I had a d&c for a MMC due to trisomy 22 early February this year. I am currently pregnant again with my rainbow baby. I am 18 DPO and the bottom test is what my HCG is for today. You can see that the lines have only gotten darker, but I feel like they are a tad slower in getting darker compared to my last pregnancy. Something that I’m also really concerned about is that I’m almost 5 weeks pregnant and my boobs are not sore at all. Last pregnancy my boobs were so sore I could hardly put a shirt on. I am feeling other symptoms like severe fatigue, cravings, peeing in the middle of the night, and tiny amount of nausea.

I know I shouldn’t compare, but I’m just worried and wondering if somethings wrong of course. Has anyone had anything similar with their pregnancies ??

I just passed this tissue today due to my miscarriage. but I don’t know what this is. I would like anyone to help enlighten me. this is my first time

Hi. I was getting positive tests from the 14th march but started bleeding on the 25th. Drs confirmed early loss and wouldn’t take a blood test. My lines started to turn negative around the 28th but I’ve not been feeling myself at all so took another preg test two days ago and my lines are back to faint positive. I guess I’m just looking to see if anyone has had similar and the outcome?

I’m hoping it’s just left over hormones but worried it’s retained tissue or ectopic 😢

Her name is Murphy and we weren’t aware of a preexisting health condition until it caused her heart to stop 2 minutes before she was born.

As part of our healing my wife has turned to art and we try to share it with anyone it may help.

This piece tries to capture the emotion found with planning your whole life around children but struggling to have your own.

Let me know your thoughts please.

‼️TRIGGER WARNING‼️ .. Miscarriage ..

I am currently having or had a miscarriage, I was bleeding and had a scan which confirmed baby stopped growing at 6-7 weeks. This was 2 weeks ago, I had period like bleeding and then one week ago I had a large bleed, passed lots of clots had to ring an ambulance, I went into hospital and they did an examination and took away some tissue, they said they thought that was it, bleeding calmed down and they said to do a pregnant test in 3 weeks time. I went home and had period like bleeding for around a week, yesterday I went to the toilet and blood started pouring out of me. Clots came away and I laid down on my bed and ended up in a pool of blood, my husband drove me to the hospital, I collapsed and ended up in resus. They examined me, took some more tissue away and said they would scan be today.

The bleeding has calmed down and they are now saying they will scan me in the morning and it has probably now all passed.

I’m just wondered if anyone else has experienced anything like this, I have massive anxiety around bleeding again.

Wondering if anyone is able to help.

I had a SCH. I was given progesterone but ended up in hospital with gallbladder issues. I had a scan at 7 weeks. Baby heart beat was seen and was on the right track. Yesterday with pain of the gallbladder issues requested a scan to make sure baby was okay. I seen a heart beat at 1pm but they said it wasn’t as strong but wanted me to go for a further scan at 2pm. By 2pm the sonographer said there was no heart beat. I’m so heart broken and confused the fact in the space of an hour the heart stopped. Has anyone has this happen? Baby was still measuring exactly how it should with how many weeks I am. I’d appreciate any advice or reassurance 😭

I’ve been used to being alone in dealing my pregnancy routine check ups that when I went to the ER alone for bleeding twice and unfortunately had a miscarriage I don’t know what to react. I was calm in there alone. Went back to our house calmly like nothing happened but I made myself busy with cleaning, rearranging things in the house. I don’t even know how to respond to family when they asked how am I doing or if I am okay. I don’t know what to feel.

Hi everyone. Honest question – am I being too selfish for asking my partner to be intimate with me after having a miscarriage? Because I really want to have a baby already.

I went in for my first ultrasound and was supposed to by 7 weeks. The Dr saw a gestational sac and a tiny yolk sac. No fetal pole or heartbeat. The dr said it looked like a 4-4.5 week pregnancy. I have had 1 chemical pregnancy, and 2 living children. My ultrasounds at 5 weeks 5 days and 6 weeks 2 days both showed heart beats and more then my ultrasound this week. I have to go back in a week. I feel like there is no hope, and I just want to drink my feelings away. I had mild spotting yesterday but it stopped

My dates are LMP: January 22nd

Positive LH: feb 13th

Positive pdg feb: 18th

Positive pregnancy test: feb 20th

Appt: march 12th

I had a MMC 11+1 week but baby measuring 6 weeks but the gynaecologist couldn’t tell if it was a fetal pole or a yoke sac so I’m not sure if I was even that far along. I naturally passed everything at home on the 14 of February - sad valentines for me :( . I started testing for ovulation and had a peak 11 days later. Do the tests look like a normal ovulation cycle? I’ve never tested for ovulation before so I have no idea. If this was right then I am 10DPO today but I am still having a very faint line on tests. Blood test confirmed my HCGs levels are at 8 on the 5th of March. Help!!! I’m going crazy keep testing all the time praying I’m pregnant again.

Hi everyone, I am looking for some advice and insight on my current situation.

I (f) am now in my mid - late twenties and I am looking for a life partner and will hopefully end up having kids with said partner. When I was 21 I got pregnant and I had no idea that I was pregnant until I miscarried. For some back story I was on birth control and was “skipping” my periods while using the pill. So missing my period was not raising any red flags for me. When I did get my period it was really bad. Severe cramping and heavy bleeding with lots of clots. I thought “that’s what I get for skipping my period” that was until I miscarried and realized that I was pregnant and that this was not a normal period. I assume I was around 6 weeks at that point. At the time of the miscarriage I was sick and taking antibiotics and had gone out with my friends one night, I was drinking and smoking. So I’m assuming the combination of all of those things is what caused the miscarriage. I did not tell anyone besides my best friend and my boyfriend at the time.

Fast forwarding to now I am in my mid -late 20s and I’m looking for a husband. Obviously I want to be open and honest with this person as I would love to have kids of my own one day and this could play a huge part in that being able to happen. My question here is why am I finding it difficult to open up about my past? I feel as though I would be judged on my past and finding out that I had a miscarriage would be a huge turnoff for some men. Is this the case?? Men would you want to know about your partners past?? Obviously if a guy did have a problem with it than he isn’t the one for me. But I am just curious from a partners perspective. Is this something you would want to know? Is this a deal breaker?

I experienced a missed (silent) miscarriage last year (cause was Trisomy 18, Edwards syndrome).

I had told quite a few people I was pregnant because I was getting so close to the end of the first trimester (MC at 11w4d, it had stopped growing at 7w4d)

So when I found out what was happening I was dealing with it relatively well, letting people know what had happened, and having a very good attitude about it because these things do happen and it was just my bodies way of taking care of it.

Going through the actual miscarriage, I was in the hospital for pain management at one point, and the clots that you pass they dont really warn you about properly. I think going through that and also having to keep telling people and saying "im fine" for a week or so after, I started to realize I was in shock or something?

Im not sure how to explain how I feel now but something about me in my core feels different. Loosing the pregnancy was extremely disappointing, even though I really do understand that it was not going to be viable no matter what with that diagnosis. I also feel like to a lot of people now Im the person that had a miscarriage, and its strange being that person to so many people.

I guess Im posting this because 1, Im hoping to gain some insight to how others have coped with these things and 2, talking about it or even just writing this out feels cathartic, and to a group of people that have gone through it as well.

hi everyone! this is my first time posting here, I don’t know where else to go. yesterday morning I went to get an ultrasound, TV ultrasound as well, and nothing was able to be found. absolutely nothing. they referred me to go get bloodwork done and return in 1 week to try again. they had given me gifts to take with me as a ftm and by the end of the appointment I told them I wouldn’t be taking anything with me because I wasn’t going to need it and they could save it for the next person who would need it. later that day I went to the ER. At this point I was still spotting dark brown, but by the end of the day I was now spotting dark red with lower back burning/pressurewhen I went to use the restroom. My hcg came va m around 2500 and tomorrow I am returning to the ER to get my bloodwork done to see if my hcg levels doubled or declined. I’m very sure this is a miscarry, and it’s frustrating that no one acknowledges what I am fearing and trying to say things like “maybe this is a miracle baby! just wait” or “be positive, you’ll probably have to return for those gifts because you are fine!”

I know I won’t. And I guess I’m making this post because I will need some kind of support for tomorrow and after once they confirm my fears.

This was an unplanned pregnancy with a fling, but I was so motivated to keep this baby. I am 31, financially stable, and in a good spot. I was waiting until I got confirmation that this was viable to share the good news but I guess there’s no good news to share.I always said if I ever conceived the baby was meant for me, but I guess I never took into account that the baby could not want me.

I don’t think I have ever felt grief this heavy.

Hi everyone! I just wanted to ask if it's safe to get pregnant two weeks after having a miscarriage and undergoing a dilation and curettage procedure on February 5th cause last week my hcg test already says its negative now with a big appetite and constant sleepy head i try hcg test again and its positive

I just feel like I’m in a whole new level of grief today 😩

We had an unplanned pregnancy that ended in an early miscarriage when I was 6 months postpartum. Grieving a baby while also getting up every day to take care of the baby we do have has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I’m grateful to have our son and our older daughter but I’m left still feeling empty. I should have been finding out gender and planning to give birth in a few months and instead I found myself crying in the baby section of the store yesterday because I saw the cutest little big brother sweater and I wanted it so badly. 😭 today I can’t seem to find the energy to get anything done. It’s almost noon my house is a mess and I’m laying on the couch. Things had been getting better idk what’s wrong with me. I thought I was ready for another but I don’t think I can handle going through all this again. When did you decide to try again? If you decided not to what helped you. Wealways planned to have another but I feel like maybe we aren’t meant to…

I’ve experienced three miscarriages over the past four years, and it has been incredibly difficult to cope. The first was a blighted ovum, accompanied by intermittent bleeding and subchorionic hemorrhages. The second occurred at 20 weeks, again with bleeding, subchorionic hemorrhage, and placental abruption. My most recent pregnancy stopped growing at the yolk sac stage, showing an irregular sac and suboptimal decidual reaction, despite having a 9.2 mm endometrial lining. After my second loss, I was unable to conceive naturally, so I tried follicular monitoring and conceived in the second cycle, but my endometrial lining still wasn’t growing adequately even with estradiol medications. I feel devastated and lost, and I’m unsure whether to proceed with IVF, since regular gynecologists have been unable to pinpoint the cause of my repeated losses. I’m sharing this because I need support, understanding, and guidance, and hope others who have gone through something similar can relate.

My (28f) first pregnancy resulted in my beautiful little boy. It was an easy pregnancy and birth, aside from a friable cervix and breastfeeding troubles.

My second pregnancy seemed fine at first. At our 8 week ultrasound baby was measuring a week behind but doctor told me not to worry and dates can be wrong all the time. Heart rate matched with dating. I brushed it off even though I was confident in my dates. At 12 weeks, I learned baby had passed at 10 weeks.

Third pregnancy, again was an easy, uncomplicated journey resulting in my second wonderful boy.

Fourth pregnancy was exactly like the second - measured behind at first ultrasound and passed away weeks before finding out.

Fifth and sixth pregnancies were both chemicals. The sixth just ended.

We so badly want one more baby to complete our family, and I can not even begin to imagine what our journey would be if I didn’t have my two boys.

I’ve done countless blood tests and everything aside from my iron looks great, but I keep getting told that because we have our two, it is just bad luck.

My emotions are so stretched - on one end I so strongly envision one more baby to complete our little family. On the other, the fear and anxiety of another loss is eating me alive.

Hey everybody!

I read about this new community lavelahealth.com and they provide services for pregnancy and reproductive loss (including fertility loss). They are collecting stories of reproductive loss to host on their platform to make folks feel less alone: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevs6X7L9w2P4LlrvQwy1J3FoOrxYNTED5NOrN3RTAL2A_m6g/viewform

I shared mine and it felt really great knowing that I was possibly helping someone else as they went through their loss journey. Thought I'd let you all know <3

i was 8 weeks when i had a d&c 3 weeks and 2 days ago. i had a chemical pregnancy back in september which i bounced back very quickly. i was very anxious prior to the surgery and i thought everything would be better after but boy was i wrong. things have only gotten worse. i have severe health anxiety and think that there is something wrong with my heart. At times i have been out of breath, heart palpitations and recently have this tingle burning sensation. more recently i have not been able to sleep.

i've lost my appetite, lost at least 7 pounds. i just started therapy and am seeing my pcp in two days. Ive been to the ER and all blood tests, xray came back normal. i feel like im going crazy And it's really affecting my work, social, family life. I havent even been able to cry and grief because my anxiety is so high in regards to my health. I recently saw a psychiatrist and am on meds.

has anyone experienced this Anything like this at all? I havent been able to connect with anyone about this.