Brown Spotting

Always worth calling ya midwife to check 🙂

I had brown mucus discharge at 9 weeks and it turned out to be a very small subchorionic hematoma. I went for a private scan because I was really scared and the ultrasound technician described it as something like a bruise- likely from where I was stretching so much as a first time mum. The blood had been there some time and was just making its way out of me- brown blood is old blood and generally far less worrying than red blood. I’m currently 34 weeks and the brown mucus discharge stopped after 2-3 days.

I spent the whole night crying before my private scan, playing sad music to my stomach, sure I had miscarried. When they scanned me the baby was perfectly fine there was just a small dark patch at the edge of the amniotic sack from the hematoma that went away by my 12 week scan.

If you can afford it, it might be worth doing a private scan.

that sound terrifying i’m so sorry you had that scare!!! idk if i could afford one right now, im not even sure how much it would be but my next ultrasound is supposed to be in 10 more days 🙏🏻🙏🏻

what midwives in the UK tend to say is that brown bleeding is far less worrying than red bleeding and bleeding in general that won’t fill a sanitary pad is not a major cause for alarm.

It might be worth ringing your hospital for some advice but if it continues just spotting there’s a good chance your baby is fine. There’s no saying you didn’t have implantation bleeding which got trapped and is only coming out weeks later as brown blood. There’s no saying you didn’t have a small hematoma (they’re very common before 20 weeks) which can also cause mild cramping.

As hard as it is, you won’t know what’s going on until you get scanned and worrying won’t help. At nine weeks, there’s not a huge amount that can be done either way so it’s best to focus on the positive.

I wish you the best of luck xx

thank you 💜💜 i’m not really seeing the spotting anymore but hoping I don’t jinx it and it comes back tomorrow.. but it was super light and the smallest bit of brown but seeing ANY color when wiping is concerning. i guess i will wait it out and hope nothing bad happens. the wait between ultrasounds feels like forever

I’ve been having brown spotting on and off since I was 7 weeks pregnant. Currently 30 + 2 , sometimes it’s nothing . But of course please get it checked x

Yes this happened to me and I was so scared I ran my hospital bill up so bad but I stopped spotting at exactly at 13 weeks of my pregnancy and everything was fine I had a very healthy pregnancy

I had brown blood and cramping all throughout the first 12 weeks and ended up with 2 early scans. The midwife told me that brown blood is fine and normal. It is probably just cervix irritation, or old blood being dislodged as your body changes. It is also pretty common to have brown blood/discharge and cramps too. The only time you should worry about it is if you get bright red fresh blood, but contact the EPAU to put your mind at ease at any time if you need to. The first 12 weeks are so scary. I also had the bright red blood once at around 9 or 10 weeks but I'm now almost 16 weeks and my baby is healthy and progressing normally. Ive not had brown blood/discharge since 11 weeks so I hope that helps keep you a bit more relaxed