body responds with multiples. Fetus' that are a multiple is more development in the womb than a singleton. The reason for it is cause your uterus is larger than normal so your body thinks you are further along in your pregnancy. Another discovery channel documentry. I just that I would share the last part. Good luck to you moms.

My daughter is a lefty and i believe she was VTS.As for my other 2 I can't say as a bit young yet although my youngest shows signs of left handedness x

Hi ladies,

I've been fascinated to read through this thread.

I fell pregnant with my first baby in July last year. I had pretty much continual light bleeding/spotting throughout the first 10 weeks. It was my first pregnancy and I spent most of my time reading pregnancy books and managed to explain away the bleeding with the reassurances I found in the books. I felt I would be bothering the doctor and they would think I was a hysterical first time mum so I just worried away at home. The bleeding stopped and everything pretty much settled down.

At 12 weeks, 2 weeks before I lost my little boy, I had a really heavy bleed and passed something. (TMI>>> about the size of the palm of my hand, perfectly round and a mixture of pinkish whitish and reddish colour in a vein-like pattern) I was convinced I was miscarrying at that point. I phoned NHS 24 and the midwife I spoke to there thought so too. I cried all night. When I was scanned the next day, my little boy was there, heart beating, arms waving. The midwife I spoke to said it must have been a large clot I had passed and gave me no further explanation for the bleed.

Anyway, sadly I went on to lose that little miracle boy I saw waving at me that day. I eventually called hospital as I was noticing a little brown bleeding and they called me in for a scan which showed that my wee man had died. He died just after that first scan two weeks before. Whilst I was delivering him I passed lots of clots. None of them looked like what I had passed 2 weeks earlier.

I guess I'll never know for sure whether I lost a twin. I'm not sure there is really anyone I can ask who will be able to tell me. I'm the only one to see what I saw. I think the question will be with me from now on.
What breaks my heart is that I should have gone with my instinct and got checked out early on for the bleeding. If I had had an early scan I might have known whether or not there were two there to begin with.

I can't bring myself to discuss it with my husband and I am worried my doc or midwife will think I'm imagining things!

Thought you ladies might be able to give me your opinions. Do you think it's worth asking my docs about... will they be able to tell me anymore?

I'm currently 17 weeks pregnant with my second wee one... definately only one in there and absolutely none of the weird symptoms that happened last time.

So should I be thinking about two little lost souls or just one?

Thanks for reading,
K.x

Aww hun that must have been hard and i can't really say for sure.But what you described was exactly how it was when i lost my 1st twinny and also when i had a single m/c.I saw the same as well.

Its lovely you are 17 weeks into another pregnancy.Congrats x

Thanks Eoz for your reply,

So sorry for your losses. It's such a heartbreaking thing to go through.

Hope this pregnancy is going well for you,

Much love,
K.x

So sorry for your loss Kermit. It sure does sound like it was a twin, although nobody will ever know for sure. Praying that it doesn't, but, if it happens again, you can always save what came out and take it in for them to run tests on to find out for sure. I really had a hard time accepting everything at first and seriously thought about some counseling. I did not have any, however, I wish I would have as I am sure it would have made it much easier for me to say goodbye.

So happy that you are 17 weeks along now. That is wonderful news!! A happy and healthy rest of the pregnancy to you!!

I'm sad for everyone's losses, but glad to see awareness of this being raised. My Aunt, cousin and sister have all had confirmed VTS.

to you all xx