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Q: Completely scared out of my mind. Does every woman experience bleeding in early pregnancy?

I am very grateful to be pregnant again after experiencing a blighted ovum in October of last year. Although I'm only 5+ weeks, I've already rushed to the ER due to lower back pains and brown spotting accompanied by stomach pains. My ultrasound was too early to show anything (not even a fetal pole). But my doc said my WBC is 18,000 which is extremely high. I'm scheduled for another ultrasound next Friday but I can't help but to freak out especially now that I wipe the spotting has turned from brown to pink. Has anyone experienced bleeding with pain and still had a healthy successful pregnancy?

Thank you a head of time for your responses. They are greatly appreciated.

This question was asked Jul. 26, 2012 3:04am
Category: Miscarriage & Loss

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Answered by Kfinzue - Jul. 30, 2012 1:35am
personally I never bled. I did have to have 4 doctors visits immediately after finding out I was pregnant. I had cramping that felt just like AF, no bleeding or anything else though. The first doctor i saw was very blunt and told me i was probably miscarrying and then left the room (he was very rude) only to come back in and say "oh you're not bleeding? we'll do a ultra sound then just in case" needless to say I am now 22 weeks with a healthy baby. my cramping was not severe by any means, but enough to scare me, it ended up lasting through most of my first trimester. Turns out every female on my dads side of the family had that. Most of us also happened to have tilted uterus'. hope this helped. Just try not to stress.

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Answered by expectingmommy1 - Jul. 26, 2012 6:20pm
well like everyone who expierneces that of course its a scary thing. obviiusly in some cases it could mean that sadly but true m/c BUUUT not usually unless its very heavy and sometimes that not even the case. usually what that means is the baby implanted into the lining of your uterus and that just happens. its normal to get nothing on the u/s bc baby is still small.your best thing is to SIT BACK AND TRY NOT TO STRESS, and know that your HCG came back high which is great news! good luck sweetie!

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Answered by monroezelda - Jul. 26, 2012 4:05pm
sory ran out of room, so she bled heavily lost clots for about 4 days, and she was just told to stay in bed, she wasnt offered scans or anything - well that baby is now a 16 year old teenager, so just to say stay positive if you can and I hope everything goes well for u as it did for my sister.

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Answered by monroezelda - Jul. 26, 2012 4:04pm
I had light brown almost a beigy pink color, I had already done tests so knew I was pregnant, I went in for a scan and I was 5 weeks 4 days, the lady who does the scans said everything looked great there was no signs of bleeding inside me and the heartbeat was seen, everything went fine from then on except for the most horrendous nausea I have ever felt in my life, really wanted to curl up an die, then one night around 3am on the 21st november 2011 I felt like I had wet myself and when I check it was bright red blood, I went the ER and they said my cervix was still closed, so to come back for a scan in a week, so I went for a scan 2 days later( my cousin worked in the hospital so was able to get me seen quicker) there was no heartbeat and the baby was only measuring between 7 - 9 weeks, I had a D@C early december, but just to add that my previous spotting had nothing to do with my mc, and my sister when she was around 8 weeks lost a clot the size of a dinner plate and bled heavily

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Answered by dmartin65 - Jul. 26, 2012 3:39pm
I would definately let your doctor know that it has turned pink. They need to know of any discharge and the change in color of discharge. I had some spotting (light pink/brown, not red) around the time AF was due to start and my doctor said it was either my implantation bleeding making its way out or breakthrough bleeding (which is when the body does not produce enough progesterone to tell AF not to show). I only spotted for about an hour, passed one long clot and then it went away. Then about 5 weeks ago, I had some red spotting, just spotted once. In the ultrasound they found a small subchrionic hematoma, which after pelvic rest, healed itself. Notify your doctor of the change in color and stay calm and relaxed. Hopefully everything will work out fine. It's in God's hands.

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Answered by zaiobaio - Jul. 26, 2012 10:38am
I had brown spotting/discharge which started in week 4 and had it in week 5, 6 and finished in week 7 .I was so scared , had my first scan in 6+2 they saw yolk sac but didnt see the baby ...then in 8+2 I was able to see my little one and also heard the heart beat , everything is normal now....I no longer have that brown discharge ...But I want to notice that I never had pain . So dont worry if they didnt see the baby in week 5...they didnt see mine in week 6 too...Take it easy and everything will come natural.

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Answered by mandylee13 - Jul. 26, 2012 7:03am
With all my successful pregnancies I had spotting at some point, a few weeks ago i had bright red spotting and i have had period like pain from day one that is still here now at almost 12 weeks but all my scans say bub is fine. Even though its very hard try not to overly stress about it, in the 5th week it is very very common to not see anything at all. I hope everythign is just fine and you have a successful healthy pregnancy! xoxo good luck

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Answered by shawnabrown13 - Jul. 26, 2012 5:11am
with my 2 kids and even this one im currently pregnant with i have bleed each time all durning early pregnancy. Not to scare you but i did have the same signs in march and miscarried my ultrasound didnt show anything at almost 6 weeks but this pregnancy we saw something at 4 wk 6 days. dont try and stress to much rest and if anything gets wrose go to the er again but you have to let your body do what it needs

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Answered by melchaz - Jul. 26, 2012 4:01am
It's very common to have spotting early on. My advice would be to try to be calm about it (stress isn't good) and keep in touch with your doctor.

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