If you've had a miscarriage before...

[zulupetalz]

How was it different from a "normal" pregnancy? Did you have any symptoms? Did they just disappear one day? Did you never have any symptoms?

I'm having a "freak out" day. I feel like I need to know the answer to these things.

[flapjack]

My ectopic, I didn't have any pregnancy symptoms at all. Two of my miscarriages (the early ones) no morning sickness, no tiredness, etc, etc. Actually, make that three. All of these went before or just on the six weeks mark.
The twins, however, developed normally for a few weeks and then stopped:so I had a few weeks of acute morning sickness and literally feeling too crap to move, just like you'd expect with a standard multiple pregnancy. Belly bloat, etc, etc. The only unusual thing I noticed was that I was cramping a lot at 6 weeks, which I haven't noticed in other pregnancies. There came a point when I realised that I was being noticeably less sick, that my milk supply had risen- my daughter was constantly nursing- but at the same time I felt truly awful and absolutely exhausted, as if someone had flipped a switch and turned a light off inside me. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but yeah, mama nature gave me plenty of warning.
Then the spotting started on Wednesday, it got to the point of actual blood on the afternoon and I realised I was dilating. It took until Friday night for Brighid to pass, and Bride was born at exactly the same time on Saturday night.

[Nature]

Both my m/c's had the same symptoms as my normal pregnancies. I had no idea the babies stopped developing. I only found out when they couldn't pick up a heartbeat at the normal 10 week check up. (the first time they routinely check for a heartbeat here) No bleeding, no loss of symptoms.. nothing. One had stopped developing very early on at about 5 weeks, and still there were symptoms at 10 weeks. I'd guess its kinda an individual thing.

[mom3b1?]

Originally Posted by zulupetalz

How was it different from a "normal" pregnancy? Did you have any symptoms? Did they just disappear one day? Did you never have any symptoms?

I'm having a "freak out" day. I feel like I need to know the answer to these things.

I've had many miscarriages, and they were all different. One of my first ones was fairly early on, but I went through a mini-labor with ctx that built up just like I was birthing. I had one m/c because of a certain kind of food poisoning that causes m/c. My successful pregnancies and my miscarriages weren't all that different in other ways.

Kiley

[bloominmamas]

I remember distinctly with my miscarriage (first pregnancy around 7-8 weeks) that something wasn't right, that I wasn't really pregnant, that something was wrong. My BFF even remembers that I *knew* something wasn't right. My HcG levels dropped off dramatically. I never had any symptoms.

[Mama2-4]

With my ectopic I never felt anything until the day the tube ruptured. I was working as an RN in L&D, we were very busy and I was helping a patient and MD with an epidural. I started to feel a little dizzy and my belly felt really bloated. None of my co-workers knew that I was pregnant. I asked one of the MD's from my group about it and he wanted to take me for an US stat. We found that the uterus was empty, he could not see anything in the tube, but suspected a tubal pregnancy. He also noticed that my abdomen was very "dark" on the scan.

When I got home from work that night my husband and I were to decide about going in to the MD the next day to get methotrexate to terminate the pregnancy. I went to bed, and was feel quite a bit of discomfort, I think I took 2 percocets that we had in the house. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling so extremely bloated and went to lay on the couch. I remember getting up and going to sit on the toilet, I felt like I had really bad gas, but nothing would pass. I finally called up to the unit to talk to my friend who was on duty about my symptoms. I was also beginning to feel faint and "see stars". She woke the MD on call and he said I needed to get to the hospital ASAP. I yelled and yelled for my husband, by this point I could not stand up, each time I did I would black out. He awoke, thank heavens, he is a very sound sleeper! He drove me in to the hospital and I went into surgery immediately. I had a ruptured fallopian tube and my belly was full of blood. They also did a D&C. It was such a horrible experience and such an emotional one.

I have also had several miscarriages. I have not had any pregnancy symptoms with them other than positive pregnancy tests and sore breasts right in the beginning. One of the miscarriages I had true labor and I gushed blood for days, that was also very traumatic and awful.

Andrea

[miss_honeyb]

Originally Posted by zulupetalz

How was it different from a "normal" pregnancy? Did you have any symptoms? Did they just disappear one day? Did you never have any symptoms?

I'm having a "freak out" day. I feel like I need to know the answer to these things.

I'm a little freaked, too. I know I'm only a couple of weeks along, but I'm not feeling any symptoms. I've never had a day of morning sickness with any of my pregnancies, I had sore breasts with the first one only... My first real symptoms with the other two were extreme tiredness at about 5 weeks, and then heartburn from hell!

But I guess I took this test much earlier than the last two, so maybe some symptoms will hit me in a week or two... I just feel like with pregnancy #4, I'm "due" to have a miscarriage.

[LawrenceDoula]

Originally posted by miss_honeyb
"But I guess I took this test much earlier than the last two, so maybe some symptoms will hit me in a week or two... I just feel like with pregnancy #4, I'm "due" to have a miscarriage."

Yeah, I think knowing so early, before you have symptoms, is hard. Last time I knew I was pregnant because I felt like crap, but I was 6 weeks by then. Now sitting at 4-5 I feel pretty good. I'm sure we'll all be looking back and longing for these days soon enough!

[flapjack]

Yeah. I'm at 6 + 3, and my idea of a good time is falling asleep over a toilet bowl : Unfortunately, my bathroom tap exploded so I can't do that right now, the bathroom is swimming under several inches of water.

[mimi_n_tre]

I didn't have any feelings or anything that I was pregnant until about 8 weeks last time. Baby was fine and is here now. With m/c, I was 8 weeks along. Felt pregnant. I guess I just couldn't really tell any difference between the two.

[traceetrek]

My first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage and was likely to have been ectopic. I did not have any morning sickness but was fatigued and overwrought with a sense of world doom and depression before I even knew I was pregnant...very unlike me. Also, the pregnancy test showed a very light line, even days after missing my period, which likely meant my hormone levels were low

My second pregnancy was successful and filled with blessed morning sickness for several weeks and a sense of joy and peace (with occasional psychopathic hormonal rages at such trivial matters). This pregnancy is like the last...sick, tired, joyful...I think it is going to stick.

[newcastlemama]

I had a m/c last time and my m/s was actaully worse than with my first baby. I never threw up with ds but with the m/c I was throwing up until my stomach ached.

[WeasleyMum]

With my pregnancy that ended in miscarriage, the "symptoms" were all present-- totally text-book. Nausea, dizzyness, fatigue, "digestive issues", peeing every hour... I had no idea at all that anything was wrong. The embryo apparently had stopped growing at six weeks; I found out via ultrasound at 9 weeks and had the miscarriage a week later, at 10 weeks.

My doctor said that there is a lot of carryover with the hormones--they don't leave your system right away, but very gradually. Because it's the hormones that cause "symptoms" those signs don't dissapear either. (I thought maybe I was crazy if I lost the baby three weeks earlier and couldn't tell, so I asked ""why am I still sick, then?"...)

But anyways I felt very, very "pregnant" until a few days after the ultrasound. I hope that helps?