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Miscarriage at 16 weeks

I was in my 4th month, baby was measuring exactly 16 weeks, baby had a strong heartbeat of 165, and my hormone levels were normal.  I noticed fluid leaking that had this gushing feeling.  Went in for an ultrasound, baby was okay - he/she was moving around freely!  Two weeks later noticed some blood along with mild cramping, went back to the doctor and the ultrasound showed the baby did not have enough amniotic fluid.  The doctor said it was unlikely that the sac would reseal itself, but we still wanted to wait a week.  Unfortunately the very next day I was bleeding a lot and had to go to the ER.  I had a D&E procedure that weekend.  The baby was still alive with a strong heartbeat but obviously wouldn't live without the fluid.  They tested the fetus and there were no abnormalities.  Our expanded AFP results came back negative.  

If you have a less than 5% chance of miscarrying at this point in time AND we heard the hearbeat until the very end AND there were no development problems, why did this happen?  Has this happened to anyone?  I'm so scared and nervous because I'm afraid this will happen again especially if they don't know why it happened in the first place.  
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I have read that bacterial vaginosis, a rather common infection that is somewhat along the lines of a yeast infection can cause premature rupture of membranes, premature labor and premature birth. Sometimes women have symptoms and sometimes they don't. I ended up in the ER at 13 weeks (with contractions!) because of this; they gave me an antibiotic and within a day the contractions went away. I had no other symptoms. I shudder to think what may have happened if I hadn't done something about it. This is my 4th pregnancy and the first couple days I just thought that perhaps they were stronger Braxton-Hicks contractions, but they didn't stop for about 4 days so I went in upon recommendation of my doctor on the weekend. The doctor's office can test for this bacterial infection. I caution all women who think they may have this issue to do something about it when you are pregnant. When you aren't pregnant, for a lot of women it isn't a big deal and doesn't cause any symptoms. During pregnancy, it's a big deal.
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Well 18 months later I surprisingly fell pregnant again.  After my late miscarriage at 16 weeks in 2011 they put me on aspirin following testing that I have some issues with my blood clotting too much plus in turns out my little guy had Down syndrome so it could have been any of these. I started bleeding this time at 6 weeks...that's pregnancy number 4. It's hard but not much harder then before.  I'm glad if I was going to lose this one that it was sooner rather then later. Later is way too hard.  I still have all my questions for God that probably won't get answered this side of heaven...I'm trying to accept that now.  oh i was on progesterone with my longest lasting pregnancy throughout the 1st trimester for you older mom's out there. For #4, I was with a new doctor since I've moved to far away to go to the last doc and I forgot to mention it.  Maybe it would have made the difference maybe not.  God bless and keep all of you who have suffered these losses recent and not so recent.

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i was sixteen pregnant when my baby died. i am also afraid to try again as the same thing might happen. i dont know what to do
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Hey im in my 16th week and today since morning my legs have been hurting and i have been having slight cramps too the i went to the bathroom to pee and a bit of discharge like fluid came out of me but it had pink reddish blood... It just came out that once and stopped the again after a few hours when i went to pee . I saw my baby on the 31st and he was almost 15 weeks heartbeat normal and big enough to tell its a boy ... Do i need to worry about this as i am not bleeding but its gel le fluid with pink red blood or brownish blood
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I'm so sorry for your loss I am 16 weeks pregnant and have had some light bleeding went to the ER last might babies heartbeat was there and they did a US to make sure the baby was okay and he/she was. Went to the doctor today and the heartbeat was still good doctor referred me to a sepcialist to find out what could be causing it. She said it might be cause my placenta is too close to my cervix I don't have any cramping or anything at all. I am at a loss of words for you hun! I feel the same way as you though about what's going on with me I'm confused as to why it's happening ..
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well i am so sorry for you loss but i totally understand what you are going through i had to delivery my baby friday may 18th when i should have been celebrating from the ultrasound.  we had an ultrasound schedualed for wednesday to do anatomy scan and find out what baby was and instead they did the scan kept digging the wand into me and said nothing to me for almost 45 mins then i asked her what is wrong and i had only seen very little on the screen but was noticing that she was trying very hard to find a heart rate.  the following day i think oblivious to what had happened i went to work and noticed all day something wasnt quite right and i was having some pain and abnormal discharge color change i called my midwife to find out she was trying to contact me all day to redo the ultrasound in hospital when she informed me they didnt find a heart rate. unfortunatly i had to wait til friday morning to get it done as hospital was closed.  i am very upset as i went to hospital after a night of praying for everything to be ok.  the hospital radiologist confirmed the baby had passed away sometime in the last three weeks. i was supposed to be 20 weeks that day but baby only measured around 15 weeks.  so i had to go to emerg and had ob insert medication to the cerivix so the body could pass the baby naturally.  It was the worst experience ever to me i had to delivery  my baby that could fit in the palm of your hand. then to my surprise the doctor told us that the baby was a boy..my boyfriend and i both have 2 daughters and prayed the whole five months to hear those words unfortunatly it was only after him passing away i find this out.
I am having a really hard time dealing with this i feel empty and alone, my spouse has been wonderful but sometimes i have a hard time explaining to him how i am feeling.  
we have decided to move forward and he offered to have another baby if  i wanted. and i immediatly responded yes.  i am awaiting results on his autopsy results to find out why he is gone and i am empty emotionally and physically. if you have been throught this please respond.
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My waters broke at 16 weeks too I chose to wait but ended up giving birth to a tiny but perfect little boy on the 22/3/12 I'm waiting for my follow up appointment which is next week to see if I can get answers I hope your ok and got the answers you needed I'm still finding it hard an can't bring myself to go to he's grave till I know it wasn't my fault
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Hi everyone I was 16 weeks. I went in for an u/s and they tolme
that they didn't see or hear a heart beat, but also there was no flour around the baby. I am still greaving the passing of my baby. I had my baby cremated and brought home with me,cause the anatomy board wanted to wait until next year to Barrie my baby and excuse me but I said hell NO! I WANT LET MY BABY SIT THAT LONG....WTH!
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i recently lost my baby too at 15 weeks and 3 days...i went to pee and my water just burst suddenly went to the hospital and they took so long to see me by time they did they told me my baby had died...i had to have him naturally and then the did a D and C...i wonder if there was something they could have done to save my baby. i am so fearful to have another child in the future because they have no reason why it happened just telling me it happens to everyone. i am so sad and angry because i have no answers and to deliver my baby and he is dead makes me hurt so much...i think of all he could be and it hurts so much because my family and friends were so excited to meet him.
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my water broke at 18wks and the doc said they would watch me closely to see if there was any chance that that the sac would reseal itself. Two days later I went into labor giving birth to my son who did not survive. I too was diagnosed with PCOS. I was so devastated.
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I just read yur post I know it been 5 yrs since u post this , but I just lost my baby at 16 wks as well. It extremely hard for me. Me and my husband been trying for over 5 -6 yrs so when I find out I was pregnant it meant the world to us. I'm scared because I don't want this to happen to me again. By the days go by I'm getting better. I just have to keep praying
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I am experiencing the same experience you experienced a while back. It seems that You are telling my story in exact details and order, OMG. I am in so much pain over my loss and he was a 3rd boy I just fell in love with him the second i held him and touched his tiny hand. When will the heartache stop, and the crying. I miss him so much. I have 2 beautiful boys, but i guess i still want more. Please let me know what the doctors told you. He was 16 weeks and 6 days, and he was so real. The hardest part was planning for the burial. I cried for hours that day, i didn't go to the burial. I couldnt see my baby boy that was developed perfectly put in a little box under the ground, it was too much. I hope that no mother will ever go through this. I never understood the emotions of a miscarriage, but now i know. There is nothing stronger than a mothers love for her children,
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I am so sorry to hear about your loss but I to had a miscarriage at 19wks(1st child) on august 23 2011. My water broke and I went to the doctor they confirm that my water had rupture and there were mo fluids around my baby they told me I had to get my labor induce so I wouldn't catch an infection once I had the baby the pathology report came back saying the cause of the water rupture was due to an infection in the fluids call choro.. it hurts so bad because I really wanted a baby but just stay prayerful god will give us a second chance to me mommies lots of baby dusk your way:)
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I am extremely sorry for your loss, I lost my baby at 16 weeks as well. About 4 days ago I found out my little one did not have a heartbeat, three days later I delivered at my mother's home and had to be rushed to the ER.  It was intense and I was sacred out of my my mind. I still just sit here in shock replaying everything in my mind.
Anyway i just wanted you to know that there is someone on the other side of the world experiencing similar grief and pain.
I hope you are getting through the day OK.
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Ladies I am so sorry to hear you have gone through this. How often have you now heard this....I am so sorry....but I am. I found out my baby had no heartbeat 2 weeks ago today. I went in for a routine visit at 18 weeks (I had an ectopic at the beginning of 2010, then a m/c at 6 weeks at the end of 2010) and this was my first dr. appt that I wasn't nervous about. I had beenfollowed very closely because of my history and because I am 41 and had verified all was well at 14 weeks.  I was stunned when the doctor said there was no heartbeat and that the baby measured btwn 15-16weeks.  I was induced and delivered my dear baby boy and have been home 1 1/2 weeks with my head spinning and my heart bursting.  I'm waiting for test results but know I may never know what happened. I read that in one of the stages of grief you are searching so hard for a reason you begin to blame yourself and your body.  I hope you aren't going through this...I am but am comforted somehow to know it is normal.  Kt90 you are so brave to keep trying.  2 late miscarriages has got to be heartbreaking...because each pregnancy loss I've gone through is devastating.  May God carry you through this time ...sorry I don't have any answers.  
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Katie, I am so sorry for your lost.  I too had a miscarriage at 16 weeks last September.  I am going thru another miscarriage at 16 weeks right now.  I have MTHFR mutation which causes blood clots.  Doc believed that was the cause of all my miscarriages (4 total) not including this current one.  They put me on Lovenox and everything went well.  I went in for a check up 2 weeks ago and was fine.  Well two days ago at 16 weeks check up, they found no heartbeat.  I just can't believe what a coincidence this is that I miscarried both times at exactly 16 weeks.  Has anyone experienced this?
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hi my names katie i had a miscarriage just last week at 16 weeks pregnant.. the day before my miscarriage i noticed a light brown discharge, so i loooked it up on line and every site said that its normal in pregnancys!! so i didnt worry about it! the next morning i woke up at about 5.30 and noticed more brown discharge, i went back to bed and fealt this gush of water i didnt know what it was, i just ashumed it was normal.. i then went for a shower, while i was in the shower more water gushed out and then lots of blood and my baby fell out:(:( i was so scared i just ran to my room crying and rang my boyfriend to come home!! we went straight to the hospital with bub!! i was in so much pain and will never forget this day!!! i am having allot of trounble dealing with this!! they doctors arent sure what happened and are doing test on the baby and placenta to find out what could of caused this to happen! my doctor said he thinks that i had a incompadent cervix but wont know until the test results come back.. i still dont know the sex of my baby yet but we will find out when the test results come back! i dont think this is something i will ever get passed:( i keep picturing the moment in the shower when bub fell out:(:( we are going to get bub cremated..
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I barely drink fluids. My first couple months i drank nothing but soda. I'm 31 weeks now and amniotic fluid Is fine.
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Since my miscarrage in Oct. 2009, we have been trying with no success. Well we are not together anymore and I see why God did what he did. I still thank God for my blessing of feelling my baby inside me for those months, it was the best time of my life. Now I am in the process of moving on with my life.
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iam a 16teen yr old girl , on july 10 2010, i went to my cousins furneral while i was ther , i has bad pains in the lower part of my belly and i to passed 2 blood clots i was 18 weeks preg. they found out the fluid was also leaking from my baby so that night i gave birth to a lil boy he lived about 2min outside the womb and he weighed 245 grams 8.6 oz he was not even a pound i did get to hold him all that night he stayed in my room and i had a service for him i named him it was the worst days  of my life i just no that god makes no mistakes and everything it done for a raeson so each and eveyone of us has to remember that ???? but i feel for anyone who loses their child thats a feeling you will never forget, GOD BLESS ALL OF US
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Thank you so much julz034 i think it just wasnt meant to be yet so ill keep my trust in God bcuz he knows my desires right now and I have a whole lot of questions for my DR, lol but i think my next pregnancy i'm going to sleep in the hospital.
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Hi, I am so sorry to hear about your loss. That is very sad. Membranes can rupture sometimes for no reason. It's just a part of pregnancy and risks that come a long with it. I know that answer doesn't make you feel any better at all, but it's all I know. Hopefully the Dr's will find out more. Many women go on to carry to full-term after a micarriage. I have had two, once chemical and one at almost 12 weeks, and I've had 4 babies, 3 babies since the miscarriages. However, while not drinking enough water can lead to lessened amount of amniotic fluid, it's actually to MUCH amniotic fluid that can cause the amniotic bag to break it is called polyhyrdamnios. So, don't blame this on yourself by any means. You will be seen only by a OB the next time because Practicioners cannot treat/care for high risk patients.

I am so sorry about your loss and hope that your heart heals soon from this. I really can't imagine.
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i need someones help i found out i was pregnant and the 14/05/10 would of made me 16 weeks i started seeing blood in my discharge on 13/05/10 and having lower abodimal pain so i went to the ER and they did an ultrasound and the Dr told me my uterus measure only 8 weeks i want to know how this was possible i was almost four months, They said my uterus raptured and thats why i was feeling pain in my lower abodimal, I had a d&c on 14/05/10 i felt so empty me and my husband really wanted the baby bcuz we had a M/C in 2007 i'm starting to think i'm going out my mind bcuz i would really like to give him a child and i'm wonderin if that has happened 2 anyone else.Can someone help me?
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I myself was induced on the 1st of February 2010.  I was 20 weeks pregnant and found out on my first drs appt that he had no heart beat and was to have been dead at 16 weeks. I am still grieving especially around the time when I had him. I can't plan his burial because I would just burst into tears and would have to leave the baby isle. I've been trying to keep busy but he would always come to mind. I've been thinking about returning to work early but I have two other employees who is also pregnant and due around the same time as me except they will get to see and feel their babies grow inside them. I am very thankful that I have a very supportive husband who is taking care of all his plannings.
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