"Some women can have all of the signs of miscarriage, including at times severe bleeding and cramps, and not be in any danger of losing the baby due to a condition called menstrual molimena and these symptoms do not represent a threatened miscarriage. What you do is follow the levels of HCG and watch them rise normally and make sure you keep getting healthy ultrasounds and a pelvic done to see the status of your cervix. If it's closed and you're still bleeding and clotting? Just relax as if you were diagnosed with a threatened miscarriage Kick up your feet and just breathe. Take Tylenol for any pain. I've had patients who bled through nine months of pregnancy from day one until delivery day. Their fears ended when they held their beautiful babies."

We're talking bleeding. clotting, cramping, etc. Some of you have been following my posts where I've been spotting since Dec 2nd and have gone from spotting to full blown bright red bleeding with clots, cramps so bad I've been doubled over and crying and telling OH we've lost the baby. Last night I went to the ER after saying I wouldn't after passing a large dark clot the size of a large prune. Got there. They didn't do an US because I'd had "an extremely healthy pregnancy indicated by the last two" that I had on Dec 2nd and Dec 5th. The doctor DID do a full pelvic exam which wasn't done the last time and we found a VERY long and VERY tightly closed cervix. And then I was told about that condition. According to my levels of HCG that keep going up we should be just fine. But when you pass blood and pas clots it's easy to be SUPER scared. Clotting apparently can and will develop in the vagina and are not necessarily passed through the cervix which can mean you can be 100% ok. I was told "they say 30% of women experience bleeding but I'd place that number MUCH higher. It's actually very normal but it is worth getting checked out."

Googling it I find very very little info and I WISH they had more! Apparently it's very common around the time periods would be due. Moreso at 4, 8, & 12 weeks. Bleeding at 12 weeks is generally because of the placenta implanting. No one knows what triggers all of this, but science is still science and I'll cling to whatever I can.

So folks who are bleeding and cramping and clotting? Provided you see a healthy US with a heartbeat and your cervix is closed? Relax and just try to enjoy the ride. I know a lot of us are nervous wrecks especially the lot of us who have experienced and MC before (like me) but try to relax.

I go in tomorrow to my OB for a scan in his office.


and as for a name? We've all decided that should I have a girl at the end of all of this we're naming her Scarlett... Of course we'll fob off saying we got the name from Gone with the Wind, but Scarlett was one of my front runner names for a girl and we'll just say they've earned it.

Chin up girls. There's hope and now we have a name for it!

What positive info, thank you! I really hope it reassures our girls with bleeds xx

I really do hope it helps them. It's helped me A LOT. Fingers crossed for everyone.

Thanks for that, gives a glimmer of hope!

This is really interesting information, thank you. I have had spotting for two weeks, followed by quite a bit of bleeding yesterday and then even more again today. They won't give me a scan yet (I know, it's insane) and I have just about accepted that the bean is gone but it is interesting to learn that this is not necessarily the case. I feel like I could cope with bad news but for heaven's sake I wish they would just send me for a scan so I would know!!!

I'm not sure if I can go to accident & emergency in this country (although I have lived here for years I am fortunate that I have never had to know how it works before) but if I don't get some decent answers tomorrow I will ask my friend who works in a hospital and take control!

Good luck and thanks again for sharing this info!

Thanks so much for this post - I have been bleeding non stop since Saturday morning and they can't get me in for a scan until Wednesday. As I am not in any pain (only period feelings) they don't feel it is an emergency. I am 11 weeks today on first pregnancy and husband and I have prepared ourselves for the worst just in case. It's good to know it may not be over so soon though. It's the waiting that is the worst though - I'd rather know one way or the other instead of worrying like this! Thanks again for your helpful post

Ooo that is a really helpful post particularly at this terribly scary time. Thankyou for that!!!

My thoughts are with all the lovley ladies going through this absolutley shitful ordeal!

How interesting - thanks for the post. My best friend bled through the first 16 weeks of pregnancy - at one point gushing with blood where it had gone through her trousers an her mum and dad rushed her to hospital - she was convinced she'd miscarried. However at the US there was her baby girl kicking about - the doctor couldn't really tell her than much only that the human body is a strange thing and no 2 are the same with how they deal with different things!

I had an awful time during my 2nd pg...I bled bright red..I POURED with blood, I was loosing about a cup full an hour !!! I also lots clots and had cramping.
I was like this from 12weeks until the day he was born. I was told on 4 occations I was having an 'inevitable' m/c...........

BUT.... my son is nearly 2 yrs old now (He was born very prem)

I had a massive subchronic heamatoma which made me have a placenta abruption.

I have just had a m/c 6 weeks ago and bled alot less.

Bleeding is NOT always negative (need to take my own advice sometimes as I am spotting now and convinced myself it is over again!)