missed miscarriage

[nette_ar]

hello..i recently was told by my doctor that i had a blighted ovum or a missed miscarriage. In other words,the sac continued to grow but no baby ever developed. During my 7 week preg. I did experience extreme brownish discharge as well as clear watery discharge. My questions are was that type of discharge normal? When will the actual miscarriage take place?

[Pum]

I also was diagnosed with this at 7 weeks and decided to wait and let my body take care of things. I have just this week miscarried at 10 weeks so it took a good 3 weeks.

I had a second scan at 8 weeks just to check things and the sac was getting "ragged".

I don't think that the brown discharge neccessarily was part of this as many women have discharge and go on to have healthy babies, however, with my successful pregnancy I never once got any brown or any other bloody discharge whereas with the two that ended in miscarriage I have had tiny amounts of brown fairly early on. So for me I do think it's a bad sign but for many it is not.

Take care of yourself while waiting to find out one way or the other. I was keen to avoid the medical profession, if possible, but some women prefer to get things over and done with as quickly as possible.

[Fugitive06]

So you say you are 7 weeks, right?  Have you had blood tests?  What are your HCg levels?  Going up or down?

My suggestion would be to find out what your HCg numbers are doing first - make sure that they are very low and/or going DOWN.  Otherwise, WAIT - get another u/s in a few weeks, wait until you have symptoms (bad cramping & heavy bleeding).

Babies have been known to hide, even up until 12 weeks!!
http://www.misdiagnosedmiscarriage.com/
AND women have been known to get AF during their entire healthy pregnancies!

PLEASE get all the evidence before just assuming a BO or MC.  I have read too many stories & have been part of too many discussion threads where a woman is advised to get a D&C or take a pill ("immediately") based on too little evidence ONLY to go with her gut & wait a couple of weeks...
and BAM!  HELLO THERE!!  Well would ya look at that!  A perfectly healthy little embryo or fetus!

It is HORRIFYING to think about what is really happening out there!!