*TW* miscarriage - What do I do if I have a miscarriage?

If you think you are having a miscarriage call the doctors, they will refer you to the early pregnancy unit and usually they will do a scan to confirm there is or isn’t a pregnancy. I was fully aware I was having an early miscarriage and I didn’t want the scan, think that sort of confirmation would have been too much for me. Instead they said to take a pregnancy test two weeks later and if it was still positive to give them a ring but within a week it was negative.

@Becky Thank you so much for your response 🩷 I’m so sorry you had to go through that 😞 Thank you for commenting, I’m going to make a note of it in my notebook so I know what to do if it happens. I honestly have such awful anxiety over it, this isn’t my first baby either so I’ve dealt with the anxiety before. It’s just crippling 😞 x

From past experiences, if I had a miscarriage and passed tissue at home I would be inclined (as horrific and probably pretty scarring it would be) to collect the tissue and contact the local epu to send it off for pathology testing - they will do that, or at least one of the nurses there told me they would. Last year I had a missed miscarriage which didn't pass naturally. I found out at a private scan at 8w there was no heartbeat. The scan place contacted the EPU for me, gave them my number and us a report to give them. The epu called and booked us in for a scan 3 days later to confirm and speak through the options. Conservative management- do nothing and let nature take its course. Medical management- pills to induce miscarriage. Surgical management- surgery to remove pregnancy tissue. I opted for Conservative management and was given advice - co-codamol for pain, hot water bottle, ben&Jerry's and a duvet day or 2... 4 weeks later nothing had happened and I still had morning sickness so I opted...

for surgical management if I could have a scan to double check. I agreed to the pathology/histology, had the surgery and lost all pregnancy symptoms immediately. 4 weeks later I got a call to say histology had shown I'd had a molar pregnancy and could I come in to epu. A molar pregnancy runs a very small risk of needing chemotherapy to treat as it grows like cancer but I needed further monitoring to check my hcg levels dropped. Luckily they did and 3months later I was pregnant again with my now 8week old. If I had passed the tissue at home or refused the histology I'd be none the wiser and at risk if it had developed into cancer.

Molar pregnancy is fairly rare though - 1 in 600. But now I've had one my odds are 1 in 100, hence why I would take anything for testing.